Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-04
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There are certain things the Abolition
Journals and Abolition stumpers need not
consume time in attempting to prove
against the Democratic party, They need
not undertake to prove that the Democratic
party earnestly sought to preserve the
Union and avert War. They plead guilty
to having done so; and to having faT
vored the adoption of the Crittenden COM
promise, the adoption of rhich ,could hare
prevented the Var, preserved the Union, and
spared the des0ldtion, iooe, misery aud unequal
tdration that hare been inflicted upon the cotrn-
try. They need not undertake to prove that
the Democratic party were opposed to the
Emancipation Proclamation and confisca-
tion act. They plead guilty to having been
so, for the reason that they felt that those
measures would enable JEFF. DAVIS to pro-
long the War, in which prolongation it
would acquire feature of repulsive BAR
barism. They need not undertake to prove
that the Democratic party are devoted to
the Constitution of the United States, and
with being as matter of course and
of justice, in favor of giving to
each and every State in the Union
all the rights that a. strict com
structioI of that Instrument will give
them. They plead guilty to this. They
need not undertake to prove that the DEM
ocratic party maintain that JEFF. DAVIS &
Co. were foiled in their effort to take South
ern States out of the Union, and that, con-
sequently, their ordinances of secession are
void. To this they plead guilty. They
need not undertake to prove that the Dem
ocratic party are in favor Of taxing the cap
ital invested in Government securities for
the purpose Of assisting to keep up the
State, county, township and city govern
ments and to keep up the public schools.
AS they are champions of equal taxation,
they plead guilty to this. They need not at
tempt to prove that the Democratic party
are in favor of Topping off all unnecessary
offices and officers, and in favor of areturn
to rigid economy, trugality and honesty in
the administrationsof the various Govern
ments = Federal, State, county, city and
township. They plead guilty to an anxiety
that the taxes should be reduced. They need
not undertaketo prove that the Democratic
party are in favor of doing away with the
81 militia commutation tax. They plead
guilty to regarding it as an unjust imposi-
ton upon the poor. The Democratic par
| ty, too,s plead guilty to- belief that Gen.
| SaERMAN's treaty with Gen. oHNsroN was
not calculated to dishonor the Federal Gov
erpment, and they have said so unhesitat-
ingly. Another thing the Democratic par
ty plead guilty to- and that Is hostility to-
Negro Suffrage and Negro Political Equali-
ty. The Democratic party thus rendering it
unnecessary for the CoxITRs to prove that
the Democratic party occupy these re-
spectiye positions, the CoxITEs are thereby
furnished more space and time in which to
prove each and every one4of these positions,
as thus assumed by the Democratic party,
wrong. We hope they win at once 90. to
work to make the effort to do SO, and at
ter they shall have made the effort, the
Democratic party are perfectly willing to
submit the case to the. people for their YER
dict. a gniHl1 seR nGil3sis lgta..lgr
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