Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-09-30
Bond Confscation VS.. Land
Confscatien.

Savage, Wilson g. Co. are now
shouting Down with the bloat-
ed bond-holder!" Their next
cry, if they succeed in this, will
be "Down with the bloated land
holder" If by submitting it
to the vote of the people" they
can confscate and have declared
void the bonds of the State now
held by our creditors, many of
them innocent women and chill
dren, what is torhinder the same
class of people, headed by the
same class of demagogues, from
confScattng the lands ofthe land
owners of Tennessee by the same
kind of appeals. If the people
can vote away the rights of the
bond-holders can't they vote
away the title of the land-holder?
The owner Of the soil may cry
out, ~ hold my title to land from
an ancestor or from the man of
whom | or my vendor purchased
it, who had a grant therefor with
the signature of the Governor
and the great seal of. the State
Of Tennessee attached thereto"
But he will cry in vain. The
voter will say in response, $50
| did the bond-holder have a bond
with the signature of the Gov
ernor and the great seal of the
State attached thereto. Your
land-grant is no more sacred
than their State bond. We con-
fiscated the bonds by our votes
and we intend to confiscate the
lands by the same process. J"
People Of Tennessee, this is no
fancy sketch. There is no more
truthful saying than the one that
~History repeats itself"
This is exactly what the COM
munistic Robespierre, Marat and
Danton did "by the votes of the
people" in France in 1884.
They first, by the "votes of the
people," abolished the public
debt. They next, by the "votes
of the people, abolished all
laws for the collection Of pirate
debts. They next confscated
the lands of 100000 land-holders
in France and gave them to f.
100000 of the dregs Of French
society. Twenty years of civil
war followed, and 100000 men
lost their lives before order was
restored in France. Theirs
I-"History of the French Repub-
lie" shows these facts to be true.
When "Marat" Savage, Gro
| bespierre" Wilson and "Danton''
BeasIy shall have succeeded in
fconfiscating the bonds of Ten
nessee, they, or their imitators
in demagoguery, will then ego
forp the "bloated land-holders!'
We can we'll imagine what they
will tell "the dear people," They
will say that the present owners
have no title thereto; that when
the various treaties were made
with the Cherokee, Chickasaw
and Choctaw Indians, by which
the title of the Indian was pre-
tended to have been extinguish-
cd, some of the chiefs were made
drank, others 6ribed, and others
preached into signing the treat
les; that these treaties were new
er ratified by a "vote Of the In
dian people" They will prove
these facts by every history of
the United States. They will
then insist that these treaties are,
and always were, void for fraud
perpetrated upon the poor Indi-
ans They will insist next that,
inasmuch as these Indian tribes
are all extinct, the lands have
reverted to the Estate of Tennes-
see in her sovereign capacity"
and will demand Il new division
of the land among the people"
There is just as much sense,
Justice and equity i'll going "be-
hind the Indian treaties and in
curing into their validity, as
there is in "going' behind" the
bonds and inquiring into their
validity. If there was fraud
and corruption in the one suffi-
cient to vitiate it, SO there was
in the other transaction. No,
people Of Tennessee, a bond is
as sacred as a treaty. But if
you can declare one void by a
vote of the people, so can you
the other. We tell you repudi-
alton leads to communism and
communism to the confiscation
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