This anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from Alabama, Georgia and Virginia. Popular argument at the time stated if the Democrats should come into power that they would spend two billion dollars in Southern war claims which would ruin the credit of the United States abroad. Northern voters would presumably be outraged at seeing the governor of Missouri’s scrip payable for thirty-five dollars to one Woodford M. Paris for losses based upon: “the cotton tax, damages to land and property during the war, the emancipation of slaves” etc. The 1876 presidential election was contentious. Tilden won the popular vote, but fighting Rutherford B. Hayes in the electoral college, eventually lost.