The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-11-02
Imperialism" not a New Bogie.


The democracy has brought out i'm
perialism as an tissue" and is talking
about it as though it had never been
i heard of before. 1t is not new. The
democrats were "anti-imperialists" in
1854, and Abraham Lincoln was the
"despot" whom the democracy feared.
Now Mr.. Bryan goes around the country
quoting Abraham Lincoln, and once in
can" who will support Mr.. Bryan. 1t is
instructive and profitable at the present
time to read what the democrats of war
time thought and said of Lincoln.
To show that the present democratic
cry of ''imperialism" Is not a new cam
paign trick, the New York Mail and Elk
press publishes the following collection
-of NJ bic utterances gathered from var
ious Sources during the presidential con
test of 1864:
In my deliberate opinion, if Mr.. Lin
coin is reelected we shall have military
despotism fastened upon us and our
children, with a standing army of negro
janissaries. Combs of Kentucky.
If Lincoln is entitled to the gratitude
of the blacks, ought he not to receive the
eternal curses and maledictions of the
white race?-Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept
"a, 1864.
$, There is not a man here whose life,
property and everything wife,
children and home-will not be in dan
ger should such deplorable result fol-
lou fhn oil IF A N am
Lincoln.-I1on. John McKeon to the
democratic convention, Sept. 4, 1864
If Lincoln is reelected we will never
--ain have peace or union in the land
Develand Plain Dealer, Oct. ID, 1864.
The election of Lincoln means war,
anarchy and disunion-the success of
z Mcclellan will bring peace and the res
toration of the union. These are the is
sues involved in the elections of October
and Indianapolis Sentinel
Sept ID, 1864.
The party of which Abraham Lincoln
is the candidate and representative,
though protesting fealty to the union, is
: its most dangerous foe. The facts of its
history, the spirit of its policies, the tend
eucy of its measures, tally as completely
with disunion designs as if they had been
dictated by cold, subtitle and calculating
hostility to our national greatness.-New
York World, Sept. ID, 1864.
II Abraham Lincoln is reelected pres
ident the liberties of the people are gone
forever. Military despotism will rule.
There will be no liberty of speech or
press. Anarchy, bloody anarchy, will
follow. Taxation without limit will
grind the people to the dust. There will
. be more widows and orphans, and more
tyranny and oppression than the world
has seen for centuries.-Niles Republican.
By arrogating to himself powers not
granted by the constitution and the laws,
Mr.. Lincoln has exercised or attempted
to exercise, a despotic power over the
people such as only the emperor of Aus
tria can exercise. He has given himself
over to those who declare that the con-
stitution is a league with death and a
covenant with hell.-Colonel Gray of De
troit. Mich, Oct. 3, 1864.
The constitution Is indeed a most
sacred instrument 1t is attacked by
armed traitors in the South and by in
sidious. double-dyed traitors in this adj
ministration-M Lincoln at the head
at the North-The Hon. j. Il. Haskins
TO the democratic convention, Aug. 81,
1864.
cannot give you any better argument
why YOU should change this administra-