Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-09
Let it Die!

suppOTleu iluncOCh, anu hoW SupPoi'o
Cleveland. under date of Nov. 9TH,
1880, and is as true of the party now,
as il was then:
The recent presidential election has
shown that there is an invincible rea-
son why the democratic party can new
er win n national victory. 1t is that
the youths of the republic are not
democratic. The sons of democratic
fathers have grown up republicans.
So long as slavery and the war linger
within the memory of Americans, the
Youths of the republic will continue TO
grow up republicans; and slavery and
the war will be remembered as long as
the public school system exists.
The public schools have slain the
democratic party with the text books.
It is vain Tor statesmen to declare that
there were as nanv democrats as re-
publicans in the union army. CThe
confederate army was composed of
democrats entirely.-ED.) 1t is vain
to affirm that the wbr for the union
could not have been carried to sue
cessiul close without the aid of the
democratic party. CThey were con
slant menace, for it took as many sol
diers TO guard against a fire in the rear,
as il did in 'front.' 1t is idle for phi
lanthrophy to suggest that the attitude
u
ginning was humane onei that IL
was inspired by the higher and better
wish that the cause OF the conflict
should be pedceably removed, and the
spilling of brothers blood by brothers
hands be avoided The democratic
party has ideally been identified with
slavery and slaveholdiDg. The re-
publican party has been ideally iden-
tilted with emancipation aud the wyr.
Therefore are the youths of the coun-
try incapable of being democratic.
Therefore the democratic parry can
never win n national victory. Its old
men are dying away.
The boys who catch the ballots that
fall from their stilfened hands are re-
: publicans. This fact cannot be de
MED 1t will do no good 70 quarrel
wIUu AtI Otutt c'tuScr WHICH fio' e
operated TO diminish the number OF
democrats and increase the number Of
republicans are insignificant besides
this one tremendous and invlncible
fact. The urse OF slavery has poison
ed the blood and rotted the bone of
the democratic party. The maledic-
ton of the war has pa'sied is brain.
The young wife who held the babe
up to kiss the father as he hurried 10
the tap of the drum of his departing
regiment. has not sucked a democrat
The weary foot of the gray grandin"h-
er who watched the children while the
wife was busy has not rocked the era
dle of democrats. Tie chair that the
soldier father never came back TO til
has not been climbed upon by demo
crafts. Tie old blue coat tbnt hi- e"n'
.s.sOEN vac UuJ up rJI 1T tit
jackets, but not one covered tile heart
y of a Democrat, The ratified musket
that fell from him with his last shot.
became the thoughtless toy of the
boys, but not IA hand that played
with il was the hand of democrat
The babe he kissed crowed and croweC
for his return, and its unwilling anC
unanswered notes were not from tn,
throat OF democrat. The tear-soileC
camp letters which the mother reaC
aloud in the bitter evenings while
the boys clustered at her knees. die
= not fall upon democratic ears. TIL,
20 daughters sobs, blending with the
: mothers weeping, did not make dem
/. ocrats of their brothers. Perhaps tin,
~ father had been "a democrat all hi,
life!
The children go to school. There /.
= not democrat on the benches. Tn,
first reader contains the portrait oi
Lincoln-that kind and sturdy fac,
l. never made a democrat. On its sim
&c pie pages, in words of one or two syl
y ables, is told the story. of his birth anc
z death That story never made dem
'e ocrat In the pranks of the play
|. ground the name silences the frolic
e some and makes tire iollest grave
a The name never made democrat. In
y the pictures that light up the geogra
d ply are the firing on Fort Sumter anC
y the dea:h of Ellsworth Those pic
4 lures make no democrats. The frs
lie page of the history contains a repre-
d sentation of the surrender of Lee a
y Appomattox. No boy gazes on tina
and ever after avows himself demo
crat,
10 In the higher grades the same subtl,
10 and unresisted influence is at work
o. The textbook contains extracts iron
II patriots speeches during the war
n Those speeches make no democrats
,s The great battles are briefly described
4 the narrative has no democratic lis
:. teners, The strain of martial musi,
le runs through the.readers, and that mu
n sic makes no democrats Sketches o
u the great generals are given; the BRAY,
/, deeds arouse the enthusiasm of TN,
A, lads but there il mt "A Sin,,t,