Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-10-16

We will next give some extracts showing the
same general spirit, and the manner in which
the present champion Of Greenbacks treated
them at time when tie imperious necessity of
war Obliged the government to issue them
Ihls Is from his paper OF August 9Th. 1854:
Shout for Abraham-for taxes for Fort La
Fayette-for the draft-for usurped power-for
suspension Of sacred writs--for niger mi enium
desolate cities--for devastated farms-for cotton
stealing militfry expeditions-for million more
widoHs-fcr ten million mere orphans-for aroth-
er drafl-for. taxes on everything made or dug
for stamps-for tyranny, injustice and oppression
Let US see If there are In all this north
west any friends of the honest. statesman Ike,
for reelection. Bless him for piiing nou tains of
axes upon us-for the STAN. use--for the de-
preeiatsS,s q our curreacy-for the poverty, ruin
This is from an editorial under cate of Au-
gust rs, 1864. The grammar is vcy Demo
cratic:
Davis done away with specie and resorted to cur
Teney to regulate the finances Of the country. So
Davis currency deprecated almost to WORTHLESS
ness. SO has gresnodc Ks.
Davis has ignored the constitution. So has Lin
coin. To war against the Palladium of our liber-
ties is treason. Davis had am excuse. Lincoln has
one.
Here are few more specimens
Under Mcclellan and Democratic adminstra-
ton the people will be able to live in
times past; on cheap coal, cheap -four, cheap cof-
Zee, cheap clothing, and cheap everything they
want. In other words, one dollar Of real 7noneu
io1E buy as much as four dollars in greeabacks-La
Crosse Democrat, October 3, a64.
LIKE OLD TIMEs.-Dr. Fox, of La Crescent,
came into the counting-room this morning and
subscribed for the Daily Democrat, paying in ad-
vance for the same with handful of bright silver
haif-doilar pieces! BE said that good Demo-
cratic paper ours was worth good Democratic
money. Much obliged for the compliment There
IS not much 8 Greenbdck' about the Deaocrat zee
beLtsUe.-Ib. October IT, 1864.
ufya he too ia -. -
country has been in trouble. We once had qold
and Democratic money. we have cresn-
edeks north only forty cents on the doitar-Ib, Oc
The Democrats told the people that the war
would last as LONG as there is Republican preei-
dent land ii teiD and that the result of the Access
sion 70 power Of financial party, would produce
poverty instead of DISQUALIFICATION instead of
homesteads-tcorthtess money in place Of gold,
tyranny IN place of freedom, and at last revolu-
ton over the entire north if there two terms of
republican stealing, incompetency, robbery,
swindling, murdsring and mismanagement as has
characterized the wldow-maker's administration
ID.
In the same number the 7-30 treasury notes.
wnlcn the Greenbackers now assert were part
of the currency Of the country, are thus spoken
OF as permanent investments and the 500
bonds as gold bonds:
The treasury notes recommended for perqltq-
lent Investments, rs their semi annual il terest will
be at the rate Of seven three-tenths per cent per
annum, and they are convertible into six per cent
$40 gold bonds.
1t is now standing complaint with men
like Pomeroy that the bonds were bought at
less than their par value in gold. Here is the
way he wrote Of them at the time the govern
ment was selling them:
The Republican parry has disarrapged our
finances. Let it remedy them. Republicans are
nolding Y. ). bonds. Let them hold them! In
-FOUR YEAS FROM NOW NO ONE ELSE WILL WANT
TOT
In the Democrat of November 81, 1864,
after the election of President Lincoln, we
find this jeremiad and prediction that the
bonds would be repudiated and greenbacks de-
preclated ten to one in the course of a few
months:
The union of states is gone forever
The soath will never be subjugated.
a revolution already ripe in the north will burst
with bloody fury st no distant day.
A central and northwestern confederacy will
surely be es ablshed.
The northwestern confederacy will Join hands
with the south, regardless of politics. for CONNER
cial interests.
The currency of the country will be worthless.
ana the bonds now being held by the rich man,
Tree from taxation, and on which both interest
and taxes must be paid by the poor man. oil be re-
pndtated and the bonds Themselves become as uat,se-
Tess as Daste paper The debt of the nation VIII be
ignored. Paper Diu be north ten dollars
for one Of gold before The 10th Of June, 1866.
In one respect, Pomeroy was then what he is
now-profuse in pretensions of friendship for
the laboring man. Now, however, he sdvo-
cdtes nlgH prices ana q deprecated currep cy as
favorable to the laboring man. In the period
Of high prices and deprecated paper, be ex-
pressed precisely opposite opinions, as in this
extract from his paper OF October %, 1866:
Why is it, laboring men, that you will directly
ala, by your vo es, the permsnenc of a system of
currency which is flooding the country with bank
bills to The exclusion Of stUer and goidf Do you
realize that sot paper Is north but 60 cents
Do you know that for et6ry ttoenty paper dollars,
yo can get only fourteen dollars north of clothes
groceries, or any article you may purchase?
We might continue similar quotations from
the same source indefinitely, but these will
suffice. Their author is the chairman of the
Greenback state committee of Wisconsin, and
at the head Of the Greenback club organization
of the United States He is striving to verify
his prediction that the war debt would be re-
pudiated. That the meaning and purpose Of
the platform which he drew and had adopted
at Watertown demanding the immediate pay
ment of all the government bonds in green
backs. Any man who voted for Abraham Lin
coin, who supported the union cause during
the war, and who is now opposed to state SOW
ereignty and the " shotgun policy by which
the "soid south" is maintained, must feel
little strange if not a good deal humiliated to
find himself in party which is led and con-
trolled by !" Brick" Pomeroy. Aparty that falls
30 low as to come under such leadership cannot
expect to retain the support Of any intelligent
and patriotic citizen.