Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-02-07
A Sample of Democracy.

and it is passing strange that so many OF
them, even of intelligence and good
standing in community. should still con-
tinue their political relations with that
party which made so bad and unpatriot-
ic record during the war, and which
party still has the most of its vitality and
is controlled by the oopperhead portion
of Its organization. Its party organs
which are the most violent in their cop
peraead abuse, have become the leading
and most prominent democratic @ pa
pers Of the country, and yet there are
hundreds of good democrats everywhere,
and in almost every community, who can
but abhor the outrageous sentiments ut
tered by these papers, and we appeal to
their good common sense to look at the
company they are in. We have before
given extracts from the La Crosse (Wis.)
Democrat, which is supported by the de-
fnocracy, as one of their leading papers
in the West, and which has by turns vii
lifed, LINCOLN, GRANT, SHERIDAN, the
loyal cause, DC, and now We give below
sample extracts, mot mere special selec-
tions for a purpose but average samples
which appear in it every week-from
democratic paper at Louisville, Ken
tucky, called Tie Sentnekos,-the- Border.
They are as follows:
THE First DEMOCRAT.
Democracy is a religion in itself
drawing its inspirations from the foun-
tains Of Truth, Right, aud Justice.
Hence, to be a Democrat is to be a good
man--a lover of good government, the
friend OF fraternal union, the champion
OF law and order, the advocate of peace!
1t is asserted often that the Democratic
party was organized in 1900, and came
into power the following year. This is
mistake. Jefferson was not the author
but the promoter, of Democracy. The
glorious and unconquerable principles of
Truth and Right upon which it is based
mad their birth centuries before God sent
his secondrson to America Christ was
the first Democrat, and his twelve whte
Apostles the first converts to Democracy
1he Democratic creed is spread upon |
every page of sacred, moral, and natural
history 1t is the sister of Masonry, 90
ing hand in hand, to plant the seed of |
fraternity and good will among men |
1t Is the champion Of the rights of the
many against the tyranny and power of
theiew. So did Christ 1t seeks to build
up, not to tear down. This was Cbrist's
mission 1t asks justice for all men, and
equality among the brotherhood. So did
Christ Its mission is for the salvation of
the 10ttte race. Such was Christ's. He
did not atilinte with the naero H.
worked with a0hite men for the benefit of
'ca'te men OF ell his apostles and asso- (
ciates, not one was nigger!"
: ABRAHAM LIScoLn AND JEFFERSON {
DAvIs--A COMPARISON.
Lincoln and Davis were the chieftans 4.
,f contending principles and communal
les. The first was tie head of the Fed
'ralistic element, the other of State Sow {
'riegn Democracy. BY the power of
numbers, the one .triumphed and the 8
'ther tel! $50 far az principles may be I
aid to tai by thedefea4 of armies. The S
me was an unsettled, shifting, vulgar. s
mantle other serious. grave
iignihed, and determined. The one was
Plebeian by nature-the other noble
nan. AS between these contestants as s
aen, the rise and fall Of armies has done c
little else than to bring them out into s
tronger contrast. The triumphant par /,
Wis now dead-he fills the grave of an &
lnwept tyrant, and will be execrated c
more as the wheels Of time rolls on. fan.
ing the chat from thewheat. Lincoln
AIRED nothing for the triumph of prin- O
aple-heswas satisfied with the din and +"
lash Ct fthe hour. And so, at the sacri- G
ice OF principle and the nations honor
q an hundred ways, he triumphed over
is opponent. What a~e the results Sc
ured by that bloody triumph? What y
uestions are settledS The States are fur. p
her from uniomn0w than eyer-the peo. d
lie are bound under a monstrous load Of :
ppressions and tyrannies, and are at
ast, and not unexpectedly, cursing the
eng whose triumph was their r,,;nr ST
low stands his opponent Bowed with I
ne sorrows Of his people. he may still d
land erect over the grave of his dead 9
'e, and exclaius, "Shake not thy CORY u
'.ks- at me-" ".Thon dids't it," Had v
ederson Davis sacrificed those princi-
les upon which his people went into the
'ruggie, the arrogant North, and not the A
oufh, weuad bethe stricken land. Had h
etferson Davis departed from his deter. :,
lined defensive warfare had he en-. " -
sted the slaves of the South in his .
rmies. under the flag of emancination 81
~, the North would have been a ii
noking slaughter-pen? But the banner a,
his people had been thrown to the
reeze, and under its waving folds he and :, :.
is people fell together in Spartan en- II
racel History will yet vindicate the Il
nth, and Jefferson Davis. the states. m
ian; scholar and hero, will outliye an q,
unared Lincolns on those pages of his
'untryss history where are enrolled tbe nc
ames Of the peerless and true, the noble m
nd selfsacri6cing," al
As strange as it may appear the paper dc
hich attersishe above israpidly increas- to
g its circulation among the democracy ut
the country; and we should think R
lose democrats who have spark of til
atriot@m left. would feel that they til
We duty 10 Themselves aud ,ha;. st