The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-20
TIRE BGLTING GERMAN DEMOCRACY.
Another Brcadside Against Seymour.
Blair and Revolution.

We printed a few weeks since, the
significant aud powerful article with which
the GAINESVILLE Ge1manta, always hereto
fore Democratic journal, repudiated the
Seymour and Blair ticket and platform,
as an infamous fraud upon the free-born
German Democrats of the North For
| this exercise of his freedom of opinion,
the editor of that journal was SO grossly
assailed by K. K. X. print at Zanes-
vile, that he retorts with the following
card in the courier It affords good evi
dence that neither ''the Dutchmen of
Muskingum" or elsewhere are to be
''hitched to the chariots" of Seymour
and Blair. Read;
Reason teaches US that parties, as hui
man societies, are liable to err, and expe-
rience and history teach us that these.
especially at an age Of much dishonesty
and corruption, are to be taken very care.
fully, and their candidates closely scrutin-
lied |? after their former history.
To the objection of Inconsistency Switch
the Democrats throw up against us, we beg
leave to say:
If the Democrats wish man always to
stick to the party he hitherto belonged to,
they mihht have the consistency to sweep
first before their own door, and kiSb out
their repeatedly fence jumping candidate
for Vice President, f. p Blair, and many
other leading Democrats, refugees from
the Republican party. The Democrats
will hold us, therefore, excused of incon-
sistency.
We are conside1ed faithIess traitor to
party and principles. In this regard we
ask the Democracy
LIST. Whether they permit us the exer-
| else ependentjudgment, orwheth-
er they want party slaves?
I'd. Whether a man is not bound to
leave company which he sees is getting
corrupt or leading into bad ways? and we
ask:
3rd. Whether the Democratic party
proved itself at the New York Convention
converted or eradicated from the secesh
element, or whether this element was not
there in full force and glory, as Governor
Wise announced at Richmond, 1.-The
Fourth Of July in New York is the day
which would gain the friends what the
rebellion could not gain ?" And we ask
4th. Whether it is not the right kind of
relationship, TO leave the flag hois ted by
Forrest, the guerrilla General, by Vallan-
digham and Dir. Wash Mclean, and to
join the army Of Grant, who Is proclaim
ed by history the Savior of the American
Republic?
Whether it is treacherous or mean to
confide in that patriotic, upright, straight
forward and honestmlnded General whose
hands to kiss every child thought itself
happy. at the close Of the War-or to
trust the future Of the country to those IN
connection or cooperation with our enc
mics? To trust to the candidates that
desire peace, or to one who thirsts for
war p
To the commonly used Democratic
charge of bribery we simply request the
Democracy. not to Judge us by themselves
because their delegates got their pockets.
filed at New York md sold themselves
(See La Crosse DcIaocrat, and Cincinnati
inquirer Of the 9TH and 9th of July
We believe it requires no bribery for a
War Democrat, as we always considered
ourselves, to repudlate that convention
Was General Sherman suddenly bribed
because he, a Democrat. declared for
Grant against the New York ticket. or is
Chase bribed because he like ne declares,
there was no hope for the victory of the
Democratic ticket 1t is no miracle nor
does it require bribery, fan honest think
ing Democrat prefers Grant with Union
Democratic principles to a man who does
not enjoy the G Ter ce Of Il e la -.
These are our p )litical principles whic
We think are settled enough; of course
not settled as the wool-dyed Dem, era
used to say: My father or grandfather
was a Democrat. | am a Democrat, have
been one, and with the hope Of the Lord,
shall be one all nrS life time" Our prin-
right; never pledge yourself to any such
ciple is: Leave the party if you think it
Is wrong and go to the party which aims at
party, because it may fall
Such are the'principles of wise man
and not Of a blind partisan, or of one who
is under obligation or pledged to a party
The interests we earned from the free
expression Of our upright view on the
New York ticket is: Persecution from
rusticS, prospects of a Seymour mob and
the loss of subscribers of those who. not
relying upon their own mind, were afraid
of learning different views, and of being
lifted above their ''Westbote or VClks
freund.
Its proper to remark that Republicans
are more patriotic and penetrating by
their principles so as to give a generous
support to the newspapers, those great
Instruments for the cultivation of the
intelligence of the people, than the Dem
| ocratS,
We confess, ourselves. the Gernao1,iu
never attempted to work for a party,
never put up a party ticket and never
spoke in Fashionable tone of the parties
1t seems the Democrats think that only
such papers have effect which make then
profession to shoot with the poisonous
arrows Or misrepresentation, ISLANDERS
and personal attacks We also confess
aud believe that the names of Seymour
and Blair on The Democratic ticket vii
worb, far more powerfully to the defeat Of
| the Democrats than our humble paper
/ the GcrmGRja. Sapjeptes sat
&. ARNOLD, Editor of Germ ana.
TAXING u. S. BONDS. The follow
| mo froo tbn Now York Tribune should