Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-05-03
All the COuntry's Woes "DernO-
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The Rebellion WAS Democratic. /. broke out
in Democratic States. IL was Matched by South
Democrats. Is fostered by Northern
Democrats. Democrats Differed the Rebel army
Democrats made up its rank and file. Democrats
flled every Office in the Confederate Government,
from the Presidency down to the clerkship ard
messengership. There wasn't Republican with
shoulder strap, or a musket, or "a place." in
the devilish concern. In the Democratic c ity of
Washington, under the Democratic Admins:ra-
ton of Buchanan, the Rebellion was conspired
! and prepared. Democrat of that Democratic
Administration stripped the North Of arms. ard
smuggled them over To the South, and sent the ar.
nv where it would be unavailable. or could be ea-
silly Captured. A Democratic member of that
same Democratic Administration scattered the na-
w over the world that il could not be used on
the Rebel seaboard. A Democratic Secretary of
the Treasury plum Tered his trust to supply the Re-
bellion with money. A Democratic President, en-
treated to do something to the Nation, refl-
ssd, declaring that the government could not con-
additionally defend itsclf, and it was unlawful TO
coerce rebels, AMI he sat sulienly down like the
Democrat aud traitor that he was. and aowed
the nations arsena's to be plundered, and the ns-
tons ships, and navy yards and fortre.scs to be
seized, and the rebel armies to be organized, with
out lifting a finger 10 prevent IT, Democrats
throughout the Northern and Western States ap-
pauded the conduct of their Democratic President
adopted anil defended his Democratic doctrine
that the Government had no right to employ force
TO suppress a rebellion-and, from the word Go"
politically and personally opposed every legisla-
tive, financial, military ard moral measure taken
TO speedily and successfully prosecute the war;
! and save the nations life. The COUNTRY's PAST
AND PaEsESr WOES ARE DENocRaTic-all and cv-
ery one Of them, without one solitary exceptions.
This truth, rs OF the spell, was thus uttered by
Western orator:
Let Democratic journals ana orators howl over
the debt and taxes their war has brought. They
but magnify their o wn sins. Every dollar Of debt
is Dem Dcratic legacy. Every tax is Democrat
ic gift. Every Government. stamp is Democrat.
ic sticking plaster. Every person in the United
States drinks Dem lc-acy in bis tea his coffee and
his whlskey, and in the sugar wherewith he sweet
ems them. Each ingredient pays It's quota for the
cost of Democracy to the country. The smoker
inaa'es Democracy. The sick man is physced
with Dsm0c aev. Tne aboring man gives about
one hours work every dry to pay Cor Democracy
The capt,list pays one tenth OF his income for the
cos. OF the Democratic party. Every transfer e
property Is saidlcd with the Democratic burden
Before he il besotten. the child is subject to the
Democratic tax. From the cradle to the grave he
i never free from il. The funeral mourning must
first pay tbe penalty of Democratic rule, and por
ton of that which he leaves behind. mus, 90 into
the Democratic vortex. Generation after genera
ton will carry this Dem ocratic burden from birth
to death. But for the Democratic party, the hun
dreds and thousands of young men, whose bones
streTn the South, would now be prpduc-
tive lsborers AMI the support anl comfort OF fami
lies now tesolate. NJ pretend that the
Democrats party had any cluse for rebellion. Yet
il has the eifront.ry 10 cry over the burdens Of
tax alton A the fither OF the Democratic party,
when he had stripped Job of family and possessions
charged it to his own sins, and sought to draw
him from his integrity, 50 his Democratic sons
come forward with equal eElrontery and charge
their dongs upon the LOYAL people. and by po
critically howl over their affections, and seek
to seduce them from hci. integrity, to elect tie
party to power that his brought all these woes
upon the land.-N. Y. I-ibane.