The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-09-26
Be.sD5C.gE TRUE'DER.

deavorlng to place IN the hands {
Democrats, lying document, appeal
ing to the pecuniary interest Of til
voter. We give it entire, and ais
annex some comments upon it. Rea,
it and notice its .talschoods
, FAcTs FOR GolEaNMENT BOND
HOLDERS, AND THE HOLDERS o
GREENDACKs. Rcad, Re%ect-aa,
Hand to Your NejghJor.-f2 1851
eleven States seeded and since iGer
only twenty.threo have been represen.
ted in Congress, until the admission oi
Tennessee in 1866.
All the United States Bonds-5 eos
I 3O's and l0-40's-ail the greenbacks,
and all the National Banks, were Great
ed by this Congress Of twepty-three
States.
| President johnson calls this an Gas.
su0'e6 Congress, therefore not legal.
His supporters and the Democrats call it
!" Ruo.p Congress-" and " usuping
Congress-" and hence, not ldwfM Con-
greSS and the great effort has been to
elect Congressman in the North, and al.
NIT enough from the rebel States to en-.
force this Policy"
IfaCongress, representing but twenty
three States, be not ldmfw Congress,
then every United States Bond, and all
our greenbacks, and National Bank
notes are worth nothing because an I'm.
ldWf@ Congress could not make lawfm
Ronds or I1lcfm money
The mad effort, so recently made by
the rebels and their sympathizers, to de.
stroy this Government By force ofarn,s,
failed. Thus far, the attempt to do the
same thing, hrough Congress, has also
failed, because of the action of the loyal
voters at the ballot-box and the last
effort at destruction is now being made
THROUGH THE COURTS.
Witness the recent attempt by Demos
crotic lawyers to induce the Supreme
Court of the United States to issue an iu-
junction, nullifying the Reconstruction
Laws Of Congress in Mississippi, Georgia
and other rebel States. Read also the
opinion of Judge Sharswood, the Demo
cratic nominee for Judge Of the Supreme
Court Of Pennsylvania, in which he
gravely denies the constitutional power
of Congress to make paper money legal
tender. (Bcrte vs. Trot, Legal MtelH.
ge,cer Of March 18th, 1864, page o.
Judges Woodward and Thompson of the
same Court, announced from the bench
he same ala'ming doctrine, in 1865.
(.See Mervine vs. Sailor CT. ol, Legal
Intelltgencer of June 16 and 80, 1865,
pages 1873 and 205.)
And this, too, in the face of the fact,
that the Superior Courts of every loyal
State in which the question has been
raised, have sustained the power of Con-
gress.
1t requires, therefore, but little knowl-
edge Of either arithmetic or law, to esti-
mate the imminent danger Of putting
any more men Of Judge Sharswood's |
opinions on the Supreme Bench Of the
State
If you believe the present Congress
to be lawtul, or desire their action on
Currency and Bonds to stand good, vote
to sustain :hem,-for the party that
created the Grceutacks and the Bonds,
the party that sustained the war, and
compelled submission to the National
autho,ity,-and that stands pledged to
keep faith with the Bondholders, and to
maintain the National crcdit-vote for
Henry w. Williams, the worthy and
honored nominee Of this party.
L0ok at the Other Side,
When secession came, Democrats sus.
tanned the Government, shed their blood,
invested their moEoy in 5-20's, 1905,
and 10 40's, sent their members to Com
gress, and obeyed the laws that a Con-
gress of twenty-three States enacted.
That was their Government and they
loved it, they defended it, and many Of
them, died for it.
During the war eleven States were
not represented in Congress, and they
refused to be. That was lawful Cou-