Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-24
KEEP IT BEFORE THE tEoPLE

Keep IL before the people that the
rebel Democracy Of Tennessee during
the late wicked rebellion, without law
and in positive violation Of Inv, issued
a million and n half of dollats or more
of spurious notes of the Bank Of the
State of Tennessee, and that these
fraudulent issues were officially signed
by Torbett, the President ofthe Bank,
and used to carry on the rebellion, and
that they are now known rs the e Tor
bett Issues"
Keep Il before the people th,t the
Supreme Court of Tennessee have
decided that these "Torbett Issues
are lawful money, and must b, paid
by the tax-ridden people of the State
and that the Senatorial branch tf the
Legislature of Tennessee, now il ses-
sion, have given out to the world that
no appeal from their decision vii be
tolerated. So the honest, hard work.
ing people of the State may prepare
to meet the rascally obligation i'm
posed upon them by a party calling
itself Democratic.
Keep it before the people tlat a
former Legislature composed ofDem-
ocrats passed law authorizing the
erection of an Insane Asylum Mast
Tennessee, and actually purchaied a
site and a farm four miles from this
city, giving about twenty thousand
dollars, and letting out the contract
for brick work. They have had eight
hundred thousand brick made and
have now determined to repudiac the
purchase Of their illustrious preleces-
sors.
Keep 1t before the people tha this
is the work of secession Democracy,
and a work intended for the benefit
Of that Democracy. Those Who do
not understand their movements now,
will understand them when the tax
collector comes around. "Torbett
Issues" have all to be taken up, and
the asylum grounds and tie vast
amount of work already done are to
be paid for.
KEEP II before the people that if
the lawless Democracy can do this
amount of mischief in four years reign,
they can IN two years more, with their
large experience in that line, bankrupt
the State and destroy our credit at
home and abroad.
Keep ii before the people that an
outraged and plundered constituency
will Indignantly expel them from
office at the end of their present term,
and then the lamentations of jeremiah
will turn out to be the innocent songs
of Sunday school scholars compared
with the deep groaus and unearthly
yells Of these vile kidnappers of the
school fund Of the uneducated chill
dren Of Tennessee. The time is COM
ing, and is not far distant, when the
people will expel this party from
power in Tennessee, and when they
will walk up and down swinging their
hands and crashing their teeth, and
calling aloud for the rocks and noun.
tains to fall upon them and hide them
from the faces of honest men. In
their dreams they will see the ghosts
of the poor children they have robbed
and in their bitter anguish they will
eXclaim: "Oh take these Torbett
Issues out of my sight Oh take
these asylum brick kilns out of my
sight! Deal out to me anything but
justice. Justice is all ! fear! Lei
me have an investigating committee
and let the men who have shared The
profits Of our large plundering opera
ton be appointed to serve on thai
committee"
Keep IL Jcjore the people, that tho
Democracy Of Tennessee, have al
ready compelled the people Of the
State to redeem, or pay for, about five
millions Of the old issues Of the Baul
Of Tennessee. Now comes one mil
lion-and-a-half more to be paid by thu
people, Of a class known rs the Tor
bctt Issues, used to carry on the re
/ bellion
keep il 5etorr the people, that tn,
| Democracy report the Torbett Issues
as amounting 10 a million and-a-half
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