The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-09-22
To the Democratic and COnserv-
alive Voters of Monroe County.

DEMOCRATIC Ex. COMMITTEE RooMs,l
| WooDsFIELD, Ono, Sep. Is, 1868.
The. importance of the issues involved
in the approaching political campaign
can not be over-estimated. If the Rad
ical destructionists succeed in the next
elections, the days of Republican Gov
ernment in America will be numbered
The friends of the Farmer Republic OF
our Fathers" have one more opportunity
and but one, of restoring the govern
ment by the sballot box: failing in that
there remains for us, either unbridled
|despotism or fearful revolution.
1t is true the elections of last year in
dicate the success of the friends of the
Constitution but let us not be deluded
into inactivity or we are lost. BY look
| ing at the means which the Fanatics en-
lployed to get into power we may be warn
ed as to what we may expect III their eff
orts to retain it.
To OBTAIN POWER
They were willing to plunge our coun-
try into the most terrible war that ever
devastated this continent.
They were willing to sacrifice the lives
of flee hundred thousand of our citizens.
They were willing to doom to destruc-
ton .fre thousand million dollars acorth
of the property of our citizens.
They were willing to overwhelm us
with debt of more than three thousand
millions Of dollars.
To PERPETUATE THEMSELVES INPowER-
They have trampled under foot the
Constitution, the Rights of the States,
and the Rights of the People.
They have leagued themselves with
the gigantic bank monopoly which filch-
es from the people millions upon mill
ions Of dollars every year.
They have leagued themselves with
the untaxed bondholders to defraud the
people of thousands of millions of dol
lars in the payment of bonds.
They have leagued themselves with
the wretched, semi-barbarous negroes,
and made them paramount in all legisla-
ton.
To secure the influence of wealth, in
the elections, they have exempted an
amount of the rich mans prop
erty from its just share of taxation
To obtain the electoral votes of the
South they have, by military violence,
forced ten States of the Union under
the control Of worthless, brutal negroes,
DISTINGUISHING and debasing intelligent
white citizens, and crushing them under
the feet of the blacks. -
BY the success of the Radicals the
bondholders will receive eight hundred
of dollars more in principal than
their bonds call for, besides untold mill
ions in interest. For such stake they
can well afford to spend thousands ofI
dollars in every county in the Union, in
corrupting influential men and influential
newspapers they can well afford to hire
demagogues to produce factions in our
party, and to stir up and intensity local
To combat these powerful influences
we have only the justice of our cause to
De supported by honest means. so that
however much the signs of the times
may indicate our success, we must not
for moment relax our energy. Wei
must meet determination with determin-
alton, zeal with zeal, boldness with bold
ness, and organization with organization.
Let us go to work, then, with the en-
,rgy of men who realize the magnitude
Of the issues, and use, to the utmost,
every honorable means to save our coun-
ny from ruin, our Constitution from
destruction, ourselves from degradation,
md our children from slavery to the
1omineering bondholders. u
To the polls! To the polls!! and see !
hat not single Democratic or consery-
,tive voter fails to do his whole duty in
,his momentous crisis.
JERE.. WILLIAMS,
Cht,mdn DEM Cen. Com. Monroe Co.. !