Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-09-27

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| the conclusion that the Democrats owned
that corn. At the time the Republican party
| came into existence, slavery was not salts
| fled with being local, but endeavored to use
| its infamous leprosy, as ii were, for pushing
| it into every Territory of the United states.
| Recollect the condition of the country at
| that time. Boats went down the Missouri
| river loaded with wives torn from their hus-
bands with children torn from the breasts
| of their mothers, while the same men who
did this are now shouting for Tilden and
Reform. At that time we were Nation of
hypocrites. We pretended to be free Gov
enrnmcnt. 1t was lie. We pretended to
have free Constitution. 1t was lie. We
pretended to have justice in our courts. 1t
was lie. Above all our pretenses, and
above all our hypocrisies, rose the
crime of slavery like Chimborazo above
the clouds The Republican party
came into existence in 1860, when it
elected Abraham Lincoln, the greatest man
that was ever President Of the United states
As soon as he was elected the South said
"We will not stay in the Union" The
South said: "You have no right to elect a
man opposed to the extension of human
slavery" and James Buchanan SAID that
they had right to go out of the Union, and
there was another little man who said: 81
say so, too" and his name was Samuel j.
rilden. He read the Constitution of the
United States and several Democratic plat
forms, and decided that the Government had
no right to do anything except to defend
slavery. Recoliect that James Buchanan
was an old bachelor not only, but Demo
crat. Recollect that, and say to yours elves:
"Why should we ever trust man and elect
him President of the United States, who
prefers the embraces of the Democratic
party to the salvation of the country"
Now, in view of this fact | want every nan
To hat bn will al
bachelor again. The Democrats claimed
that this was not Nation. 1t was simply a
confederacy, and that the old banner of the
stars represented contract commencing
with know all men by these presents that
this don't represent great, and glorious,
and sublime people, but it represents con
federacy." That was the doctrine of the
Democratic party South. 1t was the doc
trine of the Democratic party North. 1t is
still the doctrine of the Democratic party
North and South. The Democratic party in
the South collected themselves together for
the purpose of breaking up this
Union. The Republican party said to
them: "You try and break up this
Union and we will break your necks,"
came into power on the heels of the Blu
chanan Administration. The Treasury was
as empty Of coin as the Democratic party
was of patriotism and honor. We had to
borrow money of whom we could We had
to issue bonds and greenbacks. What for?
Why, to buy shot and shell, and muskets
and cannon to shoot enough Democrats to
save the Union. There was division then
forced upon the people Of the country, not
into Democrats and Republicans, but into
patriots and traitors; and thousands and
thousands went out Of the Democratic
party to aid the Government to put down
the Rebellion. But every one who thus
went into the service of the country was
then known as a Republican, and those who
were against the Government were known
as Democrats. These Democrats went into
the markets of the world and they maligned
and they sandered these efforts to raise
money to sustain the Government in its
time of trial. They said: "Your bonds can
never be paid, and your greenbacks are UNI
constitutional" and to such an extent did
they so Islander and malign and caluminate
the Government that at one time gold was
300, which meant that greenback was
worth "a cents on the dollar. Where were
the other 66 cents? They were slandered
and illuminated out by the Democratic
party of the North. Two thirds of the
causes which have brought about the
prostration of American industry to-day are
to be traced to the Democratic party of the
North, and every time you worllingmen
blister your hands to pay debt, take off
the blister and under it you will find
Democratic lie.
The Republican party has done nothing
for sixteen years that it has not been proud
of. The Democratic party has done nothing
for sixteen years that it is not ashamed of.
The Republican party has not done one thing
that was not for the public interests of the
Government for sixteen years.
The history of the Democratic party is an
epitaph. The Democratic party to-day is
searching around in the old political Gene
terry of the bygonc ages for a standard
bearer. They have raised up in Massa-
chusetts that old cemetery reminiscence,
Charles Francis Adams, who had his hench-
men at Cincinnati, hoping that he would get
the nomination from the Republican party
there, and who was equally willing to take
it at st. Louis and who was also willing to
be the nominee of the Republican party in
Massachusetts,, but finally the Democratic
party, wishing for some evidence Of respect
ability, and knowing that no live man
would lend his name to them for moment,
have CROPPED in this old cemetery for respect
ability and have tshed out Mr.. Adams. The
law against violating the sacrcdness'of the
tomb ought to be enforced.
The Democratic party was not willing that
this country should be saved unless slavery
could be saved with it. There was never
Democrat North or Southland by that /
mean those who were opposed to the Union
who did not think more of the existence
of slavery than of the Government OF the
United States. They made a breastwork of
the Constitution for rebels 20 get behind
and shoot down loyal men. The next thing
they did was to discourage eniistments in
the North. They did all in their power to
prevent men from going into the armJ, and
that great statesman, Samuel }. Tildcn, gave
ii as his opinion that the South could sue,
and that every soldier that put his foot on
the sacred soil of the South would be tres
passer, and could he sued before It Justice
OF the Peace. They denounced the war as
an abolition war in their conventions, and
they denounced Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant.
OF all the men on earth who had been
clothed with nearly absolute power, Abra-
ham Lincoln was one, and | know Of no
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