Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-05
Hon. T. Hassaurek on the Suffrage
Question.

Hon. FRED. HAssAUREIE, the eminent
and scholarly German orator of Cincin-
natl, delivered in Columbus, during the
evening after the Union State Conven-
ton, a remarkably able speech in favor
of equal suffrage in Ohio, from which
we make the following eloquent ex-
tracts:
If the Bourbon leaders of the Demo
cratic party have forgotten anything, it
is only the great fundamental principle
of Democracy to which their party owed
its origin and former strength. They
have forgotten only what they should
have remembered; but, with reference
to what they should have tried to un-
learn, their memory is as tenacious as
that Of the BOurbOus Of Europe. Our
American BouTbOns are still fighting
the issues of the first battle of Bull Run;
but they have not yet learned the news
of the fall of Richmond and the sUrren-
der of Lee. They have not yet realized
that the war terminated in the defeat OF
Secession and the VindicatiOn of our
National integrity. They are still con-
ming over an old DrO-sIayerV dispatch.
written by Mr.. Seward early in the be-
ginning of the war, when reconciliation
I and peaceable reunion were still thought
/ to be possible. But they will not realize
that, in the meantime, their pc Institu-
tiOn had been swept away, and new
/ era inaugurated by the success of the
| Federal arms. They went to sleep, like
1 Rip Van Wrinkle, years ago, with the
resolutions of 1898 under their pillows
4 and they are Just awaking from then
! dreams. They cannot believe that NlC
! Vedder and Jacob Stein are dead, and
that the days Of old Rip are gone. They
\ have again presented themselves tC
/ the people of Ohio with a platform o
| political BOurbOnism. Its outward fea'
| ture is its interminable length. Its
! intrinsic feature is dislOyalty. 1t is {
rehash of the anti-War speeches of Pen
dleton and Vallandigham. 1t bristlel
pudiatiOn. 1t is fraught with bad faith
It spUrns the obligations our nationa
struggle has devOlved upon US. In thu
speech which I had the honor to delive
before the Union State Convention o
last wear, I said that the people Of tn
United States have assumed two solemn
obligations One of protection to tn
nations wards, the freedmen, and tn
other Of good faith to our national cred
itors. If the Democratic party had tn
power, it would, to cur everlasting dis
grace, have repud1ated both these obi
CATIONS. Whatever the Union part
undertook toward the performance c
these obligations, met with the unqual
ified opposition of our opponents. The
opposed tho war for the suppression {
the rebellion. They opposed the abol
ition of slavery. They opposed a
! ! measures for the protection Of the live
of Southern Unionists. And if our na
1 tiOnal debt is being paid, it is done i
spite of the Democratic party. If it weI
q not for the existence of the Union party
the true, genuine Democratic idea Woul
now be without representative.
> Governments are instituted for th
protection of individual rights. Whetl
/, er the power necessary for this purpOs
shall be conferred on an aristoeraCy of
privileged few, or many, or whether
: shall be vested in the whole people,
! the great question which now agitatt
the public mind in both hemisphere
in England as well as in America II
history of the last few years has eIearl
marked ont the policy which will /
adopted by our people. And this wit