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

It, ye weary, hurdened serfs Of
Yankee task masters;
Six hundred and sixty-six mil>
lion dollars a year, wrung from
the the helpless hands of a peo-
pie, who once Wanted themselves
upon their freedon! What
though your palms are biistered
with the axe and saw, the plow-
handle and hoe? What though
your bones are aching, and your
shoulders ere bowed with inccs-
SAINT, heavy labor? Toll on, toll
on, through summers heat and
winters snow! Toll on, in Dust
and mud, wind, hail, aud elect!
The insolent lordlings of Doodle
dom, your masters. must have
GOLD! lIear it blinking, blinking,
as IL drops into their gorged' but
still lnsatiafe, Golfers! There
goes the blood of the soldics; the
tears of the widow and the faith
%erless; the bread of the hungry;
the garment of the naked; coined
into golden tribute to evcr-grasp-
;rg governmental Shylocksl-
S666.000.00 a year! Rain or
shine; sick or we'll; in prosperity
or 100000 a
year, must be poured into the
treasures of our ruffianly, nsur-
ping rulers! Look at it. Think
of it. Get out your taxed pencil
take a scrap of taxed paper
and figure over it a little. We
know arithmetic's a bore; but
como ahead. $666.000.O00 a year
$1.824 o57.53 a day-$T6.027.39
an hour-$1.267.12 a minute
$21 IL a secondl! That's your
taxation! Come veal or come wo
that's what you have to pay for
the blessings of Puritanigger
rulel $1.824.657.53, nearly half
the whole cost of John Adams
for
every rising and setting of the
sun. In the short hour you spend
at your ten-fold taxed supper
with your little family,$76
OF 80 fall jingling, into the
greedy nav of the best govern
nent the sun ever shone on
oh, the hideous mockery of
hose wordsD$1.267 IL while you
your taxed hat to a lady,
On the street-$21.11 for every
lex of the clock, every throb of
your weary, pulse? With q hun
lre1 thousand official scoundrelS
'mbezzling, swindling, grabbing
tealing-With a Congress of
'eckless, perjured bandits, squan-
by millions; giving Whole
Iistticts of the public lanls to
hievish corporations, of Which
hey themselves are head-gob-
,lers; feeding and rampering a
horde of lousy vaga-
building and running
schools and seminar, 8, for juven-
lie baboors; maintaining an army
If thirty thousand mercenaries.
Uniformed hirelings, in the South
o trample down white men and
niggere-With an adj
ninistration, from President,
Cabinet, Officers, Senators and
Generals down to the last pitiful
Legislature, and back
woods log-doggery postmaster
III, all thieves and scrap snat-
:hers--And with an utterly lille
gal Debt of $4,000. 600.
100. 600 pounds of solid silver
'511.073 25 for every year since
he creation of Misunderstanding
;rinding our very bones to pow
ler- When do you think we'll
yer be FREE? How long will it
e till our everlasting enslave-
nent and ruin are complete?
Fellow-suffers! how long will
on submit to suck unparalleled
npositions and outrages? How
ong halt we between two opin
ons!-Repud;ation and Liberty
r maintenance of Yankee nation
! honor, continued submission to
robbery, aud final HOPE
Ess SLAvERY!-These are the al
ernatives! There is 10 middle
roundl Choose ye, this day, be-
ween them! We're done!
ED. pEMoCRAT:-At a statad