Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1868 — Why the Democracy are Rejected. [ARTICLE]

Why the Democracy are Rejected.

To the Leader $ of the Democratic Party: i Your rejection bxAhfl~Pflapl* QUipßaJLtc and decided.- —Why? You cnoouraged the Booth to initiate secesaion, Tkoir ptDn'duhcpd eoereibn equally revolutionary with soccssion. You assailed the first call for troops ns unconstitutional. You refused to vote men or money to,carry ©u the war. You bade the Southern States depart in peace. You doolured that if slavery must be destroyed to savo tho Union, then the Union must perish. You declared your preference fbFlbe rebel constitution as against your own. v When it became nppareqffi that to proclaim universal liberty would weaken the enemy and reward tho true patriots you opposed it. You stoutly contended that tho rebellion would novel-bo suppressed nnd triumplmntly quotod evory re'Vmib6 to us ns demonstrating it. You urged the abandonment of the war and the resort to negotiation for the best attainable terms. In our gloomiest days, and when no political campaign was ponding, you sought to ioflamo tho passions of the people against tho only government wo over had or could have. And you assailed President Lin. coin as a despot- ~ - --—■ You denounced tho Government as revolutionary. The boys in Blue you termed hirelings. You were opposed to allowing soldiers to Vote. You opposed filling up our armies by a draft. 1 ' -•■■■- : ' • You incited rlolifagainst tho laws of the land You urged the South to rejoct the most magnanimous terms over offered to conquered rebels. You passed laws imposing on freemen tiro most galling and unjust discrimination, in the hulls of justice, on tho fields of labor, and in the resorts of trnde. You would not allow a man equal justice before the law because servile blood flowed in his veins. You would not permit a man who had once been a slave or a slave’s child to control his own labor. You would not allow h man to dispose of his own property to his neighbor or. fair terms because of difference in their color. You would sell tho labor of tho eolorbd'ftifrn vpon the auction block as punishment for not working when you gave him no cmploymcivt, You fired tho rebel heart anew against the loyal. Yon confer with the highest and most brutal rebel Generals. You falsely assail the hero to whose energy, bravery and skill we owe the cxistonce of our country, as a “brutal butcher, miserable drunkard, mUcogenatlonist, ’contaminated liar, drunkard and dirty scoundrel.” —-

"The man most warmly wolcomcd by you in convention—Napoloon “J>utcher 1 ’ Forrest—violated a flag of truce and shot down his begging victims in cold blood. The pavements of New Orleans are yet stained with tho blood_ _of tho thousands of black and white victims of your hellish malignity. You have rejected every principle the Democratic party cherisbod in its early day. And you propose to trample in the dust by revolutionary moans, the laws of Congress. You trampled on the ballot box in ISfiO and for five years after; and threaten to do it again. It was bogun by you. You conducted it. You prolonged it. Thousands of homes in our land were desolated by you. Hundreds of thousands of graves were dug by you. Affliction and death followed in your train. Debt and taxation are the fruit of your treason. You boast that your triumph would be tho triumph of the “lost cause.” You avow a policy of repudiating tho debt. You propose an irredeemable paper currency. Y'ou propose to refuse to pay interest on the public debt. Y'ou propose to tax every species of the poor man’s property. ■ You turn out inspectors of elections. You forgo naturalization papers. By violence you seek to pervert the people’s voice. Tuo fact that a Republican meeting i§ to.be held, in many States of tho Union, is deemed by you of sufficient reason for shooting the attendants. Southern Repnblican editors aro none too good for castigation at yonr merciless hands. An excited people are murdered in their fear. Fort Pillow, Orleans, Camilla, are your victories. Y'ou court or crush colored men just as they accept or decline yonr political alliance. Reconstruction has been delayed by you. Y'ou would bavo no reorganization that did not place the old lash' in yonr bands and enable masters to wreak their vengenco on the late slaves. The future you wonld give ns is one ‘of terrof. Civil war and oppressive taxation are all you offer us. The past warns us of you. The grave bolds up its hands against you. ? The future implores to be saved from you. Tbe people heed the supplifcation and hence you are rejected. —Ktv