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Newspaper
Reading Daily Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1868
Page
2
The letter argues that paying a national debt in paper money is as improper as Pennsylvania's repudiation of the state debt under Treasurer Wm. H. Kemble. It frames the issue as a consistency test on currency use for public obligations.
In a recent speech Garnvieto, a Radical stamper for Grant and Colfax, claimed Gen Grant intends to govern with a small triangular piece of steel a bayonet. He challenges voters in Berka county to oppose such governance by backing Seymour and Blair.
The August expenses of the War Department are stated as over eleven million dollars. The message asks taxpayers if they can afford to pay that sum for four more years and urges electing Seymour and Blair to allow Southern self governance and to disband troops in the South.
The fragment argues over five twenty bonds payable in five years and contrasts Seymotran rate with Colfax. It claims Seymotran would cause greenback payments while Colfax would pay in gold at a 44 cent premium, forcing taxpayers to cover the gap. It questions willingness to pay to be ruled by a military despot.
The text cites August spending at thirty four million thirty two thousand three hundred and thirty seven dollars and fifty cents. It argues Radical economy has failed and urges voters to support a change in rule, asserting taxpayers deserve better than the Radicals.
Southern editorials and leader speeches cited in Radical papers are accused of deception. The Philadelphia Ledger reports that fake tales of Ku Klux outrages are spread to sway voters, urging caution against believing such forged accounts and noting alleged captures at a named location.
A partisan screed attacks the Freedmen's Bureau, listing salaries across Southern districts and urging a Democratic vote to abolish the Bureau. It contrasts payments to Black Republican rule with no white workers’ bureau and warns of punitive taxation on taxpayers. The item also flags various national incidents and trials.
The master masons and bricklayers of New York City remain in an unsettled dispute with each side claiming gains. Bricklayers vow to continue the fight for up to two years, while front bricklayers eject society men who work ten hours and vow no union man works with deserters. Painters with 1,600 members shift to eight hour days. non members face a 60 cent reduction to join. Brooklyn Union taxes members to support strikers. wage and union consolidation talk swirls. A Westchester scene sees bricklayers fined for employing an un indentured apprentice. Toledo stevedores win a 5 cent per hour raise after wage pressure.
In New York on September 9 a woman named Adeline Peck, once the wife of a wealthy merchant, was arrested for disorderly conduct Monday night and found dead in her cell Tuesday morning. A separate note reports a five year old boy died from convulsions after drinking bourbon whiskey, having mimicked his father.
In Brookfield on a Friday a Black man recently released from Danbury jail forced entry into Mrs. Wildman’s home. He struck her with a stone and choked her, leaving her mortally wounded for six hours before help arrived. A $4,000 reward was offered for his capture and alive return.
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