The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-10-19
The Democratic Constitutional
C0NSfrlictiO1aiSt.

1hc DcuOClAsAS OouotiIutlOu Uld-
zoner of 1864 propa gated and proclaim
ed in 1860 and '6l, that his allegiance
to bis State was paramount to his alle-
glance to the Government Of the Uni
ted States, under the Constitution of
the latter, so he got bitterly "unp,eas-
ant" and seccedcd.
Robert E. Lee Of Vir 5inia ssceeded
because he believed it was his con sti-
tu:ioa:! duty to sscceed because his
State did
John G. Breckenridge and others
thought it their constitutional duty to
soc5cd; although their States did not.
Now, q,cry:-What is strict Dem
o,rat construction of the United
States constitution ?
The Democratic Constitutional car
nolite Of 1861, held that it was uncon-
sti:utional to issue Greenbacks, meas
uve becoming necessity in conse-
quence Of the Democratic unpleasant
ness. A Republican congress and
Republican administration pissed an
act authorizing the issue of Green
backs, and made them. upon which the
strict Democratic constructionist be-
walled our country as lost and utterly
undone 10 consequence Of broken
constitution.
The Democratic carpolite Of 1861,
has changed to a Constitutional chiro-
podist in 1876, and is prescribing as
certain Constitutional restorer, more
Greenbacks, which is soft on Hen
dricks and hard on Tilden.
Query again: If Republican
Greenbacks was one of the means Of
saving the Union from disintegration
from 81 to 'G5, during the democratic
Rebellion, will they be a means of
reiustating the democratic party in
1876? and thereby reunite the hither
and thither ends of the Democratic
constitution
The strict Democratic constitution
al constructionist of 1920. believed
the only true method of support
ing the Tinted States Government,
was by direct duties on importations.
In 1880 these same Democratic, skill
full, clever handed, fortune telling CHI
rosophists discovered that this
method of supporting the Government
was unconstitutional, and Democratic
constitutional-loving South Carolina
resolved to nulify the acts Of Con
gress, but "By the Eternal" they were
afraid to hang together on the ques-
ton and gave it up.
They tried it again in the time Of
James the Unrcady, surmanded Buch.
anan the XIV, on a larger scale from
1860 to IS, but the Republican par.
ty Granted them a view of the error
of their ways, and they acknowledged
their inability to "hug the constieu-
ton to DEATH" unto Ulysses at Ap-
pomattox Court House, and after this
goodly number of these slippery
consistional loving Democrats, de-
clared this was not their country, that
they would not live in it, and then
went to Brazil simply because the
Republican party had broken the con-
stitution And how? Because the Re.
publicans had elected Abraham Lin.
coin; because the Republicans had op-
posed and put down Democratic Re-
bellion; because the Government hav-
ing become sole possessor Of the "Chat
tles"? known as the "innooent cause Of
the war; by the voluntary act Of
these same Democratic strict const,tu
tional constructionlsts, set four mil.
lion colored Slaves free, and declared
that from thence forth human slavery
should forever cease to exist in these
United States.
These same strict constitutional con.
structionists not having their fragment.
ary constitution to live with, swear by
and die form Barzil, became both hun
cry aud naked and like the prodigal