Year: 1868




: test of the remaining two-thirds.
But have the predictions of ou
statesmen been as literally verified il
regard to the effects of such system
upon the welfare fthe people? Let u
) see:


Eight millions of white people arr
, prostrated beneath the feet offOnr mil
, lion brutal negroes, -Four or five gen
erations ago, the ancestors of these he
groes were cannibals and savages run
ming naked in the wilds of Africa, where
they were upon their natural equality
! with the wild bcasts---s0metimcs de
vouring the beasts and sometimes de-
voured by them. They have no quail.
tications as voters but such as life oil
slavery can give to barbarans. They
know nothing of government but what
they have learned at the whipping.post ;
and .or rewards and punishmcnts they
look no higher than the cupboards OF
the Freedmen's Burchu.


Into the hands fsuch creatures bay.
onets are placed to keep down the
whites with whom they are mingled,
md into their soOty hands ballots are
placed to enable them to ncutralize the
votes of intelligent whites at the
North.


The foundations are laid. deep and
strong, for IN aristocracy in this coun-
Try, with privileges beyond those of
my other arstocracy on earth. This
favored class has no heavier labor to
perform from the rising of the sun to
the going down thereof than to clip
coupons from bonds, carry them to the
treasury, and carry home gold. The
common people have not only to sup
port this aristocracy in idlcncss ami
luxury, but they alone mus pay the
Government for protecting this class
in its exclusive privileges.


1t is the history Of every aristocracy
which ever existed, that it has managed
to hedge itself about with privileges
and prerogatives, constantly widening
the golf which separates it from the
common people, until an impassable
barrier was erected between the lords
in their luxury and the peasants in their
poverty. If they cannot accomplish
this by building themselves up they
will accomplish it by grinding the com
mon people down. They have already
attempted to grind the people down
to level with the ncgroes--eNen to
negroes in state Of slavery. The very
essence of slavery is, Tint it is s.ys-
tom by which one class constantly takes
from another class the proceeds of
their labor without compensation and
this is precisely the relation which tax
payers sustain to the bondholders.
But they intend to build as well as
grind down. In less than one year
from this day, i. they arc not defeated,
the twenty two hundred million dollars
in bonds will suddenly become virtually
twenty eight hundred millions in bonds.
This they inteud to accomplish by a
little jugglery with the four letters
which spell gold. This additional six
hundred million dollars they would
just AS honestly obtain if they should
meet the tax payers on the high way
and at the mouth OF a loaded pistol dc
mand their money or their lives.


The road to exclusive power for
such an aristocracy is short and sim
pie. The Caucus has only to
Whereas the national debt is q 50.
cred obligation. and the national faith
must be untarnisheL; and


Whereas certain Individuals threaten
re .u,lation, therefore, to prevent the
possibility of such calamity,


BE il eaacted By the Senate and House
Of Representatives. in Compress assem-
bled.:


Section /. No one shall hereafter be
eligible to a seat in Congress unless he
be owner and hold in his own right
of at least one hundred thousand dol
lars in government bonds.


Section 2. Any attempt to veto this
act is hereby declared high crime
and msdcmeanor, to be puuished by
impeachment.


Section 3 T.is act is political in its
character, and therefore not within the
jurisdiction ofthe Supreme Court.


If the Caucus choose to pass such
an az. as this, l ask in what department
Of the government can the people find
relief? Let him name it VINO can.


But what is the result of this radical
system upon our prosperity? Our man
ufactories, many OF them have closed
their doors There are more laborers
out of employment in our country now
than were eyer before known in our
history. Our agriculture don't pay
its own taxes. The cotton crop, which
a few years ago Bfhngilt us in hundreds
of millions, has bahkrupted every man
who has engaged in its cultivation du
ring the last two years. Our commerce
is gasping its last.-There is not to.
day line of steamers carrying the
American flag across the ocean Days
together pass without an American YES.
sci clearing from Now York for a for.
eign port; u few years since dozen in
an hour was no unusual event. Every
branch of industry is bighted as with
q curse.


Compilers of statistics estimate the
aggregate proceeds of labor in this
country at two thousand million dol
lars per annum, upon which the net
profit is said to be about two hundred
millions. In the same length of time
the expenditures of the Radical Gov
ernment is five hundred millions Ofdol-
lars; thus all the profit of labor, and
three hundred millions of capital an
nually. THERE'S is no. mistakiug where
this road leads to; it is a finger board
which every man can read. 1t means
eat less, wear less, sleep less, and toll
more.