Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-11-09
ALL THE COUNTRY,s WOES
"DEMOCRATIC.

The New York Tribune SAYS: The
Rebellion was Democratic. 1t broke
out In Democratic States. 1t was hatch.
ed by Southern Democrats. 1t was
fostered by Northern Democrats. Dem
ocrats offlcered 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 messenSerships. There was mt
Republican with a shoulder strap, or
musket, or "place," in the whole dew
ilish concern. In the Democratic City
of Washington, under the Democratic
Administration Of Buchanan, the Re
bellion was conspired and prepared
A Democratic member of that Demo.
craticAdministration stripped the north
ofarms, and smuggled them over to the
South and sent the army where it would
be unavailable,so it could easily be cap
tured. A Democratic member of that
same Democratic Administration scat
tered the navy over the world so that
1t could not be used on the Rebel sea-
board. A d emocratic Secretary ofthe
Treasury plundered his trust to sup
ply the Rebellion with money. A
Democratic President, entreated to do
something to save the Nation, refused,
declaring and arguing that the Gov
ernment could not Constitutionally de-
fend itself, and that it was unlawful to
coerce Rebels, and he sat sullenly
down, like the Democrat and traitor
that he was, and allowed the Nations
ships, navy yards and fortresses to be
seized, and the Rebel armies to be Or
ganized' without lifting finger to pre-
vent, Democrats throughout every
Northern and Western State applaud
ed the conduct of their Democratic
President-adopted and defended his
Democratic doctrine, that the Govern
ment had no right to apply force to
suspress a Rebelion--and, from the
word &C.," politically and personally
opposed every legislative, financial,
military and moral measure taken to
speedily and successfully prosecute the
war, and save the Nations life. Tus
CoUNTRY's PAST AND PRESENT WOES ARE
DEMocRArrc-a all and every one of them,
without one solitary exception. This
truth, as of the Gospel, was thus utter.
ed by Western orator:
Let Democratic journals and orators
howl over the debt and taxes their war has |
brought. They but magnify their own aims.
Every dollar OF debt is a)Damocrstic Iega.
cy. Every tax is Detnocra ito gift. Every
Govarnmsnt stamp is q Democratic stick. |
ing-plaster. Every poson in the United
States drinks in Democracy in his tea. his
coffee and his whisky, and in the suosr
whsrewith he sweetehs them. Each ingre.
dent pays its quota for the cost of Democ-
rscy 10 tho couatry, The smoker inbaIes
Democracy. The sick man is ahysicked
with Democracy. The laboring man piyss
about one hours labor every day to pay for
Democracy. The oapitalist pays one tenth
Of his income for the cost of the Demoorscic
party, Every transfer of property Is sad.
died with tho Democratic burden. Before
he Is begottcn, the child is subject TO the
Democratic tax. From the cradle to the
grave he never is free ffem il. The funeral
inoarnlas must iirst pay the penalty ofdemo.
leaves behind must 20 into this Democrats
vortex. Generation after generation will car.
~ this Dsmoeratid burden from birth 70
death. But for the Democratic ns,,v ou, ~
people would hardly have known liz 1.,osa S
Of taxation. But foe the Democratic ns,,v Iu
hundreds Of thousands Of young men Shos.
bones are strewn over the South voulS nn,.
DO productive lsborers and the supnort snd
svnfbt u families aov dssols.v, No % .ns