Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1878 — Facts for the People. [ARTICLE]

Facts for the People.

The New York Tribune says, truthfully, the rebellion was Democratic. It broke out in Democratic States. Itwns confined to Democratic States. It was hatched by Southern Democrats. It was fostered by Northern Democrats. Democrats officered the Rebel Army. Democrats made up the rank and file. Democrats filled every office in the Confederate Government, from the Presidency down to the clerkships and the messengerships. There wasn’t a Republican with a shoulder-strap, or a musket, or a “place” in the whole devilish concern. In the Democratic City of Washington, under the Democratic Administration of Buchanan, the rebellion was conspired and prepared. A Democratic member of that Democratic Administration stripped the North of arms and smuggled them Over to the South, and sent the army where it would be unavailable or could easily be captured. A Democratic member of that same Democratic Administration scattered the navy over the world, so that it could not be used on the Rebel seaboard. A Democratic Secretary of the Treasury plundered his trust to supply the rebellion with money. A Democratic President, entreated to do something to save the Nation, refused, declaring and arguing that the Government could not Constitutionally defend itself, and that it was unlawful to coerce rebels; and he sat sullenly down and allowed the Nation’s arsenals to be plundered; and the Nation’s ships, navy-yards and fortresses to be seized, and the rebel armies to be organized, without lifting a finger to prevent. “ Democrats” throughout evary Northern and Western State applauded the conduct of their Democratic President, adopted and defended his Democratic doctrine that the Government had no right to apply force io suppress a rebellion, and from the word “go” politically opposed every legislative, financial, military and moral measure taken to speedily and successfully prosecute the war and save the Nation’s life. The country’s past and present woes are Democratic, all and everyone of them, without one solitary exception. A Western editor says: “Let Democratic journals and orators howl over the debt and taxes their war has brought. They but magnify their own sins. Every dollar of debt is a Democratic legacy. Every tax is a Democratic gift. Every Government stamp is a Democratic sticking plaster. Every person in the United States drinks Democracy in his tea, his coffee, and his whisky, and in the sugar wherewith he sweetens them. Each ingredient pays its quota for the cost of Democracy to the country. The smoker inhales Democracy. The sick man is physicked with Democracy. The laboring man gives about one hour’s labor every day to pay for Democracy. The capitalist pays one-tenth of his income for the cost of the Democratic party. “Every transfer of property is saddled with the Democratic burden. The child is subject to the Democratic tax. From the cradle to the grave he never is free from it. The funeral mourning must first pay the penalty of Democratic rule, and a portion of that which he leaves behind must go into this Democratic vortex. Generation after generation will carry the Democratic burden, from birth to death. But for the Democratic party our people would hardly have known the nature of taxation. But for the Democratic party the hundreds of thousands of young men whose bones are strewn over the South would now be productive laborers and the support ana edmfort of families now desolate. “ No one can attempt to deny this indictment. No one can pretend that the Democratic party had any cause for the rebellion. Yet it has the effrontery to cry over the burdens of taxation. As the father of the Democratic party, when hahad stripped Job of family and possessions, charged it to his own sins, and sought to draw him from his integrity, so his Democratic sons now came forward with equal effrontery and charge their doings upon the loyal people, and hypocritically howl over their afflictions, and seek to seduce them from their integrity, to elect to power the party that has brought all these woes upon the land.” The New Republic.

—The leading people of Kennebunkport, Me., were gathered the other day to witness a wedding, the bridegroom being President Robbins, of Colby University, Me., and the bride, Miss Nott, of New Haven, Conn. Friends from Connecticut and Massachusetts were in attendance, and a wedding feast had been prepared. The officiating clergyman was about to tie the knot when the bridegroom discovered that he had failed to comply with the law of the State which required him to file his intention of marriage with the Town Clerk. There was no way out of the difficulty but by postponing the wedding, which was done. The wedding feast was oaten all the same, and the next day the pair went to Massachusetts. where they could be fnarried without the delay of five days which would have been neeemfy had they remained in Maine. Bostonians are not. in favor of anything outre or unusual. They don’t like anythingmuch out of the Common. —Graphic.