The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-09-30

or some credentials from the people. He
has held but one office OF trust, and that
was not from the people. He was elected
State Auditor by the Legislature. He was
then Democrat. He claims yet 10 be one.
In this, too, be falsiaed Inpst fratdulently.
There is but one test Of Democrat. That
man is not Democrat who babbles Of it all |
the year round, and votes the other ticket !
OF votes not all on election day. "By their
\ fruits We shall know them" For e'ght
wears have been sustained bv noble Dem
ocra'ic ic constituency as their Representative
lie can not call me in question Butt pro-
pose in this test to throw harPooh in'o
this spouting leviathan, bring his hypocrisy
to the surface, and try and fry his poli'lca'
entrals. Laughter
1t is admitted that up to lSoo Jonh
Brough acted with the Democracy, though
he appears absent from our politics rom
The time Polk failed to make him head oil a
Bureau in l845, until his Marietta speech
He found more "bread and butter" IN ran,
roading. / have been informed by an OLD
Ohio editor that in his paper at Ma, eta %. ne
took ground in favor Of Calhoun and NUN
fication against General Jackson in lo5z'-
Be this as it may, he was Democrat, az
least from 1910 to 1856. In 1856 he did
not vote at all. Here is what he says IN
J his Cincinnati speech of July q:
i. II did not vote for John G. Fremont, but.
at the same time, | coniess-no, | glory IN
it-I did not vote for Jimmy Buchanan
} Applause did not vote at all at that
; Presidential election could not give my
, suffrage to the candidate Of the Democratic
! party, and would not give it to any other
J II that was sin OF omission or commission
on my part, plead guilty. 1t rendered my
standing doubtful 't. ifH
II Obi it rendered his Democratic standing
S doubtful. Well, when in 1860, he did not
< vote for either Lincoln or Douglas, all doubts
: on that point were certainly rcmoved.-
+ Laughter. ., ,.r....,....1 ...r ~
a He says that he had fit Of illness then.
d In this very crisis OF our national late. this
x "life long Democrat" failed to do his part TO-
: the country against the very rise and success
] of sectionalism. Then he fell from his De-
n mocracy; and what fall was there! "Great
| was the fall thereof" A Jackson Democrat
;, ia liie~long Democrat''- omithng tor
is eight years to vote against party whose
Is course be had agreed, by his Democrats
le platforms for sixteen years, would emoro'l
ID the States, and produ'e civil war! Why, q
ic genuine Jackson Democrat, in the agony OF
a dissolution, would have been hauled to the
at polls in his coffin, and would have voted be-
OF fore he gave up the ghost. Laughter 5-
IN But truth creeps unawares upon even cum
- ming; for Brough lets out the truth IN his
re Cleveland speech, when he said:
De 'For many years, you are aware, nave
lg held ideas Of conservative character on this
ir slavery question. | have changed my viows
ii I see now the impossibility o. permanent
III success in our Republic so long as any por~
- ton Of it is afflicted with the leprouS dis
e,se Either slavery must be torn cut root
le aud branch. or our Government will exist
J. 10 longcr"--See Ohio State journal, Jun
1t 30 1863 ., ..,..., --., &,a., :.
IS. changed his views! From what to what
1t. From Democracy to Abolition. Cheers. {,
an What was the old Democratic platform? e,
| back to 1S4O and lun up TO 1856; and yot
he will see what this oily changing favored al
n his views for sixteen years. I,have 20 day
m read these doctrines In brief, he held tina
a it was dangerous for the Federal Govern
nd ment to exercise doubtful constitutional pow
in ers, he demanded equality Of rights in tariff
$. and tax; economy in the expeditures of The
er Government; the extinction public debts
ne nj national bank; no concentrated money
lis power: the sub, treasury and specie system
no abrldgement Of privileges to foreigners
in no alien law; no sectional law, that is, NJ
on law to punish men ior speaking i'll OF tht
ed Executive; that the Monroe doctrine shall b
ne maintained as our continental policy; and a.
ed to domestic slavery--no interference with
in by Congress; that all eiforls Of Abolitonist
- or others. thus to interfere or take lncipien
lily steps 10 relation thereto would lead to tn
in most alarming consequences; that Democfa
ro CIV ever resist the slavery agitation, and re
"a. pudia,es all sectional parties and plat form
to concerning domestic slavery, which seek t
nv enbrol the States, and which ii con
,ar summated must end in civil war and dlsuh
ad ion!
,ry These were the Democrat, doctrines Will
en-, ohm Brough was Democrat. These ar
he the views he has changed! They are ou
| doctrines yet. Well might he say that hl
in conservative views have changed, 'or he Jol1
ZEN now with Wendell Phillips ia crying out
SO 'Never stoop the war; pour out the last dro
the of blood; pay out the last dollar 81 money
70 hold high carnival in human gore and hi
ivil man wealth; until four million OF Africa
to foundlngs are cured OF the 'leprous dlseas
uo- of slavery Tear it out root and brancl
the though the roots are interviewer with Oh
and social order and political system throue
the branches oyershadow a million home
ner tear it out, for what are conservative view
no about white liberty and happiness, viii
er's these million OF blacks are white with tn
leprosy."
and But this 'life long Democrat' is wclc9n
to to add his weight to Abolition, but be b
led, no right, with his splendid lack OF wit al
and veracity, to 90 wheeling and putting over
ted ho against Democrats who have remaln
ing, faith ul to the very principles he boasts
nci- once UNFOLDING. Even while vaunting OF b
the ing Democrat during this period when Coz
and promise ruled in the counsels OF our party,
be casts, 10 his Chillicothe speech, this polsone
lace Parthian arrow at his old comrades. II it
hen true, the barb viii stick in his own flesh
ten we'll.
was "They called the election Of Mr. Lincoln
ion. sectional election. Well, so far as that go'
lga> I don't remember, on the whole OF there e
or er being an election that was not sectional
in its charater, for while the old Democra
and party acted with them, they demanded a
tion rot Southern. man for President, or ma
dig us give bonds that he would become go'
ates Southern man." t"-s@
n in II this contemplate subseryency OF
ii 4, Democrats to the South be true, then 10
pose Brough ought not to boast OF having been
the "lile long Democratic sycophant to Sou
re 1t ern men, by being in party SO mean as
and purchase peace and Union for so many ye
at the price of their manhood. But 1T IS
h of true. The Democracy maintained the q
yress st,tution. and all rights-Southerh 9
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