The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-09-03
TCOmmunica ted.
Democracy Reviewed.

bic for the war and answerable Tor all
its consequences, and promised further
to show that it is the party of dishoner
and corruption; the enemy of Liberty,
Union, and the Constitution. Of this
we want no better evidence than their
own record, and the history of their
own workings during the past ten years.
The dissolution Of the Union was a
foregone conclusion by the Slayehold-
ers OF the South, in the event of MIR.
Lincoln's election in 1860, and TO pre-
pare the way for an easy establishment
of Confederacy G should they be driven
to the necessity the National treasury
was peculated; U. S. troops were scat
tered throughout the South, in way
that speedy concentration for National
defense was impossible; our navy was
sent to distant waters, and every prepa-
ration made for the destruction Of our
Liberties and Free Institutions; and
all this with the connivance, if not with
the counsel. of the Democratic Execu-
tive, James Buchanan. In 1860, by
fraud, dishonesty, and selfish ambition,
Democracy had become so corrupt and
rotten that it could not agree with itself,
and fell to pieces, thus dividing its
strength and relinquishing its power,
and then made war to recover what it
had lost by its own acts. Pending this
war, it established reign Of terror
within the Southern States, and made
banishment or death the ullimatum to
every Northern orsuspected Union man
and woman within their borders. 1t
was the Democratic party, in the form
of rebels, that stole our public mints,
took forcible possession Of the National
forts, armories, arsenals, etc, and for
four years waged fierce war for the
overthrow of the Government, the es-
tablishment of a slave oligarchy, and
the perpetuation of Human Bondage.
During this war those Democrats were
guilty of cruelties, outrages, and deeds
of blackest crime, that the Inquisition,
and Revolutionists of France, would
blush at. In all this work of crime and
cruelty, treason and rebellion, on the
part of the Southern Democrats, they
found allies and sympathizers in the
great body of Northern Democrats,and
10 that alone. These "Frieads at the
North" (who were to rise up in arms
but did not gave their Southern Demo
cratic brethren all the aid, sympathy.
and encouragement they possibly could,
short of taking up arms for them, which
they we're too cowardly to do; they play
ed into their hands by cheering their
victories and Kissing at our own; by
praising and eulogizing their leaders,
and defamiDg and deprecating our owni
by discouraging enlistments; enticing
desertions; resisting the drafts de-
pressing our finances; crying down the
credit; melting mObs; numbering in
nocent and helpless women and chill
dren; burning Orphan Asylums, etc,
The Democratic party is the only party,
opposed to progress, and the develop
ment of our National resources, as the
intellectual and social status of the
Southern blacks--former slaves-and
lower class of whites, the sparsely pop
Mated condition of their country, the
undeveluped wealth and resources of
their soil, and the great bane of landed
monopoly, incontrovertibly proves
But let us leave the past and come to
the present. We will not particulafize
on their record during the past eight
or ten months, but will just take cur
sory view of the most prominent de-
velopments of corruption, dishonesty
and fraud The astounding fraud and
peculations Of the "Whisky Ring" and
Revenue Assessors and Collectors, as
recently revealed, are too glaring to be
denied or doubted; and that the Ring
and peculatiDg Revenue and Govern
ment officers are Democrats, we can
prove by naming them, if necessary.
That money, perjury, and perfdy, pro-
cured the acquittal of justly impeaCh-
ed President, is satisfactorily proven
and that these means were used by
Democrats only, cannot be disputed
That Executive patronage is used tc
thwart the Congressional mode OF Re-
construction, to defraud the Govern.
ment of monies, and to further the
cause and interests of Democracy, i'
too palpable to escape the notice OF any
unprejudiced mind. But is this all
To their shame, we answer no! While
the Government is striving honestly
honorably and assiduously to pay tn
enormous debt incurred by Demo