Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Story of Hercules, or the Truth About the Financial Legislation of the Republican Party
This party, which is made up, principally, of pec ple all unlearned in matters of the kind, have prc sumed to criticise the great financial acts of or modern Hercules, the Republican Party, that save our country from the Stymphalides - a monster slavery, treason, rebellion, and war, feeding 0 human ?esh - and placed it on the basis of sol growth and prosperity.
The very first statement in this book of the faith is so glaringly untrue that one can but wo der where this female Rip Van Winkle has be sleeping all this while, to know no better. It is t tale of a supposed infamous plot that result in our civil war, making the charge that there w nothing in the condition of the masses of our pe ple that denoted prosperty, but rather a tenden to poverty and demoralization.
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