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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The Greenback Question-Showing that the Republican Party always stood by the Republican Greenback, and that the Democratic Party always hated and fought it.

PART I-Page 1-HISTORY OF THE GREENBACK-THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ITS FATHER, FRIEND AND GUARDIAN-THE LEGAL-TENDER ACT OF 1862-REASON FOR ITS BEINGCHASE'S LETTER-DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION AND VOTES.

PART II-Page 1-THE DEMOCRATS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTRACTION-THE ACT OF 1866-ANALYSIS OF THE VOTES-ONLY ONE DEMOCRAT IN THE TWO HOUSES VOTES AGAINST CONTRACTION-THE ACT OF FEBRUARY 4, 1868, SUSPENDING CONTRACTION-ONLY TWENTY-FOUR DEMOCRATS VOTE FOR THAT.

PART III-Page 2-THE PUBLIC CREDIT ACTEXTRAORDINARY VOTE BY WHICH IT PASSED -NOT ONE DEMOCRAT FOR IT-WHAT THE REPUBLICAN DOUBLE PLEDGE MEANT-DEMOCRATIC SENATOR HAMILTON'S PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO KILL THE REPUBLICAN GREENBACK.

PART IV-Page 3-PRETENDED DEMOCRATIC LOVE FOR THE GREENBACK-HOW THEY HURRAHED FOR IT BUT KEPT IT IN THE WOODS " A SMART TRICK EXPOSED-SOUTHARD'S "BLIND" RESOLUTION MAKING GREENBACKS RECEIVABLE FOR CUSTOMS DUTIES-A BILL FROM THE REPUBLICAN SENATE TO THAT EFFECT BEATEN BY THE HOUSE DEMOCRATSANOTHER REPUBLICAN PROPOSITION (HUBBELL'S) TO RECEIVE GREENBACKS FOR CUS-. TOMS AND EXCHANGE THEM FOR COIN AND CONSTRUING THE RESUMPTION ACT SO THAT NO GREENBACKS SHALL BE RETIRED, ONLY RECEIVES SIX DEMOCRATIC VOTES-THE VOTES IN DETAIL-FORT'S ACT PROHIBITING FURTHER RETIREMENT, ETC., OF THE GREEN

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PART II-Page 6-CONDITION AND WAGES OF
THE LABORER ABROAD COMPARED WITH AT
HOME-DISCONTENT IN NORTH GERMANY-
WAGES FALL WHILE FOOD RISES IN RHENISH
PRUSSIA-LOW PRICES OF SKILLED LABOR IN
FRANCE-LONG HOURS AND LOW PAY IN
ENGLAND "STEADILY DECLINING" WAGES.
IN SCOTLAND, AND HIGH COST OF LIVING—
WAGES STILL LOWER IN IRELAND-WAGES.
IN PARTS OF WALES MERELY NOMINAL-THE
REASON WHY THE AMERICAN LABORER IS:
BETTER OFF-HOW TO AVOID "HARDER
TIMES" AND TO GET BETTER TIMES"
HERE THE DEMOCRATIC TARIFF BILL-
HOW IT INJURED BUSINESS INTERESTS AND
THE WORKINGMAN-THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE
ΤΟ CONSIDER IT-THE PANIC IT OCCA-
SIONED THE REPUBLICAN FIGHT AGAINST
AND DEFEAT OF THE BILL-ANALYSIS OF THE
VOTE-ANOTHER VOTE SHOWING THE AN-
TAGONISM OF DEMOCRACY TO LABOR.
PART III-Page 10-STILL ANOTHER VOTE
SHOWING DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO THE
ENCOURAGEMENT OF HOME INDUSTRIES-THE
REPUBLICAN CREED, HUMANITARIAN-DEMO-
CRATIC SCOFFS AT THE MUDSILLS "-THE
FREE SCHOOL SYSTEM-DEMOCRATIC Nos-
TRUMS FOR PRESENT ILLS-THE WORKINGMEN
DENOUNCE THEM-REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO
SOLVE THE LABOR PROBLEM.

