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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

Questions. for Radicas 10 Answer

l. The ten forty bonds were made by
law payable in coin. The words "in
coin' were left out of the fve-twenty
bonds. IT, as the Radical politicians
pretend, one bond is now as good as the
other, why was the distinction made be
tween them? ia man draws two notes
and promises kind Of payment in one
that he does not in the other, what should
we think Of the individual who would say
that there was no difference intended be.
tween them?
2. The interest on the fve-twenty
bonds was expressly made payable, i'll
gold. If the principal was so payable,
why was it not SO stated with the inter
est?
g. Why should the Government pay
100000 annually to the National
Banks for issuinga a blueback currency,
when it can issue greenbacks fol-
nothing, greenbacks being the best cur
rency?
4. Why should we pay 100 cents on a
dollar in gold for bond which cost the
holder but 40 cents in gold?
5. Why should Boutwell,, the Secre-
tary ofthe Treasury, pay Sl25 for a hun
dred-doIlar bond which on its face calls
only for 500? q.
6. Why should we take up the debt
bearing no interest, like the greenbacks,
first, leaving the bonds, which do bear a
heavy interest, out ?
7. Why should we have far less
amount of currency now out to do the
business then WAS required when the
South was not party to the Union
s. Why, if the debt is ever to be paid
off should it be nearly three hundred NIL
lion dollars more than it was in April.
1865, when the war closed.
9. Why should we keep up an army
OF $4,000 men, at an expense of S5O,-
600, 900 year, when an army of TO-
900 men, at S1O,00o,OOO' would suf-
fee?
10. Why should the tariff be laid upon
the measure of goods, and not upon their
price, by which the cheap article used
by the poor is charged precisely as
much as the dear article used by the
rich ?
IL. How can specie payments ever be
resumed, when there is an actual drain
of S6O,000,000 a year to Europe, in Or
der to pay the interest to the European
bondhonders upon the national debt Z
II. Why should the American hold
er of the bonds pay an income tax, and
not the European holder? Why should
not the tax be revised and both classes
be made to pay,
13. Why should the Yankee fisher
man be allowed to have his salt free OF
duty, to cure his fish, while the Western
packer of beef and pork is taxed twenty
four cents a hundred pounds for that
purpose.
IA. Why should the people be taxed
upon their coffee, sugar, salt and Other
necess aries, when the holder Of bonds is
taxed nothing for his bonds? Why
should discrimination be made in his
favor against a poor soldier who is tax.
ed two per cent, upon his house and
| lot
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07
The Radical Rally.

The following is an honest confession
of the purposes of Radical:sm. Also, a
rallying cry for all Conservatives and
Radicals to vote for HAYES and Negro
Equality:
"Let as hare no sinking or dodging OH
The Fifteenth amendment lr IS THE
ESSENCE OF WHAT WE STRUGGLED FOR DU.
RING ALL THESE YEARS
"Erery election for nearly ten years
has been fought Nth this ultimate object
iue point in pie,o, and nething but the co,c.
ardice Of milk and pater Conservatives
has postponed 1t 10 the Fall elections o.
1859 to settle The question finally. -
Ohio State Journal, The organ IF Ohio
4Negroism.
The leading organ of corrupt Radical
ism and the ignorant Negroes invites
White Men 10 walk up to the ballot-box
and deposit their ballots in favor Of pla-
cling field-hand Negroes on the same po.
litical and social footing enjoyed by
themselves
Voters! Fling this insult back into the
faces of the men. who would degrade
you!
Vote the Democratic ticket on the 18th
day of October, and learn these Negro
lovers that you favor country ruled by
White Men.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07
Radical Financiering.

