Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-06-20
The Ohio DemOcracy.-.Their New Wine
I'm the Old Bottle.

| The Democracy of Ohio at their recent State
Convention adopted in part, new platform, in
| resolution that "they will cordially and actively
support Andrew johnson as President of the Uni
ted States in all the necessary and proper means to
| carry cut his policy" for the restoration of the
| Union, and especially in securing immediate rep
resentaton in the Senate and House of Representa-
tives to the eleven States from which it is
| constitutionay withheld, unless on the degrading
condition of nferiority in the Union and of negro
political and civil equality, enforced by the Federal
| Government
This cordial and active support of President John
son is good. 1t places the Democracy of Ohio on a
substantial footng but in their very first resolution
they repeat the blunders of their New Jersey breth
last fall of adherng to the exploded heresies of
the Chicago Convention. They declare "that the
Democracy of Ohio will adhere in the present and
IN the future, in the past with untaltering fde
ty and frmness to the organization of the Demo-
cratic Party, and to its ancient and well-settled
principles as enuncated by Thomas Jefferson tn
moral apostle OF American Democracy, and as ac-
knowledged and accepted by the party from the
foundation of the Government" The beginning
of this resolution is substantially the beginning of
the Chicago platform; and no wonder, for Mr.. Val
landigham, who was the framer of the Chicago res
olutions, was the head of the committee from which
emanated these Ohio resolutions. 1t seems to US
very strange and it is certainly very unfortunate
that the Ohio Democracy can do nothing without
Vallandigham and his exploded distractions.
Tow what are those Democratic principles of
Jefferson, to which the Ohio Democracy intend to
adhere with unfaltering fidelity and frmness?'
They are those pernicious State rights resolutions
of 1898 and 1899 used so successfully by Jefferson
in Kentucky and Virginia and in the South gen.
orally, a hobby upon which to ride into the Pres
idency. Having served their purpose in his cleo
tion, Jefferson cast them aside; and from that day
down to the quarrel and rupture between Calhoun
and General JacksOn-a period of thirty years or
so-little nothing was heard of them. Then
Calhoun revived them in his State rights doctrine
and experiment of notification of the Federal tar
1T law of 1928; but Old Hickory put him down.
Then the great apostle of South Carolina Democra-
cy as Jackson had predicted turned his State rights
dogmas into the slavery question: the right of seces
sion and Southern confederacy. Those ideas, in
dustriousy difused over the South and ostered and
strengthened by the subservent Northern DemOcra-
cy, eliminated in the late rebellion and went down
with it in deuge of blood.
This history; and yet these the principles
which Vallandigham brings from Chicago and
foists upon the Ohio Democracy as their abiding
platform. Thus bound to the dead carcass of the
old pro-slavery, State sovereignty Democratic par
ty the support of President johnson by the Ohio
Democracy, we apprehand, will be of very little |
practical value Not until those old hidebound |
copperhead leaders set aside and the Democracy
begin to comprehend the fact that there has been
deuge, will they be able to retrve their misfOrtunes
as the peace party of the war. Under the banner |
of Andrew johnson, Vaandigham is not the prop |
er apostle for the Ohio Democracy-Ne1g York |
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