The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-22
What We Pay.

Brick Pomeroy's new paper, the New
York Democrat, says of the public debt
and expenditures
Week in and week out, month after
month, and year after year; through the
busy hours of the day and the silent
watches of the night; observing the sacred
rest of no Christian Sabbath, relieved by
the joyous welcome and jocund shouts of
no social, religious, or national holiday
steady as the measured, unceasing, beat
ing of the chronometer-
One thousand dollars a minutsi
For three consecutive years, which have
elapsed siuce the cessation of all armed
hostilities between the States and sections
of our country, have been wrung from the
industry of our people to carry forward
the chimeras of the humanitarian "party
of great moral ideas''--
Only think of i'll
One thousand dollars per minute
No rest No intermission!
1t is truly appalling! And this only
for current expenses and interest on the
public debt!
Interest did we say 1t does not pay
the interest The debt goes on increas-
ing!
And such debt! It's magnitude is al
most beyond the power of human COM
prehension
Why, if the angels who announced with
praise and thanksgiving, the birth of the
infant Saviour, had, on that joyous and
glorious morn, commenced laying by ten
dollars per minute, and had continued to
do so down to the present hour, the whole
accumulated sum would not pay the cost
to which the Jacobin party has subjected
the country by its monstrous efforts to lift
four millions of Africans above the Cau-
casian race.
They justly suffer who impiously at
tempt to reverse the laws of the infinite |!
Why, the empty buckets, the vanishing
waters, the receding boughs, the recoiling
stone, and the consumed liver-monster
horrors of ancient Hades-were nothing
compared with the penalties which will be
inflicted by just Providence upon the
wretches who have attempted to reverse
the immuta laws that created the ne
gro inferior and made him subordinate to
the Caucasion raco.
Where is the voice of seiencel Where
are the teachings of history? Why have
they been mute these years of folly, crime,
and calanityl
The silence of those who should have
borne testimony to the truth and the scorn
and violence of those who have repressed
it, have been alike criminal. The out
ragged future will judge and condemn al
who have been engaged in this great con-
spiracy against white race supremacy.
Groaning millions yet unborn will exc
crate the money of those who have been
instrumental in imposing upon them the
intolerable burden which they are doomed
to bear, if the present generation prove
wanting in the wisdom and patriotism to
relieve itself and save those which are to
succeed it from this dire curse.
Rise up, men of America, and declare
for deliverance | Cast off present evils
and avert future degradation! Strike
down the destroyers of your prosperity
and happiness! Hurl from power the as
sassins of libertyI Drive into disgrace
the plunderers of the country! Depose
the squanderes of your substance! Crush
under your heels the yipers who have
fastened their fangs upon the vitals Of the
republic, and are infusing their virus into
the circulation of our whole political sys-
tenn, producing paralysis and death Put
down the enemies of your race, and re-
store the WHITE MANS GOVERNMENT Oh
WASHINGTON