Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-10-05
NOT A NEw ISSUE.

NOT n NEW ISSUE.
The following extracts and quota
tions clearly show that Imperialism is
no new bugaboo. Democracy 40 years
ago denounced Lincoln in stronger
terms than the democracy Of 1900 is
eulogizing him. And yet democrats
are continually shouting, sit is the
same old, unchanging party Of Jeffer-
son, Jackson and Douglass.
From speech Of Hon. Gaylor j.
Clark at Lockport, N. Y, October Is,
1864:
In short. Abraham Lincoln. wraps the i'm
p,rial purple around his gaunt. misshapcn
form. and exercises the powers Of an autocrat
Of Russia, with the tyranny and malisnity OF
the late king OF Naples
Speech Of the same man before the
democratic club OF Lockport, March
Is. 1863:
II our union has ceased tn rest on the az
lection and good WILL and has cementing
tie save that OF bayonets. then indeed are the
days OF the en- Pirc begun. The rep
ublicans seem to assume that the adminstra-
tlnue to dcnoqnce such infamous heresy
They are loyal in the highcs, degree TO the
government but they do not hesitate to de-
nouncc the gross usurpations and laundering
Incompetence OF the vulgar joker who dis
graces the chair once occupied by the imlnor-
tai Washington.
Judge Comstock at the Mcclellan
ratification meeting in Brooklyn,
N. T., September, 1864:
And now Abraham Lincoln. chosen as n
constitutional magistrate, clothed with the
highest Of all human trusts, that OF protect
Ing and defending the constitution. with his
solemn oath OF ONCE trampied in the dust.
with the constitution bleeding under his feet
Abraham Lincoln. the very architect OF
ruin. DOW reaches forth his hands for the i'm
perial purple. And II this people
shall now acquicsce In his vast and stupend-
ons assumption OF power. II In the madness OF
the hour. II struck with worse than judicial
blindness, they shall once more cntrust pow
cr tn his hands, 1t will be- n deliberate aban-
donment of the constitution. 1t will be nat
tonal suicide, and the throne of Abraham
will be moro despotic than those OF the
princes and potentates of the old world
Gen. Leslie CoomOS, of Kentucky,
former wing and loyal union, man,
was so affected by these gloomy fore
holdings OF the democrats, that in
letter to his friend, d. II. Pinney. of
Joliet, ILL.,, under date Of September
10, 1864, he expressed himself as fol-
lows:
In my deliberate Judgment. IL Mr.. Lincoln
Is .l....r. a 40. 1!.-
lam fastened upon ourselves and our children
with standing army of negro janissarles
Even Staid, old conservative demo-
crat like Senator salisbury, of Della
ware, used substantially identical
language in a speech in the L. S. Sem
ate, on March %, 1864. He said:
appeal from Caesar to the senate. Rising
~ the height Of the great argument. and
considering calmly the Importance OF the APP
pear which a violated constitution and a SUI
ferlng people make 10 you. interpose your
high senatorial authority against further ex-
ecntive usarpations. interpose now. OF civil
lorr'y Is lost tn yourselves and your poet-ri-
ty forever
From letter from, Nallandiyham
To democratic mass meeting. held in
Carthage, o., which letter was dated
windsor. Canada, September Il, 1863,
10 where he had been deported by the
United states government on ac
count OF reasonable utterances, we
quote:
To-day Your president Is In form. as for two
years he has been In fact, military dictator.
The liillsboro Gazette. one OF the
leading democratic newspapers in
New England, in May 1864. looked a.
The situation intthis light:
ltere Is NJ fact more patent save to those
who having ears hear not and having eyes SEQ
not than the fact that for three wears the
popte nj the northern states have hec., living
haaer nes governmental military goy-
etoheht ia which the people are servants and
ihF fdlcr> masters government more ir
RESPONSIBLE and de>petie than any tespo;l.n
" VI" MD world--a government OF central
ieen l@w"r without any wholesome unita
ttaits. in which Abraham Lincoln l.. the sf,l,
n'onsr,h Of all he surveys
New York World. August Is. 1864.
we arc fast going hack tn ANARCHY and hsr
ss'fic methods OF government Nothing can
save u but change of rulers:
Again il saws.
Inc nI,hy anecdotes of the president na.s
lsoHl foul mouths - itching ears ii
II i no wonder thai here and there a repub,i-
Can oegin> to see men as trees WALKING and
'hst one high In power and the ab,est states.
'haa OF bis party does not hesitate to declare
~ private that II the present dynasty CON.