The Shasta courier., 1867-11-16
From the Chicago Tribune
Democratic Respect for its Dead Chiefs.

The Chicago Times brings charges against
the Republicans that 80 the attempt to erect
a monument to the memory of Abraham
Lincoln, BETTING his party life and services.
has proved abortive Radicalism had neith-
er time nor money to expend in commemorate
ing the services of dead men,"
1t is false that the effort to raise funds to
erect monument has "proved abortive. -
A large sum has been contributed, but not
yet enough to build the grand monument it
is proposed to rear but the necessary means
will surely be procured, and the finest
column ever raised on this Continent will
mark the place where the ashes of the great
martyr Of liberty repose.
| But we are tauntingly told that " Radical
ism has neither time nor money to expend
in commemorating the services of dead
men," Pray tell us how much money Cop
perheadism has expended in the erection of
monuments to perpetrate the memory of its
| departed leaders? jackson was the founder
and great chief of the Democratic party
lie called it into existence organized it and
led it to victory. win the Copperhead con-
Germ inform us what sum its party has ex.
pended to commemorate the party life
and services " of the dead jackson? Where
have his followers erected his monument,
and how far does it pierce the heavens p
Van Buren was the second Dem ocratic
President. Where has his part Y erected his
monument? Van Buren invented the eau
Gus Convention system of making party
nominations, and every Democratic dema.
gogue who ever obtained an Office by its means
Is IN gratitude bound to contribute stone TO
the column. How many have done SO And
there is Calhoun. the author of the Dem
ocratic creed of State sovereignty and the
right of secession. Where have the Democ
racy built his monument? And the Z" strict
construction" hard money leader, Tom
Benton, is dead. Has his party reared a
granite shaft to the memory of Old Bullion?
And there is James X. Polk, dead and gone
chief OF his party for four years. His bones
lie neglected and forgotten by the ungrateful
Democratic spoilsmen who fed and fattened
on his official bounty. And there is John
Tyler, too, who performed great service for
the Democratic party, giving them posses
sion of the Government and loaves and fishes
OF Office after the people had voted them out.
What monument has been built in honor of
h nh It-+ l.
and butter? And Lewis Cass, who sacri-
feed himself to Office for fifty years to serve
his party, and broke his sword on a stump
rather than to give it to red coat-what
has Democracy done in the way of piling up
stones to commemorate the deeds of this
mighty Democratic barnacle? Passing over
a long array of lesser lights, we come to the
:" Little Giant" the greatest of all the
/" Democrats" after Jackson. He has been
dead well nigh seven years. He was the
idol of Democracy, the embodiment of its
principles. the focus of its hopes and the
great luminary of its political system. His
remains are deposited in the midst of his
most devoted followers For more than six
years we have heard about his monument
and seen photographic plans of the same
We have read appeal after appeal to his de-
voted, admiring Democratic followers to con-
tribute TO the monument fund. The hat has
been passed around hundred times and re.
turned empty. Scarcely money enough has
been raised to lay the corner stone and
foundation, the expense of which, by the
way, was mainly contributed by the politi-
cal opponents of the " Little Giant" And
the widow of this great Democratic chieftain
was left penniless. Where were those Dem
ocrats in the days of her desolation and pow
erty who had previously courted her infu
ence and received favor from her husband
A Republican Legislature contributed to
her support S25, 900, under the guise of buy.
ing spot of ground for the remains of the
great Democratic leader to rest in. In his
lifetime Douglas was surrounded by ser
vile crowd of Democratic demagogues, who
looked to him as the I" coming man. and
dispenser Of largesses and spoils. And his
wife-what court was paid 10 her; how her
levees were thronged and her influence be.
sought; how they both were fattered and
fawned upon by those butterfly friends who
basked in their sunshine; and how heart
lessly and promptly the stricken widow was
deserted by the whole corrupt, selfish, servile
pack the moment the body of her husband
was laid in.the ground. Nearly seven years
have elapsed, and the monument of Douglas
has only reached its corner stone-put there
by Republican money his remains lie in
the earth, bought and paid for by the Repub-
liean party. And yet an organ of the De.
mocracy has the brazen hardihood to prate
about Republican lack of respect to the
memory of Lincoln and failure to contribute
to the support of his widow.
TEAcHERs.-An educational journal truth
fully remarks that there is no calling more
honorable than that of the school teacher
But many persons are denominated teachers
who are utterly unworthy of the title. Tea