The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-07

Rising TO the hefght or the great arSu-
ment. and considering calmly the import
ance OF the appeal which a violated con-
stitution and suffering people make to
you. interpose your high senatorial au-
thority against further executive usurpa-
tions- Interpose now. or civil liberty 10
yourselves and your posterity VIII be
lost forever
From letter from c. L. yallandigham
10 a Democratic mass meeting. held in
Carthage. O.. which letter was dated in
Windsor. Can. September II. 1868. we
quote:
To-day your president is in form, as
for two years he has been in fact. mill
tary dictator"
The Hnlsboro Gazette. one OF the
leading Democratic newspapers in New
England. i'm May. 1864. viewed the situ-
alton as follows:
There is no fact more patent save TO
those who having ears hear not and hav-
ing eyes see not, than the fact that for
three years the people of the Northern
states have been living under a new gov
ernment-a military government In which
the people are servants and the rulers
sponsible and despotic than any despot-
ism in the old world-a government OF
centralized power. without any whole
some limitations. In which Abraham Lin
coin is the sole monarch OF all he sur
yeys."
The New York World. on August IS,
1864. had the following to say:
1--WE are fast going back TO anarchy
and barbaric methods OF government.
Nothing can save us but a change of
rulers"
In another issue, the same month. 1t
says:
1.-THE filthy anecdotes OF the president
pass from foul mouths TO itching ears.
- /, Is no wonder that here and
there a Republican begins TO see men as
trees walking: and that one high in power
and the ablest statesman of MS party
does not hesitate to declare in private
conversation that II the present dynasty
continues the Union and the nation which
has gloried in the Union will become
wreck"
A speech OF Clement l.. valandig-
ham. at Sidney. O.. September "a. 1854,
contains the following Brysnesque
prophecy:
III these things continue four years
more the chances. are as nine TO ten that
your free government win be changed:
that instead Of presidents converting
themselves into despots, you VIII have
hereditary monarchs to rule over you
and your children to the third and fourth
generation
The infection extended to this coast,
as the following from speech made by
Il. ]. c. Kewap. at Los Angeles. Sep
tember %. 1864. illustrates:
1--WE are travelling again over the battle
f9ds OF the ancients and rewriting In the
| Sihals OF the government the convul-
sions of human passion ana the ruthless
and tempestsous struggles In which the
Unsuitable lust of power II confronted
with the civil rights and personal lib
| critics of the people. The present
| repeats the sad story OF the usurper. with
| armed legions, devastating tho land.
| trampiing upon every human right and
| tarkening with appalling shadows the
| hopes and happiness OF the human fam
iiy.''
Democratic history Is repeating itself,
and once more the iurid specters OF
| militarism and the threatened empire
have been dragged from the back clos
| cts TO which they were committed at
the close OF the last war In which the
| country was engaged. They are doing
| duty now as the result of the employ
ment OF few thousand men to restore
| order In our new territories, an few
4
years ago they did duty when the gov
eminent was engaged in the infinitely
harder task OF putting down rebellion
| In several OF the states. Their use at
this time simply indicates that the
| Democratic party has taken advantage
| OF a new insurrection against American
authority to pursue Its old practice OF
keeping UP fire in the rear TO help the
enemy in the front
1t is worth while to remember that In
the campaign of 1864 Adlai Stevenson
was a candidate for presidential eiector
| on the Democratic ticket. and that the
anti-imperialIstic issue Is consequently
no novelty 10 him.
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