Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-10-29
The Democracy and Rebel CLAIMS.

1t is significant fact that Demo-
cratic victories North enbolden tho
Democrats South not only to acts Of
vi lence against the loyalists, but also
to make preparations for harvest
from the United States Treasury
whenever their party may come into
power a. an instance of The hopes
ofthe Democratic parry South, which
with the Democratic successes in
Ohio and Indiana have grown into
expectations, we copy the following
from a late copy of a Democrrtic pa
per Published in Georgia:
NOTICE!
TIC FORMER SLAVE-OWNERS
IN THE
NINTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
OF GEORGIA.
The undersigned propo es to open in Gaines
vile, Georgia, a Register for the entry of the
name, age, and sex, and also THE MARKET
VALUE IN SPECIE OF EACH SLAVE
HELD prior TO Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation, i. e., January 1, 1868. Said
registry TO be made in well bound books,
that are to he kept in fire proof vaults.
THIS Is DONE WITH A VIEW TO GET
TING PAY FOR THEM AT SOME FU-
TURE DAY. This list should be sworn to
before an officer authorized to administer
oaths for general purposes. The fee for
registrations is Ten Cents for each name.
Clubs containing 100 names will be recorded
for Five Dollars. Nj. w RIDDEN,
u S. Claim Agent,
Gainesville, Hall County, Ga.
j. should not be necessary at this
day to attempt to convince the peo-
pie of The North that the election Of
majority of Democrats 20 the
House of Representative means the
reputation OF the eutire war debt,
the full payment to the former slave
holders of the South for ali the slaves
emancipated by the last war, tho as
sumption of rebel claims already
amounting to over fifty millions of
dollars, the pensioniag of rebel sol~
diers or the Withdrawal OF pensions
80 Northo, soldiers. To show the
true feeling of the Southerners upon
questions hostile TO the interests of
the Country, we quote as follows
from the speech made the other day
by General W. b. Stokes, The DEM
ocratic candidate for Congress in the
third district of Cennessee After
stating that his views were in accord
with the Southern Democracy be
said
'This is my platform in nutshell; Either
the North must pay us Tor our nggers, or
well go III for regulating the two thousand
millions of war debt that is hanging over us.
They say that 1t was a necessity to create the
debt and free the nggers. Admit it if you
please. If both were alike necessary, treat
both alike; and if we have to help pay the
debt, then you help US bear the loss of the
niggers Amt that fair, just and honest be-
tween men and men and section and section
Why, just look at It. During the war the
Northern people were paid big prices for
everything they furnished the army They
put tHdt moheJ III OoHus, When golu was
two for one and upward. On these bonds
they have been drawing interest in gold, and
claim that the principal shall be paid in gold.
| say, If they are not going 10 pay US for our
niggers, that they have already collected
enough on the bonds, and am opposed to
paying another cent My proposition to the
government is this: Either issue two thou
sand millions of dollars of bonds to pay us in
the South for our niggers, or else we will in
sst on regulating all the bonded indebted.
ness that now exists. The people of the
North cane have all the pay and US none.
And that is going to be the great question of
the future. Either the war debt NUT be re-
pudiated,or we must have pay for our losses.'