Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-18
Soldiers and IsOndhoIders-BOn
and Greenbacks.

Soldiers and BOndhOIders-BOn
E4 and Greenbacks.
- General Meigs has issued Roll of Honor
No. I5, containing 1890 names of deceased
soldiers who died in defense of the Repub-
lie, and were inferred in the national GEM
eteries at Antietam and several places in
Virginia.
We clip the above from Radical sheet.
Not one of these 1890 soldiers, whose
lives were offered up in defense of the
Union, received anything but Greenbacks
for the miserable pittance Government al
lowed them.
A pension of ninety-six dollars per an
mum is allowed the family of the private
soldier killed IN battle or dying in the SER
vice. This pittance is also paid in Green
backs. e. G
The private soldier when first he volun-
teered to defend the integrity of the Union
was promised money for his pay, and he
was paid in GreeEbacks, which the Radi-
cal press now say is not money, but rdgsl
The bondbolder, when he found that he
could make higher rate of interest and
go untaxed on his wealth by purchasing
bonds, did so, paying dollar tor dollar in
Greenback rdgs, for his bonds. The law
that allowed the issue of these bonds said
they were to be paid in Greenbacks-the
Greenbacks said the same thing. Yet the
bondholder who bought the bonds with
rags, the principal OF which was to be paid
in rags, now demand that the contract be
violated and set aside, and he be paid In
&. Gold, worth one hundred and forty-five
dollars in Greenbacks for each and every
dollar claimed in the bond. For thus vio-
lating the co ontract, in order to put money
in the pockets of the bondhelder, at the
present ruling rate of coin, five hundred
and forty four thousand dollars would be
added to every million dollars of debt un-
der which the country now staggers, and
to pay the interest on which is SO impov-
erishing the people.
The -1S 300 soldiers who fill soldiers
graves at Antietam and other places in
Virginia, had no forty -four cents added to
each dollar paid them for the lite-blood
they poured out. The widows and orphans
OF that ''roll7of honor" have no forty-two
dollars and twenty-four cents added to the
scanty pension allowed, by being paid in
zeal press, urges their claims to Justice.
The 1s 300 soldiers are dead-their wives
and children have no vote, and cannot aid
the Radicals in their efforts to retain office
for themselves and their friends. co.,
In the one case, justice demands that the
soldiers pay be made good, by bringing it
up to the gold standard, for it was part Of
the contract and It's violation was the worst
and meanest of Reputation repudia-
tion by Government of debt due its
gallant defenders. W
In the case of the bondholJers, the stay
at-home patriot, who bought gold when
the Federal cause met with reverse, and
sold it when the National cause prospered,
the case was different. The bonds they
bought with greenbacks, were in green
backs to be paid. Because the Democracy
and Increased at the highest rate of inter-
est, by the taxes of the unprivileged class, be
paid as they become due, in legal tender
notes.-the same kind of greenbacks that
the bondholder pays his debts with-we
are branded as repudidtors and odium at
tempted to be fastened upon US.
But Greenbacks are called rags by Radi-
cal orators and in Radical newspapers. If
they are rags, what are the bonds which
they claim must be paid in gold? If the
one is rags, the other is the same. Both
are printed on paper-both are promises of
the Government to pay certain amount.
Both bonds and Greenback are rags, as the
Radicals call the latter, but as paper rags
the Greenbacks have this advantage-you
cannot, under the law enacted by Radical
Congress, pay debt of one dollar, unless
the 7-30 bonds the Government has issued.
Under the law which thus refuses to make
bonds legal tender, you can
pay any debt contracted for any purpose
In ztireenbacks, and if the creditor re-
fuses to receive it, you can snap
your fingers at him and bid him
defiance. Thus Greenbacks, If rags, are
better rags than the Government bonds,
aud in these best rags the Democracy pro-
pose to pay off the bonds and stop the in
terest on them.
The Greenbacks, legal tender notes, draw
no interest-the bonds draw a higher rate |
D. interest than any man in Ohio, without
violation of the law, dares 60 charge his
leighbor for money loaned. To retire the
'onds, is thus to save the interest at the
ate of seven thousand three hundred dol
ars for every one hundred thousand dol
,rs for which the 7:30 bonds were issued.
The soldiers have legal right to demand
( the Government that they be paid the
all amount necessary to make good the
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