The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-18


are very much IN the way Of their conspl-
racy to seize the Executive and Judiciary
Departments, and make some Senator like
Wade. or Chandler King, Emperor, Car.
or Sultan,
Wendell Phillips-and. you know. that
when he blows his Jacobin horn, the Radi-
cal party soon gather In train and follow
quickly-said the other day, IN his Aati-
Slavery Standard, that "radicailsm Is des-
tined 70 win, that the Ashloys, the Bout
wells, the Buffers, the kclleys, the men who
best meet the demands of the nation. Ia It's
will be the men of the future
sustained and honOred by the people,"
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eSy-We cali attention to the following
forcble and lucid exposition Of the designs
and strength of the Republican party, by
one OF its prominent advocates;
The Republican Party-Its ISsti-
mate by Hon. Henry y. stanton
A Truthful Description.
lF-om she An slavery unda IDS Rcpotl
propose to say something about the
Republican party. | do not know how
eulogistically l may speak of t.; but will
speak plainly. l know the party thor
oughly. The question Is, win it meet this
issuey There are a great many mere poll
ticians In the party, aud too few statesmen.
lt Is made up OF three classes OF men, with
respect 10 negro suflrage-those who earn
estly desire it. and will not be denied (:
those who are coldly i'm favor of Il; and
those who are somewhat-pcrhaps decid-
edly-opposcd to H. Let the first class the
positive men, take the lead. and the rest
will follow. as the tail always follows the
head. | tell the party, in all candor. that
II they blink this issue. and refuse TO confer
the right of suffrage on the negro. they
may set their houses in order, for their time
is come. Applause They may evade the
question to-day by n subte fuge; but it
will return 10 them tomorrow. They may
crush IL down by an unholy compromise in
this Congress but elastic and irrepressible.
it will spring to its feet in the next aud con-
front them. armed cap pie in the weapons
of righteousness and truth. They might as
well attempt TO dam up Niagara with the
struggling moonbeams of a misty night as
TO resist the onward march of universal
suffrage in this couatry. The waters, by
the irrepealablc law Of gravity would
sweep over the declivity in spite of all
their shadowy distractions. [Applause.l
In the language of DR.. Watts. which Just
occurs to me-looking to the perilous po-
siton of the party-l eXclaim
"O1 slip1e.v ocss I see them stand,
Ahd nerv pillows roll beow"
The slippery rocks" of cowardly ex-
pediency, the fiery billows" of hungry
Democracy. [Laughter.l Are the Repub-
licaus aware that a change of 2i,000 votes
would give the Democrats the next Presi-
dency, even though no electoral votes were
counted, except those of the twenty-siX
States now represented In Congress? Let
us look into this little. Let us scan iU i'm
the light of the nine digts. Ladies. you
who want to vote, let me tell you that
politics is mere nOse-countlng. Statesman
Ship is far more elevated pursuit. But
the question among politicians always is,
at close election, Who eau count the
most noses? ? Let us count noses Tonight.
The Democracy are sure, in the coming
Presidential election, of tour States
Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware and Fen
nessee. That gives them 80 votes. They
then lack 81. Where win they get the 81?
The three great States of New York, Penn
sylvania and Indiana, and the four small
States of fConnecticut New jersey, Nevada
and Oregon, give precisely the 81 votes re-
Quired to elect Democratic President i'm
1868. And in those seven States what was
the Republican majority at the last cleo
ton? 1t was 1900 in the aggregate.
Therefore, change 24,000 votes in those
seven States and the Democrats have the
next Presidency, counting no electoral
votes except those ofthe twenty-six States
now represented in Congress. So, too, if
You withdraw from the ballot-boXes 1900
Republican votes in those seven States the
result is the same.
Now, when the Republican party, by
word or action. or non-actiOn, shows that
it has turned its back upon the question of
negro sutfrage-when it ignores it, then. in
these seven States, 1900 voters-nay.
three times 47,000--that have Just cast their
ballots with that party. will turn their
backs upon it and ignoreit while, through
out the whole country. the numbers who
have recently sustained its candidates but
would then desert it, would reach quarter
of a million. | assure the party that it can
not afford to prove faithless to that race
which, during our great conflict. baptized
the national banner with their blood APP
plause.l II it turn recreant to them. their
friends, from the ArOOstOOk TO the Sacra-
mentO, will dash it in pieces Ikea pOtter's
vessel l warn my Republican associates
that, If in the approaching Congress they
fall upon this stone, they will be broken;
and if in the coming Presidential contest
it fall upon them, it will grind them to
powder. But though they may perish, the
cause will not be lost. For hestone which
these builders rejected shall yet become the
head of the corner. APPLAUSE
Let me 20 little further into this sub
ject of nose counting. What do You think
is the majority in this nation OF the party
that now rules the countryp Majority,
my friends? Why, of the population. North
and South, the Republicans are in minori-
ty of more than three millions. They have
a slight majority of the population in the
North but there is an overwhelming ma
jOrity of the people against them in the
South. excluding the negroes. How do the
figures stand with respect to the voters
Take the North and South at the latest cleo
tions, and the Democratic majority in the
whole country is more than half million.
When | see the Republicans in a minority
otthree millions OF people and half mill
lion ofvoters, am mot right in saying that
they stand upon, slippery rocks" while
"fery billOws roll below?"
What is the remedy? How can we re-
store the equilibrium? / auswer-En-
franchise the negro, which will instantly
add to the Republican party four millions
Of population and 100000 voters. APP
plause.l
l have another word of admonition for
the party. Not only are they in the minor
ity in population and voters, but the great
portion of their political strength lies in one
section of the country. | assure them that
no sectional party can long rule this repub-
lie against such an antagonistas the Demo-
cratic organization, which spreads over
both North and South in about equal pro-
portions. This country has been educated
into distrust of a mere sectional party.
To attempt to rule il by a party whose
strength is all ON one side of the line be-
tween the old free and slave States, is as
futile as to attempt to make fence ten miles