Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-01
WHAT SHALL BE DONE?
Advice 10 Southern Farmers and
Planters.

Advice 10 southern EdTAhcEs anu
Planters.
To the Union and American:
The question is now, what ought you to
do? You see by the action Of your Pres1-
dent aud his cabinet, that neither you nor
your business, or property, have any claim
to their consideration. But let a few na-
hobs and aristocratic money-stealers,
swindlers and brokers, money shavers,
miscslled bankers, get into trouble in car
rying out some gigantic swindle, and then,
Immediately, their President and his capi-
net officers step out and run with railroad
speed to New York, with all the money Of
the people, placed unfortunately in their
hands, and your treasure, extorted from
YOU in the shape Of infamous taxes levied
on your labor, to refill their pockets-the
tockets of few hundred swindlers,
at your expense. But let disease, cpl
demic, and plaques Of cholera, yell
low fever, caterpillars and army
worms, PROSTATE your health and strength
and decimate your population, cut up your
cotton fields, destroy your crops by storms
and deluge of waters, making millions OF
honest lsbo;ers and their wives and children
sufferers for food, for comfortable clothing,
and even for fire to keep them warm in their
tsttered garments; all, all this passes IN
needed by your rulers, and the tax gather
ers, like the locusts Of accused Egypt, are
urged to practice activity in extracting the
last penny, carrying with them destructi on
in the van, and leaving sometimes penury,
sickness and death in the rear. The whole
government seems now to be administered
alone for the benefit Of these sw1nc lers-
the people are nothing These few hu ndred
government pets can stop payments, and by
the gigantic proportions of their sWlndings,
force all their pet banks into bankruptcy or
suspension; but-but the tax gatherers must
be active to collect the money from
your ruined crops, or sell your lands, hogs
and cattle, or drive you from your homes
in the approach of widter, which 1t is
hoped will not be as pittiless as your rulers.
They can stop payments, but you must
pay. Your taxes are wanted to fill up the
pockets of those whose only claim to re-
spectatility is TO be found 10 their gigantic
syindling. Down with them; overheard
with the whole of them. Now what ought
YOU TO do? It is plain. Stop paying your
cotton--don't deliver pound; don't deliver
a pound of tobacco; don't deliver pound
of sugar or gallon Of molasses; don't de-
| liver a pound OF rice or indigo. Kill and
salt your own hogs and keep the meat, and
raise next year only food for support, and
you will get three times as much for your
present products, kept over, and without
the expense of raising another crop.
If these swindling operations, thus sup
ported by the Government are to go on I'M
checked, what is to be the result, unless you
do what is here recommended? Take
one article, for example, cotton, the price OF
which they have forced down nearly SGT
per bale, and will force down still lower
and then when the poor producers are
stripped of cotton and everything else, these
government pats will put the price up t
forty OF fifty cents, and another gigantic
swindle VIII be perpetrated. And thes'
rich government pets will own all tn
money, and have iforty millions Of otat
niggerS to work for them, unless you adop
this plan or some other equally efficient t
check in time this wholesale ruin. Cal
your meetiDgs everywhere, and act il
union and concert.
ONE OF THE SUFFERERS