Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-08-14
WHAT THEY THINK OF III IN KEN.
TUCKY.

Everybody In the South knows JAS
b.. Beck. of Kentucky, to be one ofthe
truest of the true men VIC have had to
stand up for the Southern people since
the war He is great man, man Of
broad and comprehensive brain, and
devoted to the best political and ma
terial interests OF the South. See what
he says on the currency question when
speaking to the prosperous people of
Kentucky;
THE great elamor is going up now
all over the country about the Demo
cratic party being inflationists and re-
pudiationists. An alarm is sought 10
be created because of our action in
that regard. What is the trouble? 1t
is this: The Radical party do not in
tend that the paper money of the coun-
try shall become good. They are the
men that imposed unjust burdens upon
it; that are keeping it 10 its. present
condition. Notwithstanding all their
pretenses, they intend to keep it so.
They made the custom dues payable
in gold. Why was that done? ltwas
done ilifurther to protect monopolies.
They made the interest on the public
debt payable in gold, othat the bond
holders alone should get gold. The
bondholders have get possession of
this country. The very first act OF
General Grant was entitled, An act to
strengthen the public credit, aud was
no more than legalized robbery. 1t
cannot be styled by any other name
and the truth told about it. These
bonds were payable in the legal money
of the country. They were bought
with greeubacks, paid for in green
backs at par, aud the greenback was
created by the same act that author
lied the issuing of bonds. Every
greenbaek is Endorsed upon the back
Of it that tits to be receivable at Its
face value for all debts, public and
private, except interest on the public
debt and custom dues and yet the
| first act of Grants Administration was
! to make all the principalof those bonds
payable in gold, and the premium on
gold at that time made an additional
| burden on the people of 500, 900, 000
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
abandon it and vote with the Demo-
cratic, party. We defeated it then
Hooper, of Massachusetts, brought il
up again, and we again defeated it
General Grant came into. Office on the
4th of March, 1869. He wanted the
bonds paid in gold, and in less than
rty-eighl hours after the bill was in
troduced it passed both houses, re-
eeived the signature of the President
and became the law of the land, and
the tax. payers of the country were
robbed of$500, 100000 There are men
now at the head of the Republican
party who were paupers before that
bill passed, thatare millionaires o-day.
The struggle has been from that day to
this to keep the paper back and to keep
the bonds In advance. Let the Gov
ernment to-day declare that she will
receive her paper for her custom dues,
and, my word for it. it will be as good
as gold in a year. The struggle is
going on to-day, as it always has been,
between the few and the many. 1t
the old struggle, the old claim that the
mass of mankind are bridled and sad
died, while favored few are born
booted and spurred, ready to ride them;
and they ought to be ridden if they
will go to the polls and vote for Rad
zeal policy in the face of facts as we'll
known as these facts are. No people
ever were freed that voluntarily sur
rendered their liberties. All history
is false aud all experience is lie, if
any people ever recovered their liberty
when they had once voluntarily sur.
rendered it."