Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-09-17

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charges me with fraud before this people, le
! him bring some testimony besides bis own, O.
some credentials from the people. He has helt
but one Office of trust, and that was not from
the people. He was elected State Auditor bJ
Tue Legislature. He was then Democrat
he claims yet to be one Ia this, too, he falst
fes most ffaudulently. There 10 but one test o.
Democrat. That man is nota Democrat who
babbles OF II all the year round, and votes the
other ticket, or votes NOT at all on election day.
By their fruits 70 shall know them" Fol
eight years have been sustiined BY O noble
Democratic constituency as their representative.
He cannot call me Id question. But propose
on this test to throw harpoon into this epout'
ing leylathan, bring his hypocrisy to the sur
face, and try and fry his political entrails
[Laughter.]
II is admittsd that up to 1856 John Brougb
acted With the Democracy, though be appears
absent from our politics from! the time Polk
failed to make him hoad Of Bureau In 1915
until his Marietta speech. He found more
'bread and butter" 10 railroadlng. Ibsve beer
Informed by an old Ohio editor, thai 10 his pa
per at Marietta, he took ground 10 favor ol
Calhoun and .nullifcation against General
Jackson In 1882 Be this as II NAV, he was a
Democrat, at Iess. from l640 10 1856 In 1856
he did not vote at ALL Here is what he tsys in
his Cincinnati speech OF July 9th:
did not vote for John Fremont, but, at the same
time, confess-no, glory in It'll did not vote for
Jimmy Buchanan. lApplause.l did not vote at all
frsgs 10 the candidate OF the Democratic party and
would not give It to apy other. II that was sin Of
omission or commission, on my part, plead guilty,
1t rendered my standing doubtful.
Oh! 10 rendered his Democratic standing
doubtful. Well, when Ia 1860, he did not vote
for either Lincoln or Douglas, all doubts on
tha! point, were certainly removed Laugh
ter .la. @
He says that he had ft of illness then. In
this very crisis Of our national fate, this "ife.
long Democrat" failed to do his part to the
country against the very rise and success Of
sectionalism. Then he fell from his Democ-
racy, and what a fall was there! "Great Was
the fall thereof" A Jackson Democratic
life long Democrat"--omitting for eight years
TO vote against party whose course he had
agreed, by his Democratic platforms for sixteen
years, would emb:oil the States, and produce
civil wa! Why, genuine Jackson Democrat
10 the agony OF dissolution. would have been
hauled to the polls 10 hls coffin, and would have
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Bot truth creeps una ares upoa even cunning;
for Brough lets out the truth III bis Cleveland
speech when he said: -
conservative character on this slavery ques ion.
hare chan0sd my vielcS now see the imposIibiity
Of permanent success In our Republic so long any
portion of It Is afflicted with the leprOus disease.
or our Government will exist no longer.-Seo Ohio
| State Journal June 80, 1903.
Changed hls viexa! From what to what2
From Democracy to Abolition. (Cheers }
What was the old Demonatic plalform2 Go
back to 1840, and run up to 1856; and you will
see what this oily changing favored as his
views for 16 years. have to day read these
doctrines. In brief, he held that 10 was dan.
gerous for the Federal Government to exercise
doubtful constitutional powerai he demanded
equality of rights In tariff and tax; economy
in the expenditures Of the Government; the
extinction OF public debis; no national bank;
no concentrated money power; the sub treasury
and specie systemsj no abridgement of priv.
ileges to foreignsrs; no alien law; no sedl.ion
law, that is, no Law 10 puaish men for speaking
Ill OF the Executive; that the Monroe doctrine
shall be maintained as our continental policy
and aa to domestic slavery--no interference
with it by Congress-; shat all efforts of .Aboli.
tionists or others, thus to interfere or take In
cipient stepa 10 relation thereto would lead to
the most alarming conse ,uences; that Dsmoc-
rscy ever resists the slavery sgltRtion, and, re.
pudistes all sectional -pArties aud platforms
concerning domestic slavery which Geek to em
bsoil the States, and which IL contaminated,
1 must END IN CIVIL wAa AND DlsUNIoN! i57,s /
These we're the Democratic doctrines while
John Bfough was Q Democrat. These are The
views he has changed! They are our doetrinta
yet. Well might he cay that his CONSERVATIVE
views have changed; Tor he Joins now with
Wendell Phillips in cEying oul: ''NeVer stoI
the war; pour out the last drop of blood; pay
out the last dollar of money; hold high oarni.
val In human gore and human wealth; until
four million OF African foundings are cured
of the lsprous disease of slavery. Tear Il
| out, root and branch, though the roots arc In.
4 woven with our social order and political syp
4 TEN; though the branches overehadoW a mil
lion homes; tear IL out, for what are conserv
atlve views about white liberty and happiness
while these million OF blacks are white with
this leprosy. geo isl 9H 20
Bat this ''life long Democrat" is welcome "a
1 add his weight to Abolition, but he has nc
right, with bic plentiful lack of wit and yerac
lily, 10 60 Whetzing and putting over Ohit
against Democrats, who have remained faithfu
to the very principles he boasts Of once uphold
i ing. Even shils vaunting of having been Dem
ocrat during this period when Compromise rulet
In the counsels OF our party, he casts, in hi
ChilIicothe speech, this poisoned, PArthian ar
row Ht his old comrades. II II be true, ih
barb will stick in his own fesh as we'll:
They called the election OF Mr.. Lincoln q sectiopa
election. Well so far as that goes don't Temember
on the whole Of there ever ben an election that VA
NOT sectional in Its character for while the old Demo
cratic party acted with them, they always demApdet
and eet Southern man for President, or made us piy
bonds that he would become good Southern man,
i IL this contsmptiole subservienoy of the Dem
| ccrats 10 the South be true, then John Brouat
j ought not to boast of having been ''life Ions
Democratic" sycophant to Southern men, By
being In party go mean as to purchase peac,
i aud Union Tor go many years at the price o
their manhood, Bot 1t Is not true. The De
mocracy maintained the Constitution, and Al
r,ghts-Southern and Northorn under i,; an,
this is the patriotic virtue which makes on
party to-day 80 peerless and proud, that It's op
ponents strive to steal lie potent name to hid
their own gracsless and seditious sectional
ism. ta' ,s'-Hai atl7 snoi!rsab iia al.s' aI
1 But what title has John Brough to the nam
lof Democrat nok? Let me test. him b
4 tho, platforms Of the party from lS40 to 1856
while he was member in good standing. Doe
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