Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-11-15
ALI the Gountry's woes Democratic"
From the New York Tribune

[From the New York Tribune.]
The Rebellion was Democratic. 1t broke
out in Democratic States 1t was confined
to Democratic States. 1t was hatchel by
Southern Democrats. 1t was fostered by
Northern Democrats Democrats offieered
the Rebel army. Democrats made up its
rank and file Democrats filed every office
in the Confederate Government, from the
Presidency down to the clerkships and the
messengerships There wasn't Republi
can with shoulder strap, or musket, or
place, in the whole devilish concern In
the Democratic City of Washington, under
the Democratic Administration of Buchan-
an, the Rebellion was conspired and prepar-
ed A Democratic member of ii at Demo
cratic Administration stripped the North of
arms, and smuggled them over to the South,
and sent the army where it would be una
vailable, or could easily be captured A
Democratic member of that same Democrat
ic Administration scattered the navy over
the world so that it could not be used on
the Rebel seaboard. A Democratic Secre-
tary Of the Treasury plundered his trust to
supply the Rebellion with money A Dem
ocratic President, entreated to do something
to save the Nation. refused declaring and
arguing that the Government could not Con-
stitutionally defend itself, and that it was
unlawful to coerce Rebels, and he sat sui
lenly down, like the Democrat and traitor
that he was, and allowed the Nation arse
mails to be plundered, and the Naticn' ships,
navy-yards and fortresses to be seized, and
the rebel armies to be organized, without
lifting finger to prevent. Democrats
throughout every Northern and Western
State applauded the conduct of their Demo-
cratic President-adopted and defended his
Democratic doctrine, that the Government
had no right to apply force to suppress Re-
bellion-and, from the word 60" politi-
cally and personally opposed every legisla-
tive, financial, military and moral measure
taken to speedily and successfully prosecute
the war, and save the Nations life. The
COUNTRY PAsT1AND PRESENT WOES ARE
DEMoCRATIC-all and every of them, with
out one solitary exception. This truth, as
of the Gospel, was thus uttered By a Wes-
tern orator:
Let Democratic journals and orators
howl over the debt aud taxes their war has
brought. They but magnify their own sins.
Every dollar of debt is IA Democratic legacy.
Every tax sa Democratic gift Every Gov
ernment stamp Is Democratic stickin r.
plaster. Every person in the United states
drinks IN Democracy IN his tea, his coffee and
his whisky, AID ia the sugar wherewIth he
sweetens them Zach ingredient pays its
quota Tor the cost of fDemocracy to the coun-
try. The smoker inhales Democracy. The
sick man is physicked with Democracy.
The laboslng man gives about one hour la
Dor every day to pay for Democracy The
capitalist 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 begotten,
the child IS subject to the Democratic tax.
From the cradle to the grave he never is
free from 1t. The funeral mourning must
first pav the penalty of Democratic rule, and
portion of that which he leaves behind
| must go into this Democratic vortex. Cen
GRAFTON after generation will carry this Dem
| ocratic burden from birth to death. But
Tor the ID 'mocratlc party, our people woaid
hardly have known the nature of taxation.
But for the Democratic party, the hundreds
OF thousands OF young men whose bones are
strewn over the South v oud now be produc
tive laborers and the support and comfort of
families now desolate. No one can attemnt
to deny this Indictment No one can pre.
tend that the Democratic party had any
cause for rebellion. Yet it has the effronte-
ry to cry over the burdens of taxation. As
the father of the Democr, tic party, when
ne had stripped Job of family and posses
slons, charged 1t to his own sins, and sought
to draw him from his integrity so his Dem
ocratie sons now come forward with equal
effrontery and charge their doings uron the
loyal people, and hypocritically howl over
their Affections, and seek to seduce them
from their integrity, to elect to power the
party that has brought all tn ,se woes upon
the land. y