The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-09-19
Facts for the People.

was lDsttlcu ny NoItitiH bNhiNN'a-'
Democrats cficered the rebel army
Democrats made up the ranks and file
Democrats filled every Office in the Con,
federate government, from the presl,
dcncy down y the clerkships and tn,
messengerships. There was not u Re.
publican with a shoulder strap or &
musket, or a place in the whole devil,
ish cOncern. In the Democratic city Ol
Washington, under the Democratic al.
miuistTation 81 Buchanan, the rebel,
lion %as eonspired and prepared. A
: Democratic member of that Democratic
administration stripped the North OF
arms and struggled them over to the
South, and sent the army where ii
would be unavailable or could be easily
captured.
\ Democrat member of that same
Democratic administration scattered
the navy over the world, so that il
could not be used on the rebel seabOard,
a Democratic Secretary of the Treasu-
ny plundered his trust to supply the
rebellion with money. A Democratic
President entreated to do something to
save the nation, refused, declaring and
arguing that the government could not
constitutionally defend itself, and that
1t was unlawful to coerce rebel; and he
sat sullenly down and the nations ar
senel to be plundered and the nations
ships, navy-yards and fortresses to be
seized, and the armies to be organized
without lifting a finger to prevent.
Democrats throughout every Northern
and Western State applauded the con-
duet of their Democratic President,
adopted and defended his Democratic
doctrine that the government had no
right to apply force to suppress a re-
belliOn and from the word go politi-
cally opposed every legislative, lnan-
cial, military and moral measure taken
to speedily and successfully prosecute
the wal and save the nations life. The
cOuntry's past and present zoe are
Democratic, all and every n of them
without II solitary exception.
A Western editor says: Let Demo-
cratic journals and orators howl over
Tim ,lobt aud tavoS thoir ,rnr hn.
brought. They but magnify their own
sins. Every dollar Of debt is a Demo-
cratic gift. Every Government stamp
a sticking plaster. Every person in the
United States drinks Democracy in his
tea, his coffee and his whisky, and in
the sugar wherein he swcetens them.
Each ingredient pays inquota for the
cost of Democracy TO the country.
Smokers inhale Democracy. The sick
man is physicked with Democracy.
The laboring man gives about one hour
a day to pay for his Democracy. The
capitalist pays one-tenth Of his income
for the rest Of the Democratic party.
Every transfer of property is saddled
with Democratic burdens. The child
before he is begotton is subject to the
Democratic tax. From the cradle to
the grave he never is free from it. The
funeral mourning must pay the penal
ty of Democratic rule, and Il portion o.!
that which he leaves behind must 20
into the Democrat vortex. Generation
after generation will carry the Demo
cratic burden from birth to death. Blu
for the Democratic party our peopl,
would hardly have known the nature
Of taxation. But for the Democratic
party the hundred of thousands OF
young men whose bones are strewn
over the South would now be productive
laborers and the support and comfort
of families now desOlate.
No n can attempt to deny this in
dictment. No one can pretend that the
Democratic party had any cause for
the rebellion. Yet it has the ~eiTrOntery
to cry over taxation. As the father of
the Democratic party when lie had
stripped Job of family and possessions
charged it to his own sins, and sought
to draw him from his integrity, so his
Democratic o N now came forward
with equal effrontery and charge their
doing upon the loyal people and hypo-
critically howl over their Affections,
and seek to seduce them from their in
tegrity, to elect to power the party
that has brough all these woes upon
the land.
WOmana devotion to Man.