The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-09-05

WHAT raB DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS DID
TO xAKE THEIR PRoPHEcIEs CONE TRUE.

WHAT rHs DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS DID
| TO MAKE THEIR PROPHECIES CONE TRUE.
1t must be said, however, in vindica-
ton Of these men, that they labored as
siduously to make good their promises
and to achieve the success Of the REBEL
ion. They conspired to overturn State
Governments; they discoaTage recruit
ing and organized resistance 30 the laws;
they did all in their power to destroy
the credit of the Government by en-
hancing the price of gold and thus max
ing our currency aud atock comparative
ly worthless. But notwithstanding they
did all this, yet they failed at every
point. and the Southern people, by their
credulity and misplaced confidence, were
brought to dishonor and ruin. Every
promise made to them was broken, ev-
cry hope blighted, and every prospect
| turned into darkness. John Morgan, IN
| full faith that thousands of men would
! rally to his standard, crossed the ONO
River into Indiana, but the emmiasaries
/ who invited him upon their soil proved
but delusive guides to the prison door,
and the secret hordes of the Sons OF
! Liberty who were to swell the ranks OF
| his armies-to save themselves-were
compelled to join the ranks OF his ad-
versaries. Truly, the Democratic lead
ers of the North have been the worst
enemies of the South. They first Sc
duced them into rebellion; they then in
duced them to continue 1t until their
blood and substance were wasted, and
when they could hold out no longer, and
the war ended. their fatal influence and
interference did not cease; for when the
Southern people submitted themselves
to the Government and were disposed
| to accept the situation. these evil coun-
sellors again appeared and advised them
to submit to no terms oe reconstruction;
| to accept no conditions; that they had
| lost no rights by rebellion and were en-
| titled to immediate representation In
| Congress just as if there had been no
war. They further urged them into ia
grant disregard of the authority of Con-
gress, and to threaten the North with
another rebellion if these demands we're
not acceded to. And when the mod
crate and conservative propositions of
the constitutional amendment was offer
ed as basis of settlement and recon
struction, they urged them contemptu-
ously to reject it, which they did And
what was the result? They brought
upon them universal suffrage and have
comp e!led them to go upon their knees
and beg the votes Of the men whom they
were wont to drive to labor with the
whip. And now, while the men of the
South are proposing to accept the last
act of reconstruction, and yield obedi- q
ence to the Legislation Of Congress, they
are again urging that it is unconstitu-
tionai and wicked, and begging for its
rejection And what if they again sue
ceed They will inevitably bring upon
nf h0yr
estates and punishment only visited on
the incorrigible and the obstinately re-
bellious. And hence l repeat the de-
claration that the Democratic leaders at
the North are and for years have been,
the most deadly enemies of the South
ern people They have betrayed them
in war, and betrayed them in peace. and
have fed them upon falsehoods and de-
lusion until .hey have brought them to
the very door of destruction.
The Democratic party are utterly op-
posed to reconstruction, except upon
terms that will return the rebels uncon-
ditionally to power, and give them ten
Democratic rebel States. Until this can
be done, they prefer TO have the contest
| renewed-to have anarchy supervene.
hoping that something may turn up by
which the Government may pass into
their hands, or their condition be other
wise improved. About the true interests
of the Southern people they are as in
different as they are to the Esquimaux
| in Walrussia, and regard them simply
as the means to an end-as instruments
| bv which they can improve their own
condition Many men in that organiza-
| ton wish to dissolve it and form new al.
| liances; but the old leaders and hacks.
whose history is identified with the re-
| bellion, and from whose garments the
stains of treason can never be washed,
know that from any new organization
| they would be carefully excluded. as
men whose presence BODIED pestilence
and disaster, and thus they cling desper
| ately to the wreck of the old party as
| the only means to prevent them from
/ going TO the bottom forever. The -evi-
| val Of the Democratic party would be
| the triumph of the rebellion, and it
would then conquer in peace after II had
failed in war. But you may as we'll talk
of reviving the Confederate Govern
ment, of resurrecting the rebel dead
from q Thousand battle fields, where
| they have been buried by their North
ern leaders A party covered with the
blood of murdered thousands, linked to
the atrocities of fendish civil war.
pursued by the cries of the widow and
! orphan, and of the vast multltudes
who e homes have been made desolate,
| has no destiny hut death. and should
ask, not for Office, not forgivness, but,
| only burial from haman sight
ISSUES OF TIE DAY SPRUNG OUT OF TIE
/ WAR.
| Some Democratic speakers say they
will not discuss the war, but conflne
| themselve to living issues, leaving "the
! past with the dead past" They would
| be glad to have us leave out the war and
i forget the part they bore in it But this
is impossible. Every issue of the day
is the of spring of the war, aud you can
| not understand it without . knoxledge
of the war and its legislation With the