The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-09-03
THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY.
Radical Clippings.

i
The McConnellsviIle Conservative cop
les our editorials and credits them to Er-
change. Why not credit them to the
SPIRIT Of Democracy, neighbora--Spirit
Of Democracy.
4 Because they are no credit to any one
iwho esteems his reputation for yeracity.
l-Athens Messenger
You certainly do not esteem yours ve-
| ry highly, judging from the number Of
extracts, credited to the Spirit, in your is.
sue of the 22d inst, else you have none.
Josh Billings is speculating on foods.
He arrives at the conclusion: "Thar ain {
no doubt in mi mind but tina. the food
was perfect success, and have thought
that another just such one would pay
well now in some sektions of the coun-
TRY" It would probably prove a good
thing over in Monroe County, judging
from the tone of the Spirit of Democracy
published there.-Athens Messenger.
And, iD all probability, better thing
for Radicalism. The truths shot at you
from the Spirit are very unwholesome, ,un-
Ipalatable to Radicals, amt they? Keep
your temper, Bro. Bond; we are not half
done yet with you and the despotic prin-
lciples you advocate.
| The white men whe refused to allow
Niggers to ride with them are required
by their party leaders to vote to allow said
Niggers to soalk up, side by side with
them, to the ballot box.-Spirit of Dem.
We offer to wager that this same fell
low who is so horror stricken at the idea
of soaIting Che evidently thinks he ought
to ride up side.by side by some Niger
| to put in his ballot, weekly allows some
better behaved colored barber to tweak
his nose-provided Nature has been so
Imagnanimous to him as to bless him with
manhood's usual ornament-a beard
Athens Messenger.
We have beard, but, thank the Lord,
we are not subjected to the horrid stencil
of enc of your pets every week, (your
equal in behavior and all else that goes
to fashion the gentleman) to atWeak our
nose" in taking it off Our Barber is one
of the men you term a slop- cared Dutch
man."
We have seen men, when struck by the
lunerring bullet Of the Confederate, fall
and drag themselves toa place of safety,
from the storm of shot and she'll hailing
around, there to writhe and struggle their
Hives away. And we Thought this was
fright, because they were yielding their
lives for the preservation of the Union Of
their athers.-Spiritof Dem.
No doubt Of it at all. IF every patriot
soldier who went to the front in defense
of the country had been struck by the
sunerring bullet of the confederate" you
would have thought it was right. It was
always right when the country's defend
ers fell and always wrong when they won
a victory. That's what's the natter
Athens Messenger.
That's not what's the matter. When
victory perched upon our banners we re-
Ijoiced in our heart, and we we're glad
when the war ended by the defeat of che
lConfederates; for we thought, as did the
men who fought the war through, that the
States in rebellion and the people Thereof
would be Immediately admitted to all
their rights and privileges in the Union
But in thus thinking, We with the one
million men under arms, were wrong
Your party commenced its system Of "tax
J ation neutrality-suspicious., " established
Boards of Registration for the disfran
chisement of White men and the enfran
chisement of Niggers, declared the States
lin rebellion out Of the Union, placed
them under military control. formed ter
Estates of the South into five Military
Districts, passed a Military Reconsttuc
, ten Bill, a Freedman's Bureau Bill
passed a law enfranchising the Niggers o
1.-THE District Of Columbia, and Of the State
lin rebellion, without consulting the wishe
of the people, all for the oppression o
: The South and for the purpose of retard
.. ing Reconstruction, and to secure th
Niger vote to continue in power the Rad
lioals whose hands are reeking with th'
blood of Eve hundred thousand Fedora
Isoldiers and whose pockets were fillst
from the war which they inaugurated:
The soldier who lost his leg in the wa
: lis required to take greenbacks for hi
. Pension Certifcate.-Spirito Of Democra
g.
II The editor seems to think it grea
hardship that the ssoldier who lost hi
Ileg in the war" should be compelled
take his pension in greenbacks. Wha
lbetter currency could the Democracy pa
lin? Il is doubtful if they could hay
lpaid at alias they would assume the rebe
ldebt, and put every wounded Confederat
lon the pension list to swell the taxes q
: which they now complain so mournfully
i0ut upon such hypocrisy!-Athens Me-
g lsenger.
So it is hardship that the soldier wh
lost bis leg in defense Of his ceuntr,
should be compelled to take bis pensio
in greenbacks, while the wealthy Rad
Gals receive the interest on their Bono