The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-10-03
DEMOCRACY AS 1T WAS AND Is

The campaign thus far has been one
of personal abuse by the Democracy.
They cannot stand before the logic of
the Republican platform or the Repub-
they have nothing in reply but the
scurrilous abuse of Blaine to offer.
They commenced year ago 10 pirate
about the TRADITIONS of the Democra-
tic party" The most important of
which was the woman whipping, baby
stealing, slave driving practices of the
solid South, which finally eliminated
in Il frantic effort TO destroy the Re-
public for no other reason than that
the North would not permit the fiendish
abomination of slavery, to be extended
into all the free territories of the Re-
public and even practiced by the
nabobs of the South in the free States,
when it suited their pleasure, and
Northern men refused to act the part
of blood hounds to hunt down fugitives
who preferred death to longer endur-
ance of the horrors of the Democratic
barbarism of the solid South. The
horrors of Andersonville, Libby prison
and other prison pens of the Democra-
tic rebels are well remembered evil
dences of the Democratic barbarism
then prevailing in that portion of the
Republic, and then as now the rebel
south had for many years controlled
and dictated the policy of the Demo-
cratic party, and then as now they will
control it in the future, should they
gain control of the government in
. November. The candidate they have
| put in nomination for President is tit
representative of the lowest and most
degraded element of the old Democra-
, tic slave holders, whose strongest argu-
ment for the preservation of slavery
was that slave girls served as safety
} valve for the protection of their white
daughters chastity from the young
! while his connection with the widow
! Halpin pictured by his own friends, tC
l say nothing of his keeping a mistress
and vetoing bill passed for the bene'
fit of the City of Buffalo, in which he
| resides, to save one of her pets from
l being legislated out of office, stamps
him as a man infinitely better fitted tc
9 be the companion and associates of the
8 beastly young Democracy of the South
: in the palmy days of slavery, than the
= President of the Republic in this age
: of the world. Thos. A. Hendricks, with
/ his Infamous war record, his golden
= circle sympathy and his openly avow,
; ed approval and sympathy with the
Vallandigham reasonable convention
: in Chicago, which openly declared the
war q failure and demanded peace nj
3 any price even to the guaranteeing OF
3 slavery to the fullest extent claimed by
the Democratic rebels then in arms
3 and that the project offreeing the rebeI
} prisoners then in camp Douglass, and
+ inaugurating rebel diversion i'll Ill
was secretly and seriously discussed
1 is eminently fitted to be the candidate
of the rebels, who declared their pur-
pose to secure at the ballot box what
! they failed to secure by arms. If with
= such candidates the Democracy can
secure the control of the government,
then may God pity the people and good
I men will, in the language of Jefferson
tremble for their country when they
reflect upon his justice.
STALwART.