Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-05
AN ARRAIsNMENT.
General Lew Wallace Gives His Views
and Estimation of the Democracy.

and Estimation of the Democracy.
General Lew Wallace was thirteen
years Democrat. He declares that once
the party was great and useful; but that
time has gone forever. In the Louisiana
purchase, the war of 1912, and the war
with Mexico he thinks thep party was great.
But since then it has become small of
soul. the tool of rebellion, the plaything of
the South, and the shuttlecock of fallacious
tariff and other unwise governmental pol
icies. This is the substance of the Gen
erals idea as expressed in speech of
length in Montgomery county, Indiana,
recently.
The party fell by as base betrayal as
that in which Judas figured, said the Gen
eral, and it has never been able, nor will
it be, to regain its old seat. 1t fell by the
traitorous hands that plundered the treas
ury, crippled the navy, emptied the arsen-
ais and stampeded the army. These men
then fled from the national capitol with
scofing and defiance, and inaugurated
war against the nation to work its over
throw and establish forever an aristocracy
in the land, with its feet on the neck of
the slave and the white mudsill of the
South.
That wicked scheme failed "Now, by
some madness or trust on the part of the
North, some inscrutable decree of Provi-
dence, the engineers of the late Confed-
eracy are in possession of the Govern
ment; their scheme is now to hold it and
as they relied upon you to help them de-
stroy it, they are relying upon you to help
them farm it. The audacity of their re-
lance satisfies me that, in their opinion,
we of the North are the hewers of wood
they thought us in 1860 Neither am
saying what they will do with the Gov
ernment, if you help them to it. 1t is
partly because we do not know their in
tentions, and partly because all the evi-
dence they have furnished us is against
their honesty of purpose that would dis
suade you from trusting them further"
Then the General arraigns the Southern
Democrats count by count, asking:
Who has heard them recant their trea-
son? Are not their leaders given places
Of high trust in the Government as SEEM
ing rewards for their infamy? Did they
not maltreat and spit upon the immigra-
| tion from the North into the South after
the war? Did not the old Confederacy,
with the help of three Northern States,
elect President who did not fight for the
Union? Has not Grover Cleveland been
| on his knees to the Solid South ever since q?
Did he not get upon his marrow-bones to
return captured battle-aags? to sign pen
sion vetoes? to kiss the hem Of the South
ern free trade garment?
The Solid South with President holds
| the sword of the nation; with the House
of Representatives it has the key Of
the Treasury. 1t rallied forty Of its
e1-Confederates, and defeated the bill
| W IttUIn W the SUITES Ile
money that they advanced to the Govern
ment to aid it in whipping the rebels into
respect for the Union. BY that act the
solid South reminded us Of its power. The
Democratic Confederacy put free trade into
its Constitution, and lost. The Democracy
now sees fit to put it into the statute-books
to satisfy the solid South, and in placing it
there they except from free trade, cotton,
sugar (dutiable at 68 cents) and rice (du-
table at los cents).
So, as their agriculture does not inter-
fere with that of the North, when the
South has opened the nations gates to the
foreigner and destroyed Northern indus
tries, its ex-slave masters will be lords
again and the workers of the North be-
come the mud-sills the Southron once de-
clared white trash " to be.