Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-03

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cancel con6.cation and emsuc nation pplicies.
aud welcome Louisiana aud North Carolina
back % their old position ~ an 10 sustain our
army ia the field while a rebel army contests our
authority foot OF our soil. John Brough
simply lies when he charges me with fraud and
false pretenses last fall am then op-
posed 10 anv conduct Of this war which il revo-
lutionary. suhjugaing or exterminating; aud all
negro policies. according TO Lrneoln's Inaugural.
arc unconstitutional aud all unconstitutional acts
are revolutionary want 10 revolutionary war
over the corpse Of the Constitution lcheer-l for
such war will not restore. but forever destroy
the Union
When this mass OF lubriciry [lsughterl charges
me with fraud before this people let him briug
some testimony beside his own or some creden
tias from the people II has held bnt one Office
Of trust. and that was not from the people. He
was elected Safe Auditor bv the Legislature
He was then Democrat he claims yet to be
one In this, too he fasi6es most fraudulently.
There j. but one test of Democrat Tint man
j. not Democrat who babble~ Of il al The year
round AMI votes the other ticket. or votes not nj
all on election day. "By their fruits We shall
know them" For eight Years ] have been sus
tanned by noble Democratic constituency as
their repre- -entative III cannot call me in qnes
ton. But ! propose ON this test "a throw hsr
poon into this spouting leviathsn. bring his nv
pDffi-N ~ the ShfIate, anu AIN anu lis IOiiI
cal entrails. Laughter
IL Is admitted that up TO 1856 John Brough nc
ted with the Democracy. though he appears ab
sent from our politics from the time Polk failed TO
make him head Of bureau IN le45 until his Ma
rietta speech. He found more bread aud but
ter" in railroading. ] have oeen informed by IN
old Ohio e,iitor that in his paper At NJ ,rietta he
took ground in favor OF Calhoun and ma lhcation
against Gen, Jackson in 1852 BE this as itmav.
he Democrat ut least from le40 to 1856
In 1856 he did not vote at all Here is what he
saws in his Cincinnati speech of July 81:
Il did not vote for John Fremont. but. at
the same time confess-no. glory in i'll did
not vote for Jimmy Buchanan Applause l
did not vote at all nj that Presidential election
| coud not give my suffrage to the candidate of
the Democratic party and would not give it TO
any other If that sin OF omission or
commission on my part plead guilty 1t ren
dered my Standing doubtful
Oh il render Ell his Democratic standing doubt
fu Well. when in 1850 lie did rot vote for either
Lincoln or Douglas. all doubts ON that point we're
certainly removed Laughter
He saws that he had "a ft Of illness then. In
this very crisis OF national fate, this Lille
long Democrat" failed to DO his part to the coun
try against the very rise and succeSs Of sectional
ism. Then he tell from his Democracy, and
what a fall was therel Great WAS the fall there
OF" A Jackson Democrat life long Demo
crat'-omittng for eight years TO vote against a
party. whose course he had agreed. BY hi Dem
ocratic platforms for sixteen year~. would emhrOh
the States and produce civil war! WHY genu
inc Democrnt in the agony of dssOlu ion
would have been hauled to the polls in mis- coffin.
and woud have voted before he gave up the
ghost. daughter
But truth creeps un ,wares upon even cunning;
for Brough les out the truth in his Gle, Gland
Speech in which he said
For many wears, You are aware, have held
ideas of conservative character on this slavery
question. have changed my views | now see
the mpos~ibility of permanent success in our re
public so long as any portion of it Is afflicted
with the leprous disease Either slavery must be
torn out root and brrnch our Government will
no longer exist = See Ohio State Journal, June
80 1863
Changed his views From what to what2
From Democracy TO Abolition. Cheers What
WIS the old Democratic PLATFORM Go back to
$40 and run up TO 1856. and YOU will see wha
this only changing favored AS his views of six
teen years | have TO day read these doctrines.
! IN hrief. he held that it was dangerous for the
! Federal Government tn exercise doubtful consti-
tutonnl powers he demanded equality of rights
in tariff and Tx. economy in the expenditures OF
| the Government; the extinction of public debts;
no national bank no concentrated mOney power:
| the sub treasury and specie system; abridge-
| of privileges TO foreigners; no alien law; no sc
dtlOn law, that IL, no law TO punish men for
speakn III of The Executive; that the Monroe
doctrine shall be maintained ~ our continental
policy: and ne Ia domestic slivery-no interior
ence with il by Congress: that all efforts of abo
| litiOnists others. thus To interfere or take in
| cpient stems in relation thereto would lead To the
most alarming consequences; that Democracy
ever resist the slavery agitation, aud republics
all sectional parties and Platforms concerning
domestic slavery which seek to embroi the
| States. and which, II cOnSumated, must end IN
civil wnr aud disunoni
These were the Democratic doctrines while
john Brough Democrat. These the
views he has changed! They our doctrines
| We, Well might he saw that his con-ervs'ive
views have changed: for he joins now with W ZEN
/ dell Phillips in CRYING out: Never stop the war
pour out the last drop of blood; paw our the last
dollar of money; hold high carnival in human
gore and human wealth; until four millions oil
/ African fourdlings cured of the leprous dis
ease of slavery Tear il out, root and branch
though the roots are interviewer with our socia
order and political system: though the branches
overshadOw a million homes: tear IL out fol
what are conservative views about white liheri,
and happiness. while these millions of blacks ARE
white with this leprosv.
But this 'life long Democrat" is welcome 10
add his weirht to abolition. hut he has no rsh
with his plentiful lack of wit AMI verarity Ia 20
Wheeling and putting over Ohio against Demo
Gratis who have remained faithful To the very
principles he boasts of once upholdiug. Ever
while Wanting of being a Democrat duriRg thi-
period when compromise ruled in the counsels a
our party. he casts in his Chillcothe speech this
poisoned, Parthian al his old comrades Il
il he true the barb will stick in his own flesh Il:
we'll:
"Thev called the lection of Mr. Lincoln
sec onal election. Well. 20 far as that goes,
don't remember on the whole Of there ever be-
ing an election that not sectional in It's char
acter for while the old Democratic party acted
with them, they ALWAYS dem ,nded and cot
Spuhern man for President. or made us give
bonds that he would become good Southern
nan"
If this contemplate subserviency of the De
mpcracv to the South he true. then Johr Broug b
onght not 10 boast OF having been life long
Democratic" svcophant To Southern men. bv be
ing in party so mean as 10 purchase peace and
| Union for So man, wears at the price of their man
hood. But IL u not true The Democracy main
tsine1 the Constitution. and all rights-Southern
and Northern-under il; and this is the patriotic
virtue which m kes party 10 dav peerless
AMI proud. That lis opponents strive To steal IL
potent name to hide their own graceess and
/ sedicious ~ertiona-m
Ru' what ti,rle has John Brough to the name
OF Democrat nov Let me test him hv the
platforms at the pnrtv from ls40 20 1856, hils
he WIS member in good standing Does he
danv axarcfse Of Doubtful now ths