Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
THE OPPONENTS OF THE DE
MOCkACY.


The Democratic party has everything
to be proud of in the character of its
opponents. Every patriotic impulse
inspires it to wage a deadly warfare
against its f~actious assailants. FIRST and
foremost among these are the Black Re
publicans, most respectable i'll numbers
of all those who are so anxious to break
down the party which supports the pre-
sent administration. And who are the
Black Republicans? They arc rcvolu-
t~ionists, radicals and athcists-those
who would upheave the very founda-
tons of our society, overturn our con-
stitution, and for a pretense enthrone a
black man as the god whom they would
adore. The opportunities which they
have had of showing their proclivities,
cvince one thing conclusively: and that
is, that, in making use of the anti-sla-
very fanaticism Of the North, the only
use it is as a stepping stone for the at
tainment of position by which to thrust
their hands into the public treasury.
They set out with lucre u%ppermost in
their minds, when they nominated John
c. Fremont for President of the United
States, using all diligence to secure his
election so that they might speculate in
Mariposa stock. Failing in this, they
turn their attention to ~plundering the
treasury of the United States, and their
Mattcsons and Greelies, and others are
caught swimming or foundering in the
very cess-pools of bribery and stealing.
Not satisfied with plundering and steal
ing from the Federal crib, wherever they
can thrust their'ingers into the treasu-
ry of a State, they go into up to their
elbows as they did in the States of New
and Ohio. In New York besides steal
ing as much as they could well appro-
pirate, they consumated one of the
blacklist pieces of %villainy the world ever
witnessed in their statute passed to pun
ish the people of New York for voting
for Mr.. Buchanan. In this statute they
had a two-fold objcctin view. One was
to crafty their malignant revenge
against a people who dared differ with
them in opinion, and the other and main
object was to divert attention from
themselves by getting up an excitement
elsewhere, while stealing the peoples
money. Such is the leading faction
which the Democracy, north and south,
have to fight against.
Next in order come the Know Moth
ings-those Simon Pure patriots who
cannot afford to live under the same
government with Catholics and foreign
ers. IF ever there was a party in the
United States conceived in sin and bro't
forth in iniquity, it is this same Know
Nothing faction. 1t had its origin in
the bascst and meanest passions of man
kind, and is founded in the most stupid
ignorance. To prescribe a man on ac-
count of his religion or birth place, is a
relict OF barbarism which no descent
man should tolerate. And what is the
corner stone of this wicked faction? 1t
is laid in blasphemy and IN outright
hooking of God. When men get to-
gether, and, by way of controlling the
masses who vcnerate heaven and relig-
ion, resolve that there is 4 God, and there
is 4 Bible, when in their private opin-
ions, and private conduct, they make q
jest of both, tits presenting Il picture Of
moral depravity which makes a lover of
his kind blush to see it. At the same
time that Know Nothingism processes
so much respect for God and his reli-
giop, it inaugurated Il series of blood
shed, of riots and murders heretofore
unknown in America. But the other
day it sent an armed band of rOwdics
from Baltimore to control an election in
Washington, and to murder the citizens
| OF tfat place while engaged III casting
their ballots for their W municipal
officers.
To be found within the organizations
so germaine to each other-are the po-
litical priests. These men having sto-
len the livery Of the court OF Heaven to
serve the devil in, pant for r2litical DOW
err. At the north, they find a field for
their pious zeal in the ranks of the Black
Republicans. At the South, consider
ing that they do God acceptable service
by prosecuting their fellow men, they
join the Know Nothings. The object
of your political priests, north and south,
is power, and political ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Seeing that the Democratic party will
not accord them the power which they
seek, but that it is the party of religious
as we'll as civil liberty, these creatures
who administer around the altar of Baal,
and not of God, give the party of free
dom their most bitter opposition. They
know that when Democracy succeeds,
priestcraft goes down.
All these factions are loud in their
condemnation of Mr.. B~uchanans ad-
m~inistration They wage a relentless
warfare against the Democracy, because
they know there is no success for their
schemes when the Democracy is in pow
or. Such arc the enemies of the Dem
o%cratic party, and such enemies it is a
compliment to have. 1t is the mission
of the Democracy to brush them out,
-NiHedycriW Union.
KEEP TT IN MIND when the Black