Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-11-29
Ersm the Nev York Tribune.
i, the couutry,s Woes Democratic.

All the COuntIy's
The Rebellion was Democratic. It
broke out in Democratic States. 1t was
confined to Democratic States. 1t was
fostered by Northern Democrats. Demo
Gratis differed the Rebel army. Demo-
Gratis made up its rank and file. Demo-
Gratis filed every Office In the Confederate
Government, from the Presidency down
to the clerkship and the messengership.
There wasn't A Republican with a shout
der-strap, a musket, or a "place," in the
whole deviIish concern. In the Demo-
cratic City of Washington, under the
Democratic Administration of buchanan,
the Rebellion was ~conspired AMI prepared.
A Democratic member Of tie Democratic
Administration stripped the North OF arms
and struggled them over to the South, and
sent the army where it would be u~navail-
able, or should easily be captured. A
Democratic member of the same Demo-
cratic Administration scattered the navy
over the world so that it could not be used
on the Rebel seabord. A Democratic Sec
rotary Of the Treasury plundered his trust
to supply the Rebellion with money. A
Democratic President, eutreated to do
something to save the Nation, refused, de-
claring aud arguing that the Government
could not Constitutionally defend itself,
and that it was unlawful to coerce Rebels
and he sat s%ullenly down like the Demo.
crat traitor that he was, and allowed the
Nations a~rsenals to be ~pluudered, and the
Nations ships, n~avy-yards and fortresses
to be seized, and the Rebel armies to, be
organised, without l;fsins a anger to pre-
vent. Democrats throughout every Nor.
thern and Western State applauded the
conduct of their Democratic President
adopted and defended his Democratic doc
trine, that the Government had no right
to apply force to suppress a Rebellion
and, from the word &C.," politically and
personally opposed every legislative, fnan-
cial, military and moral measure taken to
speedily and successfully prosecute the
war, and save the Nations life. The
Country's past and present wars are Dem.
ocratic-all and every one of them, with
out solitary exception. This truth, as oe
the Gospel, was thus uttered by a Western
orator
"Let Democratic journals and orators
howl over the debt and taxes their war
has brought. They but magnify their
own sins. Every tax is a Democratic gift.
Every dollar of debt is a Democratic leg
acy. Every Government stamp is a Dem
ocratic sticking plaster. Every person in
the United States drinks in Democracy in
his tea, his coffee and whisky aud in the
sugar wherewitn he sweetens them. Each
ingredient pays its quota for the cost Of
Democracy to the country. The smoker
inhales Democracy. The sick man is
physicked with Democracy. The labor
ing man gives about one hours laoor ev-
cry day to pay for Democracy. The cap
~italist pays one-tenth of his income for
the cost of the Democratic party. Every
transfer of property is saddled with the
Democratic burden. Before he is begot-
ten, the child is subject to the Democratic
tax. From the cradle to the grave he
never is. free from it. The funeral mourn
ing must first pay the penalty of Demo-
cratic rule, and a portion of that which
he leaves behind must go into this Demo
cratic vortex. Generation after genera
ton will carry this Democratic burden 20
death. Blu. for the Democratic party, our
people would hardly have known the ma
ture Of taxation. But for the Democratic
party, the hundreds Of thousands of young
men whose bones are strewn Over the
South would now be productive laborers
and the support and comfort of families
now desolate. No one can attempt to deny
this indictment. No one can pretend that
the Democratic party had any cause for
Rebellion. Yet it has the efoutry to cry
over the burdens of taxation. As the
father of the Democratic party, when he
had stripped Job of family and possess
ions, charged it to his own sins, and sought
to draw him from his integrity. so his
Democratic sons now come forward with
equal ~effrcntery and charge their doings
upon the loyal people, aud hyporitically
howl over their Affections, and seek to Sc
duce them from their integrity, to elect
to power the party that has brought all
these woes upon the land"
r6r Ex-Governor Pollock, Director Of