Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-09-15
GOV. Hayes a Bond RepudiatOr.

He wriggles in and he wrigglcs out.
Leaving the people still in doubt,
Whether the snake that made the track,
Was going out or coming back"
The party opposed to the Democracy
and its candidates have been on all sides
Of the grcenback question.
Before the bondhoIdcrs were compeII-
to furnish the material aid" to the Re-
publican party to carry on its campaign,
the Ohio Convention Of Radicals resolv-
ed in favor Of paying the Government
bonds in greenbacks. After the bond
holders agreed to shell out the next
Convention repudiatedi it, and the whole
venal pack, from Gov. Hayes down, and
from the Journalup, every leading Rad
ical sheet opposed it.
Two years since, Gen. Hayes, then Il
candidate for Governor, in his speech at
Hamilton, in Butler county, August If,
as reported in the Cincinnati CONNER
ciaI, says:
"Now what makes reconstruction ne
cessary? The President says that the
rebellion deprived the States engaged
therein of all civil governments. He
read the Constitution as declaring that
Andrew johnson should guarantee to
the States republican form of govern
ment. The loyal people read it as de-
Claring that the representatives Of the
people should do this. In discussing
that question we are met with side
issues, which we may as well meet here.
One of these issues is that of taxation. |
do not charge any party with being in
favor of reputation, but | do say, if
there is such a party the Union party is
opposed to it. We are in favor of OBJ
serving our obligations in whole and in
good faith. The debt is Il heavy load,
but we have immense resources, and the
same policy should be observed bv the
nation as would be good policy in pri-
Vatc udividual-hOncStY. Our OppO-
ncnts are all at once in favor Of green
backs. Their course Oh this subject is
strange. Who held up silver fivccent
piece declaring that it would yet buy
bushCl of grccnbacks? Who declared
that the time would come when YOU
would he compelled to exchange bushGl
for bushel of grGenhacks for potatoes "
Now they are in favor of grCeHhaCks.-
Judge JewCtt, in an elaborate speech,
ttNlN NttlNN ltNtlANN lllHlNttAl VI a A'llNi-
ed debt. Now, il so happens that i'm
Congress every Democrat voted for Me-
CullOch's bonding bill and Il majority
of Union members, including their pres
Cnt candidate for Governor, voted No
Mr.. JcwCtt evidently forgot which par
ty he was in. Mr.. JuWett is not the aU-
thor of his grecnhaCk proposition. Edi-
turiaIS in the Cincinnati Gazette BdVO-
Gated it i'm lS65 and So did Mr.. Thad.
Stevens in Congress. On a proposition
in Congress, introduced millions i'm
gruenbaCks To pay compound interest
notes falling one, Democrats voted nay,
and eleven Republicans from Ohio in
Guiding Mr.. Hayes, voted yea / have
carefully examined Judge Thurman's
speeches, and do not find that he dis
cusscs this topic, but do find he calls
our currency rags.
We reproduce this choice extract from
Hayes speech for the editiCatiOn of the
Radical crew who are forced TO snCeZe
when he takes snuff. Either the pay
mcnt of the public debt in greeubacllS is
not reputation, or else Gen. Hayes is q
repudiator. If it is not reputation, then
Radicalism liCs-if it is, the Radical
party by supporting Hayes for Cover
nor, gives aid and comfort to q repudi-
alton of the national debt. Statesmen.
Riches often make men forFctiul.