Year: 1870

There may have been time when the Or


iginators and founders of the Republican


party may have been possessed of good in


tentions and honest motives, though always


one ideaed fanatical and insane party, but


whatever Of honesty Or sincerity may once


have found lodgment i'll its ranks, all must


admit that that party is now the most cor


rupt, shameless and dishonest of any thai


ever had an organized existence in the coun-


try. Wendell Phillips lately said it was
dead and could be of no farther use until it
rotted and formed manure, out of which
something useful might grow. We should
say that it had been quite rotten for years,
and that its offensive odor had produced
some good fruit in the late elections If the
people of the United States can be taught


only by example, then indeed, the past and


present history of the Republican party


should be lesson to them which neither
this nor succeeding generations should ever
forget or fail to profit by. When it become
known that the Republican party encouraged
rascality, corruption and tyrmny, in its indi-


vidual members, then there was a sudden
and simultaneous rush of every imp of Satan


in the whole land, and from every other par
ty, to its ranks; and thus and of such as


these is its rulers and managers now COM


posed. While this process of dividing the


tares from the wheat and the goats from the


sheep has been going on, every rascal that
reached the mongrel ranks demanded
place where he could steal, until, after the
creation ofnew offices BY the hundred thous-
and, aud the dismissal Of all the old, honest
officials, there is now not enough of offices
to hold all the rascals in the mongrel party,
and now row seems eminent over who
shall have the first tug at the official teat or
the first grab at the Governmental grab-bag.


Four hundred millions of dollars year do
these Federal thieves rob the honest, toiling
laborers of the country out of-a sum equal
to $40 for every man, woman and child in
the country, and yet they thirst for more.
And this is not tithe of the robbing COM
mtted The public domain has beeu par
celled out to the lobby hounds that followed
the corrupt Congressional scent, and licked
the hands and did the bidding of their dirty
masters, while the tariff mongers, through
Congressional legislation, have heeced the
toling masses out of untold millions, annu-
ally. For nine long years have these things
been going on and growing worse from day
to day, and from year to year, and yet,
this party and these rascals are still in power
and still rampantly robbing and plundcrng
the laboring masses. And why is it so, and
whose fault is it? Annually, thousands and
tens of thousands of good honest, intelligent
Republicans have left the foul party and
joined the ranks of the Democracy, but
their places were filled by rascally Demo-
Gratis who sought an alliance with the spoils


party and share of the stealings, until


finally it become apparent that there was no
longer room and pickiugs in the mongrel
party for as many thieves as would fill the
places made vacant by honest Republicans,
and keep up the party strength. This was
an emergency that must be met and over
come, if only for another short two years
lease of power, and to effect this the negro
must be resorted to as an ally, and to this
end the Fifteenth amendment was forced on
the country by fraud, and law passed Civ
ing him the ballot in every State in the
Union. This sent 200 900 or 300 900 ne
groes to the polls in the States where they
never had before voted. This was the last
reserve of the great mongrel army, and they
marched up and voted the Republican ticket;
but when the smoke of the battle field clear
ed away, and the ballots were counted. it
was found that more honest Republicans had
voted the Democratic ticket than over-bal-
anced the negro vote. Yes, 300,0 or
400, 900 Republicans left the mongrel party
forever, and in the late elections voted the
Democratic ticket. They left the mongrel
party because Of its tyrrany, because of its
corruptions, its stealings and robberies, and
are worthy men, and will make honored men,
bers of any party. There never was, nor
never will be time in the history of our
country when all the bad men belong to one
party and all the good men to another party;
but the foul, mongrel ring of Republican ru-
lers has attracted to its ranks nearly every
rascally Democrat in the land, like the pu-
trd carcass attracts the carton crow-whe
its political stencil and barefaced villainies
have driven from its organization nearly ev-
cry decent Republican in the country; thus
leaving at this day and hour almost every
honest, intelligent patriot in the country in