Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-10-04
(Origlnal.)
History Of the Democratic Party
IN sixty-hve Chapters.


1. 1t began its infamous career in op-
position to the Administration of Gen@
eraI Washington.
2. It called Washington an sristoerat,
a. sympathizer with desPotss and even
charged him with malfsasRnee and en-
beZZiement.
8. It declared that the Father Of his
country was neither statesman or q
soldier denounced him as q monarch
ist, and declared his administration in-
competent.
4. 1t extended its sympathy to the
Jacobizls of France and encouraged
Robespierre's bloody reign Of terror.
5. 1t organized and attempted rebel
lion in Pennsylvania in order to uullify
the excise law in behalf ofthe WhiBkeV
interest. Washington had to take the
feld person to suppress GhiB rebellion.
6. In 1898 it adopted as one of its car
dinal principles the doctrine that the
States are sovereign and have the right
to nullify the laws and secede from the
Union.
z. 1t has since again and again re-af-
frmed this doctrine and holds it now.
8. Under color Of this doctrine it or
ganized rebellion in South Carolina to
nulIify the tariff laws.
9. Andrew Jackson, who suppressed
this rebellion, said the next PTetert
would be 'the negro, or slavery ques-
ton and Southern Coufederacy."
10. 1t advocated and demanded the
the reputation Of the debt
incurred by the States Of the Confedera-
ton in prosecuting the war for our in
dependence.
II. 1t caused an immense financial
crash, universal distress and almost ir-
retrievable ruin by the unconstitution-
al removal, in defiance of law, Of the
deposits of the National Bank.
12. 1t raised hnman beings like cat
tie for the market until great States
grew into "slave-breeding States" and
ClamOred with blsspbemOus quotation
of Scripture for the divine right Of such
an institution
I8. It 1egislated for, kept mp and en-
coura Zed as long as possible the infam-
GUS slave trade, traffic that would
have put to shame the most barbarous
nations Of the middle ages.
IA. It legislated to keep four millions
Of human beings in worse than Egyp-
tian bondage and plead for She rights
of this as a sacred and inviolable insti-
tuition.
Is. 1t bought and sold men, women
and children as chattles and made it
crime to teach such ''chattIes" how to
read the Bible.
16. Il built slave pens, erected whip
ping posts, and sold human beings at
the auction block
II. Tt denounced frea white iaborers
as ''mudsills-' y white trash," close
fisted farmers" :" etc, and claimed FOR an
dom, and nuTtursd in laziness, prOhiga-
ev and dissipation, the merit Of noble
blood, Of superior chiValry and exalted
race.
Is. It demanded that every northern
white man should be converted into q
catcher of runaway negroes at the
pleasure of every Southern lord of the
lash.
10. Tt ItlegisIated that every northern
white man who would not submit to
L. -la.I
as telOn, and it did Impr1sOn many OF
our best citizens for this alleged crime
20. It murdered LOveioy and many
others fer opinions sake and suppressed
free spPech in every slavehOlClng state.
q. 1t brutallv mObbed and dominated
over free thought in nearly every State
of the Union.
%. It nobbed, tarred and feathered,
hung and butchered northern men and
women. soiourning in the South, for
the mere expression of opinion, and Of
ten on the mere suspicion of entertain
ing an opinion hostile to slavery
%. It hunted down human beings
with blood-hounds, called such cruelty
| chivalrous, and extended over it the
protection of law.
"a. Tt legislated that robbery. was
| righteous, cruelty innocent and the
most wanton brutality and murder
commendable pastime.
%. Tt tore the infant from the moth
+ er's bosom, the wife from her husband,
the daughter and son from their par
ents, sold them in slavery, and tram
/ pied upon all the sanctities Of marriage
and of home.
26. Tt put q price upon virtue and
mercilessly crushed it in unwilling deg
! radiation upon the alter Of lucre and of
/ lust.
| ~. It demanded that the blighting
curse of slavery should be extended
! over every foot of the virgin soil of the
/ West.
| 28. Because it could not SO extend this
/ Infamous institution it organized a re-
! bellion to break up our Union, destroy
/ our liberties and overthrow the govern
ment of our fathers.
/ %. Itorganized a Southern Coufedera-
/ cy built upon slavery as It's corner
/ stone.
| so. It put Imbecility in power which
/ plead that it had not the constitutional
/ authority to enforce the laws or pro-
/ tect the flag from insult.
/ 81. While rebels were marching on
/ rhe capital of the nation it declared by
/ the mouth of Thurman that the right
/ Of coercion should not even be consid-
/ cred until the people Of the North had
/ fulfilled their duties and obligations TO
/ these same rebels.
! 80. At the hands of Thurman it sent
| greeting to the wicked conspiratOrs who
/ were thus threatening to besiege the
4 I
33 It stood in the Congress of the ma
/ ton and insulted the loyal people of
! the country by a bold avOwaI of its trea-
1 sonahle purposes.
a. In the person of Vallandigham II
| -aflsed q VO e of thanks in Congress to
/ Major Anderson and his gallant little
I band for enduring in behalf of the star
/ " flag q storm of shot poured upon
/ 'hem for thirty-six hours by fifteen
a. n brou0bt upoD this nation the
| humiliation ofseeing its flag torn down
/ and insulted, and refused to lift its lit
/ tie finger to avenge the insult.
SO. It compelled the President elect
OF the United States to creep stealthily
O the nations capital in order TO avoid
/ he dagpers and bullets or assassins,
and rejoiced in this humiliating spec
;acle.
un constitutional, and that the infant
was not born which would witness its
success in sUhju2ating the rebellion.
SO. 1t fired on United States property
and sent pirates abroad to ravag8 our
4 com uaerce on the high seas.
80. 1t armed and equipped rebel arm
les and fleets from United States arsen-
ais and navy yards.
40. In its phrenzy of hate it bayonet.
ed wounded Union soldiers on the field
and subjected Union prisoners Of wal
: to a torture Of starvation and misery
almost too fiendish for human concep.
tion.
, Ill. It robbed the cradle and the grave
? of materialsto prosecute its mad scheme
? of rebellion.
40. It encouraged the rebels In arms
r to hold ou5 desperately aud wage tbs
o war energeticauY in order that th'
g Northern wing of the party might tTi
8 umph in the elections.
? AS. 1t did its utmost to deprive Union
1 soldiers of all political rights, includ-
I ing voting aud holding office.
vi A. 1t denounced them as thieves
I brutes, bandits, ruffiaHa in uniform, RnC
: in all the vocabulary of abuse aud op'
prObrium.
{ As. Il opposed every measure for thu
g / prosecution of the war and armed itael
Y / to resist the draft.
d 46. In the noontide of our struggle !
# demonstrated against further cOnscrip
o ton and taxation to prosecute the war
Q declared that it was q failure, and tolC
s the rebels they could never be subdu
i ed.
z Al. After untold treasure and bloot
T had been expended in defending tn
e Union il demanded its surrender, an,