Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-08-03
Fred. HAsAuREK ON rHE nEmnnRAnr-

II MS speech DeIOre Ine recent state
Convention, the able and patriotic Ger
man orator, Hon. F. HAsAUREK, of Gin
cinnati, thus held the Democratic party
up to the public view:
The task which the Union party was
called upon to perform In 1864 Is not vet
complete; the struggle is not vet over.
during the war the contest Law between
| those who believed in the ability OF the
American people to maintain its national
existence, and those who denounced our
greatest national effort as a deplora bic
tailure-clamOriDg for an immediate ces-
satiOn of HOstAlties Now the contest
lies between those who accept and those
who do not accept the results Of the war.
The Democratic party does not accept
them; 1t has not recognized them Ia a sim
| gle instance. 1t ignores them In the res
olutions oft conventions and in sneers
at them through its public organs. Tt
sneers at the great idea for which the best
blood OF the country has been shed. 1t
| sneers at the truth, which has been seal
ed with the lives of thousands Of immor-
/ tai heroes, that we are a NATION. and not
| merely q loose and SOHLieSS cOpfederdcg of
Independent sOUerejgnfies. We are a ma
! ton sir, in spite OF the Democratic par
ty-the mother, protectress, and advocate
! of secession, anarchy and dissolution.
The Democratic party had coDjured up
secession by its trucking subserviency to
the South. A Democratic President,
who might have crush he'd the monster in
its infancy, had nurtured it into full de-
velOpment by taking the ground that the
Constitution conferred no power on the
Federal Government to cOerce a seeding
State. When war was at last upon us,
the leading men of that party refused to
vote money and soldiers for its prOsecu-
ton; they sympathiZed with the enemy
they discouraged enlistments; they plot
ted against the Government; they rejoic-
ed over our defeats they opposed the war
as useless and criminal, and clamored for
diplomatic negotiations with those Ia
arms against the legitimate Government
of our country and now, having come out
of the long struggle trlumphantly, having
passed through the darkest hour OF our
national existence successfully, we are
told by those who fought against us, eith-
er on the battle field or at the polls, that
our claim to be q nation means nothing
but a despotic consolidation of power In
the Federal Government This charge,
Mr.. President, is worse than false: 1t IS
ridiculous Those who stood by our
country's flag and its gallant defenders,
do not dream of subVerting the legitimate
rights of States, or Of superseding local
or municipal self government by Federal
dictatiOn The Union party merely wishes
those lately In rebellion, and their aiders
and abettors, to understand that not one
inch Of American soil can be taken out
of the Union without the consent of the
whole people of the United States.
am justified, then, In saying that the
Democratic party has not accepted and
does not recognize the results Of the war.
Tt does not recognize cur existence as
a nation, but still clings on to the anarchl-
cal notion that we are nothing but part
nership of sovereign States.
1t does not recognize the integrity Of
the national territory.
It has not recognized freedom as a na-
tional American institution.
1t will not protect the inalienable rights
of man against the tyranny and cruelty OF
Vindietive local majorities.
1t will not redeem the solemn pledges
Of the nation. 1t will not protect the
freedmen against the rebel whom he
fought under our flag; and it does not
recognize cur sacred obligation to pay
the national creditors.
It has not even denied. after the war,
what its Southern allies claimed before
the war-the pretended right Of secession.
Its platform has but one plaDk-obedi-
ence to its Southern masters. When the
rebels attempted to break up our country,
the Democratic leaders insisted that we
should let them go out. Now that the
SOutherners wish to regain political pow
er, and will cOndescend to rule US again,
the Democracy insist that we must let
them come in Yesterday the rebels
wanted to go out; hence, yesterday the
Democratic platform was Hou have no
right to keep them In T. To-day the reb-
els want to come in again to rule the cOun-
try they could not destroy hence, to day
the Democratic platform is, HOu have
10 right to keep them out! Vallandig-
IL Z. L. Ill 4
to-day they swear that they must come
in The South commands and the Dem
ocratie party obeys. 1t has no other
principles or sentiments but tie WhIms
or wishes Of its rebel masters.
Such party cannot he trusted with po-
/ teal power al q time like this As long
as the results 2of the war have not been
fully secured as long as the spirit Of dis
loyalty is still rampant in the South as
long as the abolition Of slavery has not
become a reality, and Southern legislation
has not confOrmed to the new order Of
things as long as the inhabitants Of the
United States are not protected IN their
civil rights wherever they may go as
long as law and order, and security to per-
son and property are not completely re-
established in the States lately in rebel
lion as long as citizen of Ohio or Penn
sylvania cannot live, travel, do business,
or express his sentiments in South Caro-
lima or Mississippi, with the same free
dom and security with which citizen of
South Carolina or Mississippi, can travel,
do business, or express his sentiments
in Ohio or Pennsylvania as long as there
Is danger that the national honor vii. be
sullied by reputation, or bad faith to
the national creditors as long as the
work Of recostruction has not been fully
completed on the basis ofliberty, justice
4 lonrr tho fAnvnrmr1annf nF
the United States must not be surrender
ed to those who bore arms or plotted
against it during four years of mortal war.
Ii must remain in the hands its friends,
and not be given up to its enemies Ii
must not pass into the hands of those
whose views and principles form stand
ing threat to our existence and prosPerl-