168. What the Greenback says!

Shall we pay our debts? We had to borrow some money to pay for shot and

shell to shoot Democrats with. We found that we could get along with a

few less Democrats, but not with any less country, and so we borrowed

the money, and the question now is, will we pay it? And which party is

the most apt to pay it, the Republican party, that made the debt--the

party that swore it was constitutional, or the party that said it was

unconstitutional? Whenever a Democrat sees a greenback, the greenback

says to the Democrat, "I am one of the fellows that whipped you."

Whenever a Republican sees a greenback, the greenback says to him, "You

and I put down the rebellion and saved the country."

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