The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-20
THE pEnoCRATIO UPRIsING.


to the most fragrant violations OF the letter
and spirit of the constitution of the country
Against this weight of crime, sinking the
party to soundless depths of infamy, the
managers, the real guilty parties, are strug-
Cling with almost suPerhuman power. But
true to their instincts, they are endeavoring
TO regain the confidence of the people by
the liberal use of falsehood, and stand ready
| now, as in the past, to maintain each sepa-
rate he by perjury and military power
Realizing the fact that they have forfeited
Fthe confidence and respect of a great ma
jority of the people, the managers hope by
an adroitness in fraud to show that the
democratic party can not be trusted. Smart
ing under the exposures of their deep laid
schemes to rob the people of their choice of
rulers and plotting to inaugurate their can
didate by means the most infamous, they
hope to divert public attention from their
schemes by charging that democrats are or
ganizing military companies for the purpose
of inaugurating new rebellion. Democrats
propose to meet and to place themselves on
! record as emphatic as the English Ian
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detestable course of the radical party.
! This is their first duty. They will catalogue
the fragrant crimes and usurpations of Grant
snd the perjured crew who, to retain power,
have outraged every principle of law and of
! justice. This is the programme for the pre-
sent. In this there is nothing military or
rebellious, 1t is the right of freemen, and
| KILL will
have to stand it. 1t may act on Morton's
dead legs like shock from a galvanic bat
terry, but Sitting Bull can't help himself.
| IL he had dozen backbones instead OF none
at ali, it would be all the same. Men who
despise fraud-democrats ard liberty loving
people of all political parties-will exercise
the privilege of denouncing returning board
rascalities They will properly characterize
the radical programme and Grants despot
ism. The time has arrived for just this IN
pleasant duty, and democrats will not
shrink from its performance. Demo-
Gratis will form clubs. 1t lis their
right and their privilege, and they
will do all other things that free
men whose liberties are in danger may
do under the law. Democrats do not pro-
! pose to rebel against lawfully constituted
! authorities. They will not cut loose from
their constitutional moorings. The demo-
| cratic party is eminently and pre-eminently
| party of law and order, and will always be
found upholding constitutional guarantees
Of the peoples liberties. The radical mana
gers, the radical organs and radical Office
holders are the only persons who are talking
about war. They have had soldiers with
loaded muskets and fixed bayonetS
aiding them in their internal plottings
against the liberties of the country. The
radical managers would like amazingly well
to make it appear that democrats are even
now ready for war, and this they are trying
| to do by the most disreputable means; but
so far poor Roadway has been made. Demo
Gratis propose TO be prudent, but they VIII
not abate their adherence of radical meth
DDS to elect men to high offices. All the
talk about democratic war clubs is designed
to obscure from the public the preparations
for war which the radical managers are max
ing and to overshadow the infamous frauds
that have been practiced to enable them to
declare that Hayes has been elected to the
presidency.
The purpose of the radical managers
has been to SO exasperate the demo
cratic party to an extent that they would
commit some act that could be tortured
into an excuse for their arrest and i'm
risonment; and to accomplish this
every internal device has been practiced
The New York Sun, that has been engaged
for years in unearthing radical scoundreiisln,
is now over anxious that the people shall re-
main quiet, and permit all the frauds, vii
lainies, returning board perjuries and mill
tary despotisms to be consolidated
into one great and overshadowing fraud
the Inauguration of Hayes: at is for the
interest OF the republican party" says the
Sun, ''and of the conspirators who now con-
troll it that the progress and the final con-
summation of the plot to make president
by fraud and force should be violently re-
sisted. They desire that the just passions
of the people should be excited TO the
point of actual Sedition in order that they
may seize the opportunity to proclaim a
new war, to raise new armies to subjugate
a new rebellion. to hide their own crimes
with new bloodshed and ruin, and to gain
"a new and long lease of power for them
selves"
The democratic party is proverbially a
prudent party. 1t is not party of sedition,
nor yet party of craven towards 1t has
gained grand victory over fraud and in.
timidation. 1t stands erect, clothed with
the right. Justice illumines every feature.
1t despises fraud. In its conscious integrity
it is not to be driven from its high and patri-