Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-10-21
Does IS LaraItH,, PAY Z.

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Who can doubt it, after what his eyes
have seen and his ears heard ? Does
loyalty" so-called-we mean {. 10y
atty" to the Jacobin party-does it
pay?
Askthe bondholder who has invest
ed his paper money in Government
bonds, on which he draws his interest
semi-annually in gold and pays no
taxes.
irD Ask the shoddy contractor, who at
the commencement Of the war was poor
as poverty itself, but who now, throug h
his swinding contracts, Is the posses
sor of fine mansions and of great
wealth y 4
Ask the camp-follower, who few
years ago lived in a rented house, but
who now glories in his grand parlors,
respondent with the richest furniture
and? idraper.hangings, and whose wife
and daughters dress in fine linen, and
fare sumptuously every day.
Ask the country brokers-the Jay
Cookes-who, at the breaking out of the
war, might have carried their " bank
ing" institutions in "a carpet-bag, but
who now through the one per cent. made
in the sale and negotiation of Govern
ment securities, are in possession ofun-
told millions and whose splendid equip
ages and magnificent turn-outs with liv-
cry servants, dazzle the eye Of the hum
bic beholder and astonish his magma
ton. .-,i -,i: s.:.r. y!
Does loyalty. to ,Radicalism pay?
Ask the Collectors, Assessors, Su-
perintendents, Inspectors, Supervisors,
Weighers, Gaugers, and scopes OF assis-
tants sand pdsupernumcraries, who are feed
ing and fattening off the Government
-fnancially-asthe leech and the vam-
pyre grow and fatten upon their .un-
lucky victims.
Does loyalty to Jacobinism pay?
Ask the public land swindlers and
the Indian rings Ask the Cherokee
land swindlers Ask the Usage land
swindlers. Ask the great railroad mo-
.nopolists. Ask Secretary Harlan.
Does loyalty to Radical dsunionism
R'l Ask the carpet-baggers Who have gone
South to plunder distressed and i'm
poverished people. Ask the Bureau
agents, Who are living upon loyalty to
Sambo and who are striving to plant in
the breasts of the late slave the seeds of
bitterness and revenge against the South
ern whites, his late masters and his pres
ent employers. Ask the scoundrels
who are now and have been sowing dis
cord in the South,
Ask the horde Of so-callcd Southern
correspondents of Northern Jacobin pa
|.pers, .who. are manu- eturing Southern 2.
f6dittragcs fof tie PHfposeof exciting gat
the North feelings of hostility to the peo-
pie ofthe South. Il, - -
Does loyalty to Radicalism pay?
Ask the so-called "loyar papers all
over the North. Askth Tribune. Ask
the Cincinnati Gazette. Ask the st.
Louis Democrat. Ask hundreds and
thousands of the Radical Republican
and shoddy papers Of the country.
Does loyalty to the Radical disunion
It does. 1t pays largely, immensely,
wonderfully. If you doubt it. ask Rad
ical members of Congress.
Ask John-A. Logan, who, while a
Democrat, was.a poor nan. When he
went into the army his whole property
only Inventories $4,000. Now, it is
said, John owns property in Chicago,
alone. worth 100000 How did he
make it? Most certainly not by his
pay in the army. 1t was not left to
him, for his family and relatives are
all poor. How then|did General Lo-
gan come by this 100000 worth 'of
property?
Loyalty" paid him. 1t pays hun
dreds. It pays thousands 1t fills the
pockets of just such men as Logan. 1t
supplies the great Golfers Of the Eastern
manufacturing nonopolist. Itpaysthere-
fore and pays well. But it does not
pay tarcs. The laboring classes pay
the taxes. The common people pay the
taxes. The loyal" bondholder pays
no taxes. The loyal" New England
manufacturer is exempt from taxation,
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