Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-07-31
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hood and youth. That vas a worthy pa
y-a party for human rights aud huma
equality. Il vas the reform party Of i
day. IL favored universal suffrage an
the abolition Of imprisonment for debt
and many other bene6ecnt changes. Blu
this modern democratic party, this degeu
Grated democratic party, is very milk
the original democratic party. Ii is ut
terly unworthy Of The name il has so false
ly, not to say knavishly assumed. 1t haC
for many years before our accursed rebel
lion, sympathized with aud served the
slave power Of our land. Hence. when a
dozen years ago that mighty power became
so infatuated as to fall upon our nation
with the purpose of breaking it up en-.
tirely and forever, il found the democrat.
&c party ready to help carry this malig.
nant purpose into effect. Indeed, but for
the well known prO-slavery spirit of that
party. the rebellion would not have been.
1t was the slave powers reliance on that
spirit and on the implicitly if not in fact
expressly promised aid of tens Of thous.
ands OF northern democratic troops, which
srpplied what that power lacked Of en-.
couragement and boldness to plunge into
the rebellion.
When speaking Of this degenerated
democratic party, |, of course, do not in.
ciude In 1t the thousands of loyal men who
on the breaking out of the rebellion, for.
sock it, and espoused the cause of their
country. All the way through the war
this infamous party continued in more or
less active sympathy with the slave pow
er-ever hostile to the emancipation of
the slaves; aud ever hating and despising
the colorcd race. All the way through {
the war, it mourned over our successes I
aud rejOiced in our defeats. All the way d
through the war it dsfavored enlistments r
in our army, and opposed drafting of men u
to fill up our wasting ranks. All b
the way through it, it did what it o
could to weaken our national credit both n
at hame and abroad; and to reduce and
cripple our means for carrying on the war.
And since the war its conduct has been in :,
keeping with its conduct during the war a.
Reputation Of our national debt and i'm !"
possibility that it could ever be paid. :"
When not the cry upon its lips, was still :
he deep desire of its heart. Despairing u
# the literal reinstatement of the negro pa
went for heaping upon it as much of :"
ther injustice and cruelty as was posi- P'
lie 1t refused him the right to vote and -
be educated To this day it PERSISTS y"
refusing him his full measure of civil +"
lghts and equality before the law. Worst We
nd most satanic of all, it opposes all eff. Wv
'ctual legislation for suppressing these
'utnern associations, that whip and hang an
ID shoot thousands of innocent blacks ie
nd not few ;,rooon, uL;. thi
no dare stand up for justice to these in. Du
'cent blacks. pre-
Let me here say that nothing surprises Pu,
I'd alarms me more than the softened put
nc IN which this hell.born ku-kIuxism is 'a''
w spoken of in certain quarters, sur
lere, until quite recently, it was de. par
uuced with the utmost vchemence. How VIII
eat the change at this point in even ~
New York Tribune Does it but re- 'ur'
ct a change in its former eminent edit. can
How sad if so3 This and few uen
her newspapers styling themselves LIB. wor
al Republicans" (alas they are quite too anu
'eral toward this superlative wickedness) tax
ntlnued, until within few months, to VIVA
weigh against ku-kluxism as the most OF
rid OF all the crimes Of earth. But, nan
W, these newspapers would have us be- ne
We that ku.kluxism was only a little and sy
ortlived affair, which has already passed the
'ay' leaving peace and harmony to sup aga
its place. admit that there is iust \
lull in the storm-but the storm is ASST
ended. l admit just now the out. but
eaks Of this matchless wickednes are case
$ frequent, but there are still thousands and
on thousands of men and women, who cep,
J In constant dread of their recurrence will
t president Grant, who so faithfully ex- he \
ties the laws against ku.kluxism, with ress
Nv his rel ressing hand for only sim er
week and the flames of hell would mon
lin burst out there as fercely as ever. rate
the whip and halter and bullet be as and
sy again as ever 1t is true that thjr- duct
SIX persons. convicted of ku-klux crimes head
re sent few days ago to the Albany notw
'ltentiary and that hundreds and more ion.
lry thousands Of others are now under does
ic'ment Tor such crimes; but the spirit not
ku-kluxism will not die out SO long as tv.
democratic party exists TO sympatize ment
h the spirit. AMI
1et us not be deceived by the repre- to re
tations that ku.kluxlsm is common m If Il