The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-10-29

10 the 5eaassaf the Qeueeyat;c Party
Your rejection by the people i decided
and Emphatic Why
You encouraged the South to initiate
/. You pronounced coercion equally revo-
lutionary with secession.
/ You refused to vote either men or
mouey to carry on the war
You assailed the first call for troops
as unconstitutional.
You bid the Southern States depart in
peane. H
You declare that if Slavery must be
destroyed to gain the Union, theu the
Union should perish.
You declared your preference for the
Rebel Constitution as against our own.
wv it became apparant that to pro-
claim Universal Liberty would weaken
the enemy and reward the true friends OF,
the Union, nevertheless opposed it.
You stoutly contented that the REBEL
ion would never be suppressed, and tri
umphantly quoted every reverse to our
arms as demonstrating it.
You urged the abandonment of the
war, and the resort to negotiation tor the
best attaiuable terms.
In our gloomiest days. aud when no
political can psi gn was pending you sought
TO infama the passionx Of the people
against the only Government we had OF
You ssiled President Enculn a. a
deapot.
You dsnounced the Government as
Revolutio ionary
The Boys in Blue were termed by you
lincoln hirelings and dogs.
You opposed allowing the men who wesa
periling their lives for. our country, the
enjoyment of the elective franchise.
IQp opposed filing up our armies hy
draft.
You ineited riotous and bloody resist
ance to laws of the land.
You pronounced the war failure, and
called for its Abandonment.
You urged the South to reject the
most magnanimous terms ever offered to
conquered Rebels
You passed laws imposing on freemen
the most CALLING and unjust discrimina-
tlons, in the halls of ustice on the fields of
labor and in the resorts of trade.
You would not allow = man equal JUS
tlce before the law. because servile blood
flowed in his veins.
You would not permit man to control
his own labor, who had once been slave
or was the child of slave.
You would not allow man to dispose
of his own property on equal terms with
his neighbor, because his color differed
You would sell the labor OF colored
man on the auction block, as punishment
for not working when you would not give
him employment.
I You fired the Southern heart" anew
against the loyal North. W
You confer the highest hoaors on the
iereest and most brutal Rebel Generals.
You falsely assail the hero to whose
energy, sagacity, bravery aud skill. We
owe the existanee of our country, as a
brutal butcher miserable drunk
ard, - a contemplate liar, a 'miscege-
nStionlsts,' and 'scoundrel /"
The man most warmly welcomed by
you, in National Convention = Magellan
Butcher" Forrest-dishonored flag of
truce, and shot down his begging victims
in cold blood. aF 80. 81 a' @
The pavements of New Orleans are
stained will b.ood of the white and back
victims Of your hellish malignity.
You have rejected every principle the
Democratic party formerly cherished.
You propose to tramp!e into dust by
revolutionary means, the Laws of Con-
gress. - . .l H'f.
Riot, rapine and revolution are the
weapons with which you propose to over
throw all opposition to your will. q h"E
You trampied on the ballot box in 500
and for five years thereafter, and you
threaten to do it again. '-''' '1 ~.
You'b boast that your triumph would be
the tritimph Of the Lost Cause ii a
You avow a policy of Reputation.
You propose an irredeemable paper
currency.
The future you would give US is fu-
ture Of terror. Civil war, business pros
tration and oppressive taxation areall you
offer US.
The past warns us of you. The grave
holds up its hands aginst you. The fu-
ture implores to be saved from you.
The people hear the supplicati on, and
hence you are rejected. Albany Jour
nal.