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642 Difference against Democrats Now look at the money difference: $312,735 95 Democratic judgments 60,783 56 Republican Difference against Democrats $251,952 39 There is only a little over a quarter of a million dollars more of judgments rendered in our Court during the last three years of Democratic administration than there was under the last three years of Republican administration. Nearly all the judgments rendered in 1857-8-9 drew 10 per cent. interest. The poorer class suffered in a greater degree than the above figures would indicate. I had my office during the year 1857 with H. Adams, a justice of the Peace. He was constantly engaged, from morning to night suing on debts of less amount than one hundred dollars. There was a panic in the fall of 1857, and the results appear in the judgments rendered during the next year. The panic of 1873 came also in the fall, and if it has been so terrible as depicted by Sam. Cary and others, it should have cropped out in 1874. Now let us see. e DEMOCRATIC PANIC. No. Amount. 401 $196,158 15 Judgments in 1858 REPUBLICAN PANIC. e No. Amount. 35 $14,629 96 Judgments in 1874 e There were 366 more judgments taken the year after the Democratic panic than y there were the year after the Republican panic, and the difference in amount against the Democratic administration S was the enormous sum of $181,528 19. n The above figures give but a faint idea e of the universal ruin in our town and to county during the last Democratic adS ministration. Every firm, and every business man in Jackson failed. True, two or three of them continued business in the names of brothers, uncles, cousins, or some other friend, but no man or firm escaped. During that period it was that the two banks in Jackson, the e Citizen's Bank and the Bank of Isham & S Dyer failed. Diamond Furnace, Young 11 America, Buckeye, Iron Valley and e Limestone all went under. It was duriing this period, 1857, that the last Demok cratic State Treasurer became involved, used three-quarters of a million of the public money, was not able to pay it, and rran off to Canada. The money has never e been paid, and the tax-payers of the is State have had to pay it the second time. e It was during this period, 1858, that the d Democratic Treasurer of Jackson county, iand two of the Democratic Commissiond ers became involved in the Citizen's ot Bank and Iron Valley Furnace Co., and rs loaned themselves over ten thousand 3dollars of the railroad sinking fund, 1e which had been collected from the peost ple during these hard times, and which e was lost, and the tax-payers have had to is pay it again. I do not charge that these W officers intended any thing dishonest. No doubt they intended to replace this ce money, but unfortunately they were not rable to do so, and it was lost. If any n, young man who does not remember these in transactions doubts a word or a figure in ty the foregoing, and he will come to me, I er will take great pleasure in showing him d the records. h. Now the party, and the very identical emen who brought this universal misery er upon the country when they had power ne and office, demand to be re-instated. Do 8, the people want a second edition of the ut Democratic rule of 1857-8-9? I think not. 1;