The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-16
The Democratic Party the spoils Party.

Piles and aims frankly In this instance it
was not Delphic oracle and cannot be in
terpreted to suit the ever varying phases OF
Democratic or rebel politics. Their candi-
date, Horatio Seymour, in his letter, plainly |
intimates that the changing character of
the times makes it expedient for once in
his life to avow fixed principles. He de-
clares he has policy, for which may all the
gods be thanked. This has been the Ian
guage of every geeat statesman from Gar
Petro to Napoleon the Third. Let us have
war is his talisman, and the Black flag of |
death stiffens in the breeze. ar
There are but two principles-two guiding
dogmas-which control the Democratic or
Rebel party. The people have until now
been blind to its aims. They are now wa
king up. But the Rebels are exerting every
effort to turn away the eyes of the people
from their chief object.
I. The first controlling principle of the
Rebel party is. "to the victors belong the
spoils." 1t is emphatically the spoils party.
Every power human and demoniac it has
employed to spoil and to get spoil. 1t has
been organized robbery from its birth.
With war it vomited to the surface horde
of thieves and cutthroats, as the revolution
did in France, who seized from one end of
the South to the other all the material
wealth Of the people and appropriated it to
its own diabolical purposes. 1t seized the
Rail Roads and made their stock as worth
less as abandoned turnpikes. 1t seized
foundries and made those who owned them
beggars. 1t seized Cotton manufactures
and paid off the poor women and children
who worked in them with Confederate notes,
with which they could not buy an ounce of
bread. 1t seized the Press and made every
man at work upon type, set up the most
damnable lies or be shot in the trenches. It
seized Churches and either used them for
stables and hospitals, and made those who
worshipped in them pray for the success of
the Confederacy, or burnt them down over
their heads. 1t seized cities and towns and
made merchants disgorge one half their
goods. 1t seized the STRIPPING at school, the
middle aged man at the plow and the gray
hairs by the fire side, and left them all on
the battleields of the South. 1t seized the
| negro and drove him in herds like swine, and
made him, at the point of the bayonet, work
from morning until might to sivet his chains
still stronger. 1t seized the poor white in
the piney woods with blood hounds, and
dragged him mangled and bleeding to the
front, and left his wife and children to die
| with starvation. 1t seized abolitionists and
hung them. 1t seized men loyal to the old
| flag and shot them. 1t seized the 'scradlc
and the grave" Even the dead could not
rest in peace; it dug up their bodies and
made saltpetre out of them. 1t seized all
that was lovely and healthful in youth, all
that was noble in manhood, all that was
venerable in old age. Like hell, it
tried to lick up and scorch and burn
and toss on flames of everlasting fire all that
God had made holy and pure. True to its
first great principle, that to the victors be-
long the spoils, it scraped the South from
the Potomac to the Gulf, and left it as barren
as the Alkaline deserts of the West.
We thank you, Sentinel, for all these sug.
gestions. A pleasant memory, indeed, they
revive. Continue to make them day by
day. "SpoI" Like vitriol, like nitric
acid, like the most noxious gas like the
most deadly poison, like the incarnated
spirits of war and death and destruction, the
Democratic party has hungered for spoi
from its birth. Having nothing by nature
or culture itself, like the parasite, it lives or
the life of Others, and in the end survives on
| ly by the death of Others. "Spoils" it il
the genius of "Spoils!" With Andrew
johnson and his Internal Revene collectors
it has stolen one hundred and twenty mill
ions year from the whisky tax alone, ant
then had the meanness to drink and &c
drunk on the whisky beside.
| 2. The second aim of the Democratic par
ty is tho su5cersion Of the Government.
pretends to call itself the peoples party, fo
demagogues always pirate of the people, ye
it has tabood every principle that woult
give the people a hold upon the governmen
under which they are compelled to live. ]
laughs at the idea of Constitution, AM
thinks no more of violating an oath to sup
port it than burglar does of one that vii
take him out of Jail. Personal rights
tramples upon, and under cover of what
calls State rights" enslaves the negro, re
duces the poor white to serfdom and peor
age, abolishes, or rather, never establishe
free schools, prevents the masses from read
ing the Bible and the Declaration of Indt
pcndence, and attempts to build up an aris
tocncy and despotism as much worse tina
that of Austria or Turkey as the govern
nents of those countries are worse than tn
purest form of government ever conceived.
A leading Democratic authority in thi
city, we are told, says that the real object {
the Democratic party is the re-ensiavemer
OF the negro, the abolition of free school,
the reduction of the poor white to serfdon
the concentration of all power in the Ex'
cutive Of the nation, the reputation of I'll
national debt, the violation of nation:
honor and the Inauguration Of a war I
races that will end only with the establish
ment of monarchy with jeff Davis fl
king, and all his leading generals for duk'
and lords aud barons. No party but Il