The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-06-02
Tu'ElDEMOCRATIC PARTY.

GREATNESS, glory and victory. 1t was sup
posed to embody those great principles of
Republican government which held that the
people'are sovereign, and that the majority
should rule.
Its leaders were honored and respected in
the persons of Jefferson, Jackson and Van
Buren,. They showed their devotion to the
interests and prosperity of the country, b,
maintaining the Union and the honor of our
flag. But now how changed. Those old
leaders, whose very names were tower of
strength, have depar ed, their suns have set
to rise no more. The once solid phalanx of
the Democ acy is broken, routed and dis
persed, and the party has sunk to a feeble
and contemplate minority, with none SO
poor to do it homage 1t BECAME the special
advocate, defender and propagator of slavery
and the slave oligarchy, and the bitter and
urrelening foe of freedom, education, law
and Union. Its completely with treason aud
traitors caused its downfall, and has so
stamped it with ignominy and ,grace as 10
prevent It from ever recovering its former
power and prestige.
With slavery died the Democrat party,
and the world rejoices at il with inexpressi-
BILE joy. Upon its ruins arose the young,
vigorous, and all conquering Union party,
and by its almost superhuman efforts pre-.
served the Republic and the Constitution
and Union our fathers gave US. When the
lives, liberty and pro -perity of thirty mil
lions of people were jeopardized, and the
nations life was trembling in the balance,
who came to the rescue? 1t was not the
Democratic party. From the commence ent
of the war for the Union to its conclusion,
that party threw every obstacle in the way
of the Government u opposed the appro
priation of'means to carry on the war, dis
couraged enlistrenss, excited riots and blood
shed, and resisted the draft. 1t pandered to
the South, coaxed, begged and en,reated the
conspirators 10 return to the Union, but was
answered by insult and injury. 1t assailed
the President with the grossest abuse and
vituperation, accused him of perjury, tyran-
ny, and every possible enormity, and re-
joiced over thertragic circumstances of his
assassination; but for the people who were
seeking to break up the Union, usurping
power, and carrying fire and sword through.
out the land, it had no words Of condemna.
tion to utter.
When the Democracy refused to support
their government and fellow citizens against
> such unprovoked wrongs and crueltes, ani
even openly professed sympathy with the
rebel hordes, it not only became false te
friends, State and Nation, but false to lib
erty, to law, to, the Constitution and to God
1t was charged that it was an abolition war
gotten up by northern fanatics, for the ben
eft of the negro, but the charge was false
Encouraged, if not instigated by such Dem
. oeratic luminaries as Ex-President Pierce, O
N. H., Seymour, of N. Y, Vallandigham, o
4 Ohio, and the old Public Functicnary, O
! Pa, the Southern Democracy undertook tn
overthrow of the very best Governmen
: known on earth, and chose the sword a
;, arbiter.
n II FIVE hundred. thousand Americans no,
: sleep in bloody graves, the Democratic part
is responsible for it: IF the whole countr
II has been draped in mourning; the same part
r was'the cause of it, All our national trou
bles, our heavy taxes, our losses, are traces
IT BILE directly to that wicked, unscrupulou'
IS and now demoralized party. And yet, wit
d such record, it has the brazen elfronter
st to call itself the Union party, par e1cellenc
e and con lemnlates CARRYING the State ut tt