The Greenbackers and Their Doctrines (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... letting was pronounced a desirable thing. And Yankees would not fight. But the slave-holders did fight. And the Yankees fought; and they hired an enormous number of foreigners to fight, and persuaded Western men of Southern blood to fight, on their side. And greenbiickism may lead to some such results; If successful, it will certainly produce some violent upheaval. There are some who will be glad to hear that ereenbackism may lead to war. They think war produces "good times." That, to stop raising wheat, and trade our stock of it for powder, and expode the powder so as to kill part of the wheat-growers, and leave the others in debt, produces in some mysterious way very beneficial results. There are some who want to try everything new. The North is very singular in this respect. They are so progressive-and so keenly on the lookout for all progressive ideas, that they will try everything new that comes along. Fashions, professional revivalism, the painting of grotesque pots, temperance furores, reforms of all kinds, spelling manias, &c, &c, spare not the smallest Northern village. Much valuable progress is the result, but it has also made the North the favorite ground of charlatanism of every kind. It is not worth while to inquire into the causes, here and now. The facts are known to all. We may therefore expect greenbackism to flourish in the North. The Southern people are the antipodes of all tliat. All such manias grow weak about the Missouri, the Ohio and the Potomac. It shows that the nucleus of the party that is to resist greenbackism must exist in the South. The work of destruction helps itself along. To destroy the first kind of property, bonds were issued, and the currency inflated The depression caused by heavy taxation and disturbances of values, ...