The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-07-14

lican vote. He has been in position
to observe the workings of Radical
rule and has become thoroughly dis
gusted with 1t. Though the article is
lengthy we give it a place in onr col
umns:
A GLIMPSE OF THE SITUATION.
lFor the Democratic Press,lg
If the tocsin of war should again be
sounded throughout our land, and
telegrams be flashed over the wires
announcing the presence of a power
! full hostile feet Standing off Sandy
/ Hook, or vending their way up the
Chesapeake, or The Delaware, how
suddenly would the national heart be
fired while the slirill notes of the fife
and the Gathering of the. drum rever-
Fberating throughout every valley,
would plainly indicate how deeply
the people realised the sense of i'm
pending danger. A stranger might
ask " why this sudden commotion? ?
why this rush to arms ?" The answer
would be, "Simply because every
true American citizen comprehended
the necessity Of defending, not only
themselves and property but the
precious boon which the Fathers of
the Revolution bequeathed to them,
and which they SO nobly earned by
the most indomitable courage and
perseverance, suffering from hunger
and privations, compared with which
the history of the world offers no par
allel, and having faith ngthe justice
and ultimate triumph of their cause,
they shrank not from offering up their
lives upon the altar of freedom, deem
ing that the principle self-govern-
lnent was worthy.of so noble a sacri-
4 flee. Thousands of whom, after toll
ing on for years through summers
heat and winters ice and snow, often
with tattered garments and bare and
bleeding feet, nobly5 died that the
blessing of free government might be
transmitted to- posterityito bea sacred
inheritance unto their children and
their children's' children forever
But prompt as the people would be to
repel foreign invasion, yet they seem
not to realize that q more dang erons
enemy is already in our midst, and
that where Ienee the spirit of free
Democracy spread ITS benign ainfiu-
ence over this fair land, ,lCtKc hydra
headed monster, Aristoerac5y has lap-
peared in our midst, marching through
our country with the strides of a con-
queror, and under its several heads of
Bondholders, Bankers, Railroad mon
opolies, &C., &e.g if CONTROLS the capi,
tai and the government of this country
looking forward to not distant time
when thesyerys name of zDemoc racy
may be,wiped out and a monarchy y
erecte on its ruins.3 J. said the people
do not realize this state of things to
its sfnh extent; butfondly believe (not-
withstanding the hostsaof cohtradic.
tions) that, this is o government of the
masses, a true Democracy, shedding
afar its refulgent lightlupon the polit-
ical firmaments of the old world to
encourage and guide the lovers of lib.
. erty everywhere in their efforts to
throw of the yoke of despotism.
Sweet as thisfunctiom may be to the
American heart, it does not accord
with facts, and it becomes the duty OF
every honest, citizen, whatever may
have been his previous. party predi-
lections, to use every effort, however
feeble, to unmask the demon which
under the cover of a name ("-Repub-
licanism," :. party of freedom &C.,
&c. hides its fangs while at every OPP
4 Iportunity it, strikes at the very iyitals
of our national existance. Well do
the demagogues Whoaprostitute their
titles know of their potency over the
unsuspecting minds of. the people
and well do they use. them to their
own aggrandizement. And now it is
high time that the masses were.aropsed
from their self-seeuaty; for, although
q foreign war may not now. be appre-
hended, il, would be a. blessing com-
pared with that which is already in
our midst. In other words, a subtle
but deadly poison is working its way
thro ugh he5veins of,our body polite,
and unless the antidote, reactionary
movement 4of the peoples soon takes
place we may bid farewell forever to
our boasted freedom and free govern-
ment. Already the Constitution Of
our government has l1eebeso doctored
1 and. matched up to suit partisan pur:
poses. that the Fathers who planned
that instrument wenld hardly recog-
mise in the emutilated and Scared body,
the, child of their care and object nof
their most jealous solicitnde.s d5Whe
of them notwithstanding theirantic-
Ilipatioh of the iinaInextinctihnnnf sla-
very ever dreamed that the black and
damning stainiof the 10Th amendment
would ever have beeni appended to a
]iconstitutionwhich they evidently in
tended for government otsthel Cau-
easian race aAmericanized b Org who
of them ever dreamed that ain element
would be Incorporated into our9polit-
ZEAL system whichlibearss sabduteas. neal,
an analogy to a Caucasian, asaidonkey
does to- a horse2 Isay this with no
malice to, thenegro race. . eIMouid not
infringe upon their liberiesain the
least. am glad that theyare ffcefrom
slavery, notwithstanding tho masses
of them are sufferers eby Fthe sudden
change. But they are not. of uss nei-
ther iiowtnor 9lisye. they been at any,
remote period; of time, and teis the
most absurd fallacy to say that they