Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-08-12
THE ENEMY WE HAVE TO MEET


THE ENEMY WE HAVE TO MEET.
The Republican party stands confront
ed by a foe rendered bitter and desperate,
through repeated defeats at the polls and
the complete and decisive failure of the
Rebellion. Perfectly INSCRIPTIONS as
to the means it employs. it is determined
at all hazards to accomplish its purpose.
The doctrines Of the Democratic party of
the present day are dangerous and treason
able in the extreme To be fully con-
vinced that they mean mischief, whether
they win or lose at the coming election,
one needs only to read their journals, and
listen to the speeches of their leaders.
There are members of the party of more
conservative opinions. WHO would seek to
excuse and palliate, but the traitorous
schemes Of its leaders can not be conceal
ed. Those who would judge Of the pur
poses and designs Of the Democratic par
ty from such papers as their organ in this
city, would be most wofully deceived
The moderate and usually reasonable pos
tons taken by it in regard to national
affairs would not have passed muster at
Tammany Hall. The. venom and malice
which found expression there in ''that
rebel yelP' Of execratio which arose
whenever the Republican par ty or It's
policy we're mentioned, is altogether
wanting. The spirit which animates
the Watertown Democrat is no more like
that which inspired the New York Con-
vention, than oil is like aqua forts.
Such sheets as the New York World,
the Chicago Times, and even the La
Crosse Democrat, with all its filth and
extravaganza, are far truer opponents of
the party, than is the high toned and con-
sentative Watertown paper We often
hear Democrats complain because the ed
itor of the Democrat does not take bold
er stand, and dispense more freely the
unadulterated Democratic gospel of the
present time. But we believe that he is
wiser than they. He knows that their prin-
ciples can not bear the light, and hopes if
he can not make votes for their party by a
bold advocacy of its measures, that he
can at least save them by concealingssand
glozing over its infamous schemes. We
consider such papers far more dangerous
! foes to our cause than those outspoken
sheets which reveal the cloven hoof and
drive men away by the mere exhibition Of
their atrocious wickedness.
The truth is simply this: the rebel
party of the South and the Copperhead
party of the North-the two wings of the
great hostile army which in 1864 stood, the
one to our front and the other at our rear,
are now united and seek to gain by strate,
gy what they could not accomplish by
force. In making this assertion we speak
not carelessly nor at random. We know
| who are the men who mould the Demo
cratic sentiment of the country, and we
Judge of their intentions from their ex-
pressed declarations. A large majority of
the delegates to the New York Conyen-
tons were active and still unrepentant
rebels and their acknowledged sympath-
izers. The number Of those which gave
/ the Government an earnest and hearty
support during the war could be counted
on the fingers of one hand. There were
more righteous men in Sodom, than true
and tried patriots at Tammany Hall.
Wade Hampton who was cheered to the
| echo whenever he took the floor. said
publicly on his way to New York that
''the cause for which jackson and Stuart
fell, would yet in some form triumph. !"
Gov. Vance went home to say that "in the
election of Seymour and Blair the South
would gain what she had fought for. ="
Blair reiterates his threat to accomplish
their ends by force if necsessary-and SO
the list goes on indefinitely. The Demo-
cratic press teens with kindred senti
ments; at every democratic meeting they
are boldly avowed from the stand. We
have been fairly warned, we need not be
deceived in our'foes. Their desperate ma
turc and treacherous designs are fully
revealed to US, and knowing them as we
doi we deserve our fate if through apathy