Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-07-10

ay oe burning and the general dest-
i y ~, u, of property. In consideration
,nized fact, Gen. Grant has o 'dcred tha-
! fle Latter Day Democracy.
No one, who has read it, needs to
be told that the address recently put
forth by sundry Democratic mem.
bers of Congress to the people of the
United States" is labored eulogy
of the Democratic party, and an at
tack upon the present Administration
In time of civil war, when the whole
country is convulscd by the insurrec-
tion, which was concoctcd in the
Democratic" cabinet of Mr.. Bu-
chanan, it might be expected that
fourteen Democratic members of Con-
gress, addressing the people of the
United States, would indicate their
opinions of this gigantic treason, and
would declare what specific measures
they advise for its suppression. We
look in vain for anything of the kind
in this address.
They are sticklers for the Constitu-
ton over and over they dcclaim up
on that topic. They are profuse in
their charges against the Administra-
ton. They are exhaustive in eulogy
upon the principles and policy of the
Democratic party. But Of this rebel
lion which their party brethren set on
foot, aimed at the very life of the
Government and the Constitution,
they have no sharper word of excla-
nation than this unhappy civil war"
OF course they are not forgetful of
that old image of terror to political
sucklings, ABOLITION. Their pro-
gramme Of restoration" is brief.
After urging the restoration of the
Democratic party to power as the in
fallib!e road to the restoration of the
Union, they lay down their specific
| thus
''To begin the great work Of restoration
through the ballot box is to KILL ABOLITION.
! The bitter waters of secession flowed first and
are fed still from the unclean fountain of abo-
| ltionisrn. That fountain must be dried up
These men speak the dialect of that
same latter-day Democracy" under
whose auspices forts, ships-of-
war, navy yards, mints and custom
houses were placed at the disposal OF
conspirators and rebels. They pro-
pose to appcasc the rage of jeff. Da-
Wis and his accomplices, by offering
up under the odious name of "Abo-
litionism," whatever there is in the
North Of manhood of principle, of
hostility to the diffusion among them.
selves of the institution of slavery.
They would yield to every arrogant
demand of armed and bloody insur-
gents, PROSTATE themselves in the
dust and cry, Great is slavery may
its sway be universal and its reign
perpetual" Those who refuse the
like humiliation they would brand as
Abolitionists, execrable and accursed.
This, according to the fourteen, is the
Democratic mode Of restoring the
Union. The country has had some
experience of that kind Of Democracy.
As we have remarked, those apos-
ties of peace on rebel terms are full
of denunciations of the Administra-
tion. They say not syllable of the
Democratic treason which ruled in the
Executive Councils in the days of Bu-
chanan-not word of the dispersion
Of arms, and army and navy. to make
+ easy to the rebels the seizure of pub
lie property, the Capitol and the ma.
tional archives. All this is ignored,
and the scrupulous restorationisls
strain their optics to discern in the
struggles Of the executive to defeat
those schemes some technical devia'
ton from the letter of the law. The
turpitude of the rebellion moves not
their adherence the plots and per
iuries Of the cOnspirators are pecca'
dillos unworthy of notice. All their
invective is reserved for others-fol
the President and those who will not
bow the knee to Baal.
n They dwell upon the enormous tax
> es, the levying of which is rendered
n inevitable, if the rebellion is to bt
suppressed, and demand the restora
tion of the Democratic party to pow
er as the remedy for that. No init
nation is given that that party woult
not follow the policy Of Mr.. Buchan
ans administration, and make peace
with the rebels in the same way tina
!. he preserved it, by giving them alb
solute and supreme control of every
department of the government.
On the contrary, a careful reading
, of this Democratic Address, leaves
the inevitable conviction that thes,
l. selfstyled democrats and thos,
who sustain them, are those "alliel
|. in the free States on whose assist
ance, pledged and assured, they relic,
in the beginning of their wicked re
volt. There is every reason to believ,
that this Democratic movement is il
understood cooperation with Davi
and his Confederate government il
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