Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-28

nation tie paetetors. lNake ,np.thsRso
pie OF America. 1t broke the spell. I
gave the country statesman for q presi
dent. 1t flashed ito SIC seneper tyrannis from
Maine to the golden strand of our western
boundaries, and halted the march of usur
patton most effectually.
We will give no more of this blasphe
nous ribaldry, but subjoin a specimen
or two of articles designed to encourage
the rebels, dishearten loyal men, AM
excite resistance to recruiting and tn
draft. In the number for October II
1864, we find the following:
The south can 7,ever be suljugated. Til,
rebe Is of the south are no nearer whipped
to day than they were four years since. Fo
proof of this look to Lincoln's drafts which
follow each other in such quick succession
that you cannot tell where one leaves off o.
the next commences. For further proc
look to the way they are still fighting. Thei
enemy but that of a brace people manfaaEs,
struggling for independence and determined L
haze at.
In another article in the same mum
Der, the recruits then going forward tc
join Grant and Sherman, are thus
spoken Of:
Vactims! Nctims!! NctimsI!!
Food for powder and ball,
Food for disease; morsels for deathl
Living victims of arbitrary powerl
hate, treason and usurration. Choice NOR.
sells for bayonet, cannon ball, fragment of
shell and iron hoof of maddened war horse
Drafted FREEMENl
HOY Hoy like devilish moekery ), the word
Where is Liberty! the God. given birth.
right 5ta Of Freemen'
Where are the people? In chains and
fear. In the grippe of abolition and taxa
ton.
Slowly and sadly the new victims come
in to be dressed in blue and marked for
slaughter. They do not come in with jokes
and songs! Lincoln, the widow-maker, is
the joker and sonaster.
We will next give some extracts show.
ing the same general spirit, and the
manner in which the present champion
of Greenbacks treated them at a time
when the imperious necessity Of war
obliged the government to issue them.
This is from his paper of August 9th,
1864:
s.~~t se~ Ahr~han,.--fn, ta~oo-for Fort
La Fayette-for the draft-for usurped
power-for suspension of sacred writs-for
= Niger millenium-.tor avo'1hlesS currency
for ruined nation-f0r desolate cities-for
devastated farms-tor cotton stealing mill
tary expeditions-for million more widows
for ten million more crphans-for another
draft-for taxes on everything made or dug
for stamps--for tyranny, injustice and
oppression. Let us see if there
are in all this northwest any friends of the
honest, statesmanlike, joking old Abe, the
and candidate for reelection.
Bless him for piling mountains of taxes
upon US for the stamps we use-to the de-
Of our cu'rency-for the poverty,
ruin and suffering in the land.
This is from an editorial under date of
August %, 1864. The grammar is very
Davis done away with specie and resorted
to currency to regulate the finances of the
So did the widow.maker.
Davis currency deprecated almost to
So has greenbacks. y
Davis has ignored the constitution. So
mas Lincoln. 70 war against the Palladium
u our uOefCloS IL Cfe06O0s LAWS mad an
excuse. Lincoln has none.
Here are few more specimens:
Under Mcclellan and a Democratic ad.
the people will once more be
bile to live as in times past; on cheap coal,
heap flour, cheap coffee, cheap clothing,
md cheap everything they want. In other
words, one dollar Of real money ,oiN buy as
euch as four dollars II, greenbacks-La Crosse
Democrat, October 3, 1864.
LIKE OLD T1MBs DIR. Fox, OF La Ores.
ent, came into the counting.room this
morning and subscribed for the Daily Demo-
rat, paying in advance for the same with
handful of bright silver holt dollar piece
He said that as good a Democratic paper as
'urs was worth good Democratic money.
Much obliged for the compliment.
There IS not much /" Greemback" about the
Democrat, ace believe Id. October II, 1864.
Ever since he (Lincoln) BEGAN president
the country has been in trouble. We once
lad gold and siluer-Dem0crdtic money, now
We have green backs, acorth only forty cents on
he douor--l6., October 18th, 1854.
The Democrats told the people that the
lean president land 1t eciD and that the re-
'ult of the accession to power of a fanatical
party, would produce poverty instead of
instead of homestead
worthless money IN place Of gold, tyranny in
,lace OF freedom, and at last q revolution
'ver the entire north if there were two
;eIms of Republican stealing, incom.
'etency, robbery, swindliug, numbering
md misnanayement as has characterized
he widow'maker's administrations III.
In the same number the 7-3O treasury
notes, which the Greenbackers now
assert were part OF the currency of the
are thus spoken of as permanent
Investments and the 500 bonds as oold
ponds:
The treasury notes ore recommended for
permanent Investments, as their semi-ann ual
interest will be at the rate of seven three:
enths per cent. per snnum, and they are
into six per cent $50 gold bonds.
1t is now standing complaint with
men like Pomeroy that the bonds were
bought at less than their par value in
,old. Hereis the way he wrote of them
It the time the government was selling
hem:
The Republican party has disarranged
'ur finances. Let it remedy them. Re.
,ublicans are holding U. s. bonds. Let
hem hold them! In FOUR YEARS FROM NOW
10 ONE ELSE WILL WANT TO!
In the Democrat of November q,
1854, after the-election of President
we find this jeremiad and pre-
LECTION that the bonds would be repudi-
ted and greenbacks deprecated ten to
ne in the course of a few months:s
The union of states is gone forever.
The South will never be subjugated.
a revolution already ripe in the north
Ill burst with bloody fury at no distant
ay.
A central and northwestern confedtra
ill surely be established.
The Northwestern Confederacy will ioin
ands with the South, regardless of politics,
Or commercial interests.
The currency of the country will be
'orthless, and the bonds now being held bv
ne rich man, free from taxation, and on
'hich both interest and taxes must be psid
= the poor man, aoily be repe.diated and the
'''ds Themselves become as valuezess as euQstc
aper. TIE debt If the nation will be il.
"red. i Il Paper aoM be auo,1A ten dol.
us for one Of yotd before tie 9th of June,
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