Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-03-13

SON Aau d4eu, OF us WdS pTOOdDIy the case,
had been poisoned, dozens of southern
preachers had discovered that it was
UcT.y cOnUepient thing to have q bondman
whose sweat could be appropriated to
life of luxury and ease, and cases actually
occurred about that time where professed
ministers of the Gospel sold human flesh
for gold and silver! With such teachers,
it was an easy matter to indoctrInate the
rising generation with belief that sla-
very was not only right in itself, OF Dl-
vine origin, and that the solemn enuncI-
ations of Jefferson, Madison, Washing
ton, and the long list of sages of the reVo-
luton, were but " glittering generalities,
well enough for reading at Fourth OF July
celebrations, but practically out OF place.
The North however still kept firm that
Slavery was an evil, tolerated because it
was here and could not we'll be avoided.
Here and there however, demagogue was
found among the democracy, who with
visions of Office before his eyes-the flesh
pots of Egypt-began to whisper that our
southern brethren were being wronged
D3 tiIC StOOlltIOllSOS W A1O lttlhCu bOO ilIuSl4
in this land of free speech and free thought!
Although all the abolitionists at that time
in the country could have been packed in
any ordinary hall, designing Southerners
saw hobby which they we'll knew would
fire the hearts of their tools, and hencefor-
ward "abolitionism" was magnified into
proportions calculated to scare the whole
slave power into couvulsions.
Power however was still retained by the
Democracy, for as yet they had not open
ly deserted the great landmarks under
which the Great Ruler had seemed to keep
them in place. Another warming was
given them in the election of Gen. Taylor,
but he too passed away, whether a victim
to crime or disease, is beyond human ken.
From that time the mask under which
the Southern democracy had trepanned
the North into its clutches, was thrown
aside, and cruelty and injustice became
the rule of legislation against the unfor-
tunate slave. Through Pierce's and Bu-
chanan's administrations the whole power
of the government, Executive, Legisla-
liNDs anu - utlCldl3 W tlS " llIG
creation of a Slave Oligarchy, or failing
in that, TO a Disunion of the States and
the establishment of a Confederacy with
human bondage as its corner stone. From
the hour the Northern Democracy Osten-
sibly sided with the aims of Davis, Breck-
inridge, and other cOnspirators, the fiat of
Heaven seems to have gone forth for the
disruption of that party, and with it the
total destruction of Slavery. The war
brought out the patriotism Of the masses,
for that the leaders of the democracy had
not been able to pervert or eradicate, but
still numbers sided with the rebels. and
there is no doubt many would have Sc
cretly rejoiced to see them succeed in their
nelarious scheme of disrupting this ma
ton. But it had been willed otherwise,
and since then what is left of the demo-
cratic party has been engaged in opposi-
ton to all and every measure calculated to
restore law and order in the late rebel
States. Instead of regarding the conspir-
atOrs who caused the war, with its fearful
sacrifice Of life and manned and wounded
men, its debts, its taxes, and disorganiza-
ton of society, as criminals, they laud
them as heroes and express their willing
ness to admit them to power as rulers, al
though nine out of ten have peIjured
themselves twice over since 1861, have
imbrued their hands in loyal blood, burnt
and destroyed private property, stole hor-
ses and other live stock, and robbed pri-
vate individuals of clothing and watches
on the public highway with as little COM
Function as the burglar breaks into a house
or robs safe. Their acts were no better
and had no more show of right than those
of criminals who for less offences are now
paying the penaly for their bad conduct
in the penitentiary, and for the life of us
we cannot comprehend why democracy
should advocate the full pardon and res
toration of rebels and pirates and at the
same time overlook the inmates of peni-
tentiaries, work houses, and jails. What
ever can be alleged against any one of
these classes, is doubly applicable to re-
bellion and treason, the highest crimes
known to the Constitution. The Repub-
licans are willing to forgive the misled
masses, and even others on probation
the democracy would take vipers to its
bosom, nOurish and feed them without re-
gard to their conduct, and all for the sake
of getting the votes and influence of these
desperadoes. Such is brief outline OF
the Democratic Party, party which so
long as it even in part carried out what
appeared to be the Destiny of this great
country, had power and place, and lost ii
by being faithless to its trust. In our next
article we shall refer to the Rise, Progress,
ana Destiny of the Great Republican Par.
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