"Whatever measure of success was achieved became a potent weapon in working their ultimate overthrow.”

The Stark County Democrat, “It is arbitrary power in the hands of civil magistrates. In the last eighty years twenty-five distinct laws of a coercive character, cutting off personal liberty, free speech, free press, the right to bear arms, to hold public meetings, etc. . . . recalls the blundering of our home Radicals an[d] Jacobins in the reconstruction they proposed and attempted for the south after the war. Whatever measure of success was achieved became a potent weapon in working their ultimate overthrow.”, March 31, 1887

   Obviously those in the democratic party are not students of history. Or, they think that they are 'special' and it doesn't apply to them....