Year: 1871

Party Names and Party Principles.


1t is astonishing at this period of our
history, that some men, and even those
who have reputation for Intelligence.
should commit the gross blunder of con-
founding party names with party princi
pies, and assign the definition Of term
as the reason for their political faith
And yet there are men who will give no
better reason for supporting party than
the highsounding or popular name which
it chooses to assume. But in reality
names are nothing-principle and acts
everything. To him who is conversant
with the political history of the United
States for the past ten or twelve years.
the fact is patent that the conduct of the
so-called Republican party has been any
thing else than what its name imports.
And indeed history. which is philosophy
teaching BY example, informs US that in
the ancient republics, whenever party,
such as now misrules this country. came
into power, arrogating to itself the exclu-
sive right to govern ard denying to all
others republican or democratic principles,
they rode roughshot over the rights Of the
people; ruled and retained power by
Wholesale system of bribery and corrup-
ton, and, in short, committed every
enormity known to the catalogue of ty
rants


The party now in power in the United
States is the most corrupt and the most
INSCRIPTIONS withal, that ever ruled aud
ruined in the history of the world. It
had its origin in sectional animosity. Its
first step was to nominate sectional can
didate for the high Office of President on
a sectional platform, pledging both can
didate and party to uucompromising hos
tility to the interests and institutions of
one section of the country-interests and
institutions that were recognized and pro-
'ected by the Constitution which they were
sworn to defend and hold sacred. They
took wrongful possession of the govern
ment, their candidate having received
minority Of the votes cast. Their next
slept was by abuse, bravado and double
dealing to drive one-third of the States
out of the Union, and institute civil war
that deluged the country in blood for four
years. They bribed the convict popula-
tion of Europe, to plunder, murder and
destroy our brethren of the South and
have ever since held them under the most
CALLING and insufferable tyranny that ever
afflicted an oppressed people-and all this


10 break down opposition to their rule,
and to retain place and power, where they
can riot on the blood and money of the
nation. The army and the treasury-the
purse and the sword-and every arm and
every emolument and attribute of the gov
ernment have been subsidized to this cor
rupt end, while fitness for official station
and honest discharge of official duty are
basely ignored, and the only capacity re-
quired by candidate for office is the Ca
pacity to command votes. for the party
Since this party came into power more
than two billions of the peoples treasure
have been squaudered. Criticized from the
public Golfers to ill the pockets of the
leaders of this delectable gang of free
hooters and carry fire and sword to the
homes of ten millions of our fellow citizens,


while the only beneficial result which
even these leaders can point out, is the


qualification of malice aud hatred cherish
ed by these pious Yankee nabobs, who
count their gainssby millions. In order
to keep up the fires of hatred in the
Northern mind, which alone sustains this
party in power. they circulate through all
their press incendiary lies about the state
of society in the South, and make their
own unwarranted act an excuse for de-
claring martial law and denying to those
oppressed people the elective franchise.
Since the election of Mr. Buchanan in
1856 there has been no President elected


by the people of the United States. Lin
coin received minority vote in 1860.
In 1864 eleven States did not vote. In
1858 several States, to wit: those who
were known to be hostile to this Black
Republican party, we're not allowed to
vote. though the war had been over more
than three years. Aud now as another
election approaches, the coxcomb and row.
dy, who is the personi6cation of this mod-
ern republicanism (see the dictionarv1