Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-08-21
mont to issue them. This is from
his paper of August 9th. 1864.

mont to issue them. This is from
bis paper of August 9th, 1864:
Shout for Abrabam-for taxes-for Fort
La Fayette-for the draft--for usurped power
for suspension of sacred writs-for a Mig
ger nIillenium-for tcorthiess currency--for
ruined nation--for desolate cities--for dew
astated fsrms-for cotton stealing military exs
pedtions-for a million more widows, for ten
million more orphans-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 stases>
manlke, joking old Abe, the widow-maker
and candidate for re election. Bless him for
piling mountains of taxes upon us-for the
stamps we use-for Tie depreciation of our
e'srrency-for the poverty, ruin and suffering
in the land.
This is from an editorial under
date of August %, 1864. The gram
mar is very Democratic
Davis done away with specie and resorted
to currency to regulate the finances OF the
country. So did the widow-maker
Davis currency deprecated almost to
worthlessness. So has greea5acks.
Davis has ignored the constitution. So
has Lincoln. To war against the Palladium
of our liberties is treason. Davis had an ex-
cuse. Lincoln has none.
Here are few more specimens
Under Mcclellan and Democratic ad-
minis.ration, the people will once more be
able to live as in times past; on cheap COAL
cheap -four, cheap coffee, cheap clothing.
and cheap everything they want. In other
words, one dollar Of real money sciR buy as
much as four dollars in greea6acks La Crosse
Democrat, October 8, 1854.
LIKE 0LD TMEs.-Dr Fox, of La Crescent,
came into the counting room this morning
and subscribed for the Daily Democrat, pay
ing in advance for the same with handful of
bright silver half-dolar pieces He said that
as good Democratic paper as ours was
worth good Democratic money. Much
obliged for the compliment. There is not
much "Greea5ack" about the Democrat ge BE-
lieUe.-I5., October II, 1864
Ever since he tLincoln) became President
the country has been in trouble. We once
had gold and silger-Democratic money, now
we have greenbacks, north only forty cents on
the dolar.-I6., October II, 1854.
The Democrats told the people that the
war would last as long as there is a Repub-
lican President land IL ,oil) and that the re-
suit of the accession to power of fanatical
party, would produce poverty instead of
| plenty-desolation instead of homesteads-
worthless money IN place Of gold, tyranny in
place OF freedom, and at last a revolution
over the entire north if there were two terms
OF Republican stealing, incompetency, rob,
| berry, swindliDg, numbering and msmanage,
ment as has characterized the widow makers
administration.-I6.
In the same number the 7.30
treasury notes, which the Greenback-
ers now assert were part OF the
currency of the country, are thus
spoken of as permanent investments
and the s 20 bonds as gold bonds !:
The treasury notes are recommended for
| permanent Investments, as their semi annual in
terest will be at the rate of seven three
tenths per cent per annum, and they are
convertible into six per cent. 30 gold bonds
1t is now a 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
government was selling them
The Republican party has disarranged our
finances Let it remedy them. Republicans
are holding U. S. bonds! Let them hold them I
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 depre.
| c,atei ten to one in the course of a
few months
The union of states is gone forever
The South will never be subjugated.
A revolution already ripe in.the north will
burst with bloody fury at no distant day.
A central and northwestern confederacy
will surely be established.
The Northwestern Confederacy will Join
hands with the South, regardless Of poll tics,
for commercial interests.
The currency of the country will be WORTH
less, 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, soiR be repudiated and the bonds
Themselves become as ValaeteSs as acaste paper.
The debt of the nation will be ignored 4 = y
Paper wW be north ten dollars for one of gold
before tie 20h Of June, 1866.
In one respect, Pomeroy was then
what he is now--profuse in preten.
sions of friendship for the a1oring
man. Now, however, he advocates
high prices and deprecated cur
rency as favorable to the laboring
man. In the period of high prices
and deprecated paper, he expressed
precisely opposite opinions, as in this
extract from his paper of October %,
1865
Why is it, laboring men, that you will d.
rectly aid, by your votes, the permanency of
a system of currency which is flooding the
country with bank bills to The exclusion of ST.
yer and gold? Do you realize that your pa
per dollar Is north but SO cents? Do you know
that for eeery tweaty paper dollars you can get
onlg fourteen dollars north of clothes, gro-
ceries, or any article you may purchase?
We might continue similar quota.
tons from the same source indef-
initely, but these will snffice. Their
author is the chairman of the Green
back state committee in Wisconsin,
and at the head of the Greenback
club organization of the United
States. He is still striving to verify
his prediction that the war debt
would be repudiated. That is the
meaning and purpose of the platform
which he drew and had adopted at
Watertown demanding the imme.
date payment of all the government
bonds in greenbacks. ANY man who
voted for Abraham Lincoln, who
supported the Union cause during
the war, and who is now opposed to
state sovereignty and the "shot.gun
policy" by which the "solid South"
is maintained, must feel q little
strange, if not good deal humiliat-
ed, to find himself in a party which
is led and controlled by "Brick"
Pomeroy. a party that tails so low
as to come under such leadership
cannot expec, to retain the support