The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 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 a time when the imperious necessity of
war obliged the government to issue them.
This is from his paper Of August 9th, 1864:
Shout for Abraham-for taxss-for Fort La
Fayerte-for the draft-for usurped power-for
suspension of sacred writs-for Niger mi enium
for worthless curTeflcy-for a ruined nationfor
desolate citiez-for devastated farms-for cotton
stealing military expeditions-for million more
widows-for ten million more orphans-for anoth-
er draft-tor 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, statesmanlike,
joking old Abe the widow-maker and candidate
for reelection. Bless him for pling mouota ins of
axes upon us-for the STAN, S we use-f0T the de-
probation of oar clTTe11cy-for the poverty, ruin
and suffering in the land.
This is from an editorial under Fate of Au
gust %, 1854. The grammar is very Demo
cratic
Davis done away with specie and resorted to cur
reney to regulate the finances of the country. SO
did the widow-maker.
Davis currency deprecated almost to worthless
ness. SO has gTeen6GcES.
Davis has ignored the constitution. So has Lin
coin. TO war against the Palladium of our hber-
ties is treason. Davis had all excuse. Lincoln has
r one.
Here are few more specimens:
Under Mcclellan and Democratic administra-
ton the people will once more be able to live as in
times past; on cheap coal, cheap -four, cheap cof-
fee, cheap clothing, and cheap everything they
want. In other words, dollar of real money
a0aU bay as much four dollars in greenbGckS-LG
Crosse Democrat, October 8, 1864.
LIKE OLD TIMEs.-Dr. Fox, of La Crescent,
came into the counting room this morning and
subscribed for the Daily Democrat, paying in adj
vance for the same with handful of bright silver
half-dollar pieces! He said that good Demo-
cratic paper worth good Democratic
money. Much obliged for the compliment. There
is not much " GreenbGck" about the Democrat ace
belieUe.-Ib. October II, 1864.
Ever since he Qincoln) became president the
country has been in trouble. We once had gold
and sal0er-Democrotic money! now we have green
oGcss soorh only forty cents on the doIIar-I0, Oc-
t0ber II, 1854.
The Democrats told the people that the war
would last as long as there is Republican presi-
dent (Gd 1t UiLD and that the result of the access
sion to power of financial party, would produce
poverty instead of MISREPRESENTATION instead of
esteads-a00TtbteSS money IN place of gold,
tyranny in place of freedom, and at last revou-
ton over the entire north if there two terms of
republican stealing, incompetency, robbery,
sWlndlng murdsring and mismanagement as has
characterized the widow-maker's administration
Ib.
In the same number the 7-30 treasury notes,
which the Greenbackers now assert were a part
of the currency of the country, are thus spoken
of as permanent investments and the $40
bonds as gold bonds:
The treasury notes are recommended for peTmoa-
ne7t Investments, their semi annual interest will
be at the rate of seven three-tenths per cent per
annum, and they are convertible into six per cent.
$50 gold bonds.
It is now standing complaint with men
like Pomeroy thai 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 party has disarranged our
finances. Let it remedy them. Republicans are
holding q. S. bonds. Let them hold them! In
FOUR YEARs FROM NOW NO ONE ELSE WILL WANT
TO!
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-
preciated ten to one in the course of few
months
The union of states is gone forever.
The south will never be subjugated.
revolution already ripe in the north will burst
with bloody fury at no distant day.
A central and northwestern confederacy will
surely be es ablished.
The northwestern confederacy will join hands
with the south, regardless of politics, for
cial interests.
The currency of the country will be worthless,
and the bonds now being held by the rich man,
free from taxation, and on which both interest
and taxes must be paid by the poor man, DiU be
patdiGted and the bonds themselves become as vGtue
less OSte paper. The debt of the nation will be
ignored. Paper mill be eoorth ten dollars
for one of gold before the Goth Of June, 1866.
Ah OL4C ACcpOSts OL4OAOJ Wd& tAOA WA1C AO Is
now-profuse in pretensions of friendship for
the laboring man. Now, however, he advo-
Gates high prices and q deprecated currency as
favorable to the laboring man. In the period
Of high prices and deprecated paper, he ex-
pressed precisely opposite opinions, as in this
extract from his paper of October %, 1865:
Why is it, la5oring men, that you will directly
aid, by your es, the permsnency of a system of
currency which is flooding the country with bank
bills to the exclusion Of sitUer and gold? Do you
realize that 3or paper dollar Is a0orth but SO cents
Do you know that for eUery taoenty paper dollars,
yOW can get only fourteen dollars worth 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 is 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 "shot-gun policy" by which
the solid south is maintained, must feel
little strange if not good deal Inundated to
find himself in q party which is led and con-
trolled by Brick" Pomeroy. Aparty that falls
SO low as to come under such leadership cannot
expect to retain the support Of any intelligent
and patriotic citizen.
What is the Remedy!
From the New York Tribune.
The shooting of postmaster, because he