Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-06
Facts for the People.

The New York Tribune says,
truthfully, The rebellion was Demo
cratic. It broke out in Democratic
States. 1t was Matched by Southern
Democrats. 1t was fostered by
Northern Democrats. Democrats
oficered the rebel army. Democrats
made up the rank and file. Demo
Gratis filled every Office in the Con-
federate Government, from the Pres
idency down to the clerkships and
the messengerships. There wasn't
a Republican with a shoulder-strap,
or musket, or a ''place" in the
whole devilish concern. In the
Democratic city of Washington, un-
der the Democratic administration
of Buchanan, the rebellion was con-
spired and prepared. A Democrat
ic member of that Democratic Ad-
ministration stripped the North of
arms and smuggled them over to the
South, and sent the army where it
would be unavailable or could easily
be captured.
A Democratic member of that
same Democratic Administration
scattered the navy over the world,
so that it could not be used on the
rebel seaboard. A Democratic Sec
retary of the Treasury plundered
his trust to supply the Rebellion
with money. A Democratic Presi-
dent, entreated to do something to
saye the nation, refused, declaring
and arguing that the Government
could not constitutionalIy defend it.
self, and that it was unlawful to
coerce rebels; and he sat sullenly
down and allowed the nations ar
senals to be plundered, and the ma
tion's ships, navy-yards, and for
tresses to be seized, and the rebel ar
mics to be organized, without lifting
a finger to prevent. democrats"
throughout every Northern and
Western State applauded the con-
duct of their Democratic Presiden
adopted and defended his Democra-
tic doctrine that the Government
had no right to apply force TO sup
press a rebellion, and from the word
'go" politically opposed every leg
islative, financial, military, and NOR
al measure taken to speedily and
successfully prosecute the war and
save the nations life. The country's
past and present woes are Democra-
tic, all and every one of them, with
out one solitary exception.
A Western editor SAYS: "Let
Democratic journals and orators
howl over the debt and taxes their
war has brought. They but magni-
fly their own sins. Every dollar of
debt is Democratic legacy. Every
tax is a Democratic gift. Every
Government stamp is Democratic
sticking-plaster. Every person in
the United States drinks Democracy
in his tea, his coffee, and his whisky,
and in the sugar wherewith he swee-
tens them. Each ingredient
pays its quota for the cost of Democ-
racy to the country. The smoker
inhales Democracy. The sick man
is physiced with Democracy. The
laboring man gives about one hours
labor every day to pay for Democra-
cy. The capitalist pays one-tenth
of his income for the cost of the
Democratic party.
Every transfer of property is sad
died with the Democratic burden.
Before he is begotten the child is
subject to the Democratic tax; from
the cradle to tie grave he never is
free from it, The funeral mourning
must first pay the penalty of Demo.
cratic rule, and a portion of that
which he leaves behind must 20 into
this Democratic vortex. Generation
after generation will carry the Dem.
ocratic burden from birth to death.
But the Democratic party our peo-
pie would hardly have known the
nature of taxation. But for the
Democratic party the hundreds of
thousands of young men whose
bones are strewn over the South
would now be productive laborers
ana the support and comfort of fam
lilies now desolate.
..No one can attempt TO deny this
Indictment. No one can pretend
that the Democratic party had enU
cause for the rebellion. Yet # has
the effrontery to cry over the bur.
dens of taxation. As the father Of
the Democratic party, when he had
stripped Job of family and posses.
sions, charged it to his own sins, and
sought to draw him from his integ-
rity, so his Democratic sons now
come forward with equal effrontery
and charge their doings upon the
loyal people and hypocritically howl
over their Affections, and seek to Sc.
duce them from their integrity, to
elect to power the party that has
brought all these woes upon the
land"