"...They may crawl on their bellies and lick the bare feet of their Yankee masters, but we will defy the devil dogs of Puritan power, and tell them to their teeth that they can never ram their black, besotted, and beastly hereies down our throats or the throats of the Democratic masses...We will speak our sentiments in the words as hot and hard as musket balls on the wing; we will champion State sovereignty-including the incidents of secession and nullification; we will favor the repeal of all the legislation that the radical party has spewed upon the statute books; we will advocate free trade; we will oppose national banks, ship bounties, railroad subsidies, and every thing that has the smack and flavor of a monyed monopoly. In brief, we propose to publish a paper that will commend itself to the Democratic masses by...its defiant devotion to the prerogatives and priciples that thundered from the guns, pealed from the trumpets, and hung like a glory over the battle banner of the confederate cause."
WHEW!
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David Upton