Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-31
The Tvo Parties EOnfrasted.

I
hiGeousness may nerve us for the conflict,
| by impressing upon US the necessity of rid
| ding the world of a monster or to narrow
| the expression, saving our country from
the curse ofits ascendency and government
We present crayon sketch Of the Republi-
can party and n life-like portrait of the De
mocracy, the latter strongly but perhaps
not TOO highly colored. The artist may be
partial, but the pride of art keeps him with
in the bounds of truth and prevents him
| from indulging in caricature. The Buffalo
Express is the painter, and here are the
| pictures as he draws them
1T is pitable to mark the maniacal raw
| ings of that miserable, disjointed, and hope
| lessly abandoned political organization
known as the Democracy. Exhibiting as
many shades OF complexion, and broken up
| into greater number Of crazy factions than
ever cursed the arena of French politics,
blackened by every crime in the political
calen dar, and cast out as all incorriglble
political reprobate, it still has the brazen
elfrontery to assume the attitude of cring-
ing suppliant and plead for restoration OF
that confidence which, by an unexampled
| course of corruption, rascality and abuse
of power, it forfeited more than fourteen
years ago. We should be disposed to treat
| its impudence with some degree of tOler
alton if it did not descend to the cOntemptI-
BILE meanness of attempting to cover up its
own infamy by the grossest misrepresenta-
tiOns of the party disputing its claims.
| 1t is not assumed in vindicatiOn of the
Republican party that its administrations
have been absolutely spotless and pure, or
/ that lis record for the past fourteen years
shows no single instance Of official malfea-
sance or abuse Of trust. What we do claim
| is that the history Of the world furnishes no
such example OF honest determination 20
hunt out and punish with unsparing severii
| ty the evidoers within its own ranks, rs
has been shown by the party in power dur
| ing the last few years. No rank, however
exalted, and no influence, however great,
could stand between the culprit and the
severity of justice when guilt was once
traced to his door.
| We challenge the Democracy TO pre-
sent n single parallel instance during the
whole history of its supremacy. That
party has been the nest in which every
species of political rascality has been
Matched. The most gigantic schemes Of
frauds and misrulo have been planned and
perpetrated within its lines, in no case has
a criminal been exposed within its own
ranks and punished by its own hand
When Republican journals have dragged
its infamy +" the light, ii has assumed an
air Of defiance and .loried in its shame.
And when its plunder and notorious pecul-
ations could no longer he borne. and an
outraged people have demanded the eX-
posure punishment of its crimes, with the
aid of its press, bribed and stepped to the
ears in corruption. it has done its best to
conceal aud defend them.
And this is the party that today is
clamoring for another lease of power and
promises all sorts of reform and blessing to
| the nation when its claims shali1be once
more conceded. We have shown by re-
peated exposures of its utter lack Of con-
sitency, honor or truthfulness, what the
country is TO expect if the Democracy
should once more come into power. We
sicken at the recital of its iniamy as per-
| petraled in localities where has gained an
ascendency.
In New IIamshlrc and Connecticut, power
is shamelessly prostituted to partisan ends,
election districts are gerrymandred to con-
| troll the ballot-boX, and the predominance
Of the oppressor is maintained in utter dis
regard of order, precedent and law.
In the South it is inaugurating a war of
races, and threatens to deluge with carnage
and desolatiou large section of the coun
try now burdened with debt and taxation
the fruits of its own infamous misrule.
If its policy in the South means anything,
accomplished in the last fifteen years ; it
would back into order chaos, and re-estab-
| lish slavery on the overthrow of freedom.
Wherever we look, the Democracy pre-
sents the same ghastly spectacle of rapacity.
oppressi on and wrong, and by its persistent
misGeeds gives fair warning of what it will
do, if again entrusted with the reins Of
power In Indiana it foreshadows dishon-
or and ruin to the nation by an increase Of
paper money and repudiation Of the nation
al debt.
In Connecticut the cloven-foot of Tam
many has been prominently displayed while
in Louisiana and other States of the South,
reign OF terror is threatened which will
outstrip all that has preceded it, in deeds of
violence and olood. The tine has hardly
come to entrust the interests of the nation
to such party as this, aud the time is far
| distant when such a mistake will be com
| mitted by the DeODle