Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-11-02

1os Commissioner 2d District
G. H. ALLEN.
For Commissioner 81 District
W. B. SPENCER.
DEMOCRACY ". OEM0CRArS.
The political organization through
which this country was governed for
many years, Or rather mis-. governed, aud
by which a gigantic effort vas made for
it, complete overthrow and destruction,
il based upon the same principles, and
embraces the same policy that it did in
the years Of its ascendeucy. 1t has al.
ways been primarily an organization f'r
the purpose Of centralizing the political
power Of the na.iou-focusing it in the
hands Of few persons to be employed
- their Interests or caprice might seem
t. demand. The leadership has never
comprised but mere fracti"n Of its fol-
lowing. Wealth and social standing have
always constituted nucleus around which
70 gather membt rship. the only Office Of
duty Of which is to execute the DEGREES of
the party magnates. When VIC consider
the character of the elements that enter into
the structure oi this government, and then
study the character Of the democratic
party in the light of its history, We are
astonished. That a nation whose chief
corner stone il LIBERTY, should exist for
nearly century, 3" far under the control
Of the democratic party-a few aristo.
Gratis ut the south and doughfnccs at the
aor.l,-as to maintain the institution Of
human slavery at its dictation, will never
cease to be y wonder! Tie self:evidcnt
truth that all men are created equal. and
upon the acknowledgement Of which truth
this government rests. is negatived by the
democrs tic party, and subord,na:cd to a
ys,em which teaches the right Of the few
TO control the many. As party the dc.
mocracy have always sub"rdinated, degrad.
Cd and impoverished those who compose
it. Slavery Was the chief object Of its
s"lici,ude and care. This institution be.
ing local in lis territorial occupancy, the
party became largely local also; but in
the same proportion az slave labor af1ec.
ted the industries Of the whole nation, 90
did the influence and membership of the
democratic party extend, until slavery and
democracy were co.cqusl and co.extensive
throughout the land. Slave lsb"r, BE-
cause il was unremunerated, served con-
stsnsly, wherever 1t was employed. 10 de-
grade the poor white people. and in the
eyes Of the sristocracy-thes slave owners
TO cover them with disgrace. Tie man
who did not Gwn slave to d" his work
for him was compelled to live by his own
industry, and that was considered a. men.
isl and degrading. This was universal.
The southern sristocssts despise the PEG.
pie Of the north as heartily as they do
the white trash" at the south. In their
estimation LABOR is disgrace, and those
who perform it are only "mud.sills" OF
society, and yet three four'hs of the sup
porters Of the democratic party are men
who get their living by their toll. The
wealthy and the powerful constitute the
organization, and the INDECENT and the
weak, whom they spit upon and opprcsa
in every conceivable way, make the
leadership successful. The democratic
leaders inauguratcd rebellion in order
to perpetuate slavery. and thereby the deg.
radiation Of the white people in the midst
cf it, and those same white people had to
bear the burden of maintaining and Car.
rying on the war. A, the present time a
reign Of terror exists in the south, because
Ihe leaders Of the der2ocrxtic party will
not accept the results Of the war % una.
voidable. and Ut their behests the igno.
rant whites in that section are to-day or
gsnized into rife bands for the purpose
Of overthrowing their own liberties under
the pretense Of regaining them-they are
In fact degrading themselves from the pr.
sition of freemen to that Of dependence
20 abject a. to be worse than slavery itself,
and thus it is Everywhere throughout the
land. Wherever the democratic party
gets aid, there is liberty dethroned, and
labor disersced, and equality destroyed
and human rights abridged, and honesty
ignored; there is treason plotted and In.
tied fostersd. and IN ultimately successful
rebellion ID cherished. The democracy
do nothing but PREY upon democrats. and
yet-fawning eycophants that they seem
10 be-they lick the hand that inficts the
lash under which they wr,the and groan.
No slavery Of the body can be half 81
sbhorrent - that bondage which be'
1umbs the moral sensibilities and holds
the mind. Of men in willing subsection.
African slavery il, thank God! basbar.
Ism IF the past. Human blood and bones
are No logger estimated 1t price in this
country, but the relics Of that b~rbarisu,
ssill exist amcng u. and their influence il
potent in shaping the conduct Of men. II
10 impossible that . nation should fol-
ninety years sustain and foster . social
system which recognizes ono man -
pasrician and another 10 . plebeian, and
then by the abolition Of that System stimuli.
tansously abolish Ill the pernioious here.
eiss which mankind have imbibod in those
nine decades Of cruelty and wrong. II
Il required four years VAT, gigantic and
terrible, to free the negroes from The
bonds OF human chattelship, ~ may not
hope to smancipats the nstion from the
o1ocss Of that system, until thsoo who