The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-10-25

From the n. Y. Tribune, Nov. 1855.
ALL THE COUNTRY'S IrORS dem.
OCRATlC."

Inc Rebellion was Democratic. II
broke out in Democratic States. 1t
was confined to Democratic States.
1t was Matched by Southern Demo
Gratis. twas fostered by Northern
Democrats. Democrats Offered the
Rebel army. Democrats made up its
rank and file. Democrats filed every
Office in the Confederate Government
from the Presidency down to the
clerkships snd the messengerships.
There wasn't Republican with q
shoulder-strap or q musket, or .
"plGce, Yin the whole devilish concern.
In the Democratic City Of Washing
ton, under the Democratic Admins
tration OF Buchanan, the Rebellion
was conspired and prepared. A
Democratic member of that Demo
cratic Administration stripped the
North Of arms, and smuggled them
over to the South, and sent the srmy
where it would be unavailable, or
could be easily csptured- A Demo
cratic member or that same Demo
cratic Administration scattered the
navy over the world SO that it could
not be used on the Rebel seaboard.
A Democratic Secretary OF the Treas.
ury plundered his trust to supply the
Rebellion with money. A Democrat
ic President, entreated to do some
thing to save the Nation, refused, de-
claring and arguing that the Govern
ment could not Constitutionally de-
fend itself, and that it was unlawful
to coerce Rebels, and he sat sullenly
down, like the Democrat and traitor
that be was, and allowed the Nations
arsenals to be plundered, and the
Nations ships, navy-yards and for
tresses to be seized, and the Rebel
armies to be organized, without lift |
ing finger to prevent. Democrats
throughout every Northern anG Wes-
tern State applauded the couduct of
their Democratic President-adopted
and defended his Democratic doctrine,
that the Government had no right to
apply force to suppress Rebellion
and from the word "Go," political
ly and personally opposed every leg
islative, financial, military and moral
measure taken to speedily and sue
cesslully prosecute the war, and save
the Nations life. The CoUkTRY's
PAST AND PRESENT WOES ARE DEMO
CRATIc-all and every one of them
without one solitary exception
This truth as of the Gospel, was thus
uttered by Western orator:
"Let Democratic journals and ora
tors howl over the debt and taxes
their war has brought. They but
their own sins. Every dol
lar Of debt is Democratic legacy
Every tax is Democratic gift. Ev-
cry Government stamp is Democrat
ic sticking plaster. Every person in
the United States drinks in Democ- {
racy in his tea, his coffee and his
whiskey, and in the sugar wherewith
he sweetens them. Each ingredient
pays its quota for the cost Of Democ- !
racy to the country. The smoker in
hales Democracy. The sick man is {
with Democracy. The {
man gives about one hours &
labor every day to pay for Democrs {
cy. The cap talist pays one tenth Of {
Of his income for the cost OF the 1
Democratic party. Every transfer g
OF property is saddled with the Dem
ocratic burden Before he is begot
ten, the child is subject to Democrat
ic tax. From the cradle to the grave
be never i. free from it. The funer- '
81 mourning must first pay the penal i
ty oil Democratic rule, and portion :
Of that which he lesves behind must 8
90 into this Democratic vortex. q
Generation after generation will carry r
this Democratic burden from birth to
death. But for the Democratic party T
our people would hardly have known '
the nature OF taxation, But for the t
Democratic party, the hundreds of G
OF young men whose bones '
are strewn over the South would now 6
be productive lsborers and the sup .
port and comfort Of families now :
desolate. No one can attempt to {
ieuy this indictment. No one can t
pretend that the Democratic party .
had any cause for rebellion. Yet It {
has the efrontery to cry over the il
burdens OF taxation. As the father y
Of the Democratic party, when he v
he stripped Job OF family and pos e
sessions, charged it to bis own sins, {
md sought to draw him from his v
so his Democratic sons 4
now come forward with equal effront I
cry and charge their doings upon =
he loyal people, and hypocriticslly
howl over their sfflictions, and seek n
% seauce them from their integrity,
20 elect to power the party that has
brought all these woes upon the
and"