The New York Bank Note Companies
have failed in their contract to print the
new currency, and now the Government
is left in the lurch at time when the bu
siness interests of the country are likely
to suffer most danger from the failure to
furnish the needed supply of the circula-
ting medium The Treasury Department
very foolishly sent to New York some
time ago and destroyed the old plates,
called in all, or nearly all, the old frac.
tional currency, sold at great sacrifice
all its note printing presses, gave away
a valuable paper mill, and surrendered
itself TO the New York note printers, that
had been fighting for the work so long.
The transfer, ii has been stated, has cost
the Government at least q half a million
of dollars, and Is likely to cost half a
million more.
This is the style Of retrenchment and
reform practiced by the present Radical
Administration.
Let the laboring taxpayers rally 10
their strength on Tuesday, the 18th day
of October, and,by their ballots, declare
that this Radical plundering shall cease.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

EsLast Saturday being the day on
which those drawing pensions were to
receive Greenbacks, large number Of
persons visited town.
The Bondholder, on Coupon day,
draws Gold for his Coupons.
DIFFERENCE The soldier gave his
leg for his country, ,and receives his pen
sion pittance every six months in Green
backs.
The Bondholder remained at home
during the war, cursed all Democrats as
rebels, shouted Son to Richmond ~ and
now he draws Gold to the amount oi
$l23 for 800 bond purchased for $50
during the war.
That's Radical love and gratitude
for the soldiers"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

Some farmers in Highland County are
feeding wheat to their hogs.
When Garibaldi took Palermo avoupa
girl fought by his side and killed sever
eral royal soldiers. She now keeps 6
boarding house there, and has grown ex
ceedingly fat.
"Is my wife 'our of spiritsr said Jones with
sigh,
As her voice of a tempest gave warn.
'Quite out, sir, indeed" was the servants re.
"For she finished the bottle this morn
ing"
The Archduchess, Sophia, of Austria,
has completely recovered from her illness
but her physicians have strictly forbid
den her attendants to mention the names
of Ferdinand, Maximillian and Napoleon
III any more in her presence.
The Radicals in Pennsylvania are be-
coming seriously alarmed. The pros
poets for the defeat of Geary are bright
ening every day. Grant is invoked fol
aid, and he proposes to send Butler
His proposition is glorious one.
A great fire is raging in Disma
Swamp. Many miles of fences and core
wood have been destroyed and numer
Gus wild animals have been driven GU
into the open country.
The official majorlties. for the Conse
vative Republican candidates in Virgini;
are as follows Gilbert c. Walker, Gov
ernor, 1885 Jno. c. Lewis, Lieuten
ant Governor, 20,46S; James G. Taylor
Attorney General, 1887. The tota
vote for Governor was 220,379.
So far as we can learn, the meeting.
OF General Cary have been about fv'
times as great as those of General Haye
and his friends. All the signs in Ohit
are favorable this year for the Democra
cy. Push on the column Gin, E,,
gutrer
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

The Delaware peach yield this year is
estimated at 100000 baskets.
The Delaware River has not been sc
low as now for twenty five years.
There are, in Germany, three hundred
workingmen's societies, with thirty thou
sand members.
Benjamin Dilworth. of Columbians
County, threshed two hundred and seven
ty-four bushels of oats, the product OF
four acres Of land.
Two of the members of the Turkish
Cabinet, it is said, intend to become
Christians 1t is thought in CONSTANT
nople, that the Sultan will not remove
in consequence.
The Radical party, while taxing tbs
poor mans salt, and the wounded sol
dier's house and lot, and yet exempting
the rich mans bonds, is true to its aristo
cratic character. 1t was ever for the
privileged few against the many. 1t has
always been run by the former for theil
own benefit.
A child has just been born in the town
Of Pittston' Maine, which completes foul
generations of a family born within hall
century, The mother is fifteen years
of age, the grandmother twenty eight
years, and the great grandmother forty.
eight years, The young mother is the
daughter of her husband S sister.
The boiler in the Phoenix Iron Com
pany's works, Phenixville, Pa, explo
ded the 3Oth ult, killing from ten to
twenty workmen. and injuring as many
more. Five dead bodies have been taken
from the ruins. The widest excitement
exists among the wives and children OF
the workmen.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07
The Platform of the Ohio Radi-
Gals,

The following from the Ne'c York
Tribune is what the voters Of Ohio are
begged to indorse on Tuesday, the 18th
day of October:
"aenceforth, the Republican party,
from the st. John to the Pacific is unit
for Universal Liberty and IMPARTIAL
SUFFRAGE regardless of CASTE.
RACE or COLOR. Those who
are hostile to this principle will go to
their own places as Judas did"
"Wc loathe and detest all laws which
give or withhold political rights on ac-
count of color. "A mans man for a
that and ought to have the full rights
of manhood, whether his ancestors were
CELTS, GOTHS, or HOTTENTOTS,
whether his complexion be EBONY Or
IVORY. All constitutional
exclusions of any class FROM THE
POLLS, THE JURY BOX, &c. because
of color, ARE ARISTOCRAT1C, UN-
JUST and INFAMOUS"
White Men, vote HAYES into retire
ment and the above abominable doctrine
down.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

