New Orleans Republican., 1868-08-26
WHAT THE SECESSION DEMO oRA0Y HAVE
DUNE FOB THE COUNTRY.

WHAT THE SECESSION DEMO oRA0Y HAVE
DUNE FOB THE COUNTRY.
Not to speak of the graves that secession
has dug, the widows and orphans it has
made, the scalding tears it has caused to
flow, the households it has blasted, the
number of gray heads it has brought down
with sorrow to the grave, the fields it has
laid waste, the fortunes it has scattered to
the winds, the hatreds it has engendered,
the barbarism it has fostered, the iron
hseled despotism it has practised, the in
noeent blood it has shed, and the ruin,
misery, and crime that have followed in its
wake. Not, we say, to speak of these things,
it has loaded the country with an enormous
debt which imposes to-day heavy burden
upon every species of property, and every
kind of industry to pay the interest upon
it, and meet in good faith the obligations
of the government. In particular. it
taxes
The house you live in.
The field you cultivate,
The Office you occupy
The store you rent.
The steamboat you own.
The barge you run.
The salary you earn.
The profits you make.
The hat on your head.
The boots on your feet.
The clothes on your person.
The food you eat.
The tea and coffee you drink
The pot it is cooked in.
The cup you drink it out Of
The implements on your farm.
The tools you work With.
The paper you write on.
The pen and ink you use.
The papers and books you read.
The furniture in your house.
The gas or oil you burn.
The coal you consume.
The stove you burn it in.
The match you light it with.
The medicine you take.
The tobacco you smoke.
The pipe you smoke it in.
The dishes on your table.
All you eat off them.
All these constitute a part, and only a
small part of the legacy which that cursed
thing secession has left upon this
afflicted country.
And now this same old secession party.
calling itself the Democratic % party, un-
abashed and shameless, impudent and
staggering and reckless as ever, comes
before the patriotic masses of the United
States, and without blush, modestly asks
to be intrusted with the administration of
governme Mt which it did its best to over
throw. Never before was such spectacle
to gods or men.
Many of the very same actors that were
instrumental in precipitating the Southern
States into an attempted revolution, and
thus bringing the long black catalogue of
The horrors OF an internecine struggle upon
the land, are leading spirits in this Demo
cratic party, so-called, demanding, with |
disgusting arrogance, to be reinvested with |
power to do again as they please.
Will the loyal masses of the republic
comply with their demand? Will the men
hat are no1o loyal to this government,
without respect to party names or to the
past, again consent to place the old seces-
ion agitators ia position in which they
AN involve the country in further disas-
which they can impose additional
burdens. additional taxation upon the
'eople, and again paralyze the general
The secession leaders were
rusted once, with what results, let the histo.
y of the last eight years tell. Shall they be
rusted the second time? Will the Southern
'eople again follow them? Have they
hown themselves to be wise or safe coun-
ellors? How fair were the promises held
ut to the Southern people by tie seces-
ionists of 1860? Has one OF those promi-
es been realized? Not one! Again we
ress the question home Southern voters
4 all parties: Will you trust these Dem.
cratic leaders the second time?