Year: 1875

that character may it be long after
have laid my bones in the soil near
my own river. That is the nature of
this government in brief, formed by
independent sovereigns, formed by
free States. formed by equal States."
THE DOCTRINE OF THE REBELLION,


AND WHAT IT COST.


Here the Democratic Senator from
New England spoke the true senti-
ments of his party, and prove it to be
the enemy of our national existence.
This Democratic creed is the doctrine
of the rebellion. 1t has cost the ma
ton half million of lives and bill
ions of treasure. 1t has peopled the
land with widows and orphans and
filed it with mourning. | denounce
it as false in facts and logic. This
government was not formed by the
States, and is not the organ of the
States, but by the people Of the Unit
ed States in their primary and aggre.
is placed upon this doctrine by the
declares THAT we, the people Of the
United States. in order to form a
more perfect union. establish Justice,
insure OoheSeiC tiduiuiHiJ, PIONuC
for the common defense, promote the
general welfare, and secure the bless
ings of liberty to ourselves and pos
terity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States OF
America" To shew the utter ah-
surdIty and folly of this doctrine l
three States formed out OF the terri
fhof ho1o-no1 - <h., Ifprfx.J
States, and which was the property OF
by acts of Congress, and but for those
acts would to-day be dependent terri
tories. They are the offspring of
rights, duties. and prerogatives are
tuition of the United States, and yet,
as soon as they became States by ac.s
original and inherent sovereignty. a
portion of which they have delegated
to the government of the United
States, which is their mere organ and
creature-which is just as reasonable
as for man to claim to be his own
father.


THE DEMOCRATIC A SECTIONAL PAR


TY. BY ITS OWN CONFESSION.


The Democratic party is not nation
al because it denies the nation. 1t is
sectional, because it asserts that the
country is composed of independent
sections connected together only by a
written agreement We are sometimes
told that the doctrine of State sover-
eighty is dead, but whether dead or
alive the Democratic party is chained
to its carcass, and must live or be
buried with it. But this doctrine,
most unfortunately, is not dead, al
though it undoubtedly stinks and sur.
wives, political leprosy to taint the
air, and, | fear, to corrupt the blood
Of future generations. No party that
processes it, no man that believes in
it should ever be placed in the ad-
ministration of the national govern.
ment, because he and they are the
enemies of the nation. The Repub-
lican party is the national party, be-
cause it alone believes in the exist
ence of the nation. 1t is the only
friend of the States. because it be-
lieves they are sister States, and not
Independent powers, bound together
indissolubly in one national bond
| and family, each possessing her sacred
rigtts guaranteed by the bond, the
honor. and the natural ties and affec-
ton Of the whole family.


Is RECONSTRUCTION A FAILURE
We are told by Democratic speak
ers and papers that the system of re-
construction adopted for the States
lately in rebellion is failure and a
| blunder. but in the next breath we
are assured that all is peace and quiet
,, in the South; that the people have
| accepted the situation, and there is
| ne longer any disturbing element but
| the presence of the Republican poll
tician. Ii this politician is native
| of the South he is described as a seal J.
awag, a renegade, and low character,
and visited with all the opprobrium
society can heap upon him. If he is
| from the North he is denounced as a
carpet bagger, come down to Ilunder
| and eat out of their substance. In
either case he gives the colored peo-
| pie bad advice-tbat is, he advises
| them to vote the Republican ticket
and stand up for their own rights. and
but for him, we are told. the colored
people would do we'll enough-that is,
| submit themselves to their old mas
| ters and keep their places. There is
! a vast and systematic effort to mislead
and defraud the Northern mind in


regard to the sentiments and policy of
the Democratic party in the South.


of the unreconciled, hostile, and dis
turbing people of the South, 1 am
speaking of the Democratic party, for


into that party are gathered every
| disloyal element, the White Leaguers,


the kuklux, the last ditchers, the


unreconstructed, and negro haters of


high and low degree.


WHO CONTROL THE SOUTHERN DE-
MOCRACY


And when it is thrown into our
| faces that We have not reconstructed
| the South, it means simply that we
have not reconstructed and regener-
ated the Democratic party. Nor do /
| mean to say that there is not in the
South large body of honest, we'll
meaning, we'll disposed people, acting
with the Democratic party But do


mean to say that they do not control
and direct the party; but are con-
trolled and swept on by the classes of
people l have just mentioned, just as
at the beginning Of the rebellion there
were throughout the South a great
body OF people opposed to secession,
in some of the States majority, in
cluding the best and most intelligent;


but they were overruled, bullied and
sllenced by the same classes who now
control the Democratic party. It is
of the last importance that we should
understand Southern sentiment and
policy correctly, in order that we may
not do injustice on the one hand, nor
be swindled ana overreached on the
other.


L do not propose to cheat or be