Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1869 — Terribly Afflicted. [ARTICLE]

Terribly Afflicted.

Newspapers have preserved the tradition of an afflicted mortal who had the jaundice, the measles, the break-bone fever and the toothache, all at one time, and felt sick besides. The Democracy are in very much such a bad way. The are sweating and grunting and toiling along the dusty highway of politics under a weary load of incongruity, hunting in vain for the lost jewel—consistency. They protest one thing in Pennsylvania, another in Ohio, another in lowa, and still another in Cali-

fornia. In the rough language of Davy Crocket, “things is mixed.” The New York World instructs that the public debt must be paid in gold; the Cincinnati Enquirer insists that it must be liquidated in paper. Northwestern Democrats make free trade a test Of party fealty; Pennsylvania Democrats raise the counter cry that a high protective tariff is the only true creed. California Democrats demand the exclusion of John Chinaman from the Union ; Southern Democrats require that he shall be admitted to our shores' in unrestricted number, as the only means of saving the country. The faithful in Virginia are making ready to swallow the Fifteenth Amendment with cheerful alacrity ; the faithful in Ohio denounce the same proposition as monstrous in inception and consequences. The party in the North is shouting itself hoarse in opposition to negro suffrage; in the South, the same franchise is regarded as the only true, trustworthy and correct policy. Every State, has its own platform, and no two agree. Any Democrat can be every . thing by turns, an<t nothing long, yet remain al! the tinie in full accord with a large section .of the Democracy. All this makes easy work for Republicans. Look, ing on complacently, we are reminded of the

story of the Indian who, being naked lyltat he regarded as the easiest work, answered, “ The easiest work I khoW M) Is to «oe a white man mow.” No wodc in easier fpr Republicans than seeing. Democrats cut-' ting their wide swath flwrat atway, woW looking at ye.— Chieago