Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-23

} years. / chsf&e this bssutilul crowd
; with esssyfns TO degrade The government
; and excite the prej1dics> of labor and
races, by ossilins this war for the negro.
: when they know that the white man s
republic depends for its life upon the
red blood that is spilled for il now
Where IS that inspired. courageous old
Democratic party, which Jefferson found
ed, jackson immorfsiiEed, aud James
Buchanan buriedi Some years ago there
could be seen stranded on the shore oi
Long Island Sound, the shattered rem
nsnts of 8 once noble steamer. It's
guards were down, its rudder gone, it
machinery broken and useless. Hat
blackened and consumed BY storm and
confagrai ion, rs name still glared out in
full capital the oel which had so often
lrure be public 10 honor and homo, still
49, {, nesninglessly with every shift
ia -. Just so stands the Democratic
party. The same sound still calls to us;
but it Is the toll above the wreck. The
same grand old name still waves upon
the campaigr banners, waylaying US for
our suffrages; Lut the vessel we trusted
to carry US safely through every sea-
oncs, SO powerful and popular-now
drifts before the storm u shrunken, help
less, aud snarling minority. Why is il
that every east wind drizzies upon US q
Democratic defeat Why is it that every
Northern blast whirls down upon US .
Republican msjoriIyI Why Is 1t that
| The West, 70 whion We are told TO look
for clear skies and fair weather-the
VESTS black with the popular refusal
| TO restore this So called Democracy? Alas!
uninter!upred prosperity has wesnso
patriotism and wisdom from pohtics.-
Little men have been permitted 10 trlfe
with great principles, and death or dis
gust swept all the Democratic giants from
the helm. The Democratic party came
into life, 10 give life TO free institutions
Many heroes of the Revolution who
fought for freedom ami Independence
had no faith in popular goTeInnent---
After the formation of the Constitution,
tlis disfrust exhibited itself in the sup
port of.Afstocratic privileges and monop'
oiies. Ihe democratic party WAS organ
lied to protect the Constitution from the
miseonstruction of oligarshs and the
people frou ali iiliberal tendencies, and
not TO play into the hands of despots and
traitors. II began the world with the
fears OF Washington. Ehe hatred OF Ham
iiton, and the Alteration OF Jefferson and
Madison. With It's infant hand II stran
gled the Colossus of the Revolution,
John Adams, and threw his party and
his policy into the grayeOf the eighteenth
osntury. Has is not advocated and adj
ministered every war since the Revolu-
ton! Did il not Danish the Indian and
silence the nuilifierf DID it not chastiss
Engiand, threaten France, aud conquer
Mexico; and must il 20 down under the
red waves of a still more righteous con-
hlctf Tie old Democratic party has
added more -litory TO the Union than
the peace Of 1888. IL purchased kouisi
ana, negotiated Florida, annexed Texas,
and dropped all the gold OF Californ
into our pockets; and snail this counter
feit pinchbeek successor leayelt hardly a
State on which to lay lis dying head!-l
l stand BY, the Baltimore ticket because
there 1 find my country, and nowhere
else in this election do l know whore to
look for il. 1t is open, manly, and ma
tional. On that platform sits the cour-l
age of the North, che spirit of the age, |
the genius of war and the safety OF
America. 1t calls guilt by its right
name, and proposes 70 deal with 1t in the
right way, with those who ask no quarter
and mean no Union; whom II you face
yc,i must fsht, and if you treat with you
mast weld. The Baltimore resolutions
represent the highest point to which /
courage and soul saye raised endangered
The Chicago resolutions
the most diminutive proportions
10 which political decentralization has
sunk American character. see there
only an American libel copied from the
London Times, and pronounced by a lew
shaking politicians as their standard OF
political duty. They call the war fail
ure. then nominate failure TO prove 1t,
then get that failure TO write the plat
form failure, and now 1t only wants
one more failure on the 9Th OF November
to finish the concern. Indeed: has all L
this irImp and shot and blood ayalled
Speak, bowling Jetf., with
your falling spirits and disbanding armies.
Speak, We thousand miles OF sea coast.
with but one port to owelcome the .neaklng
suuggler to your traItorous breast
Speak, Sherman, with your hrIn foot
upon their guilty hearthstenes, where
YOU but stamp it, and insurrsotion, starV-
ed and ragged, flies wailing before you.
Speak, worthless currency, hopeless her
esy, heart broken community. Your
falling tears, your running slaves, your
dying brothers, Northern traitsrs stun
ned, foreign Intervention dead, do you
tell me Abraham Lincolu's gripe had no
yigor in itf You have tried him in war,
YOU have tried him in diplomacy, you
have wrestled with him at the feot OF
syery throne in Europe. You have con-
fronted him for thousands OF miles along
river. marsh and forest, where he has
.rscked you with the Indians scent. to
ave YOU from the Indians destiny. You ,
have summoned to your aid swamp fever,
ambush. tomabawk. and torpedo. You
promi.ed the world that you would harnes
the North in your pole, driving the con-
tinent in double harness, and where ATE
you nowf A. nameless. penniless, shiver-
ing OUTLAW. Shivering frorn the charter
,iened BY George Washington" and
dyins. by inches with the powder and
bali of Abraham Lincoln. Is this q fail
ure. oh, snccessful Vallandinghan, with
hat hundred Thousand adverse majority
gazing down upon your sinking PLATFORM
We who have gone back to the barbar-
ism of blows to secure the civilization OF
ots,-(spplause)-we who love the con-
tention Of thought better than the
OF arms-who prefer always
10 conquer rather by convention than by
collision; we who have no heart in now
ing down any portion of the soul and
of this nation, if that soul and
strength could be captured by principle
instead of the army, shall we not to day,
profting by the lessons of this war and
This election, hold up that which best
keeps us up, The soldier from his fur
thor point of danger is watching US from
our highest stand of civil duty. Can we
drop the nstionsl fortunes in the slippery
hands stretched forth to grasp themf
Would we not half mast the fsg on every
battle field, for the fruits of victory
vanished, for the dead too uselessly
slain, for the living too hopelessly
dethroned, debt ridden and degraded
Mol we will treat our party as loved
mistress who has Tilted as; as fxvorite
gun that will not tre; as . match too
damp with Southern tears to light. We
Ill huddia updar this Iinccln shed until l