The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-30
rHE DEmoCKArIC PARTY.

| which came into power some seventeen
years since, has pretty nearly succeeded in
destroying the country. 1t saw sovereign
states loyal to the constitution, when it set
its devilish sectional forces in operation
abrogated the law of attraction. and the
shining constellation felt the shock and
states were driven from their orbits. The
radical party saw the country peaceful, ODE
| dent to law; order enthroned everywhere,
and prosperity universal. Then it massed its
hates and sharpened its fangs, and suddenly.
war changed the scene. The war closed with
the radical party supreme in state and nation
al governments. 1t had the purse, the army
and the navy. 1t had every material re-
| source of the county at its command. 1t
controlled all the patronage OF the gov
eminent. It's word was law. 1t was
| boastful, arrogant and defiant. 1t
had secured grand opportunities to do good
| But it betrayed every trust On the altar of
| peace it klndled anew the fires of fanaticism
and was never more happy than when it
viewed the curling smoke rising from the
torments of its victims. In the madness of
power it murdered liberty. In the hellish
ferocity of its hates it struck down constitu-
tons and bayoneted legislatures. 1t saw
the south, as England saw Ireland, created
| in all the prodigalitY of nature with soil
that anticipates the husbandman's desires,
with harbors counting the commerce
'of the world, and with people
brave, generous and intellectual" and
| it determined to make her prostration
available for robbery and inaugurate univer-
sal bankruptcy. To accomplish this purpose
the south was ogerrun with radical carpet
bsggers, and the work of plumber went for
ward to an extent that almost paralyzes
| belief. This worm eating process by radical
vermin-the most loathesome that ever
infected any land-went on for years, and
until the resources of the south were we'll
nigh exhausted. But this is not all. Not
content with robbing the south, the radical
party was equally industrious and
jealous in its work of robbing the
people of all the states, and to
accomplish this thieves were appointed to
office and retained in Office. Grant, the
standard bearer of the party, mercenary
creature in whose eye the high Office of
president represented nothing but money,
set the example which his appointees were
quick to follow, and the reign of bribery and
theft commenced. Every department Of the
government was debauched. Honor and
integrity were exiled. Oaths were. disre-
garded, and a wild carnival of crime was in
| augurated. The people at last were aroused.
and in their hour of peril they turned to the
democratic party to save them from the
overwhelming curses of radicalism. The
| democratic party responded and the
national house of representatives was
redeemed from the grasp Of radicalism.
The event was in all regards suspicious. 1t
dated new era in the affairs of the country.
Thieves began to tremble. Deep and dark
| dens of viIlainy were explored. Monsters of
iniquity were exposed. Grant was more
cautious about bride taking Cabinet officers
resigned and retired to private life, branded
as villains; and the people rejoiced. 1t is
not surprising, therefore, tho the democratic
party is regarded as dangerous to radicalism.
1t is still exposing radical villainy, which
may account for the Journals editorial yes
terday. captioned the Dangers of Demo-
| 'cracy," in which, among other things, we
| find the following:
NegIecting the true interests Of the country,
/ we find the democratic party intent only on
the acquisition of political power, and to this
end it Is striving to keep separated not only
the sixteen states that were allied to slavery
and rebellion, but to draw into the whirlpool
of sectional strife the great producing states OF
| the Mississippi valley, all TO be organized into
| a single army corps, to be welded and COM
| manded in the in terest of the party which has
shown itself utterly void of devotion to or love
| for the union OF states.
1t should be remembered that this is SAID
by a Shylock organ that is daily playing
traitor to the people of Indiana, and
which, IN the interest OF Shylocks,
advocates the veto power to arrest
legislation calculated to relieve the people
from the grinding curse of contraction. The
democratic party now as ever is not only the
party of the people, but the hope of the peo-
pie. 1t is grandIy battling for their rights,
and the people recognize the fact The
Journal, though never charged with having
an undue portion of brains, has sense enough
to see the drift of events, and to realize that
its treason to the people of Indiana can not
be obscnred by its stupid mendacity when
referring to the democratic party. The fol.
lowing pretty conclusively indicates its
agony.
| The laboring and producing classes, who are
suffering alone from the result Of the war and
the debt Il entailed upon the nation, war in
augurated and carried on by the democratic
| paTty-are told that their suffering is the re.
suit OF Legislation uDfriendly 70 their Interests
| that the legislation by congress has been asone
In the interests OF the east and Of the cred tors
of the nation, and that the present depression
and suffering throughout the land is the re-
suit OF tstrtngencv in money which has been
brOugh5 about for the malicious purpose of en-
Shaving labor and enrich. ng the holders OF the
, govern meut bon1s. The democrs tic party to
day In the speeches of their leaders in and ont
, OF congress are ignoring all reason and ali
precedent, and appealing 10 the passions and
preiudices OF the Deoole OF the west. This Is q
very Sc ious matter and II persisted In IL likely