Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-03
WHYIAM NOT A DEMOCRAT.

tSDcecu OF NDl. hODcrt u. lngOrsOii
am opposed to the y emocratic par
ty, and | will tell you why. Every
State that seeded from the United
States was a Democratic State. Every
ordinance of secession that was drawn
was drawn by a Democrat. Every
man that endeavored to tear the old
flag from the heaven that 1t enriches
was a Democrat. A voice-"Givei it TO
them Every man that tried to de
stroy this nation was a Democrat
Every enemy this nation has had for
twenty years has been Democrat.
Every man that shot Union soldiers
was Democrat. Cheers That's so. ~
Every man that starved Union soldiers
and refused them in the extremity of
death crust was a Democrat. Re-
newed cheering.f Every man that low
ed slavery better than liberty was a
Democrat. The man that assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was q Democrat.
Every man that sympathized with the
assassin-every man glad that the no.
blest president ever elected was assasi-
mated, was a Democrat. Every man
that wanted the privilege of whipping
another man to make him work for
nothing and pay him with lashes on
his naked back, was a Democrat.
Cheers. Every man that raised blood
hounds TO pursue human beings, was
a Democrat. Every man that clutched
from shrieking, shuddering, crouching
mothers babes from their breasts and
sold them unto slavery, was Dem
ocrat. Cheers Every man that lm-
paired the credit of the United States,
every man that swOre we would never
redeem the greenbacks, every malign-
er of his country's honor, was o Demo
crat. Cheers. Every man that re-
sisted the draft, every man that hid in
the bushes and shot at Union men
simply because they were endeav-
ing TO enforce the laws of their country,
Was aDemocrat. Cheers.] Ev cry man
that wept over the corpse of slavery,
was a Democrat. Every man that
cursel Lincoln because he issued the
proclamation of emancipation the
grandest paper since the Declaration
of lndependence-every one Of them
was Il Democrat. Cheers Every
man that denounced the soldiers that
barred tn cir bosoms to the storm ofshot
and Shell for the honor of America and
for the sacred rights Of man was a
Democrat. Cheers. Every man that
wanted an uprising in the North that
wanted to release the rebel prisoners
that they might burn down the homes
of Union soldiers above the heads of
their wives and children, while the
brave husbands, the heroic fathers
were in the front fighting for the hon
or of the old flag, every one Of them
was Democrat. Cheers. lam not
through yet. Laughter and cheers
Every man that believed that this glo-
riOus nation of ours is confederacy
every man that believed the old BAN
ner carried by our fathers in the rev.
olution, through the war of 1912, car
ried by our brothers over the plains OF
Mexico, carried by OR brothers over
the fields of the rebellion, simply stood
for Il contract, simply stood for an
agre ment, was Democrat. Cheers.
Every man who believed that any
State could go ont of the Union at its
pleasure, every man that believed the
grand fabric of American government
could be made to crumble instantly
into dust at the touch OF treason, was
a Democrat. Cheers. Every man
that helped to burn orphan asylums
in New York was Democrat every
man that tried to fire the city of New
York, though he knew that thousands
would perish, ami knew that the great
'serpents of flame leaping from build.
ings would clutch children from theii
mothers arms-every wretch that did
it was Democrat. Cheers. Recoll
ect it! Every man that tried to spread
smallpox and yellow fever in the
North, as the insrumentality of civil
lized war, was Il Democrat. Soldiers
every scar you have got on your hero
ic bodies was given you by a Democrat
Cheers. Every scar every limb tina
is gone, every wound is a souvenir O
a Democrat. [Cheers. want you t.
remember it. A voice eve will. :"
Every man that was the enemy of hu
man liberty, every man that wanted
the fruit of the herois II Of all tn,
ages to turn to ashes upon the lips--ev
cry one was a Democrat. Cheers.
One Great Deed is Enough.
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