The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-08-10

iaoor OF century. AS 80 much mas al
ready been thrown into the boiling caul-
dron of revolution, the Dcmagogue will
argue that our national debt bad better
90 in with the rest. Once..the North held
the club Of Hercules. The South re-
belled. The West joined the North to
save the Union. Right and numbers con-
quered. Now the West holds the club OF
Hercules, but not many bonds. A western
Demagoguc might say: Once upon time
the South built up an oligarchy based upon
black slavery. The Almighty decrced
that it should not be. Four hundred
thousand shareholders owned four million
of blacks. Presto, Providence and Jeffer-
son Davis liberated them. Laughter. !
/ did not mention Mr.. Lincoln. For the
demi-god Of the newspapers never ex-
listed. [Oh.l He tried to save the Union
by saving slavery. His Emancipation
Proclamation was an accident. MOL
Having taken care Of the South, says the
western Demagoguc, 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 blacks2
Work! Work Work,
There are millions of negroes to feed,
And the cost is hitched on with the bond
holders claim
And the sum of New EnCland's greed
-[Hisses.]
You ought not to hiss. You know am
only giving you the speech of Dema-
gogue. The country will be full Of them
By and by, and if | show you beforehand
the plausibility Of their argument, all
loyal people, like this audience Of distin-
guished clergymcn, can be prepared, and
fortify themselves against such disloyal
practices. Laughter and applause.l The
Demagogue will arouse the people into
fury by such appeals:
Tug Toll. Sweat.
Still harder each day than before.
II Will 90 10 keep niggers and bondholders up,
And the wolf away from your door
Work! Work Work.
From dawn 10 the dusk of day,
For your hopes arc crushed with 4 weight OF
debt
That toll of your life won't pay
-[Dissent.]
| agree with you VINO hiss, such doc
trines should be put down by the strong
arm Of military power. [Applause.l When
man talks reputation, shoot him on the
spot, for Greeley has done Christian act
III liberating Davis. [Laughter.]
The Dcmagogue always catches up some
popular idea. lie will appeal to his au-
diencc in Union Square on the question
of substitutes, where the rich man showed
his loyalty by paying thousand dollars to
have another man shot. Again he will re-
sort to rhyme:
You gave your son 10 the war
The rich man loaned his gold
And the rich mans son is happy to-day.
And yours is under the mould !
-[Sensation.l
You did not think poor man
You can scarce believe when you're told
That the sum which the rich man loaned 10
the war
Has tie price for ,Dhici yom ,cere sold.
-[Sensation and dissent.J
In this way your real Dealagogue will
set the poor man to thinking, and as it IS
free country, lie will be allowed to vote
as his pocket and his reason dictate. Hc
will think Of his wife, his children, and his
future, and then the orator of the people
will pile on the agony:
Your son was as good as his
And rs dear, perhaps, TO you
But yours died for his and your daughter now
For his must wash and sew
|-ISensation.l
Nay, do not pause 10 think,
Or sigh for your children or wife.
For your moments are mortExSad 10 hopeless toi
The rest Of yQqr weary lie
-IScnsation and some dissent
The orator, having aroused their pas
sions, will say: Gall you in favor Of pay,
ing off the debt by greenbacks, say aye"
OF course it is carried by reclamation
What can 100000 bondholders do against
Congress, ocho o1rn no bonds? Against
100000 negro votes, 100000 southern
white votes, and 100000 Of northern and
western men who hold no bonds, but
banker after greenbacks, in order to make
their property more valuable?