Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-05

lutionary, suhiugating or exrerminating; and all
negro policies, according 70 Lincoln's Inaugural.
are unconstitutional. and all unconstitutional acts
are revolutionary. / want no revolutionary war
over the corpse of the Constitution fcheersl; for
such a war will not restore. bit forever destroy
the Union.
When this mass of lubricity laughter charges
me with fraud before this people. let him bring
some testimony beside his own. or some creden-
tails from the people He has held but one Office
of trust, and that was not from the people. He
was elected State Auditor nv the Legislature.
He was then a Democrat. He claims vet to be
one In this, too, he falsihes most fraudulently.
There Is but one test of a Democrat. That nan
Is not a Democrat who babbles Of it all the year
round, and votes the other ticket. OF votes not at
all on election day. by their fruits We shall
know them" For eight years ] have been sus
tanned bv a noble Democratic constituency as
their representative He cannot call me in ques
ton. But | propose on this test TO throw a har
pooh into this spouting leviathan, bring his by
pocrisy to the surface. and try and fry his polid
cal ~entrails., Laughter
1t is admitted that up to 1856 John Brough ac-
ted with the Democracy. though he appears alb
sent from our politics from the time Polk failed to
make him head of a bureau in l645. until his Ma
rietta speech. He found more dread and but
ter in railroading. have been informed by an
old Ohio Editor. that in his paper at NJ ,rietta he
took ground in favor of Calhoun and notification
against Gen. jackson in 1892 Be this as IL may.
he was a Democrat at least from 1910 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. I confess-no. / glory in i'll did.
not vote for Jimmy Buchanan fApplsuse I
did not vote at all nj that Presidential election.
/ could not give nv suffrage to the candidate of
the Democratic party, and | would not give it to
any other lf that was sin Of omission or
commission on my part. plead guilty. 1t rem
dered my standing doubtful
OH il rendered his Democratic standing doubt
full Well. when in 1860 he did rot vote for either
Lincoln or Douglas, all doubts on that point we're
certainly removed. Laughter
He says that he bad a fit of illness then. In
this very crisis of our national fate. this ''life
long Democrat" failed tn do his part to the coun-
try against the very rise and success of sectional
ism. Then he fell from his Democracy, and
what a fall was therei. "Great was the fall there
Of" A Jackson Democrat life long Demo
crat"-omitting for eight years to vote against a
party. whose course he had agreed. by his Dem
ocratic platforms for sixteen years. would embroil
the States. and produce civil wari Why a genu
inc Democrat. in the agony of dissolution,
would have been hauled to the polls in his coffin,
and would have voted before he gave up the
ghost. [Laughter.]
But truth Greens unaware upon even cunning;
for Brough le,s out the truth in his Cleveland
speech. in which he said:
For many wears. you are aware. / have held
ideas of a conservative character on this slavery
question. ! have changed my views. / now see
the impossibility of permanent success in our re
public so long as any portion OF il is afflicted
with the leprous disease. Either slavery must he
torn out root and branch or our Government will
no longer exist "-[See Ohio State Journal. June
30. 1868.
Changed his viewsl From what to what7
From Democracy to Abolition. fCheers What
was the old Democratic platformf Go hack to
1870. and run up to 1856. and you will see what
this only changing favored as his views Of six
teen years. I have to day read these doctrines.
In brief. he held that il was dangerous for the
Federal Government TO exercise doubtful consti-
~tutional powers; he demanded equality of rights
in tariff and tax. 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; no abridge-
of privileges to foreigners; no alien law; no Sc
dition law, that is. no law to punish men for
speaking i'll of the Executive; that the Monroe
doctrine shall be maintained as cur continental
policy; and. as to domestic slavery-no in~terfer-
ence with it by Congress; that all efforts OF abo
litionists or others. thus To interfere or take in
cipient stems in relation thereto would lead to the
most alarming consequences; that Democracy
ever resist the slavery agitation, and repudiates
all sectional parties and platforms concerning
domestic slavery. which seek to embroil the
States, and which, il consumated, must end in
civil war and disunion!
These were the Democratic doctrines while
John Brough was a Democrat. These are the
views he has changedl They are our doctrines
vet Well might he say that his conservative
views have changed; for he joins now with Wen
dell Phillips In crying out: Never stop the war;
pour out the last drop of blood; pay out the last
dollar of money; hold high carnival in human
gore and human wealth; until four millions of
African foundlipgs are cured Of the %leprous dis
ease of slavery" Tear it out. root and branch,
though the roots are interviewer with our social
order and political system; though the branches
overshadow a million homes: tear II out, for
what are conservative views about white liberty
aud happiness, while these millions of blacks are
white with this leprosy.
But this "life long Democrat" is welcome to
ado his weight to abolition, but he has no right
with his plentiful lack of wit and v~eracity. to 60
wheeling and putting over Ohio against Demo
Gratis who have remained faithful to the very
principles he boasts Of once UNFOLDING. Even
while vaunting Of beng a Democrat durisg this
period when compromise ruled in the counsels of
our party, he casts, in his Chillicothe speech, this
poisoned. Parthian arrow at his old comrades If
it be true, the barb will stick in his own flesh as
we'll: M
They called the election of Mr.. Lincoln a
sectional election. Well, so far as that goes, l
don't remember, on the whole. of there ever be
ing an election that was not sectional in its char
acter, for while the old Democratic party acted
with them, they always demanded and got a
Southern man for President. or made us give
bonds that he would become a good Southern
man."
If this contemplate subserviency of the De-
mocracy to the South be true. then John Brough
ought not to boast of having been a life long
Democratic" sycophant to Southern men. by be
ing in a party so mean as to purchase peace and
Union for SO many years at the price Of their man
hood. But it is not true The Democracy main
tanned the Constitution. and all rights-Southern
and Northern-under it; and this is the patriotic
virtue which makes our party to day so peerless
and proud. that It's opponents strive to steal its
potent name 10 hide their own ~graceless and
sedicious sectionalism. fs 81.
But what title has John Brough to the name
Of Democrat now Let me test him by the
platforms of the party from 1910 to 1856, while
he was a member in good standing Does he
deny the exercise of doubtful powers to the
President low? No; bu: he j~ustifes them, and
even clamors for extra constitutional powers.
Does he deny the right to o~ver-tax, and by tariff
to feed and fill New England. and at the expense
of Ohio and the Westf No; he would gorge
New England with jobs ms fat as himself
flaughterl. to enable her Abolitionists to buy out
of the conscription. Does he favor economvf
Where was there such unexampled looseness and
r~ascality as that which prevails now in our ex.
penditures2 Does he d~isfavor public debts. and
a national bank. and a moneyed power, and a
paper currency? What a satire Is the present
fiscal policy. with its greenhacks and great
hanks, on his life long Jackson Democracy
Does he welcome foreigners, or oppose alien
laws? Read his Islander upon the Irish race at
Portsmouth. fCheers. Does he denounce the
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