The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-12-26

plumber rather than peace and prosperity
1t will be seen that the above recoc.
nizes in Wilkes Booth, the assassin, the
saviour of the Democratic party. The
soldiers who fought and saved the Re
public from overthrow are characterized
as engaged inr .ssnlurderous crusading for
plun6er. 1t is proper that party
which eulogizes assassination and extols
Wilkes Booth should heap opprobrious
epithets upon the brave men who defend
ed the Republic against the attacks of
treason and rebellion. After some fur
ther exultation over the results of the
murder of President Lincoln, the Cou,le,
Is rapt into vein of mingled prophecy
and combination, as follows:
We are preparing for the great contest
OF 1868, and we shall win We must
win We will win! If not Ly bulots
then by BLOODl The iceberg floats
sut from polar seas, it sinks not at once
out wears away by warmth and abrasion
till at iastit minglcs with the waves and
is washed to oblivion. So with Repub-
llcanism. 1t is wearing away. Tyrapts
are dying. Bondholders are trembling.
&c, &c.
1t will be seen by this extract that the
ferocious youth who edits the Courier.
proposes that the Democratic party shall
repeat the experiment Of 1860. 1t then
proposed to win by ballots or by blood
1t then threatened civil war, if the pee. .le
dared to elect any but Democrat to the
Presidency. 1t did not win by ballots.
1t resorted to blood. Every State which
was carried by the Democratic party rose
in rebellion. The appeal to blood was
also unsuccessful. The attempt NAV
be repeated. If the Democratic party
is not satisfied to acquiesce in the
decision of the ballot-box-if it proposes
once more to appeal from the ballot box
to the cartridge-box-the guilt of all the
bloodshed and misery that may follow,
will rest upon it as the guilt of the great
rebellion rests now upon it. The people
OF this country are not to be intimidated
by It's threats.
We have one more extract from anoth-
er Democratic paper-the La Crosse
Denocrat-whose editor was delegate
to the Democratic State Convention held
here in September last It is also a
eulogy upon Booth, the assassin and the
father of the reorganized Democracy, and
prose pean over the success of murder:
One fine evening in the month of April,
IN the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-fve, gentleman
Of the name of Lincoln, whose misfortune
it was to be q tyront as ,oeH as u fool, a
desspot as sceN as u blacGguaru, chle
t,,hing has royal ease IN his ''luyut' udy
III q one horse theatre Of Washington, ,cas
icAtted M)on rtf;'tcr "nernccto'h l." c.p?th-
er gentleman of the name Of Booth, aohose
misfortune 1t acas to hate ty,rtany and
tore liberty! Booth inried Lincoln to
'gh, md using rery pc,suostre dfgu-
n,cats, Liacoh, concluded he acouM accept
the mritation! To speak more plainly,
the IL. L." passed III has chcchs, and
terrible was the mourning that followed
the act He was the great martyr-each
one wanted to bury him in different
hole, and certain Illinois chaps taking
advantage of the popular excitement, and
holding a sort of mortgage on the corpse,
set to work right lively to build up a
monumental trap to hold the defunct
rail-splitter, in the grounds set apart for
the Illinois State House, at Springfield.
We have seen no word Of disapproba-
ton of these sentiments expressed by
any Democratic journal; one Of the
papers mentioned is known to have the
larges circulation of any Democratic
paper published in this state; their
editors are in good standing with their
party and help make its nominations
and platforms. 1t is therefore fair to
conclude that their utteranees are not at
variance with tue sentiments of the party
to which they belong.