Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-11-17
RTIL OF INDICTMENT

.,.., omnion of Democratic prin-
ciples, the New York Vfnd'ca,c,' ;.sns oone
Of the whole matter SO recently ~ i'sae' w.
=. "a. that.tbe Democracy of the nation are
' a'nt7 ..h;nned1 but only "Not Victorious"
,nos s .ra tbe following bill Of indictment, as
i. - lho means by which the apparent success
- Badcalism was effected -
For eight years, our enemies have had
almost omnipotent power.
Millions of bayonets and thousands of mill
lions of money have been at their command.
Their every thought, word aud act, has
been directed to the one, great and sole end
keeping themselves in power.
To this single object, all their needles of
villaiuy have pointed, like niger fingers on
the guide-posts to national! perditiou!
To attain it, they've spared no pains, hest
tated at no expense of blood or treasure,
paused at no outrage, stopped at no atrocity.:
To accomplish it, they've "disfranchised"
half million white men, and "eniranchised"
three.guarters of million of skunkiferous,
devil worshipping black barbarians in the
South
They've turned ten of the fairest and noblest
of all our glorious sisterhood of STATES, into
wretched, hand.cufTed Satrapces, writhing
beneath the butts of niger muskets-
Mocking at the very name of Constitution,
they've made and uumade legislatures and
governors, at will annulled the DEGREES of
sovereign States trampled upon their most
sacred institutions and defed their laws
In violation of every principle of our grand
Magma Charta, they've rent the old mother
| State in twain and to secure the more "loyaf'
| fragment, excluded nine-tenths of its decent
citizens, from the ballot box
They've prohibited even the semblance OF
an election in VIRGINIA, the land OF WASH
ington, in Mississippi and Texas
They've made penitentiary convicts, horse
| thieves, incendiaries, house breakers and
murderers, Registrars" supervisors" and
/ Judges of. elections
They've shut out from the polls hundred
/ thousand of the best and truest men IN len
nessee, and ninety thousand in Missouri
| They've cast out the votes of whole counties
in Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri
They've authorized bogus Legislature"
! of African baboons to cast tho vote of the
gallant little State of Florida
BY the fat of bayonet, guarded, tinselled
Bashaw, they've silenced the voice of three
great Statcs
And yet with it all, ALL-wnERE is
THEIR TRIUMPH!
by majority OF DaTciy FOhIf-ONE eiec-
toral votes, they've elected to the Presidency,
man who has never by one sentence, word
or syllable, avowcd his sympathy with their
cause !
a man who was all his life, a pro>slavery
Democrat; aud who in August, 1861, declared
in Ringos bank, Mexico, Audrain County,
Missouri II am Democrat; have always
been Democrat every man in my regiment
is Democrat. And by c., if thought
the war was to free Southern Negroes, we'd
throw down our arms. and go home !"
| Count the excluded vote of the South and
there would be majority of two hundred aud
fifty thousand against him
In the Northern States. the vote is almost
equally divided and in the Southern, the
whole decent white population is unit against
him aud the party that elected him.
And this is all they've done!
Elected a minority President who. by his
own declaration, is lifelong Democrat and
whom not one of all their leaders, really trust :!
Brother Democrats Don't & i've up the
ship!
Never say die!
':Thcrcs good time coming!
Wait little longer