National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-15
AND YET THEY ARE NOT HAPPY


dency has put his letter of acceptance be-
fore the country, and it is gall and bitter
ness to the Democracy, if we are to judge
of their appreciation of it by their utter
ances. 1t does not satisfy them, and no.
body supposed that it would. That party
has never been satisfied since the people
put them out of power on the 4th of March,
1861. Ga that eventful day James Buch-
suan led tie Democratic hosts away from
the flesh pots of place and position, and
ever since they have been exceedingly dis
Satisfied and unhappy. Nothing that the
Republican party has done since has met
with the appreciation of that party.
In that year Democratic war was pre-
cipitated upon the country 10 destroy the
Union and dismember the nation, and the
Republican party rallied IN the national de-
Tense. This was cause of grief with the
Democracy. They denounced the effort to
save the Union, as black Republican and
niger war, for which they had no SYM
pathy, and in behalf of which they would
furnish neither men nor money. On this
point both Tilden and Hendricks were in
full harmony with theirparty. The Demo
cratic sympathy was enlisted on the side
of the rebellion, and in no instance during
that bloody struggle did the Democratic
party make sign of devotion to the Union,
or utter syllable in denunciation of the
rebellion. Its sympathies counseled it to
silence.
When the President called for seventy
five thousand men with which to protect
the national integrity the Democrats
evinced their dissatisfaction by denouncing
the act as a wanton violation of the Con-
stitution. The Republicans of the North
stood firmly by the President and men
and money were furnished to repel the
war of rebellion. With this the Democ-
racy were bitterly dissatisfied.
When our depleted army called for re-
Inducements and the Government resorted
to draft to fill up its ranks the Demo
Gratis counseled resistance to CONSUMPTION,
and the streets of New York city were
crimsoned with blood in open hostility
thereto. In that hour of trial Seymour
was Governor of that State and Samuel j.
Tilden was in the Democratic nursery pre-
pairing for future usefulness, and both him
self and Hendricks were dissatisfied with
the unholy war that was then being waged
to save the Union from dismemberment
and the Republic from overthrow. Tilden
and Hendricks were then, as now, dissatis-
fed with the Republican party and its
national policy.
Time wore on, and the war to crush re-
bellion became sanguinary; and "yet the
Democracy were not happy" Lincoln and
his adherents and supporters discovered
that the backbone of rebellion and revolu-
ton centred in the institution Of slavery.
He aimed blow at this through procla
nation of emancipation. The insurgents
reviled and defied it, while the Northern
Democrats ridiculed it as an instrument
that could not avail, for the reason that it
was not worth the paper upon which it was
written. But III spite of all this reviling
ard ridicule, the genius of liberty spread as
our armies advanced, until slavery died in
the midst of its woTshipers. When it gave
up the ghost the rebels sent forth their
demoniac yclls, while the Democrats of the
North gave deep-drawn sigh at the de-
struction of their idol. They were in sym
psthy then, as they are now, and the De-
mOcracy of both South and North were
unhappy over the result.
During the days of the rebellion Grant
was the object of Democratic hate and
aspersion as he is now. That party were
not satisfied with his achievements ia the
South and'West. AS victory after victory
perched upon his banner, Democratic hate
became more and more intense and unre-
strainsble. After laying his hand heavily
upon the rebellion at VicksbHrg and else
where in the South, he repaired to the seat
of Government, and was placed at the head
of the army operating against Richmond.
As he organized his forces and moved