The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-04-30

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never make a fortune we shall never
loose one, and poverty gives us as lit
tie trouble, thank the Lord as il does
any one on earth, we do believe
Hence it is we love to read, and read,
and never tire of reading the poetry of
Burns, who makes a man almost love
poverty, except that he says:
"To catch dame Fortunes golden smiles,
Assiduous wait upon her;
And gather gear by ev'ry vile
That'U justified by honor;
Not for to hide it in u hedge,
Nor for a train-attendant,
But for the glorious privilege
OF being independent"
And surely that is all we wish it for,
and if we 10 see men selling their poll
tics, their votes--yes, their Country
for office and money it we do see span
iels lick the hands Of absurd pomp, and
bend the plant knee
where thrift may follow fawning,"
yet will We 60 to Bobbis Burns and re
new our faith in a baptism with these
words:
what though on homely fare we dine,
Wear h%oddIn-grey and a that?
Gle fools their silks and knaves their wine ;
A mans a man for a that.
Ye see yon birkie, called q lord,
Who struts and stares, and a thats
Though hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a fool for a that"
But the currency! W. had forgot
ten our subject. It's greenbacks our
friend wants us to talk about. We can
tell him some facts, and leave him to
draw his own conclusions. There is a
general distrpst among business men
that results in a general ~stagnation of
all kinds Of regular business. The
money market is said to be very strin-
gent, and gold is on the upward ten
dcncy. We have no idea it will go
%downwards any time soon. in other
words, greenhacks are depreciatiHg in
value. U. S. gold interest 6 per cent
bonds are selling in London at 10 and
II cents on the dollar, while English 3
per cent bring 90. Sagacious men
cannot fail to see that there is some
thing wrong in this, considering that
is the fourth year after the close Of the
"war for the Union" Some say it is
involuntary bankruptcy staring us in
the facc-hence bonds 60 down and
real estate goes up. An exchange re-
fers to the fact that every civilized coun
try on earth has repudiated, and it is
true. We all know that England IT
pudiated to the extent of one half, and
every person who has read history
knows how summarily the revolutiona
ry French debt Of thousand Of millions
was disposed of. And Jul patriotic
fathers Of the American Revolution
wiped clean from their revolutionary
state the whole debt incurred in q sew
en- years war, not ever paying the por-
ton due their French allies, who turn
cd the tide of war IN their favor, and
saved them from adefeat that would
have made them all traitors just as our
late fai'urs of the Confederates made
us traitors in the minds of fools and
cowards. Already the leading revolu,
%tionists at Washington admit that they
will not be able and do not intend to
pay the interest on the public debt next
year, in consequence Of reductions to
the amount of q hundred millions of
dollars made in the revenue law, and
in favor Of New E~ngland-Massachu.
sets especially, whose people think
Boston the a'hub" and all other people
the periphery Of the universe; who
think every body dull ahd illitcratewho
does not call end Etnd and COW
RyoU.
Then, the Freedmen's Bureau is to
be kept up in all its pomp and splen-
dor for the joint support Of lazy mig
gers and thieving Abolition politicians
and stu hum" school. marms; black.
and-tan Conventions in the South for
tho purpose Of making Constitutions
for the rule Of White Men descended
from q noble line, have to be paid to
suit the ayarice Of tho black skinned
and black. hearted white skinned mem
beers thereof, who are too lazy to work
and want to make . "good thing Of
this first grab they ever bad at the
''public crib" Pacific Railroads and
subsidies,for lines Of steamships, and
all manner Of worthless schemes for
he enrichment Of bipartisan friends, must
favorable consideration; Con-
yrcssmsu bsve advanced their salasies