The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-11-04
They Think OFT ia Kentucky.

Every BODY in the south knows
Jas. 3 BecE, Of Ken ,aoRy, 10 be
one of che truest Of ghe true mtA We
have had To stand up Tor the oouta-
ern people since the war. lie Is 3
great man, man Of broao amt com
prehensive brain aud devoted to taa
best political and mGtertai Interest
of the South. See what he says oa
the currency question when speak
ing to the prosperous people Of Ken
lucky:
THE great cIamor is going up
now all over the country about the
Democratic party being inliationists
and repudiaLionists An alarm is
sought to be created because OF
our action ia that regard. What is
the trouble? It's this The Radical
party Go not,intend that the paper
money Of the country shalt become
good. They are the men that i'm
posed unjust burdens upon it; that
are keeping it in Its present condi-
ton. Northumberland NJ all their
pretenses, they intend To keep il 50.
They made the custom dues payable
in gold VIM was that done? It
was done still further to pr tect
monopolies. They made the inter
est on the public debt payable in
gold, SO that the bOndholders have
got possession OF this county,
The very first act Of General Grant
was entitled, An act to strengthen
the public credit and was not more
than le2alized robbery. 1t cannot
be STYLED by any other name ana the
truth told about it. Thes bonds
were payable in the legal money OF
the country. They were bought
with green backs, paid for in green
backs at par, and the greenback was
created by the same act that author
lied the issuing of bonds Every
greenback is indorsed upon the back
of it that it is to be receivable at its
face value for all debts, public and
private, except interest on the pub
tic debt and custom dues: and yeC
the first act Of Grants Administra
ton was to make all the principal Of
those bonds payable in gold, and the
premium on gold at that time made
an additional burden on the people
of $500, 100000. So infamous was
the proposition that old Thaddeus
Stevens, bad as he was, in 1868,
when the proposition was first made,
rose in his place and declared that if
his party was going To commit an
outrage such as that, he would aban-
don it and vote with the Democratic
party. We defeated it.tben Hooper,
of Massachusetts, brought it up
again, and We agian defeated it
General Grant came into office on
the 4th of March, 1869. He want
ed the bonds paid in gold, and ia
less than forty eight hours after the
bill was introduced it passed both
houses, received the signature ofthe
President and became tile law Of
the land, and the tax pay ers
of the country were robbed of
$500,O0O,O00 There are men now
at he head OF the Republican
party who were paupers when
thet illpussed. that are miiiionaires
to day. Tie struggle has been from
that day to this to keep the paper
back and to keep the bonds in ad-
vance Let the Government to-day
declare that she viii receive her pa
per for her custom dues, and, my
word ior it, it wifi be as good a.
gold in a year. The struggle is
going on to-day, as it always has
been. between the few ana the many.
1t is the old struggle, the old claim
that the mass Of mankind are bIi-
died and sadd!ed, while favored
few are born booted and spurred.
ready 90 ride them; and they ought
to be ridden il they viii 80 To the
polls and vote for Rau5cai policy in
the face Of facts Us well known rs
these facts are. No people ever
were freed that voluntarily surren
tered their liberties All history is
false ana all experience IS q lie, +
any people ever recovered their lio-
erty when they had once vliuntari-
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