The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-19

son) remained n thar district ne had the
reputation OF having once been Copper
head" Testimony to the same effect is
borne by the Rev. G. B. Snedaker. who
was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Metamora, H., in 1923. where
Mr.. Stevenson then resided.
The published extracts from Mr.. Steven
sons speeches delivered in ISIS prove that
he was most blatant greenbacker. He
was elected TO congress by greenbackers
and did all in his power TO repeal the act
for the resumption OF specie payment.
The roll Of Democrats who have been
both copperheads and greenbackers Is a
large one. but the significant fact is that
these copperheads were not ''greenback-
ers" during the civil war when every
patriotic citizen submitted to the
greenback, which was practically an
enormous forced loan to put down
rebellion as soon as possible. In
1862 Pendieton, Thurman. Hendricks and
Voorhees, were all notorious copperheads
and all enemies OF the greenback. The
record OF congress shows that voorhees,
voted against the bill to authorize the
issue of greenbacks and he voted for the
provlso requiring the interest on the pub
lie debt to be paid in coin, and against the
proviso making the greenback receivable
for duties.
perheads We have named opposed the
greenback in 1862 in order TO embarrass
the government in its financial measures
TOR the suppression of the rebellion, but
after the war was over ali these green
back" hating copperheads of 1s62 turned
''greenbackers." PendIeton was the can
didate Of the greenback Democracy for
president in the Democratic national con-
vention of 1858; Thurman was the advo-
cate IN Ohio in 1s74-7s of what was called
the Ohio plan, viz, the substitution Of
greenoacks for the national bank cur
greenbacks. instead of half greenbacks
and half national bank notes. Voorhees,,
who had voted against the greenback in
1s62, became SO enthusiastic green hacker
that in ISIS, in . public speech, ne said:
The Republican cons piracy TO asten tie fsngs
OF the money power IN the struggling body of
American labor. and 10 enable gigantic usury
sad .egAlizcd robbery 10 suck the blood of every
American industry, took its FIRST great step
when. II authorizing legal-tender currency IN
lso2. the greeabaek, the immortal and glorious
greenbsck, was Disseminated against, and de-
e. AIDED III tie money mgr4ets OF the world by
being made nou-receivable for duties on imports
and for interest on the bonded deb: of the
United States. In all the annals of nations no
financial measure was ever more willfully
. wicked IL conception, and design more far
reaching. oppressive and destructive 20 the
Fights OF labor IN its results than this
Voorhees,, the greenbacker of ISIS, forgot
the record of Voorhees,. the copperhead of
1s62. VINO was leading criminal, as We
have shown, among those whose crime he
denounces. Without doubt, Stevenson
was copperhead during the war, and like
all the other copperheads of 1925. he be-
came 8 greenbacker after the war; his
motive was the same in both cases; he
wanted TO embarrass as far as possible the
arms OF the government in time of war
and its finances in time of peace.