Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-10-01

certainly removed. Laughter.
lie says that he had fit of illness
then. In this very crisis of our national
fate, hi,"lle.long Democrat" failed to
do his part to the country against the
very rise and success of sectionalism.-
Then he fell from his Democracy, and
what fall was there! Great was the
fal. thereof" a jackson Democrat
"a life long mocrut'--ommitting for
eight years to vote against party whose
course he had agreed, by his Democratic
platforms for sixteen years. would EN-.
bfoil the States, and produce civil war |!
Why, genuine jackson Democrat in
the agony of dissolution, would have
been nauled to the polls in his coffin, and
would have voted before he gave up the
ghost. (Laughter.)
But truth crceps unawares upon even
cunning; for Brough lets out the truth in
his Cleveland speech when he said:
"For many years, you are aware, |
have held IDEAS of conservative charac.
ter on this slavery question: I hare
changed my vjeWS. now see the impos.
sibiIity Of permanent success in our Re.
public so long as any portion of it is af.
flicted with the leaprous disease. Either
slavery must be torn out ROOT AND
BRANCH, or our Government will exist
no longer - See Ohio State Journat Of
June 30, 1868.
Changed his We've! From what to
what ? From Democracy to Abolition.
Cheers. What was the old Democrat
ic platform? Go back to 1910, and run
mp to 1866 and you will see what this
oily changing favored as his views; for
16 years. hav to-day read these doc
,rines. In brief, he held that it was dan
gerous for the Federal Government to ex-
crciSe doubtful constitutional powers;
he demanded equality of rights in tariff
and tax; economy in the expenditures Of
the Governments; the extinction of pub
lie debts; no national banks; no concen.
trated money power; the sub.treasury
and specie system; no abii1gement Of
privileges to foreigners; no alien law /;
no sedition law, that is no law to punish
men for speaking i'll of the Executive;
that the Monroe doctrine shall be main
to domestic slavery-no interference with
it by Congress- that all efforts of Aboli-
tionists or others, thus to interfere or
take incipient steps in relation thereto
would lead to the most alarming conse-
qnences; ;hat Democracy ever resists the
slavery agitation. and rerudiates all sec.
tional parties and platforms concerning
domestic slavery which seek to embroi
the States, and which if consumated.
must end IN ci0il aoar and disunion!
l hese were the doctrines while John
Brough was Democrat These are the
views he hal changed! They are our doe
trines yet. Wei. might he say that his
conservative views have changed; for he
joins now with Wendell Philips in cry
ing ont; Never stop the war; pour out
the last drop OF blood; pay out the last dol
lar of money; hold high carnival
in human gore and human wealth :
until four millions of African fonndllngs
are cured OF the 'leaprous disease of
slavery. Tear it out, root and
branch, though the roots are in
woven with our social order and political
SYSTEM though the branches overshadow
million homes; tear it out, for what are
conservative views about white liberty
and happiness, while these millions Of
blacks are white With this leprosy."
But this "lite long Democrat" is well
come to add his weight to Abolition, but
he has no right. with his plentiful lack of
wit and veracity. to go Wheeling and puff
/ fling over Ohio against Democrats, who
have remained faithful to the very p,inc-
pies he boasts of once upholding. Even
while Wanting Of having been Demo.
crat during this period when Compromise
ruled in the counsels of our party, he
casts, in his Chiicothe speech, this poi.
soned, Parthiah arrow at his old com
rades. If it be true, the barb will stick.
in his own flesh as well:
"They called the election of Mr.. Lin
coin sectional election. Well, so far
as that goes. don't rememb Der, on the
whole. of there ever being an election
that was not sectional in its character,
for while the old Democratic party acted
with them, they always demanded and
got Southern man for President, or
made us give bonds that he would become
a good Southern man"
If this contemplate subscrviency of
tho Democrats to the South be true. then
John Brough ought not to boast of hav-
ing been "lite-loug Democrat" syco-
phpnt to Southern merf by being in a
patty so mean as to purchase peace and
! Union for many years at tho price of their
manhood. But it is not true. The Dem
ocracy maintained the Constitution, and
all right, --Southcrn and Northern under
it; and this is the palriotic virtue which
makes our party to day SO peerless and
proud. that its opponents strive to ste i
its potent name to hide their own grace
less and seditions scctionalsm.
But what title has John Blougn to the
name of Democrat now Let me test
him 10y the platforms of the party from
1910 to 1856. while he was membel
in good standing. Does he deny the cx
ercSe Of doubtful powers to the Presi-
dent now? No---but he iustifes them
and even clamors for extra con, titutional
powers. Does he deny the right to over
tax. and buy tariff to feed and fill New
England. Mt the expense of Ohio and the
West? No, he would not gorge New
England with jobs as fat as himself
laughter to enable her Aboliiionists to
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