534 TH E IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



the war would not last more than thirty, or sixty days at 

 most. Billions of treasure and hundreds of thousands 

 of lives were sacrificed, and this fair land, the pride and 

 boast of its people, desolated and strewn with wrecks 

 of homes and bones of the slain, whose dirge the buz- 

 zards and carrion crows of desolation croaked and sang, 

 as American liberty and prosperity yielded their scepter 

 and crown to the conquering bondholder at Appomattox. 

 When the smoke of battle shall have cleared away 

 when prejudice" shall have yielded to reason and judg- 

 ment, when the trophies of victory shall have been 

 compared with the sacrifices of the conflict, when the gilded 

 honors of national triumph shall be placed in the balance 

 with the woes, the sorrows, the anguish and the heart- 

 wounds that cluster around a million graves and extend 

 to every fireside in the land when careful, dispassionate 

 and unbiased investigation shall prove that the yoke which 

 the slave king had placed upon four million blacks has 

 been transferred by the money king to the necks of fifty 

 million whites, people will discover that the battles of 

 the rebellion were not fought in the interest of humanity, 

 or to perpetuate the will of the people. 



By the aid of the crippled greenback the North suc- 

 ceeded, and so did the money king. The North succeeded 

 on the battlefield after the war had been purposely pro- 

 longed to satiate the bond-thirst of the Shylocks. The 

 conspiracy of the money kings of Europe and America is 

 thus made evident. To provoke war. War would create 

 a necessity for money. But when the government sought 

 to exercise her prerogative the prerogative of every sov- 

 ereign power and issue paper money, Congress was 

 besieged on every side. The government was induced to 

 issue bonds and obligate itself to pay the interest in coin. 

 Coin was scarce. This suicidal policy of the government 

 created an abnormal demand for it. The bullion brokers 



