The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-01-05

such defeat would promote their party and
personal aims. 1t is notorious that lead
ing men and bigh officials embarrassed
certain generals, defeated their plans aud
prevented their success, because they fear.
ed such success would operate to the pre-
JUDGE of their party, declaring that defeat
under their party iuvorires Was preferable
to victory under the lead ola general not
OF their party.
BY this and like means the Republican
l'aders prolonged the war. By these ami
like means and for like motives, tens IF
thousands OF men were sacrificed in the
! field, thousands Of men We're deliberately
left to suffer end die in Confederate pris-
ons, hundreds of millions of dollars need
lessly added TO the public debt, and "a
burthcn OF taxation imposed upon the
country such as no free people were ever
before cnr.ed with
The evils and burihens resulting from
the var are the legacy Of aboll ion ruiz.
To vary the article above referred TO, every
dollar oi the debt IL Republican legacy
every tax is Republican, gift every
government stamp Is r publican stick.
ing plaster. Every person IN the Uotrd
States drinks in Republcauism in his tea,
his coffee, aud his whiskey, and in the sugar
wberewilh he sweetens them. Each n.
gredient pays its quoa for the cost OF
Republlcanism to the country. The
smoker iuhales Republicunism. The
sick man 8 physicked with r publicauism.
The laboriig man gives about Que hour
labor every day, to pay for RepubIicanism.
The capitalist pays one tenth Of his in
come for the cost Of the republican party.
Every transit r of property is IA dIed with
the Republican bulden. Before he is
begotten the child is subject to the
Republican tax. From the cradle to the
grave he is never free from it. Tue fun.
eral mourning must first pay the pen,
atty Of Republican, rule, and portion Of
that which be leaves behind must 20 into
this Republican vortex.
Generation after gen ration will carry
this Republican burden from birth u
death. Like the original divine curse, it
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the laborer, and in The travail of the wo-
man, and in swallowing up portion of
the earIh's productions for all time. Bu'
Tor the Republican, party our people would
hardly know the nature Of taxation. But
for it, the hundreds of thousands of young
men whose bones are strewed over the
South would now be productive laborers,
and the support and comfort of families
now desolated. No one can deny u single
item of this fealfll indictment. 1t is
true to the letter, and yet no tthe of the
truth is embraced in it. The history of
the world does not present the example Of
PARTY guilty Of such mous,rous puLlir
crimes as this Republican party has COM
mitted--crimes against the present gene
ration, against prosperity, against liberty,
against humanity. Yet this infamous
party, It's press and its leaders, have the
atfrun,ery to charge these terrible crimes
upon the people who have p rsis,eutly la.
bored to prevent their preparation As
the father Of the Republican, party, when
be had stripped Job of family and posses.
sions, charged it to his own sins aud sought
to draw him from his integrity, So his Re-
publican sons now come forward, with
equal effron'ery, and charge their doiugs
upon the loyal people aud thus seek IL
perpetratc the rule Of the very men who
have brought all these terrible wars upon
the land.
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