Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-04
Facts for the People.

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fully, the rebellion was democratic.
1t broke out in democratic states. 1t
was confined to democratic states. 1t
was hatched by Southern democrats.
Itwas fostered by Northern democrats.
Democrats ofiicered the rebel army.
Democrats made up the rank and file.
Democrats filed every Office in the
Confederate government, from the
Presidency down to the clerkships
and messengerships. There wasn't a
republican with shoulder-strap, or a
musket, or "place" in the whole
devilish concern. In the democratic
city of Washington, under the demo-
cratic administration of Buchanan,
the rebellion was conspired and pre-
pared. A democratic member of that
democratic administration 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 sea-
board. A democratic Secretary of the
Treasury plundered his trust to sup
ply the rebellion with money. A
democratic President, entreated to do
something to save the nation, refused,
declaring and arguing that the gov
ernment could not constitutionally
defend itself, and that it was unlaw-
full to coerce rebels; and he sat sullen-
ly down and allowed the nations ar
senals to be plundered, and the ma
tons ships, navy-yards, and fortress
es to be seized and the rebel armies to
be organized without lifting finger
to prevent. democrats" through
out every Northern and Western state
the conduct of their demo-
cratic President, adopted and defend
ed his democratic doctrine that the
government had no right to apply
force to suppress rebellion, and from
the word Ego" politically 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 woes are demo-
cratic, all and every one of them,
without one solitary exception.
A Western editor says: "I4et demo-
cratic journals and orators howl over
the debt and taxes their war has bro't.
They but magnify their own sins.
Every dollar Of debt is a democratic
legacy. Every tax is democratic
gift. Every government stamp is a
democratic sticking plaster. Every
person in the United States drinks de-
mocracy in his tea, his coffee, and his
whisky, and in the sugar wherewith
he sweetens them. Each ingredient
pays its quota for the cost of democ-
racy to the country. The smoker in
hales democracy. The sick man is
physicked with democracy. The la
boring man gives about one hours la
Dor every day to pay for democracy.
The capitalist pays one-tenth of his
income for the cost of the democratic
party.
"Every transfer of property is sad
Before he is begotten the child is SUBJ
ject to the democratic tax. From the
cradle to the grave he never is free
from it. The funeral mourning must
first pay the penalty of democratic
rule, and portion of that which he
leaves behind must go into this DEM
ocratic vortex. Generations after will
carry the democratic burden from
birth to death. But for thedemocrat-
ic party our people would hardly
have known the nature of taxation.
But for the democratic party the hum
dreds of thousands of young men
whose bones are streWn over the
South would now be productive la
borers and the support and comfort of
families now desOlate.
"NO one can attempt to deny this
indictment. No one can pretend that
the democratic party had any cause
for rebellion. Yet 1t has the effront-
cry to cry over the burdens of taxa
ton. AS the father of the democratic
party, when he had stripped Job OF
family and possessions, charged it to
his own sins, and sought to draw him
from his integrity, SO his democratic
friends now come forward with equal
effrontery and charge their doings up
on the loyal people and hypocritically
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"