Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-09-08
Old Scarecrows Renewed.

In Missouri they are having the
same demagogue notions discussed
that used to be up in Wisconsin.
The ST. Louis Ne,cs, copperhead
paper says:
If the Radicals of this State
should succeed in amending the con-
stitution SO that negroes can vote in
Missouri, they would convert the
State into paradise for negroes.
They would flow from ali the States
where they are not allowed to vote.
We should have an Eruption of ne
groes by thousands.
There is one portion of the
white population that would be Sc
riously injured by an influx of ne
groes from neighboring States. We
refer to the laboring States
Twenty thousand negroes, lured into
this State by the prospect OF voting,
would be competitors in every de-
partment of manual labor. They
would crowd out the Germans aud
the Irish, and take the bread ont of
their mouths by taking the wages
out of their pockets"
This is the same hobgoblin used
in the days of slavery, and which
we have met a thousand times
Free the negroes, said they, and
the Northern States Will be covered
with them as with the locusts of
Egypt, and they will work so indus
triously and cheaply that poor Gers
mans and Irishmen and other white
laborers will be thrown out of en-
ployment, and will have to starve.
Then in the next breath it was al
ways said that the negroes wouldn I
work at all, save by compulsioI
of the lash, and if that were re-
moved, they would flock to the
North IN thousands, and become an
idle charge upon white industry OF
they would steal and murder, and
commit all sorts of crimes to get
bread, and so fill our prisons and
penitentiaries.
The other face Of the second adj
vent declares that the negroes, be
ing free, will not work in the South
and the honest laboring man of the
North is being taxed innumerable
millions for the Freedmen's Bureau
which supports them in idleness.
The facts are about these as tc
that Freedmens, Bureau The wal
closing, never was known such DIES,
titution in the country as existed
south among whites and blacks
People Of the north were centribu
ting millions for their relief, and on
ly asked the government to create
by law such Bureau Of authority
as would regulate the aid offered by
the people. Even teachers were EN-
ployed in the north and salaried
north to educate the poor children
white and black down south.
Well, such Bureau was created anG
the war department appointed to su
perintend the aid, and in this way
some twenty millions of aid was rem
dered, the whites coming in for above
three-fourths of all that was distribu
ted.
The official statements show that
this whole department known as the
Freedmen's Bureau has cost the Gov.
eminent only about three and hal
millions of dollars-not above fifteer
cents each to all the northern people
And three-fourths of this sum raised
by northern charity has gone to feeC
the wife rebels fthe south who now
cooperate with northern copper
head in supporting Seymour ant
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And of the two thousand dollars
raised in Grant County for aiding
the southern poor whites and blacks
nineteen parts in twenty were paiC
by republicans-perhaps not ever
twenty dollars thereof by these in
fernal grumblers about Freedmens
| Bureaus.
And just SO with the grumbl er'
about the so>called high taxes: those
who pay the least tax, and grumble
the most. are the LATEST, loaflng cop
perheads, and the country woul(
largely gain by swapping them of
for second grade niggers.
Not long since we met grum
bling miser copperhead, having
some s18,0 in U. S. Bonds, with ;
big family and log shanty. He ba
never paid any income, always by
perjury evading such. Other people
pay for schooling his children. Thu
state, county, town and school ta1
on his shanty was $3.50 last year
which is all it costs him to live in thu
country which he never ceases t.
abuse. Would it not be well to ex
change him fer any sort of Niger
Another copperhead, rich in land
"a draft sneak during the war, ant
since a grumbler at the high taxes
swcars he'll pay no taxes to supper
this "tyrannical government" as b,
calls it. Never labors except to ris,
early and poach about his neighbor
premises for the fuel that is to cool
his morsel and heat his shins. Tn,