Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-08-21
From the New York Tribune
An the Coumiry's Woes "pemo-
cratic"

broke out in Democratic States IL "as
confined to Democratic States, II was
Matched by Southern Democrats II was
fostered by Northern Democrats, Dem
ocrats differed the Rebel army Demo
Gratis made up its rank and file. Demo-
Gratis filed every Office in the Confederate
Government. from the Presidency down
to the olerkships and Che messengerships'
There wasn't Republican with shout
der.strap, or musket, or "place," in
the whole devilish concern. In the Dem
ocratic city Of Washington, under the
democratic administration Of Buchanan,
the rebellion was conspirod and prepared.
A democratic member Of that democrat
ic administration stripped the North OF
arms, and struggled them over to the
South, and sent the army where itwould
be unavailable, or could easily be cap
tured. A democratic member Of that
same democratic administration scattered
the navy over the world so that it could
not be used on the rebel seaboard. A
democratic Secretary of the Treasury
plundered his trust to supply the rebel
lion with money. A democratic Presi-
dent, entreated to do something to save
the nation, refused, declaring and argu-
ing that the government could not con-
stitutionally defend itself, and that it was
unlawful to coerce rebels, and he sat sui
lenly down, like the democrat and traitor
that he was, and allowed the nations ar
senals to be plundered, and the nations
ships, navy-yards and fortresses to be
seized, and the rebel armies to be organ
lied, without lifting finger to prevent.
Democrats throughout every Northern
and Western State applauded the con-
duct of their Democratic President
adopted and defended his democratic
doctrine, that the Government had no
right to apply force to suppress a rebel
lion-and, from the word GO" politi-
eally and personally opposed every legis-
lative, financial, military and moral mea-
sure taken to speedily and successfully
prosecute the war, and save the nations
life. The country past and present woes
are democratic-all and everyone of
them without one solitary exception. This
truth, as of the gospel, was thus uttered
by western orator:
"Let democratic journals and orators
I howl over the debt and taxes their war
has brought. They but magnify their
own sins. Every dollar Of debt is dem
ocratic legacy. Every tax is democrat
| ic gift, Every government stamp is a
| democratic sticking-plaster. Every per-
son in the United States drinks in de-
mocracy in his tea, his coffee and his
whiskey, and in the sugar wherewith he
sweetens them. Each ingredient pays in
quota for the cost of democracy TO the
country. The smoker inhales democra-
cy. The sick man is physiced with de-
mocracy. The laboring man gives about
one hours labor every day to pay for de
mocracy. The capitalist pays one-tenth
of his income for the cost of the demo
cratic party. Every transfer Of property
is saddled with the democratic burden
Before he is begotten, the child is subject
to the democratic tax. From the cradle
to the grave he never is free from it
The funeral mourning must first pay thC
penalty of democratic rule, and a portion
Of that which he leaves behind must &C
into this democratic vortex. Generation
after generation will carry this democrat
ic burden from birth to death. But foI
the democratic party, our people would
hardly have known the nature of taxa.
ton. But for the democratic party, the
hundreds of thousands of Young men
whose bones are strcwn over the South
would now be productive laborers and
the support and comfort Of families now
desolate. No one can attempt to deny
this indictment. No one can pretend
that the democratic party had any cause
for rebellion. Yet it has the effronterv
to cry over the burdens Of taxation. As
the father of the democratic party, when
he had stripped Job of family and pos
sessions, charged it to his own sins, and
sought to draw him from his integrity, so
his democratic sons now come forward
with equal effrontery and charge their
doings upon the loyal people, and hypo-
critically howl over their affections, and
seek to seduce them from their integrity,
to elect to power the party that has
brought all these woes upon the land"
The Tennessee Democrats tall of