The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-07-21
Blaine's Medication of the DEM
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From the N. o. Democrat.l
Though the fourth of July
speeches of the Radical chieftains
are in the highest style of North
ern bulldoozerism, and bloody
shirtism, the whole country, and
especially the South, is indebted
to them for their contributions in
voluntarily rendered to the great
causes Of q revived constitutional
unionism and to the vindication of
the Democracy and the solid
South. They have done immense
service in their behalf by assail-
ing from q purely sectional ard
partisan standpoint, the acts and
tendencies of the Democracy in
the past history of the Republic,
which gave that party its unques-
tionable title to prominence as the
great national party of the coun-
try.
Blaine's denunciation of the
Democracy is the most eloquent
and effective vindication of them
which has been made. He has
shown how that party has led in
all the great acquisitions of ma
tional territory; how through it the
vast region now composing three
fourths of the best portioa of the
continent was wrested from for
eign domination, or political and
social chaos, and by its addition
to the Union, as States, has dwarf
ed the thirteen original colonies
into comparatively effete provinces,
and thus made this the most pow
erful nation in the civilized world.
In all this great crime and
wrong against civilization, republi-
canism and freedom, the South led
the way and must bear the burden
Of infamy.
To a Southern President is due
the crime of taking from q foreign
despot and of thereby adding nine
States, six Northern and three
southern to the original thirteen.
To the same. wicked section and
party is due the acquisition, with
like disastrous consequences, of
Florida, Texas, New Mexico and
California. All these and other
like misdeeds were perpetrated by
the South, with slight aid from the
Northern Democracy. Virtuous
and piors New England opposed
all this wiciedness. Its national
ism, like its religion, was limited
by the narrow lines of it's town
ships and mecting-houses.
The Yankees wanted no more
additions to our population from
abroad; no more new States to OPP
pose and offset the votes of the
chosen people of God" Having
brought to the country millions of
African slaves, sold them to the
South and thersby secured an
enormous capital with which to
build ships, factories, churches
an J school-houses, they could see
no justice, wisdom or true religion
in permitting other and new States
to be settled by other and honest
er means, and more lawful and
moral agencies, and to be recog-
nized as entitled to admission into
confederacy of free and equal
States. This is the truthful re-
cord which Blaine has 80 forcibly
revived as exposing the great bot
tom facts upon which the party, of
which he puts himself forward as
the present champion, has always
stood, and now proposes to renew
the fight which it has maintained
since the establishment of the Re-
public.
The Democracy will not be slow
to accept the gage he throws
down, and to confront him and his
sectional army with solid front and
spirit which will ensure the res
toration to the Union of that pow
er and greatness which it has al
ways manifested when placed on
the broad and solid basis of the
constitution as upheld and main
tanned by the National Democra-