The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-08-06
The Record Of Democracy.

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The Record Of Democracy.
Mn. LoHoHAn once laid II down = a =.
axiom Of the trade that Il was the title
It. This nat appears 70 have had q
weighty influence with the authors oil
our times, Titles have ceased ~ b
chameleons, which showed the color Of
their groundwork; aud have changed
into sphinxes aud C0nundfums, instead.
"Whicll-the right or the left?n "PiQuo"
"Why nOt''? are among the least OBJ
scure OF recent titlel. But once . year
or more, . title appears Of such admira-
bic suGgeetivcne6e that the skill Of the
authof over vaults itself; and the reader
more than satisfied with the name, do
sires no further acquaintance with the
book ITSELF He IL like Mr.. Emerson.
who wae % pleased with the ironically
6l0bc-"Tne world b governed too
Cd to read further. Among happy titled
books there 10 none that we admire
more than recent publication In the
interest of our rsactiOnists, entitled
Democracy In tho United States. What
It has done, what It 10 doing, and what
It will do"
What vista Of infsmy, what . chron-
icls Of shame, what black prophecy Of
Disgrace. this title suggests!
"Wh0t Il has d0neIU II has declared
war against Mexico, for the purpose OF
extending the vilest system Of Oppres-
sion that modern times have known. It
first palliated, then defender ID the ulo-
gised, then tried to perpetrats forever,
the slavery Of an unoffending race. It
made laws to force every Northern cit
isen to hunt the fugitive from cruel
tAskmasters and remOrseless libertines.
II threw open the national treasury to
pay commissioners to return the slaves;
famous deed by 0ffsringthem higher pay
were set free. It silenced the ffes pull
pit, manac1ed the FREQ press, crushed out
liberty Of speech and debauched the
public conscience Of fifteen states. II
sought to ostracise every man and every
woman who, in the free States had the
courage to declare that oppression was .
sin against God aud the neighbor, and
fragrant violation Of our avowed national
creed. It first made the Missouri Conn
promise, to gain position from which
to ilnrelis freedom and then remorse-
lessly repealed It, when its object hAd
been gained, in order to advance to 9TH
unholy triumphs. It waged war Of
assassins against tho peaceful settlers of
Kansas, and strewed the virgin prairies
with the corpses Of Northern men,
whose only crime was that they prefer
red freedom to bondage. It threw
mixed = legislature elected by . lawless
horde of invaders; it committed outrages
on defenseless women; IL sacked thriv.
Ing villages, and gave hundreds Of hum
BILE homes to the torch of the marauder.
It massacred Northern men by the hum
dred in the Southern States, because
they were suspected Of being true to the
principles of the Declaration of Inde-
pendencc. 1t rendered the residence of
Northern men with Northern princi-
pies In more than halfof the territory
impossible. 1t established reign OF
terror wherever 1t had the power. 1t
threatened to reopen the African slave
trade. Baffled In its last effort to elect q
president, Democracy flew to arms and
defied the majesty Of the nation. First
dispatching our navy TO distant stations
and scattering our army, 1t seized our
forts and custom houses wherever it
could Overpower the national forces,
Of rebellion: 1t carried on that war
with an atrocity Of cruelty which NO
civilized nation OF modern times ever
rivaled. It starved our heroic soldiers
into idiocy and the grave; 1t shot them
down in cold blood on the faintcst pre-
texts; Il made ornaments of their bones
for the necks Of Southern women. A
million of men lie in untimely graves
tOday--the ghastly testimonies of what
Democracy has DONE" This was the
work Of democracy untrammeled. III
the Northern States, where It was
checked and subordinated, It opposed
every effort to suppress rebellion; II RI
oted; 1t burned down orphan homes: 1t
slaughtered the police: It DETAINED erery
| conspicuous soldier Of the nation; It
sanctioned and applauded every attempt
to undermine and destroy our credit:
and, GROWING infamy ofall, after It was
put unedr foot and disarmed. It lodged
an assassin's bullet In the brain Of
Abraham Lincoln. This Is faint and
shadOwy outline of what Democracy
has done"
!" What Il u doing" It Is endeavorinp
to create public opinion which shall
insist on the reputation of the public
debt; which shall annul the benefits de-
rived from the war; which shall nut the
national wards in the power Of their en-.
emies; which shall again reinstate the
rebels against the national authority In
It's highest Offices; which shall re-
woke the laws aud proclamations
which have made our banner II.
loustrious which shall take down
the statutes OF Lincoln and Grant
from the American Pantheon. and re-
place them with those Of johnson and
Davis,
What It tpiu do" It will falsify our
record. SANDER our champions, threaten
% renew the rebellion, and OH the 4th
OF March next it will adopt the old ad-
vice OF Andrew Johnson, its present
patron unsaint, and take back seat in
the work Of reconstruction.
This, briefly stated, 10 what "Democ-
racy has done, IL doing and will o.
~. y. Independent.
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