Show In his message to Congress of Pe I comber 3 iStSl nearly ten months after Jefferson Davis had been Inaugurated President of the Confederacy President Pres-ident Lincoln said I It continues to develop thnt the Insurrection Insur-rection IH largely If not exclusively a war upon tho first principle of popular government the rights of the people I Conclusive evidence of this Is found In J tho most gravo < and maturely considered public documents as well las In the general I publc oral lone of tho Insurgents In those 1 documentflwo mid the abridgement of tho existing right of suffrage and the denial to tho people o all right to participate In the selection of public officers except I the legislative boldly advocated with labored la-bored arguments to prove that large control con-trol of tlio people in govornment Is the source of aU political ovll Monarchy It f0lC olrcc sometimes hinted nt as I possible rcfugo from the powor of tho puoplo I Icugo present position 1 could hardly bo Justlllcd sere llO omit raising a warning I warn-ing olcp against this approach of returning re-turning despotism Mr Bryan takes that portion of the I above which begins with the word monarchy and puts It out as a n1 warning by Mr Lincoln to his countrymen coun-trymen against Imperialism and I militarism which he foresaw would I threaten them In the near future and I is careful to suppress the context and to hide the fact that the danger Mr Lincoln had in mind came from J Davis Da-vis and his friends |