But this is not the most, nor yet the worst that has been done by and in the name of the Democracy.

They have turned the fair and sunny fields of the South into one general camp-ground and grave-yard; they have covered the land with mourning; they have laid waste the country, and made desolate the happy homes of thousands upon thousands; they have filled the South with helpless. orphans, and mourning widows and mothers; they have arrayed in deadly strife citizens, neighbors, and friends, where nothing but peace, friendship, plenty, and contentment were known before; they have excited father against son, and son against father, and brother against brother; they have sacrificed a million of lives, and made cripples of nearly as many more for life; they have filled the air of Heaven with the groans of the wounded and the lamentations of the dying; they have impoverished and ruined the entire South, and brought nothing but desolation, hunger, and want upon the people; they will have cost the nation more than ten thousand millions of dollars from first to last; they have made promises, predictions, and calculations, not one of which have been or will be fulfilled; they have undertaken to do what they will not be able to accomplish, and what will prove to be a lamentable and disgraceful failure, that will involve all in one common whirlpool of degradation and ruin. And all this for what? Why, that the leading politicians of the Southern Democracy might perpetuate their own power and appropriate the spoils of office to their own. exclusive use.

It is no exaggeration to say that, if an army from the lower regions, with Lucifer himself at its head, had been turned loose with the most demoniac passions against the Southern people, they could not have done much more mischief than has been done by these Southern leaders in the

name of Democracy, and all for their own exclusive and selfish purposes.*

* 1866.—It would scarcely have been credited, and still less anticipated that, in less than one year from the overwhelming discomfiture and defeat of this same Democracy by the absolute subjection and surrender of all their forces in the field, which was followed by the most abject supplications for pardon from the chief Executive of the nation, that they would have had the audacity to set up any claim or pretension to get control of the government again; and still less could it have been anticipated that, by the misapplied clemency of the President in granting indiscriminate pardons to all, they would, on this 30th day of March, 1866, be in the ascendency again in almost every Southern state, looking eagerly and laboring earnestly to get control of the national government. YET SO IT IS.

I have recently cut from a newspaper an article so entirely coinciding with my own views that I take the liberty of appending it here, without knowing to whom I am indebted for so true and faithful a picture of the obligations of the people to the once great and overshadowing Democrat

ic party.

“Record of the 'Democratic' Party.—We never read one of the numerous complaints which appear in the so-called Democratic newspapers about the burden of our public debt and the consequent heavy taxation, without being reminded of the fact that the Democratic party is responsible for the rebellion and whatever evils followed in its track. Every dollar of our national debt was expended in suppressing the rebellion inaugurated by the Southern Democrats, and connived at and sympathized with by their Northern allies of the same party. This accounts for their desire to repudiate this debt, interest and principal, and at the same time explains the secret of their constant complaint about 'heavy taxation.' A Western orator tells the truth in his own way in the following extract:

"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 in 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

A party that has been productive of such unmeasured mischief should not only be forever buried in oblivion, but the word democracy itself should be stricken from the vocabulary, that no more abuses should be committed under a name of such magic influence.

THE RESULT OF THE REBELLION.

You ask me also, what I think will be the result of this rebellion? This question is much more briefly answered.

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. Before he is begotten 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 this 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 and comfort of families now desolate. No one can attempt to deny this indictment. No one can pretend that the Democratic party had any cause for rebellion. Yet it has the effrontery to cry over the burdens of taxation. As the father of the Democratic party, when he had 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 come 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 which has brought all these woes upon the land."

Let an enlightened public now determine whether my uniform and persistent hostility to the Democratic party was the result of unworthy and unfounded prejudice, as some have supposed, or of a judicious and intelligent knowledge of its true character, and the danger to be apprehended, from the nature of its organization, to the interests and welfare of the nation.

The history of the world in 6000 years has furnished but one instance of a David and Goliath. I do not think this is likely to prove a second. Five millions of people, and they far from being united, with two local governments in operation in three of the principal states, to wit, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, without money, for that can not be called money which has no foundation for its basis, and is made payable six months after the happening of an event which is sure never to take place, without credit, without necessary clothing, without a sufficiency of the necessaries of life, without a navy, and without commerce, to overthrow 22,000,000 of people, with an abundant supply of both money and credit, with a superfluity of clothing, provisions, and other appliances of war, with a most powerful navy, and a commerce unrestricted with all the world, would be a miracle that could be worked out by the hand of the Almighty alone; and if he was on either side, as has been so often claimed, then I feel assured that that side would never suffer defeat or privation. I am compelled, therefore, to conclude that the rebellion will prove in the end a most signal and disastrous failure, unless the administration at Washington shall be guilty of some act of most absurd and stupid folly that will serve to divide a now united North, and unite a now divided South. But as long as the Southern authorities can raise the men, and the provisions to sustain them, the war will be prosecuted; and when there is nothing left with which to feed the army, which will be first served, what will be left to feed the people? Unfortunately, those who made the war, those who were looked up to by their more ignorant neighbors and friends for advice and counsel, will not be the chief sufferers; for after having induced them to adopt a course that drove the husbands, brothers, and sons into the field, they have themselves,

for the most part, dodged behind every conceivable pretext to avoid the danger and privation to which they subjected others. What unfathomable contempt I feel for such creatures, who should have been the first to rush to battle and vindicate a cause of their own creation!

CONCLUSION.

I have thus furnished you with a sketch of the origin and progress of secession, as derived from my own personal knowledge of the events recorded, as I have been an active participator in all the scenes referred to for the last thirty years, and you are supplied with the means by which a mere handful of bad and selfish men, a set of political gamblers and stock-jobbers, have gradually and stealthily advanced step by step in their wicked work, and at each successive point succeeded in seducing into their ranks the too easy and timid dupes from the ranks of their opponents, until at last it has come to be a crime to dispute the orthodoxy of their detestable doctrines, or to raise a voice in favor of the great work of our immortal fathers. Thus you have seen how a reckless and desperate set of politicians, who are now courted, honored, rewarded, and caressed, have, for their own hateful and selfish ends, involved the great body of the confiding and unsuspecting people of the South in all the frightful consequences that must inevitably result from their want of fidelity to a government that never had the power to oppress them, and which they were under the highest obligations of honor and duty to support; and now they impiously implore the Almighty on this, the day of humiliation and prayer, to help them out of difficulties of their own seeking, and from which they have no power to extricate themselves except by unconditional submission, while their constant cry is that they are "an outraged and oppressed.