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Subscriber and Constant Reader, Rochester, New York, to James Alphonsus McMaster, Esq., New York, New York, 1865 May 15

 Item
Identifier: CMMA I-1-m

Scope and Contents

He, with many others, agrees with the Day Book "that you, as a Democrat, have yielded too easily in abandoning your principles and saying that "Jeffersonian Democracy has passed into history and is no longer embodied in any potential political party and that like every other political system in the new changing phases of human society, once dead, there is no resurrecting for it." McMaster has evidently become weak-kneed, which is the last thing he believes should happen to an editor who has always defended the Constitution and the rights of the people. McMaster and the other editors from the commencement of this unnatural and diabolical struggle should have pointed out the real traitors, those who trampled on the Constitution and the laws of the country and those who wished to withdraw from the wicked perpetrators of such evil deed. Had all the Democrats taken this course they would not be witnessing the horrors of the triumph of "Might over right" in this reign of terror - this bloody reign of professed philanthropists. He does not know if McMaster looks upon it the same way or not, but he believes that the Dissenters and Protestants are preparing a crusade against the Catholics. He believes that in the course of time that there will be a bloody collision and that the Protestants from mere preponderance of numbers will drive Catholics to the wall as Northerners from the same cause and no other have driven the Southerners. He asks if McMaster will then say has "the Catholic religion passed into History and there is no resurrection of it?" He states that McMaster has probably been associating with traitors lately. The old war horse of democracy, James Buchanan, will tell McMaster what the real Democracy is yet to do for this poor distracted country. The Democrats will lose heart if their editors say their efforts are of no use. Lincoln laughed in his sleeve at having fooled the people even after his death. Unlike McMaster he hopes to see Jeffersonian Democracy triumph again. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.

Dates

  • Creation: 1865 May 15

Language of Materials

English.

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