Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1870 — The Pagan Democracy. [ARTICLE]

The Pagan Democracy.

... ■■■ Gibbon give* • mphlc aqd ludicrous description of the lingering pagan* at the empire, who, long afterihe Chriotinn religion had been accepted ail over tlie Roman World, continued tbeir aolemn sacrifices to JUpitet and rati, o>ijv|oua of the change* that had taken place around them. 'The Deoaoenttfo party lhe United Mtatesarei rti tlld aaane mnner.

still offerlhgiiecrificca to their Jupitet and theit Fan It Bistta** not that the conntty bits moved onward I that it haa left behind forever the aacritices ta slavery and *t*ceaalon; tbe <tid pagana continue to light the Urea, liny the raffia, and interrogate the oracles, as of fOtt. The D«po<reti.c State Convention in Oregon spent an entire day last weeit, discusvlng whether .they would repudiate the public debt, in «o many Worts, or aoL That debt wan arented, they sald,Vt an

UncopsLiiutional war, ..to coerce sovereign Slates i" If was created In a war against lb« Tigfci of a fttaia to secede from the Union : it was inburred to >ay the expenses of armies to invade the South and enforce obedienct to thb natiohal authority, from which lhetfe fitafile had been releasixl by the action oil their States. Moreover, in that way, four millions of slaves had been emancipted, torn from the possession of their lawful owners. In violation of the express doc trine of the Democracy, that property in slaves was held by a tenure superior to constitutions and lawn The. Democracy of Oregon were not prepared to j-t"e up their ancient idols, so they relighted their fires and offered attain their sacrifices to the older dispensation. A few of them,) of a more politic turn of mind than the rest, induced the majority to change the form of the resolution, and dbtlare that to pay intertrt on the debt was a burden too heavy to be bonse; that the debt was excessive, andthat it wm rank oppression to repeat the payment of tbeitrtincipal in the form of interest, and that the govern ment creditors ought to compromise, and take lens. A, '

The condition of the Democratic pagans on the Pacific is hardly more patiable than those of New York. In that corner of the vineyard the question is not whether they will accept the new faith, but whether tiiey wiU-eaorifiee tq Jupiter or Pan. Heretofore they have offered all their incense to Pan. Pan has generally been right side up, and been in the keeping of the celebrated priests Tweed, Sweeney & Company, ft is proposed by some to discard Pan, assassinate- bis Jrieets, and restore the worship of upiter. The Tammany Democracy under Tweed and Sweeney, and the “Young Democracy” under Morrissey, Fox and O’Brien have lost sight of the' external enemy (Christianity) in the violence of their ottn schism. The rival worshippers accuse each other of being thieves and ballot-box staffers; of being corrupt, and of holding their seats by crime. Combined, they have temporary control of the State of New York; but, having no political principle in common with the great body of the people, they are wrangling among themselves as to whether they shall worship this or that

god, and are rushing to destruction, dragging with-< them sundry professing Christians who have not scrupled to mingle in the strife in the interest of Pan. • The condition of the pagan Democracy in other States is equally disheartening. Everywhere, they have but one common*, rule of action, and that is a blind devotion to the past, and an obstinate determination not to accept truth. Never was there a more pitiable exhibition of a party once the ruler of a mighty nation, wasting its strength, chattering feebly, and passing precipitately away in death, and still hoping that prayers to its defunct idols will turn back the wheels of time, revive the dead, and bring back chaos to comfort them. Though in the article of death, they still moan miserably all the way from Oregon to New York, “ This is a white man's government“ The constitution recognizes slavery;” “States are sovereign;” “Repudiate the debt; pay no interest;’’ “Rescind the Fifteenth Amendment."— Chicago Tribune. March 281st.