Is the pure peachy Complexion which
follows the use of Hagan's Magnolta
Balm. 1t is the True Secret of Beauty.
Fashionable Ladies in Society under
stand this.
The Magnolia Balm changes the rus
tic Country Girl into City Belle moro
rapidly than any other one thing.
Redness, Sunburn, Tan, Freckles,
Blotches and all effects of the Summer
San disappear when it is used, and q
genial, cultivated, fresh expression is
obtained which rivals the Bloom of
Youth. Beauty is possible to all who
will invest Is cents at any respectable
store and insist on getting the Magno
liza Balm.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

''We observe that the Monroe County
Spirit of Democracy has commenced its
annual howlings about taxing bonds
AS your party had reliable working
majority III the last Legislature, we want
to know why you didn't have a law pass
ed taxing them ?''-Pomeroy Telegraph.
A clear case of ignorance. On page
S4a of the,laws of the last session of the
Legislature is an act,passed May I, 1869,
To provide for taxing Bonds, Treasury
Notes and Fractional Currency of the
United States, held or owned by individ-
uals, companies or corporations in this
State
This law provides that all "such in
vestments in bonds, treasury notes and
fractional currency, shall be taxed the
same as other property is or may be tax
ed by the laws of this State"
Mr.. Telegraph, the Democracy will
have control of the Government after
1872, when every bond will be subjected
to taxation. Now, poor men, are taxed
for the exemption granted the Aristo-
cratic Bondholders.
Dare you lay before your readers our
reply TO your pitiable attempt at decep-
ton? We shall see.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

"THE UNION AS 1T WAS. AND
rHE CONSTITUTION AS 1T IS"
"I hold that THIS Government was made
,n tho WHITE BASIS, bv WHITE
MEN, for the BENEFIT of WHITE MEN
pud their pOsTERITY forever Ste
phen A. Douglas.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07
Take Notice.

The Editor of THE SryRlT has removed
his Office. to the front room of the dwell
ling house, one door South of the print
ing Office, where all business connected
with THE SPIRIT will be transacted. No.
tiee the sign: e9- SrIRIT OFFICE.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07
TlKe Financial FOlicy of the
Radicnss.
They Pay $I,2OO.O0O for $1,000
OfsO
TAXPAYERS PAX THE BILAs.
From the New York Mercantile Journal
Cheap Mt 100000,

|
Cheap Mt 100000.
If the Administration can purchase
the services of a man who is able to
make a satisfactory explanation of Sec
retary Boutwelrs action in purchasing
. L. 5, $50 Bonds-which do not fulty
mature for fifteen years to come--at q
premium of 20 per cent. and over, pay
ing therefor, in past due promises of the
Government, the redemption Of Which,
at the present time, is entirely ignored,
such services would be cheap at one huu-
dred thousand dollars.
We hear much loud talk in certain
quarters about the national honor. etc,
etc. A great noise is made in this direc-
ton, but it is nothing but empty sound !;
it has no meaning in it. 1t is very much
like the old story about "honor among
thieves"
We do not like to hear an individual,
on his own behalf, or for the Govern
ment, boast about tile honorable pay
ment of unmatured debts, while refusing
to even consider the payment of debts
already past due. That the Government
stands in the position to dsy,of refusing
to pay its matured debt, we have evi-
dence, in the fact of our being unable TO
collect note, payable on demand, at
the U, S. Treasury in New York, which
was issued in the early part of the year
1862.
We do not beliere 1t possible to satisfy
any candid mind that Secretary Bout
'ceU has done right IN paying 81 100000
IN legal tender promises Of the Coz
eat,,chich are past due, for each ST.
100000, (face value, Of $40 bonds,
,chich he has recently purchased. To
any person who viii. first convince any
twelve business men of the city of New
York-to be chosen in the usual manner
of choosing juries-that Mr.. Boutwell,,
in this matter, is doing right, we will pay
one thousand dollars, provided that we
have accorded to us the ordinary privi-
lege of arguing our case against him
before such jury.
We make this offer for the reason
that we can we'll afford to pay that sum,
in order to be set right-D ,ce are wrong
for we are spending many times that
amount to promulgate financial theories
as we understand them.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07
bay Eabor versus Goals.

