The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-26
By maa, IA adra'.oe, toaiege prfpatd.
Facts for the People.

liz NGN 1Olh ANNVulN gtAypl
the rebellion was Democratic Itbrokc out
in Democratic States. 1t was confined to
Democratic States. 1t was Matched by
Southern Democrats. 1t was fostercd by
Northern Democrats. Democrats differed
tho rebel army. Democrats made up the
rank and file. Democrats filled every Office
in the Confederate government, from the
Presidency down to the cicrkships and
mcssengerships. There wasn't Republic
can with shoulder-sfrPp, or n musket, or
'placc" in the whole dcvilSh concern.
In the Democratic city of Washington,
under tho Democratic administration OF
Buchanan, rebellion was conspired 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 it
would be unavailable or could easily be
captured. a 80 ,fl1.a
A Democratic member of that same
Democratic Administration scattered the
navy over the world, SO that it could not
be used on the rebel scaboard. A Demo
cratic Secretary OF the Treasury plundered
his trust to supply tho rebellion with
money. A Democratic President cntrcat-
ed to do something to save the nation. re-
fused, declaring ind arguing that the Gov.
crnment could not constitutionally defend
itself, and that it was unlawful to Cocrcc
rebels: and he sat sullcnly down and al
lowed the nations arscnals to be plumber,
cd, and the nations ships, nayy-yards, and
fortresses to be seized, and the rebel ar
mics to he organized, without lifting q lin
ger TO prevent. Democrats" throughout
every Northern and Western State APP
nlauded the conduct OF their Democratic
President, adopted and defended his Dem:
ocrltic doctrine that the Government had
no right to apply force to suppress re-
bellion, and from the word go" politl-
calIy opposed every Legislative, financial,
military and moral measure taken to
speedily and successfully prosecute the
war and save the nations life. The coun-
try's past and present woesare Democratic,
all and every ono Of them, without one
solitary exception.
A Western editor says: "Let Democrat
ic Journals and orators howl over the debt
and taxes their war has brought They but.
magnify their own sins. Every dollar OF
debt is II Democratic legacy. Every tax Is
Democratic gilt. Every Government
stamp is a Democratic sticking-plaster'
Every person in the United States drinks
Democracy in his tea, his coffee, and his
whisky, and in the sugar wherewith nc
swectens them. Each ingredient pays It's
quota for the cost OF Democracy to the
country. The smoker inhales Democracy.
Tbe sick man is physicked with Democrat
CIV, The laboring INN gives about ono
hours labor every day to pay for Democ-
racy. The capitalist pays one-tenth OF ms
income for the cost OF the Democratic
party. uaja,o1
with the Democratic burden. Before no Is
berottcn the child is subject 10 the Demo-
cratic tax. From the cradle to the grave
he il never free from it. The funeral
mourning must first pay the penalty OF
Democratic rule, and portion OF thal
which he leaves behind must go into this
DctlOcrltlG vortex. beuethtloH hIkSA syn
Grafton will carry the Democratic burden
from birth to death. But for the Demo
cratic party our people would hardly have
known the nature OF taxation. But for the
Democratic party the hundreds OF thous-
ands OF young men whose bones are strewn
over the South would now be productive,
laborers and the support and comfort oil
families now, desolate.
"No one can attempt 10 deny this indIct'
mcnt. No one can pretend that the Dem
ocratic party had any cause for the rebel
lion. Yet It has the etlrontery to cry over
tie burdens OF taxation. AS the father 0!
thc Democratic party, when he had
stripped job OF family and possessions,
CHARGED il to his own sins, and sought to
draw him from his integrity, 50 his Demo;
cratic sons now come. forward with equal
effrontery and charge their doinSs upon
the loyal people and hypocritlcalIy howl
over their Affections, and seek to seduce
them from their integrity, to elect TO power
the party that has brought all these woes
upon the land" s--..i tri.. s. .a