Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-02

VI 'h1U dooliIlonlStS provoked the Southel
TX people to rebellion, and tits the ground {
T. which they justify their sympathy for re
1T els and while you know very we'll tn
n there are no sympathizers with rebels on
l, side the democratic party, you seem to a
"a qulesce IN their theory by very genera
l. and nearly as spiteful denunciation of IL
If abolition leaders in Congress. Am to i
l. Ter from this, that you have not know
e forgotten, or choose to hide the whig the
|, ry of the rebellion? Let me remind yo
II OF this as | understand it,
t You can not have forgotten that the den
/. ocratIc party had its origin in the earl
+ socl ties of that name which so mucj
4 troubled the administration of Georg
Washington. The Whisky Insurrection
to suppress which, the President was com
, PEELED to call out 200 soldiers, was a,
much the = ork Of the leaders of the dem
ocratlc societies Of that day, as was the
late mob resistance to the draft in New
ork City, and other parts of the country,
the work Of the leaders of the democratic
party of the present day. There can be nc
doubt of this. So that this rebellion durino
tne presidency of Washington, was, in re-
allty, democratic rebellion. Nor can if
nave slipped your mind, that it required all
the wisdom, and all the influence Washing
ton possessed, t protect the Government
from the sinister Vaccinations of these
democratic societies, during the last halt
OF the first, and the whole Of the last term
OF his administration and that had any
one OF less administrative power, less firm
ness, and less influence, been at the head
OF affairs, in all likelihood, an effort would
have been made to overturn the Govern
ment by these societies, fomentad into e,
Jacobin Genet
The rebellious demonstrations made
against the Excise Law, in the counties of
Northumberland Bucks and Montgomery
in this State, had the same origin; and in
the contest betw en- the federalists and the
democrats for the election Of President
in 1901 leading democrats threatened to
arm the people, if the federalists did a
thing they never thought of doing, the OBJ
vious Interpretation of the threat being,
that if Jefferson was not elected President,
the party would arm for rebellion. These
were the early seeds Of the rebellion we
have Just subdued, and came upon us too,
because the democrats failed to elect
a President Moreover, it is pretty we'll
settled now, that all the lawless violence
of the democratic opposition to Washing
toms administration, and to the elder
Adams, was adopted to secure political
power, and make the opposition odlous to
the people. This part of democratic incul-
cations hoo oinvv been foithfally fol
lowed up. To defeat an opponent, or
measure Of the opposition, law or right
were never regarded. Democrats believed
their party to be right, therefore, it was
right to do anything to uphold it and
mobs, riots and rebellions, have been the
result, from the days of its inception to the
closing of the great rebellion. The Whis-
ky and the Excise Instructions, the South
Carolina Tarifl:La rebellion, the Dorr re-
belion, the Buck-ShOt war, the Slavehold-
ers rebellion, and the late resistance to the
Draft in Pennsylvania Indiana, Illinois and
| New York City, were the fruits Of demo-
cratic teaching How can it be otherwise?
A party teaching its votares to resist by
violence opposition to its men and mea-
lures, must secure violence as a conse-
ouence and | aver, therefore, that the late
rebellion was the legitimate result, posi-
lively the elimination of the doctrines and
practices of the democratic party. Every
one familiar with its history, and capable
of giving an unbiased opinion, must come
| to this conclusion.
1t is worthy of note too, that the abomi-
nable precepts and practices of that party,
as evolved in its administration of the Gov
ernment, would long since have overturned
our system of civil polity, had it not been
that the severe industry, and practical gen
ius of our people, their increase, aided by
immigration, so swelling wealth and popu-
lation, as to absorb the public attention,
and thus hinder the irritating causes Of
nal administration, from swelling into mag
nitude. That also, which materially aided
this fortunate condition of the people, was
the fact, that the opposition to the demo
cratic party always powerful III lnteIll
gence and numbers, constantly counselIeC
obedience to law, and it was by means
such as these, that the country was saved
SO long.
No better proof Of the truthfulness o
these statements, need be adduced, than i:
furnished in the condition of the country
lust previous to the breaking out of thC
late rebellion Starvation prices for labo1
and its products, were the order of the day
North as well as South The people were
in debt and restless, moving Westward anC
SOutnWaru, Wllllc Ill inc SOulu, IlC WhlS
party-always the advocate of submission
TO law--had been completely crushed out
all growing ont Of democratic rule In tn
, general as in the state governments, s.
, that the mad counscs Of Shareholders wer
r left free to act upon an uuqulet people, am
4 the result was a rebellion This could no
= have been consummated if the people hat
been in prosperity, and the whig party hat
/ been in full organization and influence.
: While holding these opinions of the den
4: ocratic party, it is but fair to say, that fev
t if any of it's votaries saw its tendencies /
n the light here presented, but rather view
! ing it as the best exponent of the prime
s. Piles of our republican form of goveri
|. ment, and followed its fortunes tor thi
e reason but this does not prove that th
J. baleful tendencies here limited at did nc
y exist, and wings saw and pointed them ou
e many years ago.
This then, is the rational and the whi
n theory of the causes of the rebellion, so far a
d causes outside Of slavery effected and aide
: in bringing it on. Slavery was the pretex
and the immediate instrument Of it, bl
d democratic doctrines and practices had d
l. moralized the sentiments of the people t
It wards the government, and made rebe