Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-25

| porting US? Why not send men 10 Con-
iyresa y ho will vote eUery5odga hundred
! fhousand dollars in bonds? Then We all
! can be rich. No more need of work for
ANYBODY then. There is science, finance,
a. loyalty,p devotion to the Union" or
| Whatever you call IL We abolished that
contemplate aristOersey OF the south
That was q sham dr5stocTdcy. lt had
wealth in negroes. IL paid tax on the
negroes, and the negroes worked az white
na9nTe worked-we all helped put money
Infd the treasury, and taxation was light
And Wa ALI abolished the aristocTaey Of
ne aoutb. and built up one for New Eng
land and her bondholders, and exempted
the new aristocracy from taxation. That
was a nice little gag on the working peO-
nIe Of the United states. Us 6opdhOld-
ers own all the poor people now 3aek
and white That is better than to own
bnt the black ones. Oh, much better
How Ike 10 see men working on their
farms lin their bones ache. That helps
ms bondhoIders. We ride by In our car
Races. lean back in our cushions and
laugh / like to see poor women take in
wsshlng, sewing, etc tOheip support Us :
And its nice to see blacKsmlths shoe
horses till their backs sehe-to see
naasons lug and toll til their hands are
hard-to see the mechanics going along
vsith their cold dinners In little tin pals
to see people working all day-to Sc
women mending, darning, coloTlng,
Matching. turning, making over, piecing
eut and doing all sorts Of work, from
morning till midnight, to support US Rad
icaI aristocrats, You see they must all
nav taxes first-lOok out. for them
seives afterwards Two or three
persons since the days Of Adam have
gone from this world sllve but l never
heard of one going without paying taxes.
7 heard of 6ondholdeTs! If the poor
fools should repudiste the national
debt-ob, murder! On, that Is impossible!
The credit OF the Governmeut-us
bondholders being the government. We
must noe let the people repudiate
They repudiated the old Continental
debt, but that was all right, as war then
was carried on for Liberty. But this wa
was carried on to destroy fiberty-to dl.
vide the Union our fathers nlade-to build
up an aristocracy for New England
nabObs -enrieh the few-t6 do jlst lUhdt
has 6esI done. And the people must
not refuse to support Us, they'll get rich,
and Us b0udhOlders will be obliged to
work and pay taxes as honest men do.
Taxation shall be equal" All, that
means for poor folks-that don't incIuds
us bOndholders. That is for the poor
farmers-the workingmen, who first must
give Of their earnings one hundred and
eighty millions a year TO support Us
bOndholders-then give hundle1 and
fifty millions more each year to defray the
expenses of this, "the best government
the world ever saw" On, we were sharp
Cunning chaps Us bondholders! We
yelped, howled, prayed, whined, Tanted,
and preached d" loyalty till We fixsd
things. We knew better than to tell
people that we Intended t) divide the
Union
To build up our own little sristocraey;
To make slaves of the workingmen;
To exempt one-third Of the wealth OF
the country from all taxation;
To make those who hold no bonds sup
port those who do;
And to mortgage their farms, their
shops, and their children, to us Radicals
aristoeraoy forever
All played it nice We did
Aud it vas the wealth of the country
that put down the rebellion! Good joke!
Old money-bags carried q musket
That's good
Old bank stock ate hard tack Excel
lent
And old bonds died in hospital ? Ha,
hR, ha glorious
Poor folks amt 90 bad after all. They
put down the rebellion, and nO,g they in
Sist on paying US b0Hdb0tderS for letting
them ! Bully for the slaves
So work awsy, poor people, twill
make you healthy Pay your taxes with
out grum bling, but for Gods sake don't
talk of reputation We can stand your
protests, your hard pains, your dirty
fingers, your coarse clothes, your patched
"a sTment5, your long hours Of toll,
-|=Jhr poor homes, your wan, care worn
eIyt your appeals for aid-can stand all
w.ese without being affected in the least,
'rost for Code sake don't mention TeptE-
Ns1tioa-thst Woald make sll;of US Rump-
nobteeted Radies, sristocrats sick =
IN lrin0feld Afo.) Leader.