Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1876 — Why the Democracy Should Not be Trusted. [ARTICLE]

Why the Democracy Should Not be Trusted.

For the following reasons Democracy has no claim upon the loyal people of the Nation for their support or confidence: 1. It encouraged the dangerous heresy of States’ Rights, and educated the people of the South to rebel against the Government. 2. It refused, when in power, to take steps against the threatened disruption of the Union, and permitted the rebellion to assume formidable proportions when prompt action would have crushed it in its inception. 3. By its oft-expressed sympathies for the rebel cause during the prosecution of the war it held put false hopes to the Confederates, and thereby prolonged the conflict at the expense of hundreds of thousands of lives and millions of treasure. 4. When victory was about to cfown our efforts to preserve the Union it resolved in National Convention that the war was & failure and demanded that it should cease. 5. Since the close of the war it has placed every obstacle possihle in the way of an honorable and peaceful adjustment of the questions growing out of the abolition of slavery and the changed condition of affaire incidental to the close of an ex haustive war. 6. It opposed in Congress, and in the several State Legislatures, the adoption of the .Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and, failing to defeat them, has continued its opposition by teaching its followers in the South that they are not bound to obey or respect them. 7. It has approved, either by silence or open defense, the outrages committed by the Democrats of the South on those who differed from them in political opinion. 8. It represents the worst elements of society,. the ignorance and vice pf the North and the disloyal sentiment of the South. 9. Its return to power would tend to destroy our credit by adding to our already heavy debt claims of doubtful character growing oat of the rebellion, and pressed for payment by Democratic influence. 10. It is the same old party that was driven from power in 1860 by an indig. nant people, whom it attempted to betray. It is false in everything that constitutes honorable organization, and is unworthy of trust or confidence. For the reasons given it ought not to be trusted by the American people.— Republic Mcgasine. It is estimated that of an average minion of men and women, 2,153 live to be ninety-five years old, Many a man, however, is an old woman at forty.