River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-02
ssWIsooNsIN GREENBACK."


Greenback, the pioneer organ of that
party in this State, suspended for lack
of funds, the publisher temporarily
resting from his arduous labors.
While waiting for his patrons to re-
nit the amount due with which he
would be enabled to resume publica-
ton, he had time for calm, considerate
reflection, and finally reached the con-
clusion the that Greenback party under
the acknowledged lead of Brick Pome-
roy was fast approaching the shoals of
destruction and that he had better
abandon it. Having reached this de-
termination he perfected arrangements
| by which he could issue one more
number of his paper and on the 18th
ult. he got out "rattler' and no mis-
take. He gives comprehensive re-
view of the rise and fall of the Green
! back party, mourning over its recent
erratic course in going into the arms
of Brick Pomeroy, as doting parent
mourns over hayward child, raking
Pomeroy fore and aft, and pointing
out the duty of all true Greenbackers.
AS an Indication of what he concelves
that duty to be we subjoin a few ex-
tracts from his last issue, as follows:
more than thirty years ago we left
the Democratic party, as being false
- ILL hot 10 1a,nA a
or power. That organization to-day
as an organization, is as false to real
democracy as it was in the days of
Pierce, Polk and Buchanan. 1t aided
the slave holders of the South in their
nefarious plot to destroy the Republic.
1t poisoned all the fountains of our
national life. 1t is the same to-day. |
1t panders to the vileSt element of the
South, and feeds the Smouldering fires
of the Rebellion, which the agonies of |
four years of war failed to extinguish. |
AT this hour it yainly seeks to create |
and maintain a ''Solid South, by I'M |
blushingly sympathiZing with or wink |
ing at enormitieS which would put to |
shame the work of devils pictured by |
Dante; and all this, that the Demo |
cratic party, through the aid of un-
repentant rebels, may once more rule
over this government"
'sOther questions besides finance are
looming up in the political horizon,
which must be settled, and settled
Alright, or this nation will perish. The
right of State to secede was consid-
cred settled by the war; but under the
plausible preteXt of estate rights its
scorpion head is once again arising.
This question cannot be pushed aside
with safety, for under the cloak of
State rights, the sold rebel yell is
now Kissing, which means, unless crush
ed, the open defiance at least, of all the
legislation growing out of the war in
relation to the slave question. This is
now openly proclaimed by men in pub
lie places!"
chow you will vote this fall, is not
for us to ask. No true man in the
Greenback ranks, who has ever been
a Republican, or was in favor of pros
ecutlng the war. can now vote the
Democratic ticket. That party in
Wisconsin, by the nomination of Alex.
Mitchell-the prince of Shylocks-tor
Governor, has cast away the last frag-
mcnt of respect, and proved all soft
money pretensions to be the falsest OF
the false. 1t shows clearly that the |
party, in the nation, means to surren-
der everything for success next year;
that, for this, it will Justify rapine |
and murder in one-half the States OF the |
Union, for any who vote in opposition |
to its dictation. You cannot honestly |
support Pomeroy. Supporting him in |
his heartless career would be to sane |
ton lies, and depravity that is a
mockery to all that gives grandeur and
strength to the social system and such
infamy as fills our political life with
corruption. If you act politically this
fall, it must be with your old party, or
you cannot act at all. Truth is might
Ter than party, mightier than men, and
no combination of wrong-doers can
bring it to destruction"
Republican Greenbackers, the ex-
tracts above quoted are from the pen
of a gentleman whose devotion to
Greenback principles has been sincere
and earnest, pioneer in the cause,
but who subordinates his financial
| views to his love of country. They
are well worthy your careful consider
alton.