TO the Editors OF the Evening Post:
The extortion perpetrated on the la
boring classes, as well as on all other
classes, by means Of our tariff, may be
well eXemplified by the prices of coal
and labor III London and in New Yorl,
The average wages of persons EN-.
ployed i'll the gas-works in New Yorl,
and London, respectively, are;
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

gNegro Suffrage in Ohio means
Ignorant Negroes in the Jury box.
Ignorant Negroes in the State Senate
and Legislature.
Ignorant Negroes in the Supreme
Court.
Ignorant Negroes ruling White Men.
Voters, vote this measure and the Ne
gro ticket down on Tuesday, the 18th
day of October.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

EEThe leaders Of Radicalism think
they can bully and drive the masses OF
their party to the support of Negro Suf-
frage in Ohio.
They are mistaken in this Large
numbers of their party in every county
in Ohio are declaring for Democracy and
the White Mans Ticket, headed by Hon.
GEORGE II. PENDLEToE.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

REMEMBER-That under the present
Radical tariff the silks and broadcloths
Of the rich are taxed but sirty per cent.
REMEMBER--That under the present
Radical tariff the blanket of the poor
man is taxed three hundred per cent!
That is specimen OF Radical legisla-
ton Thereby the poor are robbed to
make the rich richer
Tax payers assist in abolishing these
Radicaldifferences by voting the Demo,
cratic ticket.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

E8>PENDLEroN favors paying the 5 20
bonds in GreenDacks, dollar for dollar.
HAYES, the Bondholders' candidate,
favors paying the $50 bonds in Gold at
the rate Of 1928 for every 500 Bond.
Taxpayers, vote the Democratic tick
ct on Tuesday, the 18th day of October,
and help to change the odious system
inaugurated by the corrupt party in
mower
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

EgThe ax-payers demand that the
tariff, now In vogue, be repealed.
1t taxes them 800 per cent. on every
blanket they buy.
The Manufacturers of the East demand
more protection" in order to enable
them to completely beggar the tax-pay-
ers of the West.
Voters, for whose interests will you
cast your ballots, your own or the Man
ufacturers of the East?
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

~The Radical mass meetings held
to this time in Ohio are reported very
tame affairs. Tie people won't turn out
to hear Negro Suffrage and High Taxa
ton preached.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

EFTo the present writing the indica
tions are that Mr. PENDLEToN will be
elected Governor of OHIO by a majority.
4. y,.,f less than 2s 600 votes. 3
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

Call on our Club Agents and subscribe
for the Spirit. The Negroites are again
at work to place the Negro on an equal
ity with you, viz: to vote and hold of;
fee; and you should have paper that
will enable you to refute all their Negro
icnc
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The Additional Debt of Boutwell,.

Boutwell,, the Secretary of the Treas
ury, by paying twenty-five per cent.
more for the bonds than is due on their
face, has added, so far as he can about
$500, ,00O 900 to the National debt This
is $60,000,000 for the State Of Ohio,
and S6,000,000 for Hamilton County.
We have 10000 voters, in round num-
bers, in this county. The additional as
sessment of debt will be $3.50 for Hamil
ton County. This is, let it be re-
remarked, the Radical programme.
The triumph ofBoutwelfs policy, which
is bound up in the success of the Repub-
lican party, is new $3.50 tax upon
all voters. We shall see whether the
people will favor it in October Gin.
Emo uirer,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

At Bremerhafen, in Germany, lives a
young girl named Anna Jansen, who has
already saved the lives of thirty men.
She has three Orders, and the Empress
of the French recently sent her the Cross
of the Legion Of Honor for rescuing the
entire crew of shipwrecked French
vessel.
Schuyler County, Mo-, has been en-.
joying very large law suit over very
small pig The grand result is footed
up in this way: Value of pig, sS so;
expenses to county, S65; damage to
people, s6l 50; 100 spectators at 81 so
per day, $50; lawyers fees at So each
S25; jury fees erifffees, ETC., $40; cost
ofpig, GAG so.
stranger, will you try hand with us
at poker 2" THANK you, gentlemen, but
there are seventeen reasons why l can
not accommodate you just now
Seventeen reasons for not playing cards
Pray, what are they ?" "Why, the first
is, haven't any money" "Stopl that s
enough; never mind the other six
tpen.p
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8 U b s G n L b e !.

