Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-10-22
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
Its History Warning to the People OF
This Country Never to Trust 1t With
Power Again.

1t is the party which enacted the F'u-
gitive-Slaye law of 1850.
1t made the most determined efforts
to carry slavery into free territory.
It'opposed the passage of the Home
stead act.
1t secretly planned and plotted to
| overthrow the Government.
1t robbed our Government of its arms
and munitions of war and stored them
| in the armories and arsenals of the
South.
1t robbed our Treasury and stripped
| it of its means.
1t stole our ships and scattered our
| navy into foreign seas.
| 1t diSgraced the Nations honor.
1t almost destroyed the National
credit.
1t undertook to discover the Ameri-
can Union.
1t tried to tear the stars from the
American flag.
1t hurled our county into a great
Civil War.
1t claimed that the Government was
| pOWerleSS to cOerce seeding State.
1t gave aid and comfort to our cOun-
| try'S enemies in time of war.
1t bargained to bar ter away our coun-
try's birthright for mess OF political
| pottage.
1t scoffed and sne cred at our boys in
| blue" for rallying around the flag.
1t drove Southern loyalists from their
homes with blOodh ounds for being 10y
al to the Union.
1t murdered, in cold blood, men, wo-
men, and children who loved their coun-
try and who remained true toits flag.
1t opposed a vigorous prosecution OF
the War for the Union, and demanded
a cessation of hostilities.
1t resisted the draft with all it's pow
| er.
1t discouraged enlistment for the
Union army while it encouraged deser-
ton from its ranks.
| 1t burned down colOred orphans aSy-
| Iums.
1t shot down defenseless negroes in
New York City while the Democratic
Governor addressed the murderers as
'his friends"
It perpetrated the shocking cruelties
of Andersonville, Salisbury, Libby, and
Belle Isle.
1t shed every drop of blood that flow
ed at the massacre of Fort Pillow.
1t denounced Abraham Lincoln as
tyrant and a uSurper.
| 1t denounced Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
| dan, Meade, and Thomas as butchers
| for leading our armies successfully
against the armed hosts of treason.
It denounced Union soldi ers as Lin
coin hirelings" and "lawless cutthrOats."
1t opposed the right of the Union
soldiers to vote in the land they saved
and made free.
1t encouraged those who u ere engag-
ed in an effort to take the M .tion's life,
while it never had one word of encour-
agement for our boys in the front.
1t opposed the appropriat ion of the
public moneys to vigorously prosecute
the War. -
It opposed the raising of funds to
suppress the Rebellion it ins .ugurated.
1t declared the War a faI lure when
victory began to dawn upon our armies
in the field.
It rejoiced in Rebel victories and
wept over Rebel defeats.
1t buried SOC, 900 loyal boys in early
graves.
1t saddled an enormous debt of many
millions upon the people of this cOun-
try.
1t undertook to spread smallpox and
yellow-fever in the North as asn instru-
ment of civilized warfare.
1t opposed the emancipation of a
poor and oppressed race OF 100000 OF
bondmen.
1t has defended the lawIesness and
domestic violence which has existed
throughout the South ever since the
close of the War
1t has alwas been ready and willing
to offer all sorts of excuses and apollo
gies for all OutrageS perpetrated upon
loyal men in the South.
It was opposed to comforting upon the
colored freemen the right of citizen
ship and guaranteeing to them the equal
protection of the laws.
1t organized Ku-Klux and White
League organizations all over the
South, for the purpose of intimidating
; colored voters.
It has opposed every manner of leg
islation which provided for the protec-
ton of American citizens in their
rights.
It has arrayed itself against every
proposition to secure to every citizen
meath our flag the equal protection of
the laws and the enjoyment of life, lib
erty, and property.
It imposed upon the people of our
country heavy taxation to meet the
necessary expenses and to pay the debt
incurred by the War.
1t has favored reputation.
1t has been opposed to the Govern
ment carrying out it's contracts and full
ming 1tS promises.
1t has favored the irredeemable pa
per currency, one of the greatest ca
Iamities that can befall the people of
our country.
/ 1t has stolen more money from the
Golfers of the ring-ridden New York
Treasury alone than all the losses of
the Federal Government under Repub-
lican rule.
It defended the Tammany ring and
covered up it's dark doings until they
, were brought to light by the Republi-
It elected Boss Tweed to the New
l Y ork Senate after he had proven to be
one of the greatest thieves of modern
times.
1t shielded Tweed, Sweeney, and
Connolly and all the Tammany thieves
: until they were semitic the penitentiary
by Republican officials.
1t is opposed to popular education,
the great bulwark of American lib
5 erty.
, It is prejudiced against our system Of
common schools.
1t abolished the free-school system in
a number of Southern States.
1t has favored the pensioning of ex-
Rebel soldiers and putting them on
+ equal footing with Union soldiers.
| 4U toUCu w pCuolOh CCll AIoSlo, OIL
. though to this day he boasts Of his
I treason to the country.
' 1t has introduced bills into Congress
, for taking many millions of dollars
from the National Treasury for the pay
ment of Rebel claims.
: It will rob the National Treasury to
: pay the late slave-owners of the South
for the emancipated slaves, should it
, ever get into power.
: 1t removed fifty crippled Union sol
. diers who were employees in the Lower
q House of Congress and substituted
q forty seven ex-Confederate soldiers in
their stead.
! Tt opposed the passage of the Civil
Service reform bill.
: 1t slaughtered politically the only
Democratic Senator who publicly advo-
: Gated its passage.
n Tt first bartered away positions Of re-
sponsibility and trust as rewards fol
e political services.
: Tt first used the power of removal tC