The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-12
Tbe voice or MinnesOta.

The Union men Of Minnesots were
among the first il the fight for national in
tegrity against treason and slavery, and
now that the battle with the bsyonet is
done mt that with the ballot is the order,
they are not found wanting in their devc-
ton to the country or backward in declsr-
ing theissue with the common enemy. They
employ no ambiguous terms in designating
traitors, nor are they nice as to who shall
or who shall not be excepted among those
who during the rebellion arrsyed them.
selves and their party against the Govern.
ment In their platform recently adopted
they strike TO the very core of the political
fabric called Democracy, and most truth
fully present the thing "a it is-a corrupt,
malicious deformity. The fourth resolution
p~ronouuces the following indictment upon
the Democratic party, and il is emphsti-
cally q "trus bill" Read it carefully:
PesoEUed, That inasmuch as the existing
remnsnt Of the so called Democratic party
ia aspiring to thrust its ~counsels upon the
people in the questions arising out of the
close of the war; and inasmuch as it is just
aud right that that party should be held
fast to the responsibility of its past record,
we therefore charge uponit that by q ourse
of %servilisy, extending y period of thirty
years, it accustomed Ine Southern people
to govern, inspired them with contemptfor
the North, and prepared them Tor thatday;
when failing any longer to constitutional
ly govern the Nation, they should set up
the banner of revolt; and that through
their leaders, they encouraged the outbreak
of the rebellion, assuring the insurgents
that TO- every regiment sent by the North
sgsinst the South one should be sent TO
fight IN its behalf, and that the streets of
Northern cities 49,
before the South should be subjugsted that
by a denial of the rights OF the general
Government to coerce 8 State into obedience,
q denial resting upon the authority Of the
last of the Democratic Presidents, they
palsied the arm of the Government in the
early days of the struggle, and gave time
Cor the reasonable conspiracy 10 organize
and arm itself that at every stage Of the
contest their sympathy was upon the side
of the rebellion, and that to that end they
organized secret societies for trsitorous
purposes, opposed every decisive measure
of the general government, resisted or in
directly opposed the enforcement Of the
draft, melted riots in our great cities, filed
the people with gloom snd dependency
and finally, in the critical moment Of the
struggle, declared that the war was q fail.
uIe: that the nation was unable to sup
press the rebellion, and clsmored for meas
ures which, if carried out, could only have
resulted in the division and destruction Of
the nation; that it is now the intention Of
the Democratic party, by working N the
prejudices of the race, and with q view Il
their own establishment in power, to pre-
serve the causes of the rebellion by retain
ing the black man of the South in 8 eondi
ton of peonsge or serfdom, as an ignorsn
and oppressed class, cut OF from all hop
of future improvement, 3 source of con
slant danger to the white population of b
South, and q repIosch to the humanity anC
! civilization Of the entire nation.
The fifth resolution is not lees commend
able for the ~soundness and business of tn
views it expresses and the spirit it mani
tests. 1t is as follows:
Resolved, That the spirit of our institu
tions requires that the measures of 8 man
political rights should DO neither his feli
gion, his birthplace, his race, his color, no
: any merely physical characteristic, an
| thst it would be subversive to both tn
form and spirit of our institutions to per
nit any portion of our population to de
!, graded Aad subject caste, taxed 10 suppoi
t and compelled to obey a government i
! which they nave no voice and whose Who'll
machinery may bedirected to their destruC
, ton.
a The Union party of Minnesots may eel
taisly claim the first place in the Unio
, ranks as the fearness %denouncers of Demo
' cratic recreancy, and the advocates Of tn
great principle of equal political rights I
= all men-the only principle through whic
!, the nation can obtain perfect security fc