Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1867-04-25
COmgratulatOry Address1Of
the Democratic Executive
Committee.
UkM0CKATIUU0M EE, NIX TIVE hOUMs,
I COLUMBUS. April IL. 1867.

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4 DEMOCRATS IF Ono: We congratu'
late you upon the cheering political indi,
cations. Our party, as it we're, has
passed through long, dark political
night--sO long and SO dark that many
have despairsd Of the dawning of day
but ct last the night is passing away, and
ray of light breaks through the thick
dark ness eastward. In New Hampshire
the Republican majority has fallen off,
Con necticut unfurls the Constitution and
records decisive majority for the De-
mocraOy--giving to the democratic can.
didates on the State ticket majority of
about one thousOnd, electing three out
of the four candidates for Congress,
and causing the Legislature to stand:
Senate, IL Republicans and 10 Demo-
Gratis House, 1877 Republicans and III
Democrats. At the spring election in
1862, preceding the fall election wherein
the Democracy carried Ohio, Pennsylva-
MIA, New York, Indiana, Illinois, New
Jersey and Delaware, Connecticut gaUe
the Republican candidate for Governor
a majority of nine thousand. The SEN
ate was a unit against the Democrats and
} the House stood: Republicans III !;
} Democrats &C.; being Republican ma
jority of 146 on joint ballot, against a
majority of only Ii on joint ballot now.
), By reference and comparison, We find
the spring elections this year in New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersy, lndi
ana and particularly 10 Ohio, are as much
of an improvement on the spring cleo,
tious in these States in 1862, as was the
: election in Conaecticut on the 1st in
: stant an improvement on the result in
Q that State In 1862, 10 the fall of which
year the Democratic party triumphed SO
grapdly. 6o,plasd.ese s
We herein recognize cause for cons
. graduation, and an insentive that should
9 spur Democrats everywhere to the most
}. energetic effort. IF our information is
D not faulty, continuously for fourteen
d years did the Democracy of Connecticut
: encounter defeat at the polls; but, BOT
k daunted, believing in the righteousness
J of their cause, they fought on aud they
now find their yeward in a triumphant
n victory. They had to encounter daspe'
y rate antagonism-intellect, money and
9 lntemperate appeals 20 passion and pref,
n udiCe. They have overcome all ! What
q the Democracy of Connecticut did the
II Democracy of other States can do through
1t the same dauntless and persistent effort
10 You, the Dem ocrats Of Ohio, can do it
n You have, not suffered exclusion from
70 power In the State for the last fourteen
q years, as did the Democracy Of Connec
d ticut. You carried the State in 1862 BY
1t a majority ranging from five TO over sever
70 thousand, although at the preceding Stat
g election you were defeated By majority
y Of 55, ,203-your aggregate vote in th'
'-tt5tato being only 1874, whereas th,
y Republican aggregate vote in the Stat
u was 206,997.. TIE very next year you
D vote for Secretary of State was 1874, ,332--
an increase of 32,538 on the preceding
year, whereas the Republican vote 70
Secretary of State vas 178,741-afalliDj
40 off of 28,256 as compared with the vot
of OF the preceding year. The Republican
~ majority iu this State last fall on Secre
10 tary of State was 1896 12,5O7 les
20 tian il was against you in 1861, and ye
n. you carried the State at the ensuing elOc
a. ton trivmpbantIy. We cite these vote
"a to encourage and stimulate you to an &C
Of tive cooperation with US in the effort t
a. carry the State. Even did not the resuI
% of the election in Connecticut and at tn
n municipal elections elsewhere, bid u
a. hope for success as the reward of ener
op getio work, the revolutionary conduc.Ic
he the Radicals in Congress, and espeoiall
n. the efforts of the leaders of the Repub
I licau party here In Ohio to drag the whit
I man down to political, and thence to
. social, equality with the Negro, shouI
oS cause such repugnance as to arouse tn
nd pride Of race in every White mar to re
tv sent SO impudent an insult by voipg W
", on the Republican leaders and their car
didates overwhelming condemnation. >
in We therefore, beseech you, one and al
he so to direct your labors as to bring abou
ofI this result. II will require vork-hart
rv uDceasing work, from now until the elec
rs ton. Could o vote be taken to- MORO
he upon the question of Negro Suffrag
ry without an appeal pro and con, thl
be question would undoubtedly be Ovel
whelningly defeated. The advocates
that measure, and they include all II
sb leaders and organs Of the Repnblica
sM party-intend to bring into requisitio
'ds every conceivable agency to secure i
lot adoption, To be defeated it must
ate fought with the same ceaseless enere
1at and stubbornress. Every, man who
q opposed to the establishment of nh equa
or ity Of the White and Black races in th
State, and to the disfranchisement /
n. those soldiers who did faithful servi,
spt throughout the actual continuance of Il
for war; bat who returned home before r
vas ceiying an official discharge, must now
ter enlisted. To this end, organize clubs
to every toynship in the State, dissemina
The Democratic journals as extensively