The daily gazette., 1877-12-28
THE NEGROES THE SLAVES OF
.Ja THE BONDHOLDERS.

"h EdE Dun NDaOLOAEsos
From the ". T, Jonrnal of Commerce.
3 We said that occasionally the advocates
of the Silver bill confessed the intent
that is In their hearts. The following is
more plain-spoken than usual on that
side:
WAYNE COUNTY, Ohio, Dec. ID, 1877.
Editor Of the Journal Of Commerce.
Such names and charges as ssrabble,"
sshoodlum," "robber," "repadiator," &C.,
&C., have little meaning, coming from
what very large proportion of the Grab
BILE" and "hoodlums" of the West and
South believe to be venal and subsi-
dized press especially, including at least
one paper, once proverbial for honesty,
as well as that OF Its principal editor, now
controlled by parties that have not
scrupled about stealing great railways,
plundering foreigners out of their bonds
or their value the public out Of exces>
sive fare using and bribing legislatures,
courts, and every means available to le-
galize the plunder. They now know no
body except "bankers," "bondholders,"
"chambers of commerce." and money
lenders, who have systematically used
Congress to further and strengthen their
purposes for the last 15 years, always
praising that body for Its wisdom and
goodness. In the opinion Of said press
whenever the tens and hundreds of thou
| sands of farmers, mechanics, miners and
| laborers are to be heard and are in fair
way of being considered, then the best
thing that the same Congress could do
would be to adjourn, but before doing
80, prescribe itself, so that it could not
convene oftener than once in two years.
These same "hoodlums," "repudiators,"
ana ssrabble" have become bankrupt,
poor and hungry, from what they believe
to be systematic, legal plundering, and
are now proposing to use the same legal
machine, though employing different
set of workmen to disconcert what they
believe to be their oppressors, and while
they are doing it they have no concern
about the names that they are called,
from the fact that the terms Ftpublic
robber," 'sbloated bondholder," "legal
plunderer," SC, have only made that
class more lmperious and exacting when
applied to them, which rather tends to
make the names respectable. The peo>
pie whose property does not consist of
bonds or money, finding it changing rel
ative value 80 and so per cent. may read
lily be excused for trying by legal means
; to keep something near an equilibrium.
The freedman who has been systemati>
calIy robbed for three centuries, would
be illogical If he did not vote to repudi>
, , ate the debt that was created to give him
his own for the present and future, tc
, say nothing Of the debt due him for past
services, The white men who were his
D former immediate owners may readily
be pardoned for not wanting TO pay more
I than Just and fair proportion of the
debt created in causing the loss of his
bondman. The man on short rations
everywhere may be excused for wanting
, fairer adjustment and more bread. The
Q man who four years ago bought farm
0 for $4,000, paying half, mertgaging bal
: ance, now sold under foreclosure, leaving
him homeless and in debt, may be par
doned for being "hoodlum." To the
r classeG named "public credit" "nationa
: honesty" or any other kind of honesty
Q have little meaning after they have beeI
q legally plundered of all they possessed
! Would it not be better for Sirs "Bond
! holder" "Banker," and Money Chang
!. er" TO compromise by being willing T.
n take reasonably good paper, silver, o
q any other kind of money that is accept
It able to all other classes of persons, whil
r that proportion is left open to him, o
will he prefer to exact the " pound o
flesh" and "drop of blood" and at th,
end of the controversy see his vast bono
). towers of Babel scattered to the winds
q and he in turn the homeless, hungr.
J, beggar, "hoodlum, 'rabble." W.