Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-06-21

Union and New York lying Times, 4
the pirate. embellished Hannibal Cou,ae,
and thiefedited New Orleans Republ.
can. Lunatic. luantic, chanted our enc
mics; cratic vagary. unaccountabl
queer, wllimpercd our friends. HIa! Ha
Tall aches from little toe -corns grow
The derided, 1unatic' policy of eigh
months ago, is today hailed, the wild
world over, as a masterpiece Of polltica
strategy. And we ourselves. last week
beheld, in the metropolis of Ohio, tn
vastest gathering of patriots that has ev
er assembled in America since the war
nominate amid prodigious tornado 0
applause, the identical names which
was Iunacy in us to suggest few month
ago! Aye, we have veni-vidi-d."
Mr.. Donan further says, that h
was the first man to whom Creole,
wrote declaring war on Grant. 1
is therefore to be supposed that thu
great Cincinnati movement ant
ticket were engineered by a few
such men as Donan, seconded by
Mr.. Greeley, Brown aud others
who were determined to defea,
Grant at any cost.
From this original reform paper
we clip the following:
State Sovereignty! White Supremacy
and Reputation! This is Liberty! Our
Motto: Never Despair of the Republic
Our Platform: The Constitution of 1860
and the rights of the States! Our Doc
trines: This is white mans govern
ment, made by white men for white, and
tueir posterity, forever! Down with the
Fifteenth (Bedamnment! Total rcpudia'
ton of the monstrous Yankee War Debt!
That accused, unconstitutional bur
den, accumulated by an constitutional
Mob styling itself Congress, in the pros
ccuti0n of an unconstitutional Crusade,
for the accomplishment of an unconstltu-
tional and horrid purpose! Down with
Bond-holder and Taxation! Subordina
ton of the Military to the Civil authori-
ties! Down with the Satraps! Equal
taxation and the rightful representation
of all the States, or, another rebellion!
Revolution must be met by Counter Rev
Force by forcc!-Violcncc by
violence!-And usurpation should be
ovcrthrown, if needs be, by the bayonct!
Down with test oaths and registration
Vive la Republiquc! The Caucasian's
Ticket: Horace Greeley, Gratz Brown,
Cox, Trumbull, Palmer, or the Devil
Anybody to beat Ulysses the Gift-Taker!
The above are Democratic princi-
pies of four and six years ago: The
majority of that party have deserted
them and placed themselves square
ly upon a Republican PLATFORM
Their Convention will on the 9th
proximo doubtless adopt, at Balti-
more, the platform born at Cincln-
natl, in which are the very princi-
plies that the Democracy have
fought with bitterness for years.
but it is their only hope-like the
boy digging for the woodchuck,
when asked if he thought he would
get him, replied: "Get him? Fve
got to get him. We arc out of
meat" So it is with that party
They are out of meat and must have
something. Lifelong principles are
deserted, entire platforms are repu-
dated, men and measures that have
been denounced and villified by
them are now taken up and support.
ed, and like the true men that they
ought to have been years ago, when
the great ship of State was in dan
ger of sinking beneath the tread Of
her defensive soldiery, they now
when the danger is past, come te
the support of Republican princi
plies. Truly, if the great party tina
has so valliently fought for the pas
decade for the preservation Of :
great nation must 60 down in 1872
it's last great act will be it's crown
ing one-that OF converting the en-
tire Democratic party to just, patri
otto and honest principles.