Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-12-05
A Prosecuted Party.

OuT nelgnDOr OF the Herald, copies an
article from the Phira North Anse,ican. and
leads it, which for cool impudence exceeds
anything we have read for some time The
caption of the article is Treatment of the
Republicans 1t complains that they (the
innocent Republicans have been treated
with uniform disrespect and approach by
| the Democracy; that we have called their
Congress "a Rump," and threatened to
kick the members composing the majority
out of the Capitol buil6ing that we have
''slandered and oppressed them, and called
them ugly names and practiced arbitrary
usurpatiOns, nay more, we have killed some
of them and used "every weapon that could
be used by envenomed hate And, not
withstanding all this, remarks the North
american the good-natured patriots of the
Republican party, have counselled moder-
alton towards the Democrats and opposed
extreme measures. But, says the same
paper, the enemy Democrats must now
be made'to feel the power we have" &c.
When we remember the infamous tyranny
of the Lincoln ''reign of terror" the man
ner in which Democrats were abused, inn
prisoned, maligned and persecuted even unto
death, robbed of their property by contempt
ible officials and vagabond attorneys, it is not
the qUintessence Of impudence for Repub-
icans to complain that they have been badly
treated by the Democrats? We had no
power to ''oppress' them even if we had
desired to do so. That power was in the
hands of the Radicals, and God knows they
used itwith brutality that none but towards
and poltroons resort to. In less than one
year over one hundred Democratic printing
Offices were wholly or partially destroyed by
the miscreants of this hell born party Men
were dragged to prison, many of them to die
from neglect or starvation, because they dared
to question the motives of an administra ton
that will be remembered only for its glaring
dishonesty and pusillanimous weakness
Democrats were drafted into the army by
thousands all over the country, whilst stall
wart Republicans had no fears of the draft
wheel, tor 1t never contained their names
MCCLELLAN, because he wasa Democrat and
white man., was betrayed by the admins
tration, and everything that could be done
was done by those in authority to ruin the
army under his command. Democratic offi-
GERS were dismissed from the army and pri-
vate soldiers punished because they dared to
vote the Democratic ticket, and after having
served their country for four long years, if
they offered themselves as candidates for
civil Office they were maligned by the thiev-
ing minions of the administration, and stis
namtized as traitors, ''copperheads, F" &C.
A constant stream of abuse, persecution and
malignity, has followed us from the hour the
Radicals took possession of the Government
to the present hour, and no slander was too
mean, no punishment too great to apply to
Democrats who had independence enough to
condemn the infamies of an infamous ad-
ministration. And yet in the face of these
facts, the North American has the brazen
impudence to complain of the rudeness of
Democrats toward Radicals Poor fellows,
how they are to be pitied Most of them
beggars five years ago, they now count their
hundreds of thousands, and live in princely
splendor. as this is the persecution" they
have suffered. Most of them are fat, jolly
fellows, who have became rich from men S
blood and women's tears, and they are. as
grasping and remorseless asthey are dish on
est and heartless.- Carlisle Voluneer