Nebraska advertiser., 1867-10-17

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eminent, shall we turn it into the hands of
the enemy? Are we so base, so regard
less of principle, as now, after having &C
complished these great and glorious re-
suit, to surrender them all to the enemy
DEMOCRACY NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
Now, wha. has been the record Of the
Democratic party, even during the war ?
/ assert that, as nm organization, 1t has
been dlsloyal from April, 1861, TO this
hour. II did not stand BY the Govern
ment, but it tried, by every means in its
power, TO thwa 1T the Government in its
efforts to suppress the rebellion. If there
is a Democrat present, let me ask him to
point 10 one single resolution ever adOp-
ted by the Democratic party, giving a
cordial support to the war and denoun-
cling the rebellion. / never read one.
There were members Of the Democratic
parry who were loyal, some of them, but
| am speaking of that party as an organ
cation. Did you ever hear of them pas
sing resolutions giving cordial support to
the Government in its efforts to suppress
the rebellion? Not one. Did you ever
find or read in any one of the leading
Democratic papers an editorial cordially
endorsing the Administration, endorsing
the Government, giving courage and
countenanee to our armies in the field
Did you ever hear such papers as the
Cincinnati Enquirer, the Chicago Times,
the New York World, giving a cordial
support to the Administration or the
Government, or saying a word of en-
enlargement &c the soldier in the field
Not one,
Now, let me ask you another question,
Didn't theoe same organs TEEN with
abuse and denunciation of Mr.. Lincoln
and of the army Did they not denounce
US as Lincoln hirelings {; did they ever
give US a word of sympathy did their
orators, their Voorheeses ; their Val
landIghams, their Seymours and their
Prices. ever encourage by word or deed,
the soldiers in defending our national
rights? Not one; and yet their col
umns. could TEEN with abuse Of all who
were striving through all these years
to sustain the Government. Now,
what do / draw from that? Why, hat
their ~sympalhies were with the rebels ;
and they are on re Cord, and it cannot be
denied. / dare any Democrat to dis
prove what | assert. Judging them by
their acts, by their organs. by the speech
es of their leaders. By their resolutions,
they were against the Government all
thu rough this fearful struggle. Hence l
am justified IN asserting that their sym.
pathies were with the enemy. Did you
ever hear of one Of them, or read any
one of their organs denouncing JEFF Da-
Wis as a traitor? l never did. And yet
how they could TEEN with abuse of Abra-
ham Lincoln. Did you ever hear any
denuncialion or condemnation of the aw.
full baTbarilies that were inflicted on the
noble boys in blue who fell into the
hands of the rebels and suffered untold
t%ortures in those Southern prisons? Not
one. AND yet, not long ago, a Demo
cratic member of Congress arose in bis
place 0nd offered a resolution for the ap-
pointment of a committee of investiga-
tion to enquire whether rebel prisoners
were not maltreated over here on John
sons Island, and yet not a word of con-
domination of the awful, the indescriba-
bic barbarities that were practiced upon
our soldiers while in their hands. All
these things show where their sympa.
thies are.
Now. my friends, let me take up the
record Of the Democratic party in anoth-
err respect-on the slavery question /;
and from hat record l draw the infer
ence that that party is o safe to be
trusted with the administration of public
affairs to-day. You recoIlect when the
question of the admission of Kansas and
Nebraska was before the American peo-
pie in 1854 and 1856, in order TO let in
a slave State the Missouri Compromise
was repealed, a measure which had been
adhered to as a sacred compact for thirty
years and over, never a petition coming
up ever from a county meeting asking
for the repeal of that measure. The
South demanded it in order lha. slavery
might go into free territory. The DEM
ocratic party of the North had yielded
everything which the South demanded
on the question of slavery aye, not an
act could be passed unless the question
was agitated what effect It would have
upon Southern slavery /; and the North.
ern Democrats would always yield to
the Democrats of the South, and they
yielded in this instance. The Northern
Democracy yielded up the Missouri Com
promise in order that slavery might go
into territory which had been consecra-
ted to human freedom. Then it sold
itself at the shrine of Southern slavery,
at the bidding of their Southern masters.
Then the Republican party came into be-
ing, on the great principal that there
should be DO more slave soil, but, on the
contrary, that every foot of territory that
WAS then free should remain forever free,
and nobly has the party sustained that
principle and made it effective, and they
have been the means of accomplishing
more-of wiping out the curse Of human
slavery. / assert that in every instance
where this issue has been made the Dem
ocratic party is on the record as against
the cause OF human freedom, and in ia
vOr of human slavery. When the amend.
ment was before the House of Represen-
t%atives, abOlishing slavery in the South,
the Democratic party. with a few excep-
lions, voted against the adoption of that
amendment, and then, when the amend
ment was submitted to the Legislature of
every single Northern State, as a party,
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