Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-01-08
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a.e, prohibiting any further exercise Of
Mr. McCu !och'1 contraction policy. This
settles the question as to whether any good
can come out Of Nazareth, snd re,cuss the
Runp from tie recently plsusab,c imputa-
ton Of total dopravity. We now find our.
self ready With a huiTlh for either side
Of the imhroglio between the Rump anil
President: a financial whooper fer tie ore,
snd reconstruction yell Of the first magni.
tpdc for the ether. Who shall say after
this, tia: VIC arc go blind q partisan as 10 be
cbi0ious to al righteousness not executed
Under The hind and seal Of Democracy?
None, certainly, bu. the verieat bats and
beets' Of ti.a s!acs fan,:icisml politicsl
Hindoos, Hot!cntot5, and Esquimaux!
Since Batter hes ceased 10 commit murder.
and to pcrsecu:e women retired from tho
spoon trade, anil fallen to Grating agains.
the fantastic demands Of tie h,nlholding
swellhoads, have we nc. refrs!ned from cal.
ling him Beast Butler" That va, g mill.
.a'y bap.;anal, and appropriate enough in
a military sepse. But now tina. the Gene.
raj has doEad his epaulo.tas, aud assumed
something like respectable attitude, in tho
political srG9a. We are No. tho maa TO 80
back upon the inimemorial doC.iine Of Civ.
ing the devil his due. A& coaaa1s, But.
ler or Baker beast or christian we vel.
come 10 our ranks all who have the will and
the capacity to assist ua in CTR resistance to
the cru. hing weight of the damnable paa.
niers Of gervitu,le which the bondholders,
Secretary McCulloch and Andy johnson arc
seeking to !a'teu up9n.us To be a. once
brief, clear, anl comprlhensive while we
stand ready to 90 as far as 'may become
man. with President Andy for the Cause Of
Southern Liberty ana Ans!o-saxon supre.
macy, we are also ready to do battle in the
cause Of labor against the preaumptuous en-.
croaohmen.s Of aristoora.;c insoence, even
With the Runpi,es We ara Fer the rigt.
against the wrong, nov aud forever Specie
payments are well enough as general thing;
but when it is proposed to use them as
tempting bait Of an enormous man-trap-as
q cunning device whereby the many ere to
be made the servants Of the few--then We
are bound to demur "Wi!l you walk into
my parlor? said spider to ay," and the
silly Gy walked in.
The invitation to "return to specie ray.
ments" is rendered With equal ro!itsaess.
and with no better motive Eoweyer, the
motive in this case is question By itself,
and We have no desire to dis:usg titus. now.
But { return to specie paymoats at this
time (which is not, as many suppose, an in-
practicable propo-ition) would involve con.
5oQuoaces 70 the masses Of cur pso.
pls Of the r,cEt disastrous character.
Tho preliminary wo-. Of contraction
would inevitably presipitate business
maah-ur, by which in.n,anse losses would
10 snsailad upon the country. The expeg.
imants of Secretary MeCullooh in this line
have already been carried far enough to
demonstrate the fact that tho contraction
policy is TIE policy Ct commercial ruin,
widespread and irrepayablc. For the
non.in;erest bearing currency, we will
have more bonts ard more interest, The
public debt, thus increased in bulk, would
be troubled in burdensomcness, and m@ls
psrpst.ssl! How long would it, coala IL, be
endured? Can Jay Cooke, or any Of his
satellites inform Us? Perhaps the Rump,
in its opinion to contraction" is only
illustrating its so!io;tu.ie on behalf Of tka
tond holder snua!ng ropudiation from
afar--arguins it IN the ultimate issue.
For one, we have no special objection to
repudiGtica as solution OF the financial
difficulties which the enemies Of our coun.
try, in bloody caor. at its overthrow,
have brought uro. U.s. The monstrors
debt which is bowing us to the earth was
contracted under false pratenses, by fraud,
and perjury, ard stupendous crime, and il
not morally binding. We have received no
value forit; i. is the price Of unparalleled
injuries done unto US and unto our children.
Give us hack our country as it was when it
passed from Democratic custody! Restore
to us its Constitution all unsullied as when
given into the hands of its dsstroyer Call
forth from their bloody shrouds our million
heroes slain without cause Undo, in short,
all the evil We hare suffered since the first
election Of Abraham Lincoln to the Presi-
dency and then, but why indulge in
sraculations so lamentably vain.
As the case stands, We are ready for yepu-
diation at any moment, but we do not wish
to aggravate matters by accepting it as the
sequence Of contraction" We so for
reputation, because We are convinced thu.
between that ana Wholesale, amending op-
pression and that Of character too intol-
cradle to be borne, there is positively no
a;ornatiyal We speak for ourselves in
these premises, and for none other. Down
With the debt. Down with the aristocracy
that is being founded upon it, and down
forever with the pimps aud spies and their
name is legion-who hang upon it to keep
the warmth Of life within bodies that might
as well be cold for aught that we can see.
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