The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04
Just What Mi2ht Hive Been Elk
DeCted,

TO the Editor Of The Republican,

peCted.
TO the Editor Of The Republican.
When We come to anllyze the
composition of the party in power,
their antecedents and traditions, 1t
is not at all surprising chat the
business interests unGer / cir fos-
tering care should suffer.
If we 60 back few decades and
bear III mind the important fact
that the Democratic patty has al
ways been the advocate AND cham =
pion OF human slavery, and of the
proposition that capital sh,ula not
hire, but should own labor, he ex-
PLANTATION will be easy.
In those haIcyon days Of fond re-
membranec from 1916 to 1850 to
which they still look back yith
longing, rcgretful gaze, ", h'6 an
industrial system quite daeIent
from that Of to day The nth,
which has always been the a.ssny
end of the Democratic parry, BE.
lieved in chatGel slavery, Ue,iee. d: in
1t ardently, vehemently. II v,G a
"divine institution Cotton WIS
to be produced through It's as ncy
and cotton was King. Cotton vas
to be produced by slave labor md
exchanged for the manufactures Of
the under paid labor OF Europe.
The cheap goods thus proda ed
were to be admitted free Of Gatg
and sold so cheap as to DEFY DID
tition in this country. The az
vine institution" was to be eXtynIcd
by the acquisition Of slave territory
and extended in any and every way
possible. The whole country VS.
to be brought under its domjn,ojI.
BY the constant threat to dis-u,y
the Union the North was kept fro !,
asserting itself and everything w..
subscrvlent to the crack of the slay
drivers whip. Slaves were G,u2 .
by the planters IN the cotton STATE
and used in the production Of tnc4r
great staple. The border s..N,
States found profitable and c'n-
genial occupation breeding mig
gers" for the slave trade South
England was dumping her "ci,td,
and nasty" fabrics into our market
and everything was lovely.
The laboring man, if he WIS 10,
dustrlOus and content to work sly.
teen hours "a day and make slave
Of wife and children, could mAnto,
to keep soul and body together a.,
37a to 30 cents per day and bo.n,I
and the "white niggers' were mot
thought as much of IN the South IA
the black ones.
In the South few lords owned
all the property and ali the rest
were slaves and serfs.
No wonder the old "soul drivers
look back in fond remembrance IT,
the brave old days when they couIi
Wali0p their nlggers to their hear :
cOntent--cven to death If thult
blood thirsty, violent passions car
ried them to that extent and there
was no law to call them to account
or to withhold their brutal hands.
But In 1860 the writing was Seen
upon the wall. Kansas had been
wrested from their grasp and had
entered the Union as II free State.
Abraham Lincoln was elected presi
dent and the dominion of slavery
and king cotton were doomed.
The Democracy would not stapd
1t. For four years and more the,
made war on the goyernmeut-dcs-
perate determined warm which
hundreds of thousands of lives, aud
thousands of millions of money
were sacrificed in maintaining the.
integrity of the Union. The rebel
lion was finally subjugated and sla-
very went with it.
Failing in their effort to destroy