Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-09-18
WHAT Greeley Knew about the Demo-
cratic Party In 1865.

cratic fdTll III 1000.
In the month of November, 1865,
the New York Tribune contained the
subioined article. Horace Greeley
was then, as ever since the first es-
tablishment of that paper, its chief
editor. Our readers, both Democrats
and Republicans, are asked to look it
over carefully. and then scan the
present political situation. They
will probably discern a something
akin to mockery In the title of "Old
Honesty" which H. G.'s supporters
are won't to apply to their candidate:
1.-THE Rebellion was Democratic.
1t broke out in Democratic States.
1t was fostered by Northern Demo-
Gratis. Democrats officered the Rebel
Army. Dem )crats made up its rank
and file. Democrats filled every Office
in the Confederate Government from
the Presidency down to the clerk
ships and the messengerships. There
wasn't a Republican with q shoul-
der strap, or a musket, or a "place
III TIC W AOAE ACNAAA1A III
the Democratic City of Washington,
under the Democratic administration
of Buchanan, the rebellion was con-
spired and prepared. A Democratic
member of that Democratic admins
tration stripped the North of arms
and smuggled them over to the South,
and sent the army where it would be
unavailable, or could easily be cap
tured. A Democratic member of
that Democratic administration scat
tered the navy over the world, so
that it could not be used on the rebel
seabOard. A Democratic Secretary
of the Treasury plundered his trust
to supply the Rebellion with money.
A Democratic President, entreated tc
do soIIething to save the nation, re-
fused, declaring and arguing that the
Government could not constitution
ally defend itself, and that it was un-
lawful to cOerce rebels, and he sat
sullenly down like the Democrat and
traitor that he was, and allowed the
nations arsenals to be plundered,
and the nations ships, navy yards
and fOrtresses to be seized, and the
rebel armies to be organized, without
lifting a finger to prevent. Demo
Gratis throughout every Northern and
Western State applauded the con-
duct of their Democratic President
adopted and defended his Democratic
doctrine that the Government had
no right to apply force to suppress
from the word "GO,n
and personally opposed
every legislative, financial, and mill
tary and moral measure taken to
speedily and successfully prosecute
the war, and save the Nations life.
TBE COUNTRY's PAST AND PRESENT
WOES ARE DEMOCRATIC-aii and !
every one of them, without one soli-
tary exception.
'Let Democratic journals and or
gans howl over the debt and taxes
their war has brought upon them.
They but magnify their own sins.
Every dollar of debt is a Democratic |
lie acy. Every tax is a Democratic |
gi b. Every Government stamp is a |
Democratic sticking-plaster. Every !
person in the United States drinks |
Democracy in his tea, and coffee, and |
his whiskey, and the sugar where
with he sweetens them. Each in
gredient pays its quota for the cost of
Democracy to the country. The |
smoker inhales Democracy. The
sick man is physiekSd with Democ-
racy. The IabOring man gives about
lne hours labor to pay for Demoera-
~. The capitalist pays one-tenth Of
lis income for the cost of the Demo
cratic marty. Every transfer of prop
- - NTH tho hannnnFafrp
burden. Before he is begotten the
child is subject to Democratic tax
From the cradle to the grave he is
never free from it. The funeral
must first pay the penalty
# Democratic rule, and a portion of
bat which he leaves behind must go
ntO this Democratic vortex. Gene
alton after generation will carry this
Democratic burden from birth to
leath. But for the Democratic rarty
,ur people would hardly have known
he nature of taxation. But for the
Democratic party, the hundreds Of
thousands of young men whose bones
re stTewn over the earth, would now
'e produtive laborers and the support
nd comfort of families now desOlate.
70 one can attempt to deny this in
ictment. No one can pretend that
he Democratic party had any cause
Or rebellion. Yet it has the effrOnte-
y to cry over the burden Of taxation
IS the father of the Democratic par
Y, when he had stripped Job Of fami-
7 and possessions. charged it to his
wn sins, and sought to draw him
rom his integrity, so his Democratic
Ons now come forth with equal ef- J
rotery, and charge their doings upon
he loyal people, and hypoeTitieally s
owl over their Affections, and seek !
D seduce them from their integrity, /
D elect to dover the party which has \
rought all these woes upon the '
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