Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-31

iopinion still," can they be trusted b,
friends of our National Union, and ou
Constitution IS is?'
The present outcroppings of rebel
lion, in the exercise of assumed Stat
rights, in the South as before the re
bellion, have the sympathies and apol
ogies Of the Democracy of the NOrtl
to-day as they had in the days of Jane
Buchanan, the representative of tn,
rebel sympathizers. Then congression
al speeches rang with denials OF tn,
existence of well authenticated outra
ges the most cruel and bloody. Thel
their journals were filled with ever,
form of sympathy with the South, ant
J ldenials and excuses for Southern out
lawry. So, to day, this old Buchanan
cause of nursing rebellion is to the let
ter pursued by the successors and in
heritOrs of the old Buchanan DemOcra
cy. This accounts for the howl o
bloody shirt for the apologies ant
denials OF the Hamburg and other saw
age murders, for the opposition to Ma.
tiOnai protection of rights of citizens
outraged by Southern Democrats, anC
for the demand of the withdrawal O
all military force from the South, as i
the North was the only place in the
Union where the boys in blue have 6
right to breathe American air or unfur
the stars and stripes to.the breeze!-a:
if the United States have no right tt
protect American citizens in the exer
else OF rights guaranteed by National
Constitution and National law!
From the indications of the past
record of Democracy. can it be trusted?
Not honestly. Because
Fourth-The party is the same to-day
in spirit and aim, and in its candidates,
in regard to State rights, as when rep
resented by BuchaLan and his rebel
Cabinet.
1t extenuates and apologies for
Southern murders and outrages, just as
in the days when Methodist preachers
and Abolitionists were hung up by the
wayside, upon limbs of trees, like
dogs. 1t is the shield and hope of
Southern banditti and outlaws, as it
was twenty years ago. While it has
changed in every phase of its political
creed, its platforms and issues, it is not
changed in its sympathies and alliance
with the lost cause 1t believes now
in the sovereign right of Southern
States to intercept the United States
mail, and would shield Southern
States in such outrages, as t did in the
days OF its supremacy. In the golden
age of Buchanan Democracy, the New
York Tribune was contraband, at will,
in the Democratic South, and the vio-
lence there was sustained by the De-
n in % LOFT
cratic Congress, when Southern rebel
on the floor of the House, re-affirmed
this very sovereign right of Southern
State to arrest United States mail, as
in PALMER days, q Democratic Congress
SAT MUM! Like whipped spaniels, as
formerly, they oringed at the sound of
the party lash. Can such political SUBJ
serviency be trusted?
The developments of the late rebel
Congress demonstrated the identity of
the present party with the old, before
and during the war. Their whole ac-
ton in regard to anything South, cor
with the action of Buchanan
times. This with rebel head unveiled,
develops itself in initiatory steps, in
concert with Southern action, for the
payment of rebel war claims, which |
would involve the Nation in hundreds
Of millions of dollars. Also, its return
ing to the Buchanan policy OF weaken
ing the army and navy, in connection
with crippling the finances, and rob-
oing the Treasury. In all this nursing
he rebel heart and arm for successful
secession, while paralyzing the nation
II power for defence, the South is en-
outraged and emboldened in her aims
20 restore lost cause, or its equiva-
ent. This day we are witnessing the
of the very same policy
hat famed the war flame which burst
iorth into the confagration of consul
ming war. What rebels did once, they
ire again doing" What their friends,
he Democratic party, did once, they
ire now doing, in alliance with the
anne conspirators, and will do again
ust as Southern eXigencies offer oc-
aston. The snake that once did bite,
f permitted to live, will bite again.
Shall the Republic warm the frozen vi
,er into life again? Can the Democrat
C party be trusted with the life and
interests of the Nation it conspired
o destroy? Rather, let every voter say
1.-THE UNION NOW AND FOREVERp'I