PART IV-Page 11-THE REPUBLICAN HOME-
STEAD ACT-HOW THE DEMOCRACY ALWAYS
OPPOSED SUCH A POLICY-THE VOTES IN BOTH
HOUSES BY WHICH THAT ACT WAS CREATED-

EXTENDING THE HOMESTEAD ACT-DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION AND VOTES.

CHAPTER III.

Southern Claims.

PART I-Page 12-$300,000,000 OF SOUTHERN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLAIMS FOR COTTON, WAR MATERIAL, CAPTURED AND ABANDONED PROPERTY, ETC.

PART II-Page 12-REBEL CLAIMS DEMANDED AS A MATTER OF "JUSTICE AND RIGHT"ALL PROPERTY DESTROYED BY BOTH ARMIES MUST BE PAID FOR-REBEL SOLDIERS OR THEIR HEIRS MUST" BE PAID IN BONDS OR PUBLIC LANDS FOR LOST TIME, LIMBS AND LIVES!"

PART III-Page 13-A "SPECIMEN BRICK" OF SOUTHERN CLAIMS-ITS BOGUS CHARACTER AND WONDERFUL GROwth.

PART IV-Page 14-$400,000,000 MORE-COMPENSATION DEMANDED FOR EMANCIPATED SLAVES.

PART V-Page 14-A BRIEF REVIEW OF SOME OF THE REBEL CLAIMS-DIRECT TAX-COTTON TAX-SPECIAL RELIEF-DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY-COMPENSATION FOR SLAVES

REBEL MAIL CONTRACTORS, ETC-THEY ALREADY REACH THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF THREE THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARSWHERE WILL IT END?

PART VI-Page 15-CLAIM OF THE COLLEGE
OF "WILLIAM AND MARY "-ONE OF THE EN-
TERING WEDGES.

PART VII-Page 16-FRAUDULENT CLAIMS OF
SOUTHERN MAIL CONTRACTORS-HOW THE
DEMOCRATS STROVE TO STEAL $1,000,000-
HOW THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS STOPPED THE
STEAL-A SPECIMEN OF SOUTHERN
"Mo-
RALITY "-THE VOTE THAT" SCOTCHED
FRAUDULENT CLAIMS.

THE

PART VIII-Page 18-SUBSEQUENT ASSAULT ON THE SENATE BY THE SOUTHERN MAIL CONTRACTORS-BUT THEY ARE FINALLY DISCOMFITED-PROPOSITIONS AND VOTES.

PART IX-Page 19-CONGER'S PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROHIBITING PAYMENT OF REBEL CLAIMS-VOTE THEREONTHE DEMOCRATIC PARTY UNDER SOUTHERN DOMINATION WOULD PAY THEM, AS THE RECORD SHOWS.

PART X-Page 20-TILDEN'S PRETENDED AVERSION TO REBEL CLAIMS-HIS DUPLICITY-HE WOULD NOT PAY "DISLOYAL" CLAIMS, BUT HOLDS THAT "WE ARE ALL LOYAL NOW"-EX-CONFEDERATE CABELL'S INGENIOUS REPORT PROVING THAT PARDONED OR AMNESTIED REBELS WERE ALWAYS

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First Steps of the Revolution. PART I-Page 22-INTRODUCTION TO THE EVIDENCES OF TILDEN'S REVOLUTIONARY INTENTIONS DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONARY PROCEEDINGS THUS FAR-THEIR REMARKABLE GROWTH-HOW A MINORITY CAN OVERTHROW A GOVERNMENT-FORCIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PERIL THAT POTTER IS PRECIPITATING-PLAUSIBLE PRETEXTS FOR REVOLUTION ALWAYS READY.

