The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-11-06
The Northern Democracy.

From the MARIETTA lJa.j Jourl,ai.
Governor Brown says the Northern De-
mocracy failed us in the war and We should
not now rely upon them. Well do We re-
member how we implored Governor Brow
and his allies in 1860 not to abandon the
Northern Democracy. We had then I'M
doubling faith in them, aud never gave up.
hope until the great Democratic parry Was
dissolved at the Charleston Convention.
Then we knew the last link was broken
the last bond Of sympathy severed which
held together the Union aud the happiness
of the South.
Governor Brown then thought differently.
and was prominent. not only in launching
Us upon an awful experiment, but in ruth.
lessly abandoning the Northern Democracy
to the vindictive fury Of their foes and ours.
He and the Southern Democratic leaders
consigned thousands ofthem. to political
martyrdom, for the sin OF being our friends
and the friends Of Constitutional liberty,
and gave to ruthless and aggressive par.
~ the control of the National Govern
ment. For theirprinciples, Northern Dem
&C ats were abused, imprisoned and made
odious. and at the close of the war they
hardly dared to own connection with the
Democratic patty. 81,
With the national sentiment awakened
by the war, tyranny had made itself tri-
,umphant-the Nothern Democracy scat
tered, powe,less and tremblins--tte South
lying ut the mercy Of an infuriate, vindic-
tive foe. Gloom profound had settled over
US: all had been lost save manhood and
honor and the hope Of security, and at. last
the attempt was. Hade to rob US 'of these;
our liberties were nullified and our former
slaves were to be. made the makers Of our
laws. There seemed no hope Of rescue,
Mo light to relieve the gloom Of our sur
roundings. The North was silent save
" en- it spoke through its tyrannical Con-
eress--tlie South tretbliagly awaited the
doom Of liberty and the night Of hopeless
despair. FL e :, Z!
Glorious old Democracy! that gave to the
country a Jefferson and Jackson and
many illustrious names, and our history al
its glory. 1t has had its errors; huts when
was constitutional liberty in peril that
| it did not rush to the rescue? BY its i'm
press, the Hartford Convention became
Infamous; odious 1T made the name of"blue
lipht Fedvialist," and the authors Of ths
alien and sedition laws were driven to hid.
themselves in shame And now, that thu
same party Of the East has again RAISED
head and attempted the overthrow OF tn
ins,itut lons of our fathers and to built
upon their ruins most wicked despotisn-
while the South, bereft. Governor Brown
stand trembling in view Of the purpose Q
its embittered aud powerful enemy, wha
| is il that awakens hope in the Southern
heart and starts The tear Of gratitude an
Hove in the Southern eye? 1t is the VOC
Of the Northern Democracy you abandon
ed! They have forgotten your deseftion-
|they ouiy see the Constitution IN DANCE
and the South to be degraded and dishor
Iored. and from the East 1.-The Center an
1.-THE West--comes up in thunder tones
again. the voice Of the grand old Democrs
cy. saying, .this shall not be- Again
rises in its might to hurl from place an
power the plotters Of empire and OF req
lated Thirty. and again Wa feel that the Col
stitution--ournoble heritage OF freedem-
I is safe. Rely upon them! oh, yes, and v
teryen,ly add, eGod BLISS them" thong
we know that the voice Of the people the
Inow utter is the voice Of God.