Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-10-20
JOHN sHERMAN's INFAMIES.

ptTeS were gwen years uiili".t9I'' ~
suck the life blood OF the flower of her
manhood they could not create more All
gui>h and more woe than has this cyn!Ca!
rpprv>>ur ct the people, with his legs
.atlon IL make the rich richer and the
poor poorer Follow him. YOU work
| ingmeu-hewers OF wood and drawers
of water follow HIM through his career
| since the war. and see how Sep 10y step.
he has added t. y0ur burdens. When
the laici steals into YOUR huusr u, night
! iui robs Won. the morning reveals the
extent OF the depreciation, and sum
moning up vour manhood and yuur
courage. YOU 20 t. work II make the
.nSS good tor Il" SAKE OF the dear vii"
and the trusting iunOcents who look TO
You for nil When the Almighty sends
upon you his vl>itattons in storm or flood
or tire. the danger past. the damag"
done. Won nerve Yourself tor 4 new con
test with the world But. when more
inSidiuuSiv thau the tibet III the night,
| more unre.entIug than Shylock demand
ing his pound OF flesh. this unmcrcIiul
extortiuner lead, his party step by step
10 mortgage Your manhood tor genera
tinns. Is il any wonder that thousands OF
vour comrades fa.It by the way side ?
Everywhere You see them asking bread
and receiving 4 stone - honest men
PRAYING tor work stigmatized rs
tramps. Who is responsible Tor Your
suttering>? Who has ruled this country
Tor the past fifteen wears The rcpuh-
lean party. See YOUR friends in Ohio
abandoning Il. anu remember how they
voted for It's candidates because their
employers told them that the south wa,
The sun of MI N...aiuie>. and the demo
cratic was the party OF the south. see
hoW meNt month Your brothers in Penn
| Sy.yauia Will follow their example and
their hands no ."nger holding it up. the
party of the CamrrOns and kirnball>
viii collapse. They have been on. in
seeing. but their eyes once opened will
not again be easily closed. and it will be
many 4 !ong day before the owners of
mines and torgcS can march their me-:
up TO the polls and vote them like 81
many dumb brutes. They know now
that the act OF congress, passed in 1869.
which made bonds contracted to be pad
IN ~greenbacks payable in coin was the
most gigantic Swindle that was ever i'm
posed upon any people. At Il fell
swoop it robbed the people OF the United
States OF eight hundred million dollars.
The b~ondho.der il the background
chuck!ing n the idea that his bonds
which cost him fifty cents in greenbacks
would now be worth one dollar in ring
ING coin. had his agents OF the iooy ut
congress, and their most willing tool
was john Sherman, OF Ohio. Famine
and pc>tilcncc. droutn> and Hood, and
war are nothing IL the blow here struck.
At the industries of the country by John
Sherman aud his associates. In one
moment, by the voice of men sent to
represent a people. that pr"pe was be
rr.v@l.aHd ti'rr ';aS listened upon them
anl their children 4 debt tor which Il,
vt@ue ntl been received, oil eight hun
drvd milton do.iars--th- ransom ot 4
~k;nE!om-rha burden 81 :. nation. Iilry
discounted the future. they mortgagc,i
tn" Drawn and muscle ot men unborn.
Their wild w. and their baJe--:ud John
>Hciutn "a, there, - was Dawes. -
~as Garfield, 30 was Honr, - were Nc
Gary. Morrill,. Stoughton. VsuIiorn.
EdmundS. Sc!lurE who al. voted Tor the
bill but not one Democratic vote did it
get Time passed, purses lean had b.
c me- purses Plethora the people bore
It; hated for the south blinded the north
Btyar:i, Thurman and Beck, and the re-
pih.icans berin" 80 i~n-0,rnt in their
legislation tuv the houlhoIdcr that an
other step must be taken, and "A debt
nude PAYABLE in cOin by the iniaIny of
l>69, must be maize payable III gold
acme by the intimy Of 1873. And thus,
eleven years after the bonds were issued,
the silver dollar. which by priority of
existence possessed greater dignity and
ia nl!itiity a. 4 dollar among the people
than any other. was declared to be no
dollar at all, and more millions were
4 lGcd to our national debt and John
Sherman was there, and wa the father
of the bill. Whenevera b~ondholder has
needed an advocate he has found him in
John Sherman. Whenever Il ~,tupendOus
robbery of the people was to be COm-
mitted. this man Sherman was the leader
in the crime-and this is the man who Is
made treasurer OF the United States II
there is a hell does this man not fear it?
What spirit damned has more to answer
tor?
The president has nominatedten Jno.
VI. Harlan. Of Kentucky. to be associate
| Justice of the United States supreme
court, vice David DAVIS, resigned.
Gen. Harlan will make about such a
supreme Judge rs Mr.. Armstrong vii. u
scnator He is known as having been
tho raulila,n of hi- purty inr Upyrrupr