EE"Too Much Military" and "The
International Boat Race" will be found
on the fourth page.
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Waosssfieid.sept. z. 1859.

"A union of hearts. union of hands,
A union that none may sever;
A union of lakes. union of lands,
70 The AMERICAN Union FOREVER"
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LONDON, August 31.-The story of a
conspiracy, followed by execution on
board the United States frigate Sabine,
at Cherbourg, which was telegraphed
from Paris the same day, is absolutely
contradicted.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

PARIS, August 81 The capture of
Hokadadi by the Milkado is confirm
ed.
The newspapers Of this city assert
that Burlingame received a dispatch
from the Chinese Government, express
ing a cordial recognition of the treaties.
he concluded with America and the diff
ferert Europeon States.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

ET Read the White Mans and Ne
gro's Platforms published in this issue.
The Radicals are afraid to publish their
Negro Platform. The people don't like
its smell and they know it. Too much
Niger!
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

A Fatal cattle disease is prevailing in
upper East Tennessee.
The New York Mail says: 'Woman
is composed of 243 bones, 400 muscles,
and 500 pins"
The Alabama State journal says that
in many sections of the country, both
corn and cotton are becoming badly
twisted by the heat and continued
drouth.
Here is the prize conundrum: Why is
it improper for man and his wife to
ride donkey? because, what God
hath joined together let no man put ass
under.
A correspondent of the Boston Jour.
nal says that the whisky destroyed by the
Philadelphia, fire would have made 81,
000,O0e, Of straight drinks" which, at
fifteen cents glass, would amount to
$500, ,000, 900, more than one third of the
National debt.
Henry de Villemessant, editor of the
Paris Figaro, boasts of never having
paid yet any of his correspondents and
sub-editors less than one hundred francs
for an article.
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gN Near Fairfield, Benton County,
Missouri, last Thursday evening, the
horses attacked to stage coach, contain
ing a young married couple a lady with
two small children, and a gentleman, be-
came frightened and ran away. The two
gentlemen sprang out safely; but Mrs.
Moore, the youag married lady, in jun
ping from the stage, caught her hoop
skirt in the brake, and was thrown to the
ground and dragged two hundred and
fifty yards before she was released
Every particle of clothing was stripped
from her body except her shoes and
stockings, and narrow strip of her un-
der DRESS around The shoulders, and her
wounds were so severe that she died in q
few minutes. She was about eighteen
years old, and with her husband moving
from West Virginia, was within twelve
miles of their destination when the acci-
dent occurred. The other lady remained
in the stage, closely holding her two
childre n in her arms, and was not hurt in
the least, as the horses soon afterward
ran into ditch and stopped.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

EyThc Fifteenth Amendment. if
adopted, will enfranchise 10000 Chi
nese and 4,coo 900 of ignorant Negroes.
a vote for the Radical ticket is vote
in fsor Of allowing these ignoramuses
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-07

ESMoney is tight. So is GRANT
most Of the time.
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D9 Under the baleful excitement OF
the Kansas-Nebraska era, fsays the New
ark Advocate, } the Executive and Legis
lative control of the State of Ohio passed
out of the hands of the democratic party
in the year 1856, and the succeeding twelve
years was held by the Republican party /:
In the year 1855, the last year of Dem
ocratic rule. the grand aggregate
of all taxes levied in the State of
Ohio, for all purposes, levied un-
der Safe authority, was, SS,954,511
In the year 1866, at the end of twelve
years of Republican rule in Ohio,
the grand aggregate of taxes for
all purposes, levied under State au-
thority, was aO,253615
Increase in twelve years of Republ-
/ can rule 1899, 1O4
The above are facts and figures that
carry with them scorching commentary
on Republican policy and improvidence,
They show the tendency to extravaganza
and iil-judged expenditure which mark
the legislation of that party wheH it has
control either in the State or Federal
Goyernment-Idrietta Times.