The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-07-20
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The empty promises Oh "re'rchchiilcnI
and reform" made by the Radicals last
year, have awakened and thoroughly
aroused the people TO full sense of
their dangcr.- Wool$Fcld Spirit.
"IIc who was more 'knavc than fool"
docs not answer TO the pattern of the
editor of the Spirit, who is both knavc
and fool in equal parts. and the dccoction
compounded in his case is very strong
Let the knave and fool dare print that
600 Clerks have been "rctrcnchcd' from
the Treasury Department, since the in
coming Of Grants Administration.
Let tho knavc and fool dare print that
260 Clerks and Messengers have been
'.rctrcnchcd" from other Departments,
within the past three weeks.
Let the knavc and fool dare print that
almost 1000 assistant Assessors have
been lately ''rctrcnchcd' from the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, yet the amount of
revenue collected has been increased.
Let the knave and fool dare print that
G,000 civilian employees have been "rc-
trcnchcd' out of the army, since Grant 5
Inauguration; the army itself recently
''rctrcnched' twenty VIC believe that is
the numhcr) regiments and the expense
of the War Department thus "rctrench-
cd about S25, 100000 year.
Let the knave and foo, dare print that
the Radicals" have paid S36,360,779 Of
The Public Debt, since March last; that
they paid $l5,il0,l32 of it i'll the month
of June past; that under what it calls
Radical Rule it has paid in all $685.
GS7, ,00l of the debt since Sept. |, 1860
Or 1926, ,0G7, All, not now counting as
debt the Pacific Railroad bonds, for
which the Government is merely socu-
rity. 81.
But the editor of the Spirit is like the
old fellow we once heard Of who dcclar
ed: at is enough TO ruin anybody to
pay his honest debts.
The editor of the Marietta Times is
neither knavc or fool. Dare he print the
facts above given? or docs lie prefer to
stick to his last year s 'error2" which he
printed and never has had the fairness to
rctract, that the Radicals in time of pro-
found peace had increased the public
debt $I56, ,000,0 900, whereas the fact was
it had then been decreased S222,00O, 900.
-Marictta Register.
The gentleman and scholar of the
Register is wont to make random asser-
tons in his paper, thinking that great
deal of scattering will hit the truth once
in long time.
The gentleman and scholar of the
RcyiStcr says, in the first five paragraphs
of the above, that 1850 officials have
had their heads stricken Off. That, if
true, 1--WE have only the word of the gen
tlcman and scholar for) was done to cna
bic the big thieves to pocket what those
discharged would have received.
By the way, we know chat the gentle
man and scholar of the Register is cor
rect in regard to the removal of three
clerks. Two were the daughters of
Chief Justice TANEY, deceased who were
removed because their father was Dem
ocrat and opposed through life the
growth OF Jacobinism.
The third, clerk in the Surgeon Gen
erals Office, was removed because he
loved and married Miss ANNIE SURRATr,
the daughter of the woman whose life
was sacrificed on gibbct to appcase the
insane greed of the Radicals for limo.
cent blood. These are specimen reno
vals by the present Jacobin bloodhounds
in power.
The gentleman and scholar of the
RcytSter is referred to an article in this
issue from the Columbus Crisis which
upscts the finc debt statement of Sccre-
tary Boutwell,.
The gentleman and scholar of the
Register ought to know by this time that
slang phrases and calling ono "knave
and fool" is not argument or wit and
invariably fails to convince any person.
The gentleman and scholar of the
Register may just as well calm himself
and cease cavortlng, because we propose
to excoriatc his vile political Ncgroisms
during this campaign, and abusive terms
will not serve to deter us.
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