The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-12-23
DEMOCRATIC DOUGHFACES.
re forthern Democratic repre-

E tives in Congress are beginning
tv ,now their hands and to do the
dirty work of the Southerners with
the same alacrity and relish as before
the Rebellion: Indeed, they seem to
have entered upon the doughface and
officiating business with even more
eagerness than in the days of slavery,
when the whips Of the chivalry kept
cracking about their ears so industri.
ously. They Sc em to have given
themselves over to the Confederates,
bodies, souls, and breeches. They
have had their noses held to the
grindstone by them until they have
consented to let King Lamar dictate
the business Of the House, enunciate
their policy upon all questions, and
tell them how to vote. They have
thrown wide open the doors of the
House, have collected together the
one-armed and one-legged veterans
who were given the minor offices as
a reward for their services to the Un-
ion, and kicked them out into the
street at the bidding of the Confeder-
ates. The places of the manned SOL
diers have been studiously filled with
ex-Rebels. To crafty Confederate
spleen and venom, the Northern
doughfaces have penetrated every
nook and Granny Of the House, and
swept it clean Of every crippled Un-
ion veteran. They even went nosing
about in the ladies retiring-rooms,
and at last found an old eolored wom-
an who had been a waitress for years,
and whom they also kicked out into
the street to make room for an ex-
Contederate's widow. They have,
therefore, established the fact that the
only test for ofice-holding in the
House is a proof that the candidate
was either an active participant in
the war to break up the Union or a
sympathizer with secession. The bows
in blue 60 to the rear; the Rebels
come to the front. This is just the
condition of thing, that the Tribune
predicted would take place as soon
as the House was organized, and this
is only the beginning of the end.
The South is moving upon the Treas
ury, and, as Mr.. Lamar has been
given the control of the Democratic
votes, the Northern doughfaces dare
not stand in the wvy of the ex-Reb-
els. Shoals Of bills are already pour
ing in, the majority of them from the
South, and nearly every one of them
involving clam or an appropriation
to recompense Confederates for their
loss and trouble in resisting the Union
army. On Tuesday, 233 bills we're
introduced, the majority of which
were to enable ex-Rebels to get their
hands into the Treasury and remuner-
ate themselves for losses incurred in
the War of the Rebellion. And this
is but the beginning of the end, only
the few first drops before the shower,
/ the advance guard of the grand Bour-
bon raid upon the Treasury, which
has been made possible by the dirt
eating and doughfaceism of the
Northern Democracy. Of these
Northern Democrats, at least sixty
are holding their seats in the House
five or six from this State alone
by virtue of Republican votes (who
foolish]y thought the leopard could
change his spots), and this is the man.
ner in which they are paying back
for the political advantages they have
secured. We hope that the Republi-
cans who helped elect them are satis-
fed with their success in helping to
throw the control of the House Of
Representatives into the hands of
ex-Rebels and to give Confederates
precedence over Union men.-Chica-
go Tribune.