The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-04-11

I St;ai. he represents nothing, and he re-
presents nobody. Let him go, like 'sthe
:, Confederate note. -
Representing nothing on Gods earth now.
And naught in the waters below it.
But we have to complain of the Demo-
cratic party North as much as, we COM
plain of President Johnson. Next to
President johnson, we owe all our pres
ent troubles to ''the unterrifed" d"-''the
iron-ribbed Democracy In the first
place the Northern Democrats always
agreed with us in, our ideas concerning
secession, and often encouraged US to ex-
ercise our right. Many of them declar-
ed that the South could be coerced only
over their dead bodies. And it was so,
but not in the sense in which they intend
ed us to understand their declaration
The South was so coerced over some of
their dead bodies, but they had enough
living bodies left to enforce the coercion.
Since the war the Northern Democratic
Journals have continually fed us on the
false hope that the Democracy, in con-
junction with President johnson, would
give US our rights, if need be, with the
bayonet. Witness the more ultra Demo
cratic Journals, the Day Book, MetropoH-
an Record, Freeman S Journal, and Dai-
ty Ne.cs, and the more moderate journal,
the New York World n
"Out on such friends s'-friends who
encourage us to get into trouble, and
then whip us for doing what they told
US to do.
Senator Sherman declared that if the
Southern people complained that the mil
ltary act was harsh, they had their North
ern Democratic friends to thank for it,
since they had voted down an amendment
which was quite mitigation of the seve-
rlty of the original bill.
This is 50, and we have good many
other things to thank our Northern Dem
ocratic friends for. We have to thank
them for that they encouraged US to Sc
cede, and then whipped US for doing So
We have to thank thank them that since
the cessation of the war they have again
tedu upon false hopes. We have to
thank them for keeping up the exaspera-
lon OF the Northern people against us.
Some Republican, remarked in Con
gress that the more Democrats resisted
the republican policy, the more decided and
eiaohatic that policy would become
BROOKS, Of New York, recent convert
to Democracy, answered that this might
be true, but the Democrats would contin-
Living in a loyal State, as he does, it
costs him nothing TO resist but his in
iquities are to be visited upon the South
ern people. He can pursue his partisan
policy with impunity, but the South is
to be made the victim. Party tactics
make it necessary for the Democratic
Congress to defeat, if possible, such a
thing as Blaine amendment and to op-
pose Republican policy generally. In
the meantime the most vital interest of
the Southern people is the plaything of
the politicians, the shuttlecock that is
tossed back aud forth between the battle
dores of the two opposing factions, the
football that is kicked about by two hos
tile parties, the unhappy grist that is
ground between ti.e upper and ueliner
millstones.
OF this we are tired in the superlative
degree President johnson has tried to
'reconstruct" Us has most signally fail
ed, acknowledged his defeat, and surren-
dered at discretion The little villain
of the New York Times, and men Of his
like, caiibre, and kidney, with their milk
and cider policy, have also tried and fail
ed. The Northern Democracy have lent
a helping hand wherever failure has been
ceTtdih 10 DC tie result. s,iii no" the tAl-
gency demands new men, new measures,
and new policy. Men who formerly
led at the South are not up to the de-
mands of the crisis. We need an infu-
sion of new and vigorous young blood in
to the veins Of our government policy
blood that has been generated under the
present clrcumstances-our immediate
surroundings. The old fogy politicians
and fossil remains Of the an.iquated press
are not capable Of appreciating our pres
ent position. Nourished III their infan-
cy and fed in their prime upon ideas
which have been forever destroyed, they
are starving in their old age, by endeav
oring to live upon the shadows that yet
lingcr behind the substance which has
eluded their grasp.