The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-03-27
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patriotic Executive, who had faced tho nrss
gush Of tho storm, and whose efforts had
placed Chic 10 the van with her foremost
sisters; and they put at the bead Of affairs
lifelong opponent, who had boon twice
rejected by the people for that high office.
Tho Union Convention, composed mainly
of Republicans, that made this nomination
In 1861, placed this Democratic candidate for
Governor on the Crittenden resolution--so
ofton referred 10 here as the perfect schome
Of saivation--ss their State platform
Against this candidate, on that platform,
some Of these same Democratic gentlemen,
under the load OF my colleague, TMr VAL
laDdigbam,) rallied tho Democracy, simple
and unregenerated, and tbcy cast against
them over fifty thousand votes. Be Il 70.
uembered that this was 5oforo tho inaugu-
ration Of these measures, now said 10 be
condemned. Those votes were against the
war and the Cri.tenden resolution. At the
last election, the same Union party placed
conservative candidates on tho same Crit
tenden resolution, and they we're beaten By
these same Democrats, under the same lead
or, by ten thousand.
4 II this election in Ohio settled anything
but the Offices, Il was a condemnation By
tho Democracy Of that State of the Crit
tcnden resolution. And, strange as IL may
seem, my colleague, Mr.. Cox the eternal
oulogizer Of this everlasting resolution, was
among the foremost in procuring this oon-
domination; and, stranger still, the venera-
BILE su.hor of this resolution, in this same
contest, vas tuggiDg away, aiding that gen
teman in this labor Of love, tho strsoglpg
of bis own misbegotten, misconcelved, ma
delivered brat.
Sir, there has been another election Ia
Ohio final and silencng reply to ell this
clamor Of my colleague; an election the
fulRllment Of an cid promise. and full Of the
promise of q new prophecy. Two years ago
the people Of that State elected Legisla.
ture, o majority OF which wero members Of
the Democratic party. Within tho last few
weeks that same Legislature. Q majority of
whose members still are Democrats, re-
elected to the Senate of the United States
, Benjamin Franklin Wade. In the teeth Of
4 these elections, and the light shed upon them
by the illuminating speeches of my col
@ leagues, they seized upon that embodiment
;. of the intensest energies of the radical for
4. ces that are nov grasping at the throat Of
,e this rebellion, and hurled him back into tho
20 senate,as the naughty response of mighty
Fe. State to their childish olamor. Wha, do
A you suppose now our State thinks of emsn-
ii. cipaton and ccnfscation and tho arrest of
DO traitors : DO you say to me that this Log
o. islaturo was elected two years ago: 70.
ID ply that, one year ago il refused to elect Mr..
d. Wade. and that IL was only their estimation
ID .of these great measures and the events thar
If have sprung into life since, that enabled the
n Democrats Of that body TO overcome preju.
dces strong as life. aud riss to this erest
act. an act that seals Ohio to emancipation
and its kindred measures. Il is the recoil,
Q the reaction in Ohio, that reelected Mr.,
Wade.
, THR DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE REBELLION.
!, The evils of this war and their origin are
charged upon us. My colleague, LMr. Cox,)
10 the speech referred to, aggregated the
lis that have oyortaken the country since
the advent of tho Republican power, under
fourteen bloody hoads. precisely as if they
were to be charged to our account; az if
, our very presence, in the midst of peace and
beauty, had invoked them from the heavens
, aboVe,and coDjured tbem from the earth be-
low. have heard of disease among men
called bronze. Its principal symptom is an
| tntn hra . h. r.
case Of bronze. 1t seems to me, also, that
several other gentlemen over there have it
more or less severe, and many Of the cases
are badly complicated with another pre-
vailing disorder.
In the spring of 1888, Democratic Ad-
ministration succeeded one equally Dsmos
cratic. Democratic President, Democrat
ic Congress. Democratic Supreme Court,
with Democratic Cabinet at home and
Democratic Ministers abroad. The army
was commanded by Democratic Generals.
and the navy obeyed Democratic orders
Everything was Democratic and the sue
eeeding four years was saturnalia of De-
mocracy. Its principles as illustrated in
these days. reigned and worked none but
their legitimate results. No provisions OF
the Constitution; no scruples of conscience;
no doubt of morality no question of the
public good none Of national glory no
regard for opinion or the voice Of after MIS-
tory, interVeaed TO check or change these
inevitable results. and never in the worlds
history was the descent of great nation so
fatal and so rapid as ours, nor national ca
lamity so mournful and so profound aud
: none certainly was ever go wholly and en-.
tirely due to the nnaided efforts, the vide,
+ decp and messureless depravity of those
who worked the governmental processes.
Disorder was not confined to one branch OF
the public service. 1t pervaded the whole,
n not limited to subordinstos, to bureaus and
a departments, but the three great co-crdi-
a nate branches of the Government we're dis
!. organized and dobauched, with scarce the
a form of sdministration left. The virus was
d rot merely circulating in few narrow chan
d mole. bat under q malignant poison the