The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-09-19
DEMOCRATIC COLUMN.

SNNNANNS Va NAA~ NoN
The country has had enough,
and more than enough, of Phil,
lip II. Sheridan's impudence.- =
If the President respects him,
self and the Office he holds, he
will straightway kick the inso.
lent, drunken upstart out Of
the Office of district command
er. $40
This is how a Democratic
paper in Michigan pays its re.
spects to General Sickles:
Dan. Sickles, the one-legged
cuss of a murderer, dictator
of the Second District" drives
about Charleston with a coach
and four, and with the bearing
of a European despOt. "Put a
beggar on horseback" is an
old adage, sand he will ride to
the devil" So it is with the mis-
erable whelp, but tits apity he
would not drive his party, in.
stead of his country, there also.
The New York Day Book,
the great expounder of the De-
mocracy, furnishes us with two
specimen bricks:
General, alias "Dan." Sick
les, is reported as saying that
no man dare question the au-
thority ON which he acts. We
think that if we were one OF
his victims, we should be very
apt to pop him a question
which he would be a good
while in answering. Young
Surratt seems to have the
whole Of the mongrel Congress,
all the mongrel newspapers
and a considerable portion OF
the thieves and Jail. birds about
Washington, engaged in a soon
spiracy" to hang him. 1t seems
to be a popular idea with the
mongrel party, that it is neces-
sary to hang the son to justify
the murder of the mother.
Of Howard, the christian
soldier, the same paper says:
That old beast, o. o. How
ard, of the nigger bureau, has
appointed a Northern niger
to be Inspector of education
down South. Is there any
depth ofinfamy that a mongrel
will not reaehs
We confess we are sickened
at the following filthy extract
from the Old Guard, the only
Democratic monthly in the
United States:
But history is full of this
proof of hereditary character,
This country has, alas a pain.
full example in the late Mr.. Lin.
coin, who illustrated in his life
the traits Of his unhappy faith,
er, MlOaO, and his more I'M
happy mother, Betsy Hanks.-
And now, after his reign, we
are threatened with a univer,
sal amalgamation of the mum.
erous political breed ofLincclu
with negroes. Alas! poor
country! 1t would seem cruel,
but it would be a blessing to
our country to serve all the
fruits of such intercourse as
dog -fanciers to a bad breed Of
puppies.
When the great work of the
late war, by the aid of the
Democratic party, is undone,
then, the old guard says:
Democracy will resume its
glorious march, and the
"dreams of the secessionists'
become the living realities Of
the future. Instead of dyine
in vain, the names of Sidp el
Johnson, Stonewall Jackson
and their heroic compa trj.ots
will be immortal forever, TO-
however masked or mi.sunder
stood, they were true champi
ons of American Democracy
and the martyrs of American
civilization--th.at grand civil
ization whicn, based on tn
natural distinctions of race,
destined to spread over tn
whole boundless continent
an1 regenerate Christendom
yne Dayton Empire ha
fo'dnd a still prettier name 70
General Sheridan. 1t calls hir
a "mercurial little cock spar
row."
Among the choice express
ions with which the Democrat
ic press of Ohio was embellisf
! ed during the war, we find tb
following:
, This is a damnable Aboiitio
war. We believe old Abe Lir
coin is as much of a traitor a
, JEFF. Davis.-AShlaud Unio,
} The North is in direct rebel
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