Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-03-11
For The Democrat
Dixon TOWNSHIP. March. II. 1873

columns of the Preble County Demo
crat, upon the necessity of your giving
that paper a hearty support, and l hope
you have walked up on the subject, e.
nough at least, to have paid your last
years subscription. l told you then
there was another subject l wished to
call your attention to. 1 shall not 90
through many circumlocutions to get at
1T, for l am a plain blunt man.
Ii a party gets beaten it is common
to suppose a majority to have done it.
a serious mistake is thus often made.
The fact is We think a little too loosely
about many things. Now I am going
to give you my opinion, (if you think it
good for nothing you need not grumble
1t don't cost you a%nything) ard it is,
that we were beaten as regards the Gov.
by a minority, and that had our forces
been out at home we should not have
lost the field here. You surmise per-
haps, l am going to say something a.
bout the necessity of organization. That
Is 1t precisely. But you say why bring
up the SUBJ ect after we have been whip
ped. Simply because l have not the
shadow of an idea that the Democratic
party is going to stay whipped. 1t is
the hight of stupidity to suppose any
such thing. Democratic principles are
the sub-stratum of the foundations Of
NH -rePahGcan governments and
though antagonistic principles some
times get within their structure and
shatter them to fragments, yet another
age comes along to muse over the ru.
ms and build anew with the imperisha-
bic materials. An Earthquake some
times reels along, swallowing up life
and beauty, but it throws up the Eter-
nal granite from carths firm base which
by and by makes monuments for heroes.
The Democratic party at times has been
plowed by earthquakes, but after the
groundswcll has ceased, the world has
ever found that a temporary overthrow
Of great principles is no real defeat
Now see why l believe that the Demo
cratic party will never in any locality
stay whipped. The fact is, a little u
uited effort will overcome all that is left
Q fthe self-styled Republican party.
The NEGRO equality doctrine to
which they unfortunately "drJted' was
a slam in their faces they Titled expec-
ted, and poor bleeding Kansas from
present suspicious omens, must soon
cease to be the capital of their political
kingdom. Now they make themselves
ridiculous by damning Douglass with
no "faint praise for defending the bill
which the faithful three thousand an
athematized him for introducing. "Oh
consistency thou art a jewel" Demo
Gratis of Preble County, if we could come
together, organize andset the machinery
of our principles in motion, the momen-
tum Of their own inherent force would
beer down all such ~groundless opposi-
ion as blows against us from the grind
ing of their metaphysical mills" Did
you notice at ihe last election how the
towns all over the County were alive
with men running from point to point,
in brcathless haste to bring up to the
ballot-box some who were tagging? As
it Was here, SO it WAS all oyer the State.
Those were the Chase men, and if they
had not chased up to the ballot-box
every shade Of condition and color :he
Republican Governor would not have
been blessed with that lean majority
which hardly tipped the balance. This
gentlemen, was the secret of their par
tiaI success. just look at this County
and sec the men who have bccn run
ming and the people running after them
half in earnest and more than half a.
shamed, yet following because they were
crying vociferously, "co he on brethren
in the name Of three millions of Negroes
come to the rescue"
This was the rallying cry Of men all
over the Republican State ofOhio, which
DISTINGUISHES sable gentry and points
them to the North Star and gives them
u hypocritical blessing, colder than its
own radience as she hurrics them a.
cross her fertile plains, denying them
within her borders a pauPers home
This is plain talk but [ told you II am
a plain blut man" IF they dare deny
it [ appeal to their own State legisla-
ton. What l want to say is, if these
little men by running and noisy out
cry can SO lead the crowd, if democrats
would come together and talk over what
has been done in the past and sound
out some real democratic sentiments and
common sense, whose music in every
blast has rung rs ''clear as the notes of
Il silver flute" all the forces which
roald be brought against US could not
keep old Prcble from letting the light
Of Il democratic -coun;enance shine upon
Montgomery as she. reached out to shake
hands with Butler and Darke. Gentle
men, 1 am in earnest. just talk with
your neighbors and get up a right state
of feeling upon this subject. Now is
the very time to work. In a campaign
men are apt to lay aside reason to which
cur principles are an appeal. We de-
serve to be beaten, and we shall be just
as long as we neglect to use the means
within our power. Hercules would
not come down to lift at the wheels while
the lubber of a driver sat and prayed
but told him FIRST put your own shout
der to the wheel The future is as
bright as the past has been glorious
The clouds which for a time skirted the
horizon are lifting. The Democratic
party cannot be divided or broken down.
Now wheel into rank and file before an
other encounter, then come up together
"with a firm tread ola Macedonian phll-
n X and the foes of our cause and our
Union. the motley crowd which in the