National Republican., 1880-03-20
THE PARTY OF PIUSpER.

1ne Democratic party has given notice
by proclamation and action often within
the last twenty years thatit is emphahcally
and practically party of plunder. The
wholesale plundcring of the Government
by BucHANAY's Administration consigned
the Democratic party to q defeat from
which 1t never could have recovered In any
degree but for the foIlies and blunders of the
Republican party. For years thereafter
that party was banished from public conf
donce and political power as n just reward
for its manifold outrages against the public
welfare. When the last National Admins
tration of tho Democratic party was
brought to an end In March, 1861, rs n
penalty for life of protracted depreda-
ton aud crime, its next step was a
bloody attempt to break up the Union,
tear down the Republic and despoil the
American people Of the political inheritance
Of freedom that had been bequeathed to
them by patriotic and freedom-loviug an.
cestry This was the first effort Of the
Democratic party at puuder after an in
dignant people had hurled 1t from power.
1t took four long and bloody years Of in
tense civic strife to prevent the Democrats
from plunderiug the Nation of its very
existence When they were successfully
beaten back by the strong arm of
power from the accomplishment of their
uefarious purpose. the Democratic party
retired TO back seats in our National affairs
for about the same number Of years that it
bad required TO rescue the Nation from
their persistent attempts upon it's life
Then season OF comparative peace and
security ensued, but 1t was only temporary
Among the results of the war came free
dom and citizenship for the slave. With
his freedom came in time the badge of citi-
zenship-the right to vote aud be q man
When these rights had been anchored in
the Constitution and laws of the country
the Democrats saw the opportunity to rein
augurate their old but for season aban-
doned habits of depreciation and plunder
Their first efforts in that direction were
aimed at the freedmen in the South, who
were then enjoying their newly acquired
rights in pence. The Democrats could not
resist the temptation to despoil the colored
man Of his rights of citizenship, and, if
needs be to accomplish their thirst for
plunder, to sacrifice his life. Then followed
reign Of terror in nearly all the late slave
holding States, which was inaugurated
by the Democratic party, and was pushed
under the institution of banditt who
beat the colored citizen back from the bal
lot-box, deprived him of his right to vote,
counted his vote out when he did vote,
and filled the South with graves tenanted
by the corpses of American citizens whose
only oifense was that they were colored,
and, knowing their rights, had determined
to assert them. They had no power then
to plumber tue Government, but they piled
their vocation upon Republican citizens
and pluudered them of their lives, their
limited fortunes and their right of suffrage
Under this process States were plundered
of Republican representation in Congress-
until the National Legislature in both its
branches, with its vast patronage, became
rs much matter OF plunder as the con-
tents of a burglarized storehouse or bank
This was followed by an attempt TO
plunder a whole State of its executive aud
legislative powers. The next objects of
plumber were seats in Congress, with n
view to stealing States in the interests of
the Democratic party if the next Presi-
dental election should by any mishap be
thrown into the House of Representatives
and now, as the last achievement of their
infamous habit of plunder, the Democrats
threaten to steal tho seat at present
occupied by Senator KELLOGG and confer it
upon man who has no more title to it
than the dead CESAR. Thus the track of
the Democratic party for more than twenty
years has been marked with plunder. mur.
der, and all the crimes that blot the dark
calendar of theft violence, disorder, dis
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