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never struck to the enemy, have again been
borne down in defeat by the combined arm
les of pelf and power and demonism. 10
engaging au enemy SO organized and constit-
uted, entrenched in the strongholds of the
Government, which, by the exercise of un-
limited power and the lavish expenditure of
the coined blood and sweat of the people,
they have for eight years pas been engaged
chiefly 10 strengthening and rendering i'm,
pregnable-w such odds confronting
lhem-the gallant democracy have no reason
to be surprised at, and certainly none to feel
humiliated by, the disastrous result. On
the other hand, taking fair and impartial
view Of the situation as it was, the exultant
party have no just ground for extravagant
exultation. Having legislated since their
accession to the reins of government with
especial reference to consolidating their party
power, and to that end inaugurated and carr
ried out system of legislation which served
the double purpose Of demoralizing and
crushing as far as possible the democratic
party, while it contributed to their own
strength and aggrandizement having for
eight years commanded the national resOur-
ces of the whole country, and made them
subservient to the purpose aforesaid in short
having had possession and control of the
machinery of government, and used it as a
means to the end just accomplished ; having,
indeed, from the first gun of the rebellion to
the surrender at Appomattox, shaped every
measure of their administration with an eye
single to the retention of power, and to them
favorable result of the contest Just past /;
having to that end beheaded Mcclellan and
other rising generals of democratic antece-
dents, liberal ideas, and magnanmous in>
stincts, first by Withholding supplies of men
and materials, and ultimately by removal
from command and placing in their stead
men fully in sympathy with them POLITICAL
ly, or committed to their scheme of party
ascendency having placed Grant and other
willing instruments of their political inter-
est and ambition, with a view TO the ultimate
success of their pet scheme, in command of
the Federal forces, and given them what
they purposely withheld from other and more
able and not less deserving generals-an
unlimited supply of men and means having
secured for the hitherto great unknown the
prestige Of being Commander,in-C Chief of
our armies, at the inevitable moment when
the gallant but exhausted Confederates should
give up hopeless struggle; having thus
legislated and elevated into fame by the pat
ronage Of the Government, a chosen instru,
ment whose adventitious celebrity as hero
Was to be urged in advocacy of claims to the
Chief Magistracy having done all rhis, and
to make sure of an indefinite lease of power
and the success of their scheme of party
ascendancy, having disfranchised the brain
and virtue of the PROSTATE South, her lead.
ing and intelligent white citizens, country
men and descendants of her Washington. her
Jeffersons, her Pinckneys, her CIays, her
JacksOns, her Scots and her Taylors, and
given them over to the domination of their
former slaves, the ignorant and lcentious
negroes whose forced enfranchisement was
in the interest, and solely for the further
ence of their bold, unscrupulous design of
retaining political rule at all hazards having
in carrying into effect the measures deemed
requisite to the consummaton of their nm,
holy purpose, mutilated and demolished our
once revered and valued Constitution, tram,
Piled under foot the once sacred and honored
judicial ermine, obliterated State lines, in
the names of loyalty and patriotism destroy
ed our very system of representative Gov
eTnment, aud in the name of Union dis
membered aud dissolved our once united
States, and made the very name we bear as
a Nation an anomaly aud delusive cheat ;
having organized under the spacious names
Of Freedoms Defenders Freedoms Bur-
eaus and Grand Army of the republic and
thus artfully invoked in support of the fraud
the noble sentiments of humanity and patrio.
tism, aroused the fears and reinAamed the
dying resentments and passions of the
Northern masses by Kuk-Klux outra yes
manufactured for political capital out of
whole cloth; frightened their uAamed imagi>
nations with visions of another rebellion and
the resuscitated ghost of the Lost Cause,
and quickened the apprehensions Of delud
constituency with the grouudless plea that
the support of Grant was necessary to secure
the endangered fruits of victory having
with devilish ingenuity devised aud employ
ed the above means and even more of a
kindred nature with astonishing success,
what wonder is it that the democracy are
defeated, and Jacobiuism has frightened its
grasp upon our devoted country.
1t is true, the democrats are not altogeth>
er blameless, though they have made gal,