The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-13


ated ?'']
Mr. Train-What else ? Why Con-
gress has repudiatad the Constitution
laughter, repudiated the Executive, and
repudiated the idea first started, that the
States were in the Union. Then they re-
pudiated the Supreme Court, repudiated
the Constitutional amendment. and now
they intend repudiating the Military Re-
construction Bill, [Oh, and dissent and in
voting the Bounty Bill commenced repu-
dating the National debt. You see re-
pudation is fashionable. Laughter.
Hence nothing can save us but green
backs. Applause. For insolvency is
the strongest point in the American char
acter. Laughter.
Prof. Evans, Hamilton College, Buffalo
What do you estimate the wastage of
the war, and do you not think that tends
towards reputation
Mr.. Train-Most certainly. In my
Pilot Knob speech put down tho figures
in loss of life, labor, shipping and prop
erty, estimating $4,000 each for white
men and $1,000 for black at about
$4,000, 900, 900, the accumulated indus
try and labor Of a century. AS so much
has already been thrown into the boiling
caldron of revolution, tho demagogue will
argue that our National debt had better
20 in with the rest. Once the North held
the club of Hercules. The South rebell-
cd. The West Joined the North to save
the Union. Right and numbers conquer
ed. Now the West holds the club Of
Hercules, but not many bonds. A West
ern demagogue might say Once upon
time the South built up an oligarchy
based on black slavery. The Almighty
decrecd that it should not be. Four hun
drcd thousand Shareholders owned four
millions of blacks. Presto, Providence
and Jefferson Davis liberated them
Laughter. l did DO tmention Mr. Lin
cola, for the dcmi.god of the newspapers
never existed. Oh ! He tried to save
the Union by slavery. His emancipation
proclamation was an accident. No. =
Having taken care of the South, says the
Western demagogue, look to the North.
Four hundred thousand bondholders have
thirty millions of whites in bondage
Will not Providence break their chains
as we'll as the blacks? Suppose the DEM
agogue was addressing $4,000 laborers, in
Union Square, in poetic strains like
this:
Work Work Work
With pick and shovel and Ak
To pay New Englaud's contractors,
Your own and the bondhoder's tax
Work Work Work
There are millions Of negroes to feed,
And the cost is hitched on with the bondhold-
And the sum of New England's greed
Misses.
You ought not to hiss. You know l
am only giving the speech of dema-
agogue. The country will be full of them
by and by, and if l show you beforehand
the plausIbilitg of their argument, all
loyal people like this audience of distin-
gui,hcd clergymen can be prepared and
torlify themselves against such disloyal
practice. laughter and applause. The
demagogue will arouse the people into flu
ry by such appeals
Tug toll sweat
Still harder each day than before.
1t will 90 tokeep niggers and bondholders up,
And the wolf away from your door
Work! Work Work!
From dawn to the dark of day,
For your hopes are crushed with the weight Of
debt,
That the tot of your life won't pay
Dissent.
agree with you who hiss, such doc
trines should be put down by the strong
arm of military power. Applause i
When man talks reputation shoot him
on the spot, for Greedy has done Chris
tian act in liberatiDg Davis. Laughter.
The demagogue always catches up some
popular idea. He will appeal to his au-
deuce in Union Square, on the question
Of substitutes, whore rich man showed
his loyalty by paying q thousand dollars
to have another man shot. Again no will
resort to rhyme:
You gave your son to the war
The rich man loaned his gold
And the rich mans son is happy to-day,
And yours is under the monld
-(Sensation.)
You did not think, poor man
You can scarce believe when you're told,
That the sum which the rich man loaned to the
war.
Was the price for which you were sold
-TScnsation and dissent.
In this way your real demagogue will
set the poor man to thinking, aud, as it is
a free country, he will be allowed to vote
as his pocket and his reason dictates. He
will think of his wife, his children and
his future, and then the orator of the peo-
pie will pile on the agony:
Your son was as good as hiS
And as dear, perhaps, to you!
But yours died for his, and your daughter, now,
For his must wash and sew !
-[scnsa,ion.
Nay, do not pause to think, :,
Nor sigh for your children or wife,