Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1871-05-23
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has ~ political stain upon lis record tC
defend 4 strange party, not u single
stain upon its record! What a representa-
ton Of political purity for the nation. o
The world TO behold Not a single stain
upon its record, Was there ever Sucl
another Can tie old World, during it,
pas. history OF three thousand years, with
all its rise aud fall of governments, tho
making and unmaking olpolitical parties,
point to a single party hose record has
not shown stain Has history made
record of any such No. No such H.
stance in he world is to be found; and
yet, the Register has it, that the Demo
cratic party IS free from any stain what
ever. hardly know what the Register
would call political STAIN" but Web
ster gives Us 4 definition for stain a
faint of guilt, pollution, shame, iuiamy,
dc. Was The rebellion Of the Democrat.
/ lie party against The Government, inIamy?
( j. il no stain of guilt that that party has
murdered more than two hundred lhous-
and OF Americas noblest sons and NIL but
made the nation 4 paupor2
Was the war carried on by Democrat
lie Presideu, and his Border ruflians
against Kansas to force upon that State a
disgracefu and the most inhuman institu-
ton the world ever saw, any stain Was
more :han fifty years of ,onytant labor to
extend slavery over the whole nation y
stain upon the Democratic party? Was
the Fugitive Slave law stain? Ii these
ate not stains upon the record Of that
party. then Rebellion, and Slavery, and
Ruflianism are not crimes, but simply the
legal instruments which the Democratic
party Is licensed TO employ, in order TO
carry out It's traitorouS designs. under the
cloak OF political Reform. Better would
the Register appear, il it had said, that
no party ever existed with record 50
absolutely blaekened with iutamy and
crime, rs the Democratic party. | do not
say that this is the case, but OF the two
extremes. choose the least. For the
Editor of the Register to say, the Demo
cratic party has no stains, is about as con-
sis,eut a his constant bowling that the
crimes in the South are committed by
Republicans, instead of Democratic ku-
Klux. in order to control the coming
election, a reasoning about as plausible
as three lourlhs OF his editorials in which
his chief talk is Republican corruption,
radicali,m, usurpation, Capitalization,
&C.. which no one can be made TO believe
but Ignorant Democrats, and which the
Democratic leaders themselves know TO
be rs false - it is wicked. 1t Is of no
Use for the Democratic party 70 under
take TO make their past record appear
white and uuspottcd by attacking and
pronounIing vide and corrupt the Re
puLlicaus. They have already written
their own history aul the world has read
It. time aud again. They have written
it. rs did DRAGON, the laws Of Athens, in
the blood OF it, subjects bat unlike
I DRAGON. their late history j. not one of
political rule.-No man IAN acquire
/ friends by finding fault with his neigh.
bors. and no party can attain 70 power by
attempting 10 conceal their own sins in
exposing those of others.
/ Tha: the only hope Of the Democratic
parry in the approaching Presidential
contest i, II blot out from the minds oil
/ the people the villanies, the crimes. the
treasons which they perpetnted, and IN
/ fact. to entirely discard ana deny the his
tors of four years of bloody rebellion
which they instituted TO overthrow the
Government, and build, ON It's rains, one,
with Slavery tor il, corner stone, Is rs
plain 10 the world, rs il il, that no other
party in America mas ever become traitors,
or lai>ed agains, their government the
red flag OF civil strite.-But can they dc
this? Can they blot ont those taius OF
blood and treason which they have bot
upon themselves by engaging in | wicked
and unhalloWed rebellion VIII the
American people forget in 81 short time
/ .he Rebel veil? the same ~that is heard
to-day i'm tones not less defiant? viii
the memories of Libby Prison, OF Raleigl
/ and Andersonyille be 50 soon forgotten
Ii they are, It the Democratic party
can wash from their record these, the
loules, OF all stains, il they can convince
the good sense Of this people that they hat
no band in iustituting the Rebellion anC
perpetrating the crimes which followed
it, then, possibly, they may succeed, bat
not till then. 10 consider Tor momen
tina, they will do this, is unreasonable, ioI
nothing but the wide valley OF time car
blot from the recollection OF the American
people, To- say nothing OF Southern tr;ti
tors, the acts OF such men as Seymour
Vallandigham, Wood, Frank Pierce ant
a host of others, who during the Re
bellion, never were known. in any public
or official manner, to douounce those
engaged in ii, or speak . single word o
Encouragement on cheer Tor the Govern
meut or Tor those fighting Tor its preserva
tior. The speech OF Seymour in th
midst uf The bowling mob OF New IorI
city. when he spoke to that blood-thirst,
clau Of Negro killing Democrats, callin!
. them his friends. telling them that tn
draft should be stopped, that they ough