State Convention—Dollars and Sense. 
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The Trojan priest who warned the ruler of Troy, that the wooden 
horse, planned by Ulysses, as a pretext of favor to the goddess Mi¬ 
nerva, was a Grecian device for the destruction of the city, he was 
branded as a “croaker,” and in spite of the clerical warning, the 
huge bauble was thrust through a breach in the wall, and though 
the popular goddess might have appreciated the honor, that self¬ 
same night Troy was consumed by “ Greek fire.” 
In the language of an eminent writer, “ The epitaph Troja fuit 
will not yet be recorded over the nation’s grave,” because under 
our advanced enlightenment, our people |worship truth instead of 
blear-eyed goddesses or wooden-horses, whose bellies are filled with 
consuming fire: 
Then let Ulysses plan 
His Trojan horse again; 
Achilles may head the van, 
With Ulysses in his train—instead of Hector. 
Aaron was a bullionist, 
And tho’ it force a laugh, 
His God refused the currency 
Of Egypt’s Golden Calf. 
And though Ulysses strive— 
Making matters worse— 
I excel the Golden Calf, 
} Tis but—a wooden horse! 
Stuffed with Buccaniers, 
To pray upon our store— 
A representative of death, 
And—nothing more. 
Secretary Field: I didn’t think I would say anything upon this 
subject this evening, for I had a five-minutes’ talk in the agricul¬ 
tural rooms upon the same subject this afternoon. I was in hopes 
we might have gentlemen come before us this evening, and discuss 
this question from a hard-money or bullionist-standpoint, but if 
these gentlemen do not desire to come here and discuss this ques¬ 
tion; if they don’t want it discussed, then I want to see it fully 
and freely ventiliated on the other side. I will occupy the ten 
minutes, and perhaps provoke some one to occupy ten minutes more 
