Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-03-01
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Question. What is the name Of the skele.
ton In Eastern closets Answer. Repudia-.
ton Of the National Debt. iuoa!iW
Q, Why does the prospect of reputation
frightcn them sol a. Because they are
The receivera, and the Northwest, Vest and
South are the payers of the Debt. q ,iSn
@ How did Eastern rnrn manage to have
II 50 arranged. A, BY bringing on the late
war. =
Q. Why did they bring on the late war
A. We'll they saw that negro slavery was
profitable to the South, and they conceived
the grand idea OF reducing all the people of
The United States, white and black to state
Of slavery TO themselves.
Q. What Is slavery A. Slavery is that
state Of q. society In which the surplus earn
.ings Of the slave are applied to the sole use
and benefit Of the master.
q What Is the amount OF the surplus
earnings of the people of the Northwest,
West and South annually? A. They
amounted last year to the sum Of about
$4,000, 600. IL a-,- f
Q. What became of those surplus earnings2
a. After deducting small amount to sup
port the Government the balance went
into the pockets Of foreign and eastern bond
holders.
: O. What proportion OF the United States
debt. is held by foreigners? A. About one
8 Q. Who owns the balance A. Eastern
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q. What is a summary of the result Of the
war?A a. Why, the negroes are to be paid
for at a high valuation but instead of their
owner getting paid, the price goes into the
pockets of the shrewd Eastern Yankee and
comes out of the surplus earnings of the
other sections.
sQ.gWhy sreg the surplus earnings Of the
people OF the Northwest, West and South 90
snnall2 AlRecause Of the enormous amount
Of indirect taxation they are compelled TO
pay TO Eastern manufacturers.
q. Explain A. Eastern men have 90 ar
ranged the legislation 10 Congress that the
tariff on foreign manufactures Is SO high as
TO exclude them from the country;r 80 that
Eastern men charge what profit they choose
on their own manufactures; all Of which dur
ing the war, they did the concentrating while
the West and Northwest did the fghting-
The East furnished the shoddy bad pork and
beef the wormy bread, the guns that burst
ed, the old rotten transports, In which 70
many soldiers were drowned, the ere proof
whiskey, the Yankee notions, the negro sub
stitutes, the hollow talk about loyalty, "the
life Of the ma ion" and all that they gath
cred home all the silver spoons and other
portable property, and 80 became rich, while
the West and Northwest furnished the food for
powder, and are gathering their dead from
thousand battle fields, and with the South
are now called upon to pay the National
debt. l.- ftv ~"
profit comes out Of the consumers, goes into
the pockets Of the Eastern manufacturer,
and so lessons the surplus earnings OF the
other sections.
q. Now that the negroes are free, why do
the Yankee fdglemen, Butler, Sumner, Stew
ems &C., keep mp such howl about them
A., BY this they, expect to keep the people of
various sections of the country by the ears
and thus prevent them thinking about repu-
diation. 90 Sl5g Ie,ts3'' iH'15'
@. Will they succeed in doing SO A.
No.
Qwhy' A. Because the people are be.
ginaing to think
Q. Why do the people begin to think so
very hard A. Why they know and feel
that every thing they use costs about three
times as much as it used to, and they are
thinking where all the money goes and what
becomes OF il.
Q. What is to conc Of all this hard think.
ing A. The people are going 10 act.
Q. Row? A. Why, somebody out West
will run for Congress on the Repudiation
ticket, and, il elected, then several others
will run for Congress on the same ticket,
and be elected; then somebody will run fer
President on the same ticket and be elected
then they will reconstruct the Supreme
Court on the same ticket and then comes re-
pndistion, +...r
Q. What Repudia,e deb, to which the
faith of the United States is solemniy pledg
ed2 A. Yes; IL was Yankee trick get.
ting the pledge, and It is Yankee chicanery
that Keeps up the talk about the pledge.
O. To what other institutions was the
solemn faith Of the United States pledged
A. To the great United States Bank and 10
the Institution OF negro slavery.
What became of those institutions A.
The first was rerudiated by Mr.. JACKSON,
and the other by Mr.. Lincoln.
O. Who Is the coming man for whom the
people Of the Northern States 30 anxously
look A. The man who will make dollar
be dollar; who win bring free trade and
cheap goods; who will abolish the Internal
Revenue and paper money who will utterly
squclch the hordes Of tax gatherers who now
consume the substance of the people; in
fine, the man who will bring about Repudi-