Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-07-11
Universal WreckerS.

Il AlInOugn al every meeting OF the
Nationalist or Communists it is
vOciferously proclaimed that the new
party is making great progress through
the dissemination all over the land ol
its documents, we happen to have
seen but very few of those precious
tracts and pamphlets Their scarcity
is perhaps explainable on the theory
that the majority of the converts to the
red hot, fst-money and genera chaos
doctrines of the organization are, by
reason of circumstances beyond their
lcontrol, not given to wasting time
over written or printed matter. 1t
may not be their fault that they take
equal delight in Greek or English text,
land that one equally with the other
for them belongs to the domain of the
unknOwable. If we are correct in this
suspicion it naturally follows that the
most likely place at which genuine
Greenback or COmmunistic pronuncia-
mento could be found would be the
grOcer's or the trunk makers. Serving
no other purpose, it would at least
suffice to inclOse pound of butter or
help as lining. Hence, when we do
come across bonafide issue from the
cOnclsves wherein are formulated the
novel and blessed schemes of social
order we are disposed to study it with
q great social order we are disposed to
study it with q great deal of curiosity
and respectful admiration. Our enter
prising Western cotemporary, the
Chicagol Tribune, has unearthed one
of these screeds, and we think that as
a phenomenon il is deserving of wide
circulation. The valiant author Of it
Iprobably takes plenty of red pepper
with his food and is partial to brandy
flames as a steady drink. We fancy
him as having something OF the Jim
pregnable and threatening appearance
of Mr.. Barnum's steam man and as in
sensible to all the soft and ameliorating
Influences of life. His first proposition
is, of course, an illimitable issue of
wildcat money. He proclaims that
the taXpaying people owe the Govern
ment no allegiance till it shall have
Icomplied with this . demand, and ifit
shall refuse, then, "Wes had better
unite with the West and South and
secede from the Union" Itcalls upon
the young men of the South and West
to "clean all of those Eastern pirates
out of the homes and the property they
have stolen," and exhOrts the people
to organize Greenbaek clubs f'With
bayonets in reserve.o" It will be OBJ
served that the fellow has no idea of
halfway measures. With him the
alternatives are rag money or Blood,
with a very large B. He continues to
dash into the subject in the following
trenchant style:
snow, we warn you, you cowardly,
sneaking, dishonest, treacherous, false
hearted, avaricious, mercenary hire
lings OF an Eastern money power, that
we, the people of the Western and
Southern States, including fPennsyI-
vania and New York west from the
mouth of the Hudson river, do intend
to take possession of the Government
of the United States, lhurl you and
your bondholding element from power,
and create for you enough legal-tender
greenback money to relieve the Gen
eral Government from its embarras-
ments. We will offer this money to
YOU, because it will be what the law in
its power declares to be legal tender
for The payment of a debt. And this,
you home robbers, .murderers, pilferers
and deniersgof the rights ofindustry
to live IN a land of liberty; you can
take this greenback money and put it
to use paying your debts; you can hire
| il when you have it in abundance to
those of us in the Western and South
ern country who are in debt and who
negotiate our lands and our labor for
this legal-tender money that we Can
pay our debts with; or you may know
that the next move will be at your eX-
pense. The Government shall issue
this greenbacB money. Mark what we
say in behalf of the millions of labor
ing people in the United States, who
have been too long held in slavery by
most Infamous, unnecessary, unlawful,
unconstitutional masters. We mean
that the debt OF the United States shall
be paid in greenbacks, and right here
we inform you from the Western
prairies, that so sure as God lives, if
this question is not settled by 1880; if
the hwst does not declare that the
bonds shall be paid in greenbacks ex-
actlyF as the soldiers of ftheF United
Statesgwere paid in greenbaek money,
we shall never again ask for such an
issue of money, but will, from that
hour, strike for Interpolation of every
bonded debt of the Government, and
lHuo "1pO OuE CAiOlOnSO CNC1J
United States bond, and their holders
shall have nothing. Put this in your
pipe and make the most of it! Ours is
an absolute government. 1t is gov
ernment of the people, and by the
Eternal it shall be government for
the people, or it shall be smashed into
so many fragments that each separate
State will, in comparison, be COM
plete world"
Really, this is not bad There is.
viriIity an emphasis and picturesque
uess about it that suggest power
ful mind at one end of the pen and
bucketful of vitrioI at the other. From
the tone of the production and the con-
fession of its emanatiun from the
prairies we might imagine that the
able VOORHEES,, the profound Bland and
the argumentative Ewing have been
working at it since Congress adjourned
and they left Washington. 1t is not
very much stronger than certain OF
their convincing and statesman-like
speeches in the halls of the House and
Senate, and if they were little more
conservative in their utteranceS from
their Congressional seats we may at
tribute the circumstance to the de-
bilitating atmosphere of the East,
which has the curious effect of weak
eniug the minds of the dwellers in this
benighted action until they actually
prate of personal and national honesty,
and believe that promise to pay
ought to be kept. The above quotation
is made for the purpose of enlighten.
ing their errors and proving TO them
how much SunpriOr to their mental
darkness is the free and comprehensive
intellect which conceives a dollar that
is nota dollar, and will not buy a.
dollars worth ofanything. Perhaps
however, it never occurs to this same
free and comprehensive intellect that
the Constitution Of the United States
which they may possibly admit is still
the fundamental law of the land