Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-23

aides cabin OF all steamboats,
md the right to send their child
en-, with those of white people
o all public schools, semiuaries
and normal academies. Yes, the
lie is cast; the thing is done. And
where n the ha-ha's, tho sneers
md the----muskets, of oHr late
What care we for the good or
i'll will, the ridicule or approval,
the endurspf4t MT or denunciatiop
of IL race OF dolts and dustards
who, fawning, cringing, fonGling
their destroyers, licking the fl
thy hands that smite them, have
sunk to a depth of degradation,
never before reached by any
kindred, tribe, or tongue, under
heaven, or above-the other
place? Let them 'squeal their
disapproval-squeak their feeble
sarcasms squirt their tcpid- dish
watery vitnperation. Let them
sniffic fanatic and 'madman' to
their little souls, contcnt-it
such things have souls. But
SGnbrowned til
iers ofthe il-Brethren of Lafa-
yette County and of Missouri
Hear us once more proclaim THE
TRUTH! Hear us, for your own
sakes, and the sake of your chill
dren!
Radicalism must be over
thrown, and the accursed Yam
kee>nigger-crusade Debt repudi-
ated; or such a scene of wide
spread ruin, beggRry and wo SIS
earth never yet beheld, lies just
ahead of you!
The red flag of forced auctions
will ttutter on every breeze. All
the courthouse doors in the
country won't contain the notices
of Sherifs' Sales. And every pa
per will TEEN with Bankruptcies
tAssignmen.s.' Executions and
sAttachments.' These are not
tie wild fantasies of a frenzied
brain. They are sombre, awful
truths; and you will not have to
wait long TO see them verified
There must be a change in the
management of our g0veramen-
tai and financial affairs, or the
day ofsore tribulation is not far
distant. Mark the words, and
hear the reasons.
Wheat is to-day selling,
out the wes+, at from IS
to go cents a bushel, in deprecia-
ted, dingy rags, amounting, in
real money, to from SIS to IS
1860, your wheat
brought from $1.o0 to $1.50 a
busi.eI in gold. THEN you got
your sugar for from 5 and ST to
81 and 10 cents a pound; and
your coffee at 123 cent--Now
Tou pay from II aud 13 to 10
aud 20 cents a pound, for your
and 335 cent for coffee;
md everything else in proper
ion. Little more than halfprice
or most of the articles you have
sell; and threshold prices for
very thing you have to buy.
In 1860, you groaned about high
THEN, your taxation,-
County aud Municipal,
vas less than che per cent.;gen-
rally ranging about tb%ree-ffths
# one per cent-Direct national
ak, license, stamps, income,
manufacturers. and dealers taxes
-ou had none-Now, you direct
axes alone amount to from 81
\ per cent-nearly the legal
ate of interest on money, in
prosperous time. Two and a
lalf per cent, direct taxation
While millions of pounds sterling
ire going begging for borrowers
England, at 3 per cent. And
addition, your pockets are
jumped by such an aceursed tar
IF system, as the ingenuity of
he devil never before devised,
or the Impeachment of a
ace of toiling, spanicl-spirited
freemen. A license. be
ore you can work-A tax on
verifying you work with-A
ak on every thing your work
on every thing
GU get in exchange for your
roduce-And tax for exchange
ne it. A ten-dollar license to
ractice law or medicine; keep a
aek or peddle turnips, Stamps
every order, bill, receipt, NOR
gage and deed-Stamps on on
very hoe-handle, liniment not
.e, match box and beer keg-
such as the heroic old.
of '76 never dreamt Of
hen they threw IF the yoke of
dominion. The whole
md %swarming with Internal
,venue vernlin, No speech nor
N a0a wbaro THAR t~uanrin0