Year: 1863

tor take his due proportion of the Confederate
rites 1t he sells his produce for say four times its
specie value Bond would cost him only S25 in the
hundred. 1t costs the creditor full par, il he mus
take or does take the Treasury notes at par. Wha
but false camor the debtor raise if he shall be-
drWe as paid creditor is, to vest his surplus notes
IN Bonds or Stock of the Treasury? HIS creditor
can't disturb him-he is stayed parayzed by law If
the securities Of the government be sound for one man
are they not for another? How can creditor hurt
his debtor by letting him alone? Would not an per
cent Bond give the debtor per cent more than he is
bound to pay his creditor and so far nnure to his clear
gain? If he is clamorous what is it for? Only be-
cause what ho considers hazardous to him he is not
allowed to transfer to another at his pleasure He is
false and impudent clamorec.


Then the poor soldier, with his Sll month is in
troduced. There suggestio talsi in this Creditors
ask nothing of poor soldiers" aud refuse nothing for
they have nothing left to offer the creditor when the
corn and bacon nabobs have done with them These
most heartless mischevous and dangerous extorton-
es, who allege that Confederate money is "worthless
pay or our corn and bacoa do in fact render the
price Oh poor soldiers labor privations and blood
oiooo spit chiefly in the cause of these very men
ainose !ilerahy Notwithstanding five ard ten
times the specie value of their corn and bacon from
'' Poo' so'u'e'' whose scanty pay was fixed by
the 'pece standard and so continues What consul
mate audacty and hypocrisy to introduce the poor
soldier" in this connection? Can these men oe blind
to the tendency of their conduct towards the poor
soldiers? Or do they see it, and impelled by their
greed and rapacity reckessy drive on to dangerous
dsconent, to mutiny, internal violence arson and
! robbery involving themselves in immediate disaster.
and this cause of the country in total overthrow?
ic hic viz no


dollar with fraction Of one and then to force their
creditors to vest their all in government securities
to put all their eggs in basket to take the hazard
as to their ALL of scaling; population in whole or in
part; the default in payment of interest by debtor
that makes the currency they must receive and that
is encased in impenetrable in all that it does
from choice or necessity against any demand by the
creditor; and whose constituents holding few or none
OF its securities though they have forced them upon
their creditors, may cooly send representative to-
Congress who will refuse to levy tax on them among
Others, to pay the common debt. Take care of the
crop to he reaped, from sowing tares when Won peed
wheat If you SOW the wind may you not reap the
whirlwind? What is che disease? A plethorc cur
rency What the cure? Depletion. Is that remedy
applied by transferring the currency from one pocket
TO another? Is the appopexy cured by putting one
artery by the depletion of another? If the disease is
durable only by absorbing the surplus blood by n
Bond why not let the first patient be cured bv this
only process, instead of propagating the disease
through several? Let lis have argument, not windy
defamation. Mrpp,,,.,


NOTE The foregoing observations must stand unon
their own intrinsic merits hut it may not be out of
place. nor without effect with some to declare that
nave never refused Treasury Notes in payment either
IN my private or any other capacity but have received
large suns, and expect to continue to receive such
currency and will not Internationally refuse it at it's
nominal value. But can any man condemn me. if
reise 10 receive it as equivalent to coin from the
planter who has required and received say S. of it
ior pushel OF corn, worth only 81 in coin-who has
taken 1t at what it is worth-S5 for 81? Why shall
no not pay me So for 81 of my coin debtp


Far play is a jewer-equsity is the fun
damental principle of Republican government


Sauce for the goose is for the gander." If he
censure and attempt to persecute and excite odium
against me, will denounce hm-I1 clash the rasca,
naked through the world"-Tn hold him ND to the
scorn or pity of all Of decent sense or honor as
would-be robber-or unhappy subject of the soa1kt
d'seose-a squinteyed, sey.regayding m,0nomaniac.


M.