Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-08-28
gaftsnlan's gonrnal.
: CLEARFIELD, Pa, AUG. %, 1867.
Plain Facts For Taxpayers.

Plain Facts For TaX-PayerS.
1t should be borne in mind by every tax
payer of the Nation, that the enormous
burden of debt under which the country is
staggering, was fixed upon it by a rebellion
inaugurated, fostered and strengthened by
the Democratic party.
1t should be borne in mind that this debt
was enormously increased by the aid and
comfort given to the rebellion while in pro-
gress, by the Democratic party, whereby
the rebels were encouraged to prolong the
struggle against the Union armies, after all
other reasonable hope of success had been
extinguished.
1t should be borne in mind that the debt
of the Nation was still farther increased by
the effort of the Democratic party to Grip
pie and destroy the public credit, in the
midst of the struggle for national exist
ence, and that the national bonds were
thereby ..for ed to heavy discounts in
contracting loans with which to carry ou the
war, and the national currency was thus
largely reduced below its true value in gold,
thereby adding enormously to the cost of
all material purchased for the use of the
Government.
1t should be borne in mind by every tax
payer of the Nation, that the Democratic
party stands pledged to secure compensation
to the slaveholding rebels for every slave set
free by the emancipation Proclamation and
Constitutional Amendment, thus adding an
immense and unjust burden to the already
onerous taxation under which the country
groans
1t should be borne in mind, that all the
Democratic members in the House of the
Fortieth Congress, have placed themselves
upon record by their votes, in favor of the
monstrous proposition that the National
government is liable, under the Reconstruc-
tion laws, for every dollar of the State debts
of all the States in rebellion.
1t should be borne in mind by every tax
payer, that the Democratic party, through
its orators and writer's for the press, is COM
mitted to the unheard of proposition that
the Confederate war debt, contracted in the
iniquitous struggle to overthrow the Ma
tional Government, is justly chargeable
against the Government, and that this par
ty only waits the success of its insidious at
tempts to regain power, to fasten this debt
upon the people of the United States.
1t should be borne in mind by every tax
payer, that the Democratic party has made
persistent and strenuous efforts to injure
both public and private credit, and bring on
a financial crisis, such as will make it i'm
possible fer the Nation to meet its obliga-
tions promptly, thus carrying widespread
ruin throughout the country, and reducing
to beggary thousands of widows and orphans
and other worthy persons whose little all is
in government bonds, for the re-
demption of which the faith of the Nation
is pledged. @
1t should be borne in mind by every tax
payer, that the Democratic party persistent
ly opposes every effort made to tighten the
public burden, by levying duties upon for
eign imports, thus requiring foreign CAPT
talists and traders who have the benefit of
our markets to bear small share of our
burden in return, and at the same time
protect our home manufacturers from the
deadly compitition of foreign capitalists who
grow fat upon the proceeds of pauper la
Dor.
And finally, it should be borne in mind
by every taxpayer, and every patriot who
has the good of the country at heart, that
the speakers of the Democratic party OPEN
y avow that their hope for the success of
hat party lies only in financial disaster to
The country, whether caused by failure OF
crops, by the discrediting of the national
currency, by preventing the Nation from
meeting its obligations, or however resulting.
We earnestly hope that every Union pa
per of Pennsylvania win keep these facts
before the people continually, until after
he next election shall have rebuked the in
quity of the Democratic party by the lar
gest Republican majority ever given in the
State.
Every county in Alabama is in the hands
If the bitterest Rebels, and the more vio-
ent the Rebel the more popular he Is
This ia the end which Andrew johnson |