The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-08-23

POWER OF THE BALLOT.
Speech of Hon. FRED. HASSAUREK
Delivered at the Union state Com
Venti0n, June 10, 1867.

II the Bourbon leaders of the Democratic
party have forgotten anything, it is ONLY
the fundamental principle OF democracy to,
which their party owed its origin and
former strength. They have forgotten
onllwfhat they should have remembered
,lf Tin reference TO all that they should
have tried to uulearn their memory is. as
tenacious as that of the Bourboms of Eu
rope. Onr American Bourhous are still
Fl h;irg the Issues of the first batueot Bull
Run; but they have not yet iearned the
news of the fall of Richmond ahl the sur
render of Lee. They haze not yet realized
that the war has terminated iu the defeat OF
secession and the vindication Of our IN.
tonal integrity They are still coming
over the old lrro-slavery dispatches, writ.
ten 10y Mr.. Seward early in the beginning
OF the war, when reconciliation was thought
to he possible; but they will not realize
that in the meantime, their pet institution
has been sweptaway and new era inaug'
uraled by the success of the Federal arms ,
They went to sleep, like Rip Van Wrinkle,
years ago,"with the resolutions of l79S un1
der their pillows, aud they are just awak-
iRg from their dreams. They cannot be-
hat Nick, Vedder and Jacob Stein are
deads6nd that the days O. Rip are gone,
They have again presented themselves to
the people of Ohio with platform OF po-
li,ical Bourbonism. Its outward feature is
it's interminable length. Its intrinsic t,a
ture is disloyalty! 1t is rehash of the an
ii war speeches of Pendleton and Vallan-
digham. 1t bristles with notification. Its
breath is reputation. 1t ls fraught with
bad faith. 1t spurns the obligations our
national struggle has devolved upon us.
In the speech which | had the honor to
deliver before the Union State Convention
of last year, said that the people OF the
United States have assumed two solemn
obligations, one of protection to the ma.
tons wards, the freedmen, and the other o
good faith to our national creditors. If the
Democratic party had the power, it would,
to our everlasting disgrace have repudi
ated both these Obligations. Whatever
the Union party undertook toward the per
formance of these obligations, met with
the unqualified opposition and bitter hos
til,ty of our opponents. They opposed the
abolition of slavery. They opposed all
measures for the protection of the lives
aud liberties of the Southern UuioDsts.
And if our national debt is being paid, it is
done in spite of the Democratic party, Ii
it were not for the existence of the Union
party; the true genuine Democratic idea
would now be without Representatives
Governments are instituted for the eprOtec
ton of individual rights. Whether the
power necessary for this purpose shall be
conferred on an aristocracy ul privileged
few or many, or whether it shall be vested
in the whole people, is the great question
which now agitates the public mind in both
hemispheres, in England, as well as ip
America. The history of the last few years
has clearly marked out the policy which
will be adopted by our people, aud thisi
with your permission, shall briefly pro-
ceed to show.
THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF PROTECTION FROM
ABOVE DOWNWARD.
In order to fulfill onr duty TO the freed
men by protecting their lives, liberty and
property, several laws had been passed by
Congress which proved insufficient The
amendatory Freednen's Bureau B i Was
passed. SO was the Civil Rights Bill. But
these laws did not fully accomplish their
purpose. Their execution depended on All
unwilling Presidents; the machinery Gre
aled by them was too compli Gated and nm
wieidy and their object was defeated by
the determined hostility Of public opinion
in the States for which they were chiefly
intended. Thus far Congress in endeavoring
to protect the persons and property of the
freedmen had acted on what ! nigh call the
European system of protection which is pro
lection from below downward. That sys
tenn proved insufficient, and it become ne
cessary to resort to the American system Of
protection, which is protection from below
upward. This European system is the in,
verted pyramid resting on IFS apex; the
American system s the pyramid in its nat
ural position, resting on its square broad
foundation. In continental Europe the
government, in order to protect those under
its charge, reduces them 10 pupilage aud
leads them like children tied to its apron
strings. II interferes with everything and
regulates everything. You meet il at every
cotnet II prizes into every mans business
You cannot lay your hands upon anything
for which il has not prescribed rules and
regulations. The system would never do