The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-08-15

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The New York Herald closed one
ofits last leaders on the National
Banks by saying since Horace Gree
ley by bailing Davis admits that
there is no such crime as treason,
Our NATIONAL DEBT IS A NATIONAL
SwNDLE. A voice, "the Herald is
no guide to public'opinion."l You
are mistaken. Bennett always
looks ahead. His hot shot into the
National Banks are ridding those
pet President making institutions.
He is first to see a change in the
public mind, and thirty years. ex-
perience has made him a prophet
as well as fortune. [Applause.]
Many years ago he told me that a
panic was a good thing for a city
or a nation. Chicago was built out
ofinflation. The panic came, bank
ruptcy followed, but the substantial
stores, the magnificent residences,
the SPLENDID city and two hundred
thousand people remained there.
Loud Applause.] Give us green
backs, we say, and build cities,
plant corn, open coal mines, con.
troll railways, launch ships, grow
cotton, establish factories, open
gold and silver mines, erect rolling
mills, start the sugar cane, the sorg-
hum and the tobacco once more.
Turn Niagara Falls into a MancheS-
ter. Loud applause. Vote ten
millions bonus if we finish the Pac.
ific Railroad before 1870. [CheerS.
Vote subsidies for steamboat lines
to Europe; dig a canal from Lake
Michigan to the Mississippi Zap
plausel, and remove the Capitol of
America from that corrupt and God
forsaken sink of iniquity, Washing.
ton, to Columbus; Nebraska, ninety
six miles west of Omaha, the geo.
graphical center of our million
square mile nation. Loud cheers.
Carry my resolution and there is
sunshine in the sky. Applause
Vote McCulloch's English plan Of
paying Englishmen one dollar for
what they paid forty cents for, and
disaster wrecks our financ cial ship.
Greenbacks will start us ahead
again at forty miles an hour. Spe.
Gle payment will produce a regular
smash up.
Frederick the Great built up PruS-
sia on paper, and England'S power
was based on greenback currency.
THAT is true. Pitt saved England
by greenbacks. McCulloch would
ruin America with specie payments.
Rev. Mr.. Paine, Brooklyn-Do
you advocate reputation?
Mr.. neutrality-suspicious.! God for.
bid. If any man talks repudiation
"shoot him on the spot" Laugh.
ter and applause.l Let me repeat
the resolution.
GAS the national debt was con-
tracted by imitation, by initiation it
should be paid" Applause.
How strange thatyou should mix
up greenbacks with reputation.
You might as well call a Copper
head a Democrat.
Blucher and Wellington repre-.
senled distinct nations, yet they
closely resemble each other in wax
figures. Take care that the dema.
gogue does not seduce you by his
slippery-elm tongue. He will ar.
que that it is cheap to save the
Union and preserve our nationality,
even at the price $2,700,000,000 ac-
cording to McCuiloch, but S12,OOO,-
100000 according to the demago-
que. Oh!
Rev. Mr.. Falkner, Bridgeport,
Connecticut-Where do you get
your $12,0O0,0OO,0O09
Mr.. Train--From the debt visible
and the debt invisible.
Say McCulloch's statement, $780,
100000.
Increased salaries of members
ofCongress and the bounty
bill. .......................s 3OO,OOO,OOO
-(Laughter.)
Debts of ftowns, cities, counties
and States, to be added In
due time to the National
debts. .................... 1000, 900
Claims from loyal men in the
North and contracts and
pin-money for the nextPres-
idential election. ........... 1,000, 0,000,0 900
-(Dissent.)
Here you have for the North So, 600, ,000, 1000
Add the bogus Southern debt
for the war, pestilence, fam
inc and negroes. .........., 7OCO,OOO,OOO
And you have. e............, $4,000, ,0O0, 900
This, the demagogue will argue,
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