PART II-Page 25-THE FIRST POTTER LETTER DECLARING THE ELECTION SHOULD BE THROWN INTO THE HOUSE-THAT THE HOUSE IS THE SOLE JUDGE OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, CAN ACT ALONE ON ITS OWN INFORMATION, AND IS SUPREME-TILDEN AS COMMANDER IN-CHIEF.

PART III-Page 27-THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION ACT-VOTES PROVING IT A DEMOCRATIC MEASURE THE ELECTORAL COUNTTHE VOTE AS ANNOUNCED SUBSEQUENT REVOLUTIONARY PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE BEFORE THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE FORTYFOURTH CONGRESS-FIELD'S QUO WARRANTO

BILL AND VOTE ON IT.

PART IV-Page 29-REPORT OF HOUSE COMMITTEE AFFIRMING THE RIGHT OF THE HOUSE TO GO BEHIND RETURNS, AND ITS AUTHORITY OVER THE COUNT-VOTE ON BURCHARD'S AMENDMEMT TO IT.

PART V-Page 30-MORRISON'S LETTER ON TILDEN'S PLUCK"-TILDEN THOUGHT HE HAD "PACKED" THE ELECTORAL COMMISSIONHENDRICKS URGES THE HOUSE TO DECLARE TILDEN DULY ELECTED-VOTES BY WHICH THE HOUSE MAKES THAT REVOLUTIONARY DECLARATION SUBSEQUENT DEMOCRATIC PROTEST DECLARING HAYES 'A USURPER' TILDEN OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED OF HIS ELEC. TION-DID HE TAKE THE OATH?-REvoluTIONARY TALK-HEWITT'S ENFORCED RESIGNATION AND SINGULAR APOLOGY-JUDGE BLACK'S THREAT.

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PART VI-Page 33-THE MANHATTAN CLUB RECEPTION-ORDERS WHICH THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE IS NOW ENFORCING-TREASONABLE UTTERANCES OF TILDEN, DORSHEIMER, DUDLEY FIELD AND OTHERS-ONE THOUSAND DIS TINGUISHED DEMOCRATS FROM TWELVE DIF. FERENT STATES APPLAUD THE TREASON! PART VII-Page 36-MARYLAND SELECTED TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVEMENT IN THE PLOT -THE MONTGOMERY BLAIR QUO WARRANTO RESOLUTION.

PART VIII-Page 37--THE POTTER INIQUITY FOUNDED UPON THE MARYLAND INITIATIVE

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RANDALL'S RULING ON QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE THE REVOLUTIONARY Y INTENT ADMITTED-THE VOTES IN FULL.

PARTIX-Page 39-THE CASEY YOUNG RESO-
LUTION THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS REFUSE
TO DECLARE THAT IT IS NOT INTENDED TO
DISTURB HAYES "→ REPUBLICAN CAUCUS
WARNING THE PEOPLE THAT THE POTTER
MOVEMENT IS REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE'S AD-
DRESS TO THE PEOPLE DECLARING THAT THE
POTTER PLOT IS TO SUBORN WITNESSES, DE-
CLARE HAYES AN USURPER, AND PUT HIM OUT.
PART X-Page 40-ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS'
LETTER OF WARNING TO POTTER-THE TIL-
DEN-POTTER RUFFIANS HOOT HIM DOWN IN
THE HOUSE-INTERVIEW WITH STEPHENS-
"SNUG, THE JOINER "-" THE PEOPLE WANT
PEACE AND QUIET."

PART XI-Page 41-CARTER
QUESTION

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HARRISON'S

OF PRIVILEGE "-RESOLUTION EXTENDING INVESTIGATION AND DECLARING THAT THE HOUSE HASNO REVOLUTIONARY PURPOSE WITHDRawn under DEMOCRATIC PRESSURE AFTER A VOTE WHICH SHOWED NO QUORUM-BEN WILSON'S RESOLUTION TO EXTEND THE INVESTIGATION IF THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE BELIEVES IN IT-WILSON'S ADMISSION AS TO" INTENT" OF THE POTTER INQUIRY-NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE APPROVES THE POTTER MOVEMENT AND REFUSES TO DISAVOW THE TREASONABLE INTENT AN INFLUENTIAL DEMOCRAT ADMITS THE INTENT IF THEY CAN ONLY MAKE A CASE. PART XII-Page 43-POTTER'S OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND "BLANK"-HIS FATAL ADMISSIONS TOUCHING THE MOTIVES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE INQUIRY-THE REVOLUTIONARY INTENT LAID BARE BY HIS OWN WORDSNO JESUITISM CAN COVER THEM.

