Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-09-16
CHANGE OF PARTIES.

P0oP10 themselves, ana lOr the people
good. In the earlier days of the Ameri
can Republic it was noble reality In
splred by it, Andrew Jackson fought tn c
tyrants of England Inspired by it, he
set his face like flint against the dismem
berment of this glorious Union, the bul
wark of human liberty and the hope Of
all the oppressed. At the waving Of his
unconquered sword the ira .ors of South
Carolina-then as now ever ready to do
the devils wosk-slunk back like whip
ped hounds, while from the lips of the
hezo of New Orleans thundered forth the
magnificent declaration, ''By the Eternal,
this Union must and shall be preserved" :"
This was the Democracy of olden time.
We can bow with reverence before it.
We can glory in it and pray for its per-
petuation to all ages and for its extension
to all lands and peoples.
What have we got now2 A Democ-
racy which cunningly and carefully pre-
serves the same name, and scrupulously
observes similar forms, but which, in it's
purposes, in its spirit and in it's very es-
sence, is as different from that of Andrew
jackson as the putrid and pestilent corpse
which rots in its "whited sepulcher is
from the noble form of the living, think
ing man, with the light and fire of heaven
in his eye and in his heart, and the works
of freedom, justice and humanity in his
hands.
We "speak by the book" +" for our proof
is ready.
The Democracy of to-day-thc Democ-
racy of Horatio Seymour and August
Belmont and Wade Hampton-ts an
friendship and alliance aath England.
The said Seymour boasts of his descent
from that noble English family which
supplied one of his seven wives to that
pious and sainted king, Henry VIII.
Now, are not Seymour and his party the
champions of English Free Trade? Is
there newspaper in their interest, from
New York to San Francisco, that is not
advocating it daily? Well, Free
Trade simply means to open the Ameri-
can market to British merchandise. This
will simply destroy native manufacture.
1t will, at the very least, reduce by half
the wages OF the working people 1t will
hand over the business of America to
English moneyed men and manufactu-
rers. 1t will complete the work SO we'll
begun by the Alabama and her fellow
pirates. They swept American commerce
off the seas of the world Free Trade
will sweep American trade out of Ameri-
Ca herself. 1t will leave her the humble
dependent of English wealth and Eng
lish enterprise, paying all the money into
English pockets and getting English
white-slave-made rubbish in return. This
will render England the triumphant mis-
tress Of the globe. Protection to Ameri i
can industry, the last barrier to her great
ness, will be removed, and from Beh-
rings Straits to Cape Horn she will rule
with undisputed sway. Her commercial
wealth is the life-blood Of her naval and
military power, Let these become as
great and irresistible as Free Trade and
the Seymour Democracy would make
them, and what chance is there for the
freedom of ireland ? This, we respect
fully submit, is question which every
honest Irish voter should ask himself be-
fore he commits the criminal act-for
criminal it is-of voting for the aggran-
dizement of the eternal enemy of his
country and race.
Belmont, the great leader of the New
York Democracy, the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, the Ju-
piter Tonans of the entire party, is said
to be a Rothschild under another Lame.
At all events, he is in close business rela-
tons with these Hebrew money kings,
who lend cash to every despotism in Eu
rope, and who, therefore, have the deep
est personal interest in the continuance Of
their accursed power. Now, whatever
would tend even to shake the English
monarchy, much less to overturn it, is
simply hated and feared by such men with
a sincerity and intensity as that would be
for words to exaggerate. For,
let the power of their royal and imperial
patrons be upset, and where is the inter-
est to come from on the millions Of Bel.
mont and Rothschild gold which have
been lent to strengthen and uphold them ?
Now, Irishmen, is not this an admira-
BILE work for you to do? To vote for
party led by the man whose interests
make the preservation of the power and
glory of England the very breath Of his
nostrils
That Wade Hampton, Forrest of Fort
Pillow and Beauregard of Fort Sumner
fame-the representative men of the
Southern slaveocracy-were the real lead
ers and inspiring spirits Of the late Tam
many Hall Democratic Convention is an
unquestionable fact. Subsequent revela-
tions have made it clear that it was by
their Vaccinations, in conjunction with
Seymour and the Tammany lambs, that
the liberalizlng movement under Judge
Chase was defeated, which would have
opened an eternal and impossible gulf be-
tween the Northern Democrats and the
Southern rebels And one Of them
Wade Hampton-has openly declared
that it was at his request the clause was
introduced which declares the Recon
struction Acts for the settlement of the
South to be Revolutionary and unconstl-
tutional and void" Hence, Frank Blair
is their chosen champion. And his pet
doctrine is to employ armed force, # he
as able, to upset freedom and restore the
Constitution-that is, State-rights ond
sZoUeru-in the South. This is fiat re-