The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-04-28

lever 10 be erased. linen let the neatnel
be bound to his idol and the Republican
to his s'nigger," and let US go along il
the even tenor Of our way, amelioratin,
the condition of all races, whenever i
Hays in our power to do so,snd let Us yot
with that great National party which, b,
Tits actions, says that "This Governmen
was made by white men for white men ant
their posterity forever" and none other
shall rule, none others can ruin. Such i
the Democratic doctrine of to-day, ant
|such has been the Democratic doctrin,
years previous to the "Rsign Of Terror,
inaugurated by che Republican party il
the year 1861.
These do not comprise our list Of char
lges against that Republican party. Fa
from It, sir. We charge it with imposing
an unjust and burthensome tax upon ter
millions of people who are without rep
resentatiyes in our halls Of Congress. W.
charge it with impeaching and deposine
Senators and Legislators without reason
and without law, that they may retain
their two.thirds majority in our National
Legislature. Democrats, for no reasons
whatever, have been elected from the
halls Of Congress. And, to-day, the
| President of the United States is before
that august body Of perjured vampires
known as the "Rump Senate" upon trial
for doing what every other President has
done from Washington down to Lincoln.
His impeachment and deposal is mere
matter of time; the Senate has already
expressed its verdict, and Andrews doom
is sealed. Why. you ask, are they doing
this2 1 will tell you why: That they
may elevate to the Presidential chair q
perjured wretch in full accord with that
|perjured Senate, that they may more fully
|rivet the chains Of slavery around your
already fettered limbs. Andrew johnson
has stood between US and Capitalization,
he Is an obstacle to the advancement o!
Republican partyism and must be got rid
of. Ben. Wade and the Senate and Thad.
Stevens and Congress have said SO,
Men have been incarcerated in strong
bastiles for words spoken in private con-
yersation, by this same Republican par
ty. Who, in this assemblage tonight,
has forgotten Burnside's infamous order
No. 3S? Who has forgotten the arrest,
mock trial and banishment of Mr.. VAL
landighan, for no other crime than
speaking to the citizens of his own State
upon the affairs Of the Government, az he
or any other man, has a constitutional
right to do? Who has forgotten the kid-
mapping and Imprisonment Of Edison B.
0lds? and can any man tell why he was
arrested? We're charges ever preferred
against him7 Mol He was arrested by
the order Of some military tyrant, who
wished to display his absolute powers, and
the Governor Of Ohio, the renegade Tod,
sanctioned the arrest. Who is it that has
not heard Of Secretary Stewards "little
bell," and how it was only Necessary for
him to tinEle it to have arrested and i'm
prisoned any man in the United States2
Was ever power more absolute2 And has
ever power been more abused in modern
days2 How many lives have been sacri.
feed to the abell ringers" ambitionf-
Who knows? Who will ever know till he
arrives at that Bar where the books are
squared and accounts ell balanced?
Ministers of the Gospel have been for
bidden the sacred privilege of preaching
the Word of God, because they could not
or would not take the famously infamous
atest oath" ndsubscribe to the doctrines
of the Stevenses. They have been ar
rested for this crime, and this alone,
ihrown into dark and filthy prisons, to
keep the company of wretched murder
ers and the common thief. In this way,
churches and congregations have been
destroyed and the dissemination of the
Word of God arrested.
Congress, by strictly party vote, has
increased the salaries Of its members
from two thousand to Eve thousand dol
lars year; and that, too, just at the time
of our greatest financial difficulties, when
this stupendous debt Of between three
and four thousand millions Of dollars is
bearing SO crushingly upon the working
mans shoulders.
| An unnecessary and powerful standing
army is kept up during this period Of
profound peace, the world over; drawing
millions upon millions of dollars from
our famished treasury. The country is
still swarming with droves Of undis.
charged army oficers-so thick, in fact
| in the East that every third man you meet
wears two or four bright stars and is a
Major General or Brigadier General, BY
brevet, enjoying rest from the arduous
duties of his aBureau." These, all, Mr.
President, do not begin to comprise tn,
charges that we might bring against thi'
Republican party. We could charge
them with the hanging of old women, up
ON the evidence of hired perjured witnes
ses, (see debate Of Bingham and Butler
| in Congress- and that too within sight o
the tents Of the "Grest Senhedrims" il
the City of Washington. Printing off
ces have been destroyed and editors shoi
By this same moral party. And now, tt
recapitulate, We charge this party will
the outrageous load Of taxation under
which our people groan and sweat. Anc
we charge it with enforcing "negro suf
frage" upon ten States of this American
Union, without law and contrary to The
Constitution of our country. We chargt
| it with perjury in the case of the trial ol
President johnson. We charge it with
murder in the case Of Mrs. Surratt, (set
B. & b. We charge it with the destruc
ton of printing Offices and the kidnap
ping of editors. We charge it with the
conversion Of churches into army bar.
racks and horse stables, contrary to the
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