Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-04-20
MARTHUR VNTON COUNTY, OHIO: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 1870

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ferelt wants, and they provi-
ded for them accordingly; and
we repeat, for seventy years,
this glorious American system
based on the natural order, and
in harmony with the eternal
foundations, fixed forever from
the beginning Of the world, Sc.
cured an extent of well.being
for all, for the inferior species
as well as ourselves, without
parallel or approach even in
human history. But suddenly,
strangely, wonderfully, as if Sa.
tan were let loose to work an
other fall for humanity,
this glorious fabric of
American .hbelty is over
thrown, and q gang OF lunaticS,
traitors and fools are striving
to reconstruct" a shapeless,
formless and nameless mon
strO'itty on its ruins! A "Con- 3,
gress," representing possibly
one.fourth of the people, have
made amendments" which, if
have any sense or meaning
whatever, abolish utterly the
constitutional Union . f 1860!
Instead of the United States
and homogeneous citizenship
of 1860, these "Amen ndments'
sci up rotten borroughs, and a
Mongrel citizenship, after the
model Of Mexico and South
America, aud DISTINGUISHING
some half a million of the no
blest men and best Democrats
on the Continent. Congress
gives itself the right to set up
standing armies, and thus to
rule forever! Of course, it pre-
tends to go through certain
forms of State ratification, but
in all this land there is not one
man 80 ignorant or SO stupid as
not to know perfectly that, out
side of New England, there is
no ratification Of these revolt
ing and villainous amendments,
and therefore, were they as just
and right in themselves as they
are vile and attrocious, every
honest Democrat should resist
to the uttermost, an imposition
on the people SO gross and dam
nable! But the fraudulent pro-
ceedure, the gross, stupid, alb.
solutely ludicrous mockeries Of
ratification sink into nothing
ness, in comparison with the
gigantic crime itself-the over
throw of the Federal system, to
destroy social order in a section
Of the common country.
Great heavens!-what have
the once noble and free men
Of America degenerated into?
Will they lay right down in
the dust, and permit a horde Of
lunatics, traitors and thieves to
thus tread upon their necks,
while gamboling and rioting
over the ruins of American lib
erty? But even if they do so,
all will be in vain-if the Gov.
ernors of the Democratic States
trample on the State Constitu-
ions they are sworn to uphold
If they peljure themselves in
regard to the Constitution of
1860, and permit a bogus Con.
gress to rule over their several
people, and force them to Mon
grelize themselves at the point
of the bayonet-in a word, if
the Democratic State Govern
ors abdicate their functions and
quail at the feet of the accurs-
ed power at Washington, they
will be as far from peace as
eveT indeed, they will then,
of necessity, invite and hasten
on that avery anarchy, blood
and horror which, by their stu
pid and abject cowardice, they
seek to avoid. There is no help
for it-no peace, order or safe
.ty in this broad land, save in
the "Union as it was" made by
the fathers, and therefore,
every man that consents or as
sents to the so-called Amend
ments, is an enemy to Ameri-
can liberty, and aiding lunatics
and traitors to organize an
archy.
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