Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-09-24
FOR SENATOR
GEORGE j. ul DE.
A DARK History.

The so-called Black Republican
Party has had an existence for abou,
two years; and within that time the
catalogue Of its corruptions i. greater
than that OF the old Wing party, for
the twenty years Of its existence. la
tho Congress Of the United States, a
large proportion Of the Republican
Representatives, were engaged in sche
nes for pinndering the Treasury, and
cnriching thenselyes They formed
unholy combinations with "a villainous
lobby to procure the passage OF laws,
giving to corporations and States large
quantities Of the public lands, and for
this robbery, the forty thieyes" and
their associates were paiJ large sums
Of money by the grantee. Patents
that had been twice renewed, were
sgsin extended for compensation to
these infamous Black Republican Rep
resentatives. The Public Lands were
given away by the million acres, all for
. consideration. Old rotten and fraud
ulent claims that had been repudisted
by successive Administrations and
Congresses, for years, were revived, and
under the spur Of value received were
rushed through the House with all the
ease imaginable. The public money
was thrown awsy SO fast, that the
whole country demanded An investiga-
ton. Everybody knows how that in
vestigation terminated, and whom it
exposed. Not Democrat was tarnlsh.
ed, by proof of completely with this
band Of Republican robbers. Even
Horace Greeley was implicated in these
dsgracefnl plunderings, and ignomin-
eously fled Westward, so a. to escape
the witness stand before the lnycstiga-
fion Committee.
Throughout the entire North the
leading demagogncs of that party
plnndered the people ont OF thousands
Of dollars, by obtaining voluntary sub
scriptions Of money, profcsscily to he
sent ont to bleeding Kansas. but which
was in fact used as vast corruption
fund, to carry through the election of
York where they have had full Legis-
lativc power, they have brought bank
ruptcy upon the State: increased the
taxes of the City of New York two
millions, robbed New York tity of
Municipal rights, by taking from the
people the power OF clccting their own
local officers, and giving that power to
the Governor at ALBANY, to be used in
rewarding his political adhcrcnts. The
Erie Canal Funl, in New York. has
been 40 deeply robbed, that the tolls
show n decrease of over 100000 in
two years; and the public works on the
Canal have stopped. In Indiana, in
Wisconsin, and in Iowa the same cx.
amples Of corruption have been set.
as III New York and at Washington.
In Iowa, with Constitution authori
zlng debt not To exceed 100000 in
the aggregate, the state indebtedness
was increased to Sl35,000, contrary to
the Constitution, and for no other pur.
pose than TO CRAFTY the base malignan
cy Of Don Quixotc Grimes.
During this period of the existence
Of this Black Republican party, the
country has been convulscd by mobs.
Nigilence Committees, Lynch Law
clubs, instructions in Kansas, Utah and
California, and throughout the North.
Law has been reviled when not in
harmony with Black Republican sche'
mes, and constituted authority opposed,
when not complacent TO the designs of
the Higher Lawites. Under cover of |
the Abolition Platform, they have for.
med alliances with every faction, adop.
ted every ism, and assumed every form
possible in SO short time. The whole
aim 10 professedly the non.extension Of
slavery in the Territories. This posi-.
ton has been decided unconstitutional
BY tho Supreme Court Of the Uni,
and it takes from them the last plank
Of their rotten platform. They now
keep up 'shrieking'' from the force OF
habit, and cry out like Mrs. Cunning |
ham, give us back our baby-our
kansas baby, which the rascally Su.
premc Court has declared not legiti'
mate" Now that the Supreme Court
has taken away the "kansas Baby"
which they used to defraud the public
with, it is expected that this chameleon
party will turn its attention to some |
other corrupt scheme of imposition. Its
history in this State is well known.
Many democrats who went into that
party on the Temperance issue now
declare that they have been cheated
imposed upon, and they are returning
to the only National Party in the
Union. Many went OFT on the Know
Nothing issue, and they also find that
INSTEAD Of "Americaus ruling America
the. Party has become the bedfellow
with ~ fossignes it can swindle into
IL sosissy, end these deluded men are
also fstassisg 70 the Democracy.
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