Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-03-06

Democratic Principles.
IL Is worth moments reflection to
look back upon the receding Democrat.
ic party, and wonder where 1t viii
eventually land. There Is q magic In
the maine that still lends It's deceptiosi
to thousands of voters, but a party
without grand victories, is like an army
whose skirmishers drive the enemy,
but whose brigades fly in defeat. But
no party that Is not American in its
ideas can obtain control of this coun.
try. 1t was un-American to assail
American forts i'm southern harbors--il
was un-American to fire upon the
STARS and Stripes"-it was un.Ameri-
can to aid and abet those who were
guilty of these crimes. Assassination
is an European inssitntion, and was inn.
ported into this country by lunatic,
whom Brick Pomeroy,' with his TO-
600 Democratic readers applauds and
cheers on. The Democratic party in
1864, by their National Platform, said
that the war was failure and they
have by no public act recalled that libe
upon the brave men who east the lie
into their teeth. Every idea, every
resolution they fling out rs anti-Ameri.
can, and hence their utter failure to OBJ
tain the power they SO much covet
The men of the revolution honestly
paid the debt incurred by them in se
curing Independence, whilst great
mass of the Democratic party, now un'
der the lead of Pendleton and Breese
would throw greenbacks and bonds I,
the dogs. The fight in the party is be
tween those who have shadow col
oring of honesty-and those who have
none. 1t is anti American for defeat.
ed rebels and traitors attainted of Heav
en- to tread under foot race that once
filled their purses under the goadings
of the lash, but are now free by the ar.
bitrameat of war. The Democratic
party wants white mans government
but white mans government, such as
allows over two thousand murders in
one year, as now in Texas, Ii worse
than the reign or terror in Paris. Ia 8
man Democrat who would turn out
of house and home poor negro and
his family in mid winter, becPuse he
voted for constitution that gave him
a right to protect himself at the ballot
box? Is not such q man something
elsa tyrant under stolen colors 7
Who commissioned the Democratic
party in Iowa to settle the destiny and
prescribe the fate of the once toiling
slave in Alabama? Gentlemen, swal-
low dose or two of your own State
Rights medicine. Suppose the color
ed Democracy of Alabama should de.
clare that the white Democrats of Iowa
should have common sense, wouldn't
you be wonderfully Indignant? Sup.
pose they should declare their purpose
to have every voter in the land black
either by nature or bampblsck, would
you be alarmed? You have National
politics, but no National principles
You do not revere the flag because il
covers the oppressed of al nations, y
but because 1t floated over our forts
and vessels when James Buchanan
surrendered to q steady hand the reins
the miserable old dotard could not con.
troll. Your principles as you call them
are catch words. Ten years ago it was
slavery in the territories. Seven years
ago. let the Union slide If the Repub.
lican party Is to control the country
Four years go-McClellan and peace
To- day--repudiation and down with
the black man who dared to shoulder
the musket I'm defense of your Preside
and his own. You have forgotten thai
you went with as to the polls in 1850
and were defeated, and the members Of
your party. your minority rebelled be-
cause they could not rule. Your party
leaders in that year told us that you
could save the Union when more than
of your party were plotting IL
destroy 1t, and that half-minus the
number who have been paid for their
treason, at the hands of white and
black union seldiers--are bowling their
devotion to the Union ia tire same dis
NAL accents they uttered as Union sa-
vers' in 1860. With one foot on the
PROSTATE negro, the other on the grave
of their treason blighted dead,
they swear to obey the Constitution of
the United States, which now does rec
ognize rights which all men arc bound
TO respect; but If the majority i'm Con-
yress and out of it, refuse to be bull
lied, then war to the knife, and the
knife TO the hilt, If James Brooks, of
New York, and his very martial follow
ers can screw up their courage TO fire a
gun off without shutting their eyes.
Gentlemen, your war principles are
They are good for the
marrow of stale stump speeches, but
the Republican party has never yet
been frightened ut Democratic princi-
Pies" though Illuminated by the un-
lunatic of La Crosse. ...