. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . nd your currency will be worthnothing. Your money will be just in the condition the rebelsmoney was, over there in Richmond, Va. He had been overthere in the rebellion, and had been making cannon for theConfederacy. When he went there the money was money was good enough. He got up in the morn-ing, put a two-dollar bill in his vest pocket, took his basket onhis arm to buy his breakfast, which he would bring home in hisbasket and have it about full.
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . nd your currency will be worthnothing. Your money will be just in the condition the rebelsmoney was, over there in Richmond, Va. He had been overthere in the rebellion, and had been making cannon for theConfederacy. When he went there the money was money was good enough. He got up in the morn-ing, put a two-dollar bill in his vest pocket, took his basket onhis arm to buy his breakfast, which he would bring home in hisbasket and have it about full. He stayed there a year or so, andhe said he then had to take the basket to carry his money in,and could almost bring his breakfast back in his vest pocket.[Laughter.] And you would be in that condition precisely ifyou were to pay off this debt in the manner the Democracywants to pay it. Let us illustrate it another way * * * * Suppose you, myfriend, are in distress; * * * * you go to a neighbor and bor-row money of him, and give him a note drawing ten per give him a note; he has lent you his money; you get out. THE PERIOD OF RECONSTRUCTION. 565 of your difficulty. As soon as you are fairly out of it he wantsyou to pay him, and you say Yes; I will pay you. How—howare you going to pay your debt ? According to the Democratictheory you will give him a new note^ drawing no interest. Thatis the doctrine ; that is it precisely. [Laughter and applause.] In the course of this speech, also, he satirized the proposi-tion to return to power the men whose best efforts had beendevoted to the attempt to destroy the Government of the UnitedStates, showing the heedless folly of such a thing. He madea scorching arraignment of the brazen effrontery of the rebelleaders in offering their services to conduct the affairs of thenation, which they had barely failed to ruin. He said : If you elect Grant and Colfax you will have peace. Because,let me tell you, that man Grant will keep peace. T
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