The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-04-25

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Governments drop to par and down
they go TO s. Then National Bank
notes are 3 per cent. discount. Then
comes the rush on National Banks for
greenbacks. (~Sensation.) What is
the result? Does Congress help US
No 1.-The lawyers are in power; what
do they carer They add $400, 900, OOo
to the debt, and advance their own sal
aries to $4,000! Is the South to be
admitted under the military bill? No
Ste, ems holds the reins c~onfiscation Is
the order. The estates are to be cut
up among the Germans, and the me-
grocs wiped out. Where, then, arc We
floating? Congress secs McCulloch
has made a mistake, and as it is an adj
ministration blunder, the Radicals in.
tend to pass no bill of relief. They
will pi,ch the country this year and
bring on a financial crash in the fall
remember this is the panic year OF the
n~cverfailing screws-lay it on the ad-
ministration policy, and when every
thing is broken Congress will meet in
the winter and pass Randalrs bill put
ting grcenbacks in the place of the
S540,O 900, 600 national bank bonds pass
another bill paying duties on imports
in g~reenbach; and then another bill
paying interest on the l,4OO,0Oo,Ooo
s POS in legal tenders in other words.
give the country eonc currency. That
Is twenty-five hundred millions OF le-
gal tenders instead Of sixteen curren
cies az at present. Applause. This
makes all happy for the Presidential
election of 1868. Delirium trcmcns re,
quires national whisky to recuperate
the system. The whisky will make all
vote for Radicalism. They elect the
President and after that the delugc..-
Laughter and applause. Johnson in
bis talk with Halpine-the Democratic
party and the South thinks that q crash
will burst the Radicals. BY no means
They will turn it to their advantage
The next war is to DO financial. Land
and labor against bank and bond-hold-
ers--and the former own the notes.
The South had no debt the West little,
The grecnback age wiped off their mort,
cages and placed the load on the back
of the bondholders. The debt rests
uneasily or the sea.shore, and in Eu,
rope and the shadow is OH the wall
Paying gold interest in grcenbacks is
reputation, you say. Why so? Near
ly all the States have done it, New
York taking the lead. The tinality OF
all the recent Congressional Legislation
may be stated in two words; Con6sca.
ton in the South and reputation in
in the North. Sensation. The Chi
cago papers have already sounded the
tocsin. We are growing poorer every
day. The $4,000, 00O, 900 debt only
cost 81, 250, 0O0, 900. Hence bondhold.
ers ask specie payment. The people
who did the fighting hold no bonds. and
ask for legal tenders. The rich ar
range to have their bonds froe from tax.
alton. Hence the rich man, with his
millions ofuntaxed Governmentsssends
his children to the same school where
tho poor man, with no bonds, sends
his. Hence the poor man is obliged to
pay for the education of the rich mans
children as vol as for his W [Sen-
sation. But enough of this. You
have asked me for a speech, and you
have got it. You asked the remedy
Rctrench. You have been dancing fol-
the five years and the fiddler demands
his pay. Laughter. When the can.
die is lighted at both ends you had bet.
ter sell it short. Laughter. Yor
must stop your mineral resources, fin.
ish the Pacific railroad, cut down your
expenses, smoke n cigar less, drink
one glass of whisky less every hour in
the day, and keep all of your pockets
as full as you a Of legal tenders, as
they will be the handiest thing you can
have about the house.-New York
World.