The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1860-10-27
DEIyOCHACk.

many rich, around whose festives boards
princes have sat and sung, whose people
have been deckcd in purple and fine linen,
at whose nod thousands came and went
obcdient to the sign. Alas oh Democracy !
Democracy! how sadly have thy fortunes
! changed. The decree has gone FORTH
Thy doom is sealed. \ mighty nation
art sitting in judgement at thy trial. The
Indictment charges, thou hast murdered in
cold blood pcaceable and unofitnding men,
thy own countrymen, yea thine own broth
rem. The evidence is the record Of the
last four years, the history Of the Buclan-
an Brackinridge administration. Read it.
In the streets of Washington, in broad
daylight, beneath the shadow of the Nat
ional Capitol by the direction Of Jas. Bu-
chanau acting without authority and con-
trary to law, peaccable and unoffendin"
Citizens have been shot down while cxcr-
cising their right as freeman, the elective
franchise, and those murdered victims have
been consigned to their untimcly graves
without even tho notice of coroneis in
quest. Witness again The tragedy enacted
in your own commercial emporium, New
Orleans some two years since, Buchanan
Breckenridge Democracy sought to bring
the municipal authority of that city into
their own hands, but knowing it was an
almost hopeless task, unless some violent
means were rcsorted to; concocted in the
city of Washington the scheme ora vigi-
lance committee, which was carried into
execution by her minions in New Orleans
thus hoping to ride into power upon the
destruction of our liberties. They placed
an army in our midst in time of peace
seeking to force an election to accord with
their wishes, by the presence Of the militia
ry, thereby violating the common law and
the very principle that lies at the founda-
ton of Constitutional Government, and the
blood that was made to flow there is
upon the Buchanan Brcckcn-
ridge Democracy who alone originated and
worked out the plan and who alone must
be responsible for the result. We have
still further evidence in the case of Kan
sas, behold the deep seated malice and
deadly hate operating there with such ter
rife power as to bring cut citizens of one
common country arraycd in two mtago-
nistir parties upon the field of battle, to de-
eide by force OF arms moral or political
quc,tioHS and say what was the cause of
such Il drploraLle event, Democracy re-
pcalcd he Missouri compromise, meas
NE which, animated by the powers of a
Horny Clay had lifted its clarion voice
above the turmoil ofthe political waters for
thirty ll-ls years, crying Peace, be still"
wa at one ic' >woop most ruth,cssly de-
stroycA, md all the human pass,oas unrc-
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