Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-11-01
THE DEMOCRACY EVER ON
THE EIGHT SIDE,


For the past twenty years it has
seemed Impossible for this Democrat
ic organization, jas a party, to get on
the right side osf any issue, new or
old. When border ruffiains drove
the people OF Kansas from their polls
and by fraudulent votes elected a
pro-siavcry Legislature, and finally
sought % impet-e hateful constitu-
ion nstai li~hitg slavery there on a
people who Alrt:ist unanimously de-
noGuccd it, tfo Democratic party
championed tl&s wickedness. When
TIE Dfei Scots decision, intended to
make slavery uatioual and all pow
erlal, was proclaimed they cordially
endorsed il. all through the war
every measureito strengthen the ma
tons arm and weak ell the enemy's,
whether confscation Or emancipa-
ton, or colore.l soldiers, e.c., was, in
their opinion, ilI wrong or unconsti-
tutional, and 1T only to be denounc-
ed.
When the war closed, and the
question came up whether the insur-
gent states shiuld be restored to the
rule of the very men who had used
their executive, Legislative and jude
lal powers TO grganize the rebellion
and TO raise III armies, or whether
every effort SHOULD be made to the
contrary, to organize them on bas-
is loyal to the sunion the Democratic
party instincfvely insisted on the
former When tax bills and draft
laws became Necessary to the pres
ervation existence, they warred up
on all these Details as wicked and
tyrannical. When the interest on
the national tebt could only be hon
estly lessened by showing the world
that our nat sonal credit would be
sacredly maintained at the highest
point by all PARTIES, their speakers
and presses denounced those who
had lent US mhney as if they were
swindlers, ana in every possible way
sought to poison the public mind
against themi
When our Mreenbacks, whose ulti-
mate value tGey had formerly dis
credited, wera rising in value toward
gold, they camored for issues of
hundreds Of thousands or thousands
Of millions MORE, to verify their un-
fulfilled prophecies about them
When President Grant commenced
paying OFF tls. debt. with the surplus
revenues ths& his honest and efficient
officers had collected, they denounc-
ed his buying bonds at their current
value in the snarket of the world
Wh.n q Republican Congress passed
o bill reducing taxation $50, 900
per year ehey registered their
votes, as a party, against it. When
the same Congress passed bill TO
honestly reduce the interest on our
bonds, by ieutual arrangement with
our creditors or by paying old bonds
with the prc seeds OF thc new they
were against IT, When it passed a bill
to enforcs tie XlVth and the XVIII
amendments. with penalties only
against eyiE doors and offenders,
they resisted it with vehement zeal.
When il parecd laws for the lestora-
tI.t Of rrbe:. states 10 representation
II Il UGr.1 ibe Democracy con
q mncd thet provisions aud fought
them t. he 0itter nd
When 4 law 10 guard the ballot
BOX national elections was passed,
furnishing ilcgal voting, shameless
repeating sald fraudulent counting,
they denouhced it and its penalties,
as if tho aci ; il punished were not
The wicked st Of crimes against free
governments and republican institu-
tons. Ani} finally, when o war
broke out IL Europe that outraged
the moral continents Of the world,
and without provocation, Germany
was competed to arm for the pro-
lection of the iatherland from inva-
sion and dCspoilment, their leading
organs, as instinctively as in the
other cases have cited, took tho
wrong side. It is this party--a par
ty of reacGon, of negation, Of parti-
san opposition-whose leaders seem
to that it shall ever be on the side Of
wrong-wfich appeals to the people
to-day to Gothe them with national
power.-CaJdr.
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