Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1869 — What is Democracy? [ARTICLE]

What is Democracy?

Fbom a late number of the Mobile, Ala., Tribune, we clip.. -|he spfejomcd extract, which gives the truthful view rtf Democratic intentions, without dissimulation or coneetisadAt. The Tribune says: If a true Southern man has any political status in a national teenso, ifois-a Demociat. The only men at the North with whose views lie honestly cßtacides are those who during the war Were called 4«(jPßerhe^d % ’’ 4ml who since the conclusion or ttie war have-.protested, and voted against all the enactments of a corrupt Congress. Thr Irut Democrat believes t/uU the reconstruction Xbw* ought to be overthrown at thepoiut of she F<4smL bayonet if «f f*hary,andtfuit M negro SMidd r b<: de> prned of she right of suffrageilleralh'conferred upon him. When tee abandon those principles ire abandon tits Democratic party, and with }t the forlorn hope rtf restoring the government as it was. "