National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-11
oUEsrIoNs FOR THE pEMooRAoY.

Cnu0CC.
QUESTIONS FOR THE DEMOCRACY.
The Democratic party calls itself the
party of honest government, the party of
honest money, the purifying party. Heavens
save the mark
When was it ever honest? and when did
it commence to be so
Was it honest in BUCHANAN's Admins
trationp
Was it honest when it sent all our ves-
sells of war on foreign stations, or laid them
up in Southern portsP
Was it honest when it stripped our
arsenals Of arms and ammunition to stock
Southern forts and arsenalsP
Was II honest when it sent the small
body ofmen we called our army out on the
far frontier and left the Southern forts and
arsenals in charge of handful Of men
when it was plotting the country's ruin ?
Was it honest when 1T deposited Govern
ment moneys in Southern depositares, to
be used by Southern rebels against the
Government of the United Statesp
Was 1t honest when it advised Southern
debtors to repudiate its debts due to credit
ors north of Mason and Dixon's line?
Was it honest when it demanded that
men who were officers in our army and navy,
and who were educated at the Governments
expense, and who had sworn to defend 1t
against foes from within rs well rs from
foes without, should resign and enter its
service to destroy this Government, that
King Cotton aud Slave-ocracy might rule
Was it honest in its methods of carrying
on that rebellion?
Was it honest in its representations to
foreign governments?
Was it honest when it sought to intro
duce into our large cities clothing infected
with a lonthesome disease?
Was it honest or humane in its treatment
of captured Union soldiers?
Was it honest when it disbanded its
armies, and in its promises to its magnani-
nous conquerors that it accepted the defeat
build up its waste places?
Was it honest when it promised to behave
itself?
Was it honest when it sent out its mid
night maurauders, its Ku-Klux Klans, its
White Leaguers md Rifle Companies to be-
gin their acts Of terrorism and wanton MUIR
der of the colored people?
Was it honestin changing the political
complexion of South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana so that from being over
whelmin ely Republican they should return
large Democratic majorities?
Is it honest when it robs men of their
franchises, of their homes and sends thou
sands through the North as political refu-
gees?
Is it honest when it sets fire to mems
homes on account Of their politics, and
shoots down the affrighted and fleeing
owners?
Is it honest-was it ever honest in its
pledges?
Are Louisiana, Tennessee and virginii
honest in their desire to repudiate thei
State debt
Has single investigation yet failed t,
disclose the fact that Democratic election
have been carried by the most glaring ant
damnable chicanery and fraud?
The history of this Government for the
past twenty years has traced in living char
acters on every page that the Democratic
party is the party in which may be foun,
Communists, Nihilists, Kluxers, rebels
traitors-aye, devils in disguise, who, afrai,
of light, carry on their dark and nefariou
plans under cover of the night, and who ar
never satisfied unless plotting and confer
plotting either for the Nations or the State!
overthrow.
The ex-Union soldier will do well |
study these questions before he deposits hi
I, vote, for upon it hangs the ultimate destin
of the country he jeopardized his life t
save,