Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1869 — Democratic Blunders. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Blunders.

The New York l(trail, speaking ' of the bolt in the Indiana Legisla- { lure, says: “The Democrats have been ldun-1 dvring again on the niggfcr. They 1 siill dream of‘the Constitution as it was’ under Buchanan, when, by the j Dred Scott decision a negro had ‘no 1 rights which a white man was bound | to respect.’ But since that day two amendments ha'tyo been Added to the Constitution—the thirteenth, abolishing slavery root and branch, ami the fourteenth, declaring, among < other things, equality to niggers in i the matter of civil rights, and that j MittVage and representation shall go j together. Now comes the fifteenth i amendment, giving to the black man, j the yellow man, the everlasting nig- | ger, the Indian and the Chinaman citizenizcd, the same right of suffrage as the white man. General Grant, too, thinks this amendment will settle this, business, and so lie hopes it will be duly ratified by the States. This indorsement, there is every reason to believe, will carry this amendment through, for, says Richard, ‘the king's name is a tower of strength.’

“Why, then, will the Democrats persist in this folly of fighting ttie nigger, when they have been almost destroyed in their successive disasters on the nigger question since 1564 ? But for the stupidity of the Copperhead and rebel leaders of the Tamiuanv Convention they might have run even General Grant a tight race, and they might have secured a handsome majority in the present House of Representatives. But instead of recognizing the ‘fixed facts' before them, 'the stupid managers of the party proclaimed the reudnstrife-” tion acts of Congress ‘unconstitutional, revolutionary, null and void,’ and so they were swamped again in ’6B, as they had been under Johnson on the same issue in ’CO. So they are out in the cold, watching and waiting for some providential smash up of the Republican and apparently incapable of seeing any thing to fight againstbut the almighty nigger. He is to them what a bit of red flannel is to an enraged bull or a turkey cock—an intolerable insult, to be resented, reckless of consequences.”

Jail Delivery.— Last Monday afternoon between three and four o’clock, Thomas McNary, Lawrence Brett, and Alfred Hirst, who had been confined**!n our county jail for some time, took “French leave.” They got out by forcing off a plank, ami crawling through over the cistern. A lew minutes after their escape the alarm was given, and pursuit instituted, but the “birds had flown” and up to the latest dates, had not been rc-eapturcd. They were all imprisoned for larceny—McNary and Brett tor stealing an overcoat, and Hirst for “confiseatlhg” £3O in Valparaiso. The latter had been incarcerated for 6onie nine mouths. —Loporte Unjon <£ ['trail. Singular Death.— The Newport Sootier Wale says a man living in Howard, Parke county, about three miles from Newport, met with a singular death one day last week. It appears as though lie was out in the woods by himselt, splitting rails, and while standing on the log driving in a large glut, he slipped and fell into the crack, the glut bouncing out at the same time, letting the log coin a together upon him, which term’anted his life in a few hours.