Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-06-17
tFor the Spirit of Jefferson:l
DEMOCRATS-0LD AND NEW,


Once we had men who declared princi-
pie and died by it, if necessary. Before the
war our party in power carried out their mea'
sures. There were men of just intellecss in
the Congresses of those constitutional times
Ifa tyrant or Arnold showed himself, he was
sigpaled for his fate. No man was allowed
long to hold ,fi,e whom the people had not
elected jackson declared "by the eternal,
and it was So Calhoun stood by the States,
and they we're sovereign, as the fathers made
them. Prosperity hewed the path and ma
tional greatness followed, until the enemies
of political liberty destroyed Republicanism
under the. very Gag which they were dishon>
oriDg. So did the tyrants of Rome before
them, eff which the so called Republicans OF
to-day are mere copyists. File! on their lit
tie greatness Democrats new are the repre-.
eptatives of mistaken policy. They elect a
President and then join hands with their
enemies in seating the minority candidate,
because thousand soldiers invade the cap
ital to do the bidding of Cesar copyist,
whom lot of negroes formerly elected Presi-
dent
Not content with aiding the abolitionists
to select eight to seven of an unconstitutional
commission to do the bidding of Grant, they
60 to the people again, and the people give
them maj ority in both branches of Con-
gEess. Now, the country expects that freedom
81 the elections will be secured by the repeal
OF certain disgraceful statutes which have
for their object the perpetuity of the party
oil fraud by means of the army. The Demo>
Gratis of the present Congress went to Wash.
ington with bristles up, determined to with
loll tho appropriations unless the odious
laws were repealed. But alas it now seems
ihore is no backbone under the bristles. TIE
Democrats in Congress are about to surren>
der to Hayes d Co. Their caucus programme
is another cowardice, only second to the
shameful surrender to tho returning boards
tho disgrace of the nineteenth century.
That was humiliation in which all of us
must forever blush, and this new shame is
but another evidence of the loss of moral
force in the cowardly surrender of Mr.. TIL
den and his bondholding advisors.
All this trimming to MIR. Fraud & Co, is
:aiscreditablc to our party, and will only lead
cratic House has convened, unless wiser
ship should crop out from future acts. Thur
man, Bayard, Tilden. etc., may as we'll keep
out of the next presidential fight and save
4heir anxiety, unless the soldiers and fraud
.ers are kept from corrupting the polls. Con-
gressmen on the Democratic side act as if it
were not an honor and an act of. patriotism
90 guard liberty by Withholding pay to sold
iers who are destroying the Republic under
present commanders. a few may be neces>
sary, and should be paid, but the pay should
be contingent upon duties performed for the
protection of political rights. and not in
derogation of them, such as is the manifest
intention of the Hayes party who can only
wish them at tho polls to intimidate Demo
cratic voters, as Hayes is doing with those
whom Democrats have elected to represent
them in Congress. For the Lords sake, may
some Andrew Jackson spring up. Oh! for
snme Moses to lead US out of this political
wilderness. V. NJ. +.