American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-09-25
The same spirit that

loyalty.
GAS to the allegation, that this is an
assumed Congress, there is more truth
than poetry about that"
Of course it is gross assumption for
the loyal people of the Country to un-
furl the victorious flag of freedom over
the graves of their murdered brothers
and demand that it be respected. Gross
assumption to. say to the loyal soldier,
you may vote, and to the Rebel soldier
you cannot vote. Gross assumption to
quell New Orleans or Memphis riot
Gross assumption to declare in the Civil
Rights Bill that Hall men are born free
and equal" Gross assumption to say
that Rebels have forfeited any rights
Gross assumption to give. the loyal ne.
gro the elective franchise. Why? Be-
cause he fought in the Union army and
against the men that the Democratic
party wish to place in power, who fought
in the Rebel army, or resisted the draft
and deserted to Canada.
Do you see your true position Do
you think to close the book of history,
while the blood is yet red upon the bat
tie field, and while the smouldering ru.
ins of Chambersburg, and other cities
and villages are visible to all? This you
cannot do. But if you could obliterate
oil this from memory and destroy the his
tory of your country--there are still
| 10000 ghosts from Andersonville and
other Rebel prisons that will not down
at your bidding. Starvation, misery, cru>
city, barbarism, death, bankruptcy, ruin,
devastation, murder, assassination, pois-
on, pestilence, and treason, will stand at
every election poll, SO long as our coun-
try remains to warn the honest citizen
never again to trust this Government to
| the Democratic party.
When you talk about taxation, you
only point in go many words 10 Demo
cratic misrulc. Had Jas. Buchanan and
his party been loyal we would never have
seen this mountain OF debt. With him,
it was as it now is with the editor of the
HeroH-assumption to attempt to coerce
State. Assumption to cross Mason's
line assumption to reinforce Fort Sum-
ter. In later day of the struggle it wa
gross assumption to pass conscrfpt'on
act ct was contrary to the Constitu>
ton of the Democrats and had bad et
feet on their spleen. Many of them got
a writ of habeos corpus and took their
bodies over to Canada }
Gross assumption to tax the people to
defend the home of freedom and main
tain the supremacy of our flag and the
unity and honor of our Country.
"Gross assumption" to call slave a
contraband.
"Gross assumption" to make 100000
contrabands into soldiers.
And now, it is gross assumption to
permit these 100000 Union soldiers to
vote.
Gross assumption merely. because they
we're Union soldiers and will now vote
the U Union ticket,
Gross assumption to deprive Rebel solN
diers of the right to vote, not merely be-
cause they were Rebel soldiers, but be-
cause they would now vote the Rebel
Democratic ticket.
Our national debt we are told is Twen,
ty.seyen hundred million. This is one rea-
son why we never want again to see the
party in power that brought this calamity
upon us, that increased our Indebtedness
by prolonging the struggle-by giving
aid and comfort to the enemy by calling
our four years of war "a failure"
The Democratic party always prate
about the Constitution-and with them,
what kind of an instrument is it? A
rope of sand that would not coerce a
State +; that would not preserve the uni
ty or the existence of the Nation of
which it was the Charter. And now,
with them, it will not give the Elective
Franchise to the Union Soldier. In sho rt
the Constitution of our Country with the
Democratic party, was an instrument
formed-not for its preservation and per-
petuity, but for its own dismemberment
and destruction. The trut hmay be told
in few words We have had great
rebellion, to be known in history as the
rebellion of 1861. This rebellion was
conceived and brought forth under Dem
ocratic rule-sct up in partnership with
the Northern Democracy to rule the
Country, and after four years of terrible
conflict, they were defeated.
During this protracted struggle the
Editor of the Herald can point to 10 act