PART XIII-Page 45-ALEX. H. STEPHENS' SECOND LETTER TO POTTER-SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS THE HALE AMENDMENT, AND SHOWS UP THE POTTER MOVEMENT IN ITS TRUE COLORS "MOST UNWISE, MOST UNFORTUNATE, AND MOST MISCHIEVOUS "-" A CONTEMPTIBLE FARCE OR A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY"-POTTER'S JESUITICAL WHISPERINGS AS "DELUSIVE AND GUILEFUL" AS THOSE OF "THE GREAT ARCH-FIEND."

PART XIV-Page 46-THE BURCHARD RESOLUTION-THE DEMOCRATS "FORCED AGAINST THEIR WILL" TO DECLARE AN OPINION ON HAYES' TITLE-THEY ARE TAKEN BY SURPRISE,

AND ARE PANIC-STRICKEN AND ROUTED A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENE-THE VOTE BY WHICH A REVOLUTIONARY HOUSE, DRIVEN BY SUDDEN FEAR, CONDEMNS ITS OWN TREASONABLE PURPOSES. PART XV-Page 48-THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC MOVE-THROWING SAWDUST IN PEOPLES,

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PART II-Page 53-POPULAR VOTES VS. ELECTORAL VOTES-POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES OF HARRISON AND VAN BUREN, POLK AND CLAY, HARRISON AND CASS-TILDEN'S PRETENDED "POPULAR" MAJORITY-VOTES IN THE FREE, BORDER AND SLAVE STATESREAL VOTING STRENGTH OF GULF STATES SHOWS A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY OF 183,335 IN 1870, AND LARGE INCREASE SINCE-SOUTH CAROLINA, MISSISSIPPI, AND LOUISIANA ESSENTIALLY REPUBLICAN NOW.

PART III-Page 55-THE FLORIDA CASEBLOODY VIOLENCE FAILING, FRAUD AND JUDICIAL USURPATION-A BRIEF HISTORY OF ALL THE FRAUDULENT PROCEEDINGS BY WHICH TILDEN STROVE ΤΟ CAPTURE THAT ONE NEEDED ELECTORAL VOTE-FACTS, FIGURES

AND INCIDENTS.

PART IV-Page 59-THE LOUISIANA CASEPOPULATION AND VOTES-KU-KLUX CRIMES OF 1868-TILDEN RIFLE CLUBS OF 1876-THE TERRIBLE OUTRAGES AND MURDERS IN THE SEVENTEEN PARISHES-SHERIDAN'S STATEMENT-THE STATE RETURNING BOARD-ITS DUTIES-HOW AND WHY IT ACTED INFAMY OF THE TILDEN DEMOCRACY.

PART V-Page 62-THE HALE AMENDMENT TO THE ONE-SIDED RESOLUTION-THE FLORIDA FRAUDS-THE OREGON CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY-THE LOUISIANA BULL-DOZING AND FRAUDS-THE SOUTH CAROLINA BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION-THE MISSISSIPPI SHOT-GUN

FRAUDS, REGISTRATION AND OTHER STATISTICS.

PART VI-Page 61-THE PAGE RESOLUTION CONDEMNING TILDEN'S ATTEMPT TO STEAL THE OREGON VOTE, AND DENOUNCING THE INFAMY OF CRONIN, DEFEATED BY THE DEMOCRATS-ONLY TWO DECENT MEN IN ALL ISRAEL.

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