The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-11-24
THE CALIFORNIAN.
Re,ne,nber their Record!

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President the democracy hoped to deceive
the public and make them believe that they
were the true Union party But it was OF
no avail, as the recent elections demon
strate The copperhead democracy can
not obliterate their war record lit smells
to heaven" 1t is we'll to remember where
this party was arrayed in the Nations ex-
tremity Their record is well kept by
contemporary
"Ihe Rebellion was Democratic. 1t
broke out in Democratic States. 1t was
confined to Democratic States. 1t was
Matched by Southern Democrats. 1t was
iostered by Northern Democrats. Demo-
crafts Differed the Rebel army. Demo-
Gratis made up its rank and file. Demo-
Gratis filled every office in the Confederate
Government. from the Presidency down to
the clerkships and the messengershlps.
There wasn't Republican with shout
,lcr-strap. or a musket, or 'place,' IN
the whole deyiish concern. In the DEM
ocratic City Of Washington, under the
Democratic Administration of Buchanan,
the Rebellion was conspired and prepared,
A Democratic member of that Democrat
ic Administration stripped the North of
arms, and smuggled them over to the
IL Il, yx-I,n #
be unavailable, or could easily be captured
A Democratic member of that same Dem
ucratic Administration scattered the navy
over the world 50 that it could not be
used on the Rebel seaboard. A Demo-
cratic Secretary o. the Treasury plundered
his trust to supply the Rebellion with
money. \ Democratic President, en-
treated to do something to save the Ma
ton. refused. declaring and arguing that
the Government could not COnstitutionally
defend itself. and that il was unlawful to
coerce Rebels, and he sat sullenly down,
like the Democrat and traitor that he was,
and allowed the Nations arScnalS to be
plundercl, and the Nations ships, navy
wards and fortreSScs to be seized. and the
Rebel armies to be organized, without
lifting Il finger to prevent. Democrats
throughout every Northern and Western
State applaud the conduct of their Domo-
cratic President-adopted and defended
his Democratic doctrine, that the Govern
ment had no right to apply force to sup
press a kcbelIion-and politically and per-
sonalIy opposed every Legislative, financial,
military and moral measure taken to
speedily and successfully prosecute the
war. and save the Nations life. THE
COUNTRY's PAST AND PRESENT WOES ARE
DEMoCEAT!C-all and every one Of them,
without one solitary exception. This
truth, as OF 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 dollar of debt is Dem
ocratic legacy. Every tax is a Demo-
cratic gift. Every Government stamp is
q Democratic sticking plaster. Every
person in the United States drinks in De-
mocracy in his tea, his coffee and his
whisky. and in the sugar whercwith he
swcetcns them. Each ingredient pays its
quota Tor thc cost of democracy. The
sick man is physiccd with democracy
The laborng man gives about one hours
labor every day to pay for democracy
The capitalist pays one-tenth OF his in
come Tor the cost Of the democratic party.
Every transfer of property is saddled with
the democratic burden. Before he is be-
gotten, the child is subject to the demo-
cratic tax From the cradle to the grave
he is never free from it. The funeral
mourning must first pay the penalty OF
democratic rule, and portion of that
which he leaves behind must 90 into this
democratic vortex. Generation after gen.
Grafton will carry this democratic burden
from birth to death. But for the demo
cratic party our people would hardly lave
known the nature of taxation. But tol
the democratic party, the hundreds OF
thousands of young men whose bones arc
Strewn over the South. would now be pro-
ductivc laborerS and the support and com
fort Of families now dcsolate. No one
can attempt to deny this indictment. \,
one can pretend that the democratic party
had any cause for rebellion. Yet it ha:
the etfrontery TO cry over the burdens O
taxation. As tic father of the democrat
lie party. when he had stripped Job O
family and possessions, charged it to hi:
own sins. and sought to draw him from
his integrity, so his democratic SONS now
come forward with equal etfrontcry ant
charge their doines upon the loyal people
and hypocritically howl over their Attic
tons, and seek to scduce them from theil
integrity, and elect to power the party
that has brought all these woes upon the
land