Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-11-10
FROM the New York TFibune
AL THE CoUNTRE's WOES DEM0URA1 II

Aff t.fftE5 ~ st
ffhe Rebellion was Democratic. Il
broke out in Democratic States. Il vas
hatched BY Southern Democrats. 1t was
fostered by Northern Democrats. Demo
Gratis oficered the Rebelarmy. Democrats
made up its rank and file. Democrats fill
ed every Office in the Confederate Govern
ment, from the Presidency down to the
elerkships and the nessengershipe. There
wasn't a Republican, witha shoulder-strap,
or musket, or "a place, in the devilish
concern. In the Democratic City of
Washington, under the Democratic Ad-
ministration of Buchanan, the Rebellion
was conspired and prepared. A Demo
cratic member of that Democratic Admin
istratiOn stripped the North of arms, and
smuggled over to the South, and sent the
army where it would be unavailable, or
could be easily captured. A Democratic
member of that same Democratic Admin
istration scattered the navy over the world
so that it could not be used on the Rebel
seaboard. A Democratic Secretary Of the
Treasury plundered his trust to supply
the Rebellion with money. A Democrat
ic President entreated to do something
to save the nation, refused, declaring and
arguing that the Government could not
-constitutionally defend itself, and he sat
sullenly down, like the Democrat and trai-
tor that he was, and allowed the nations
arsenals to be plundered, and the nations
ships, navy-yards and fortresses to be siez-
ed, and the rebel armies to be organized,
without lifting finger to prevent. Dem
ocrats throughout every Northern and
Western State applauded the conduct of
their Democratic President-adopted and
defended his Democratic doctrine, that the :
Government has no right to apply force to
suppress rebellion-and, from the word
''gO, politically and personally opposed
every Legislative, financial military and
moral measure taken to speedily and sue
cessfully prosecute the war, and save the
nation's-life. The Comtrys past and
present sOoes are Democratic-aIl and eve
ry one of them, without one solitary excep-
ton. This truth, as of the Gospel, was
thus uttered by Western orator:
"Let Democratic journals and orators
howl over the debt and taxes their war has
brought. They but magnify their own
sins. Every dollar of debt is Democrat
ic legacy. Every tax is a Democratic
glft Every government stamp is Dem-
ocratic sticking plaster. Every person in
the United States drinks in Democracy in
his tea, his coffee and his whisky, and in
the sguar wherewith he sweetens Them
Each ingredient pays its quota for the cost
of Democracy to the country. The slno-
ker inhales Democracy. The laboringman
gives about one hours labor every day to
pay for Democracy. The capitalist paws
one tenth OF his income for the cost of the
Democratic party. Every transfer Of prop
erty is saddled with the Democratic bur
den. Before he is begotten, the child Is
subject to the Democratic tax. From the
cradle to the grave he is never free from
IT. The funeral mourning must first paw
the penalty of Democratic rule, and Dor
ton of that which he leaves behind must
go into this Democratic vortex. Genera
ton after generation will carry this Dem
Ocratic burden from birth to death. But
for the Democratic party, the hundreds of
thousands OF young men whose bones are
strewn over the South would be product
i've laborers and the support and comfort
of families now desolate. No one can At
tempt to deny this indictment. No one
can pretend that the Democratic party had
any cause for rebellion. Yet It has the
effronty to cry over the burdens Of taxa
ton. As the father of the Democratic
party, when he had stripped Job offam-
lily and possessions, charged it to his own
sins, and sought to draw him from his in
tegrity, so his Democratic sons now come
forward with equal etfrontery and charge
their doings upon the loyal people, and hy-
pOcritically howl over their affections, and
seek to seduce them from their integrity.
to elect the party to power that has brought
all these woes upon the land.