Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-07
A Radical Organ on "PIucl.''

A Radical Organ on "I'luck.
The Cincinnati Gazette, in an article
against the Democratic party, says:
"a copper Jeremiah says doletully: =
when the Democratic party lost pluck it
lost power This is true with the slight
exception that it reverses the order. When
the Democratic party lost power it lost
pluck. When Democrat loses Office he
has nothing to fight for. Without the cohe-
sive power of the public plunder the party
| falls to pieces. The idea of contending for
principle never penetrated the Democrat
ic cranium." E.t
If by a cooper jeremiah the Gazette
means that Democrat gave utterance to
such SANDER, the Gazette lies-under mis-
take. No matter how much of a grumbler he
may be, no Democrat would make such a
charge against the pluckiest party that
ever was known in this or any other land.
In 1910, when the Democracy were pros
trate. beaten in almost every State, county,
town and village, and school district-a
defeat that would have annihilated any
other party-in two years, by the power of
the principles they advocated, the Democ-
| racy were again in power in most of the
States, and in five years time again assum-
During the late war, when arbitrary arrests
were made of men merely because they
were Democrats, and no man, unless he
swore by the powers that be, and justified
every violation of the Constitution and of
the rights of persons, considered himself
safe from lawless violence, men enough
were found in the Democratic organiza-
tion who refused to bow the knee to Baal,
to redeem the party from the charge OF
want of pluck.
And even now, if other proof be needed
to show that the Gazette has stated that
which is untrue, the Democracy of Ohio,
one and undivided, are charging along the
whole line of the enemy acts of omission
and acts of commission in the mal-admin-
istration of affairs, which causes dismay
and CONSERVATION in the ranks of the Ga
zette's own pets.
The Democratic party charged with a
want of pluck? Why, Mr.. Gazette, it is the
plucklest party that ever plucked State
from the hands of incompetent and dis
honest officers, who violate the Constitu-
ton and use public funds with as little re-
morse as the Democracy will have this fall
in kicking them from the power they have
so shamefully abused.
"Without the cohesive power of the pub
lie plunder," the Gazette says, the Demo-
cratic party falls to pieces. This is doubly
unfortunate charge for a Radical sheet to
make. First, because it is grossly false,
and second, the idea, and the language al
most identical, is taken from a letter of
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS to DUTEE J. PIERCE,
of Rhode Island, written in 1886, in which,
speaking of the New England politicians,
of the anti-Democratic party, he said they
had no honest sentiments to bind them to-
gether, and that they were bound only by
the cohesive power of public plunder-by
common longing for office and common
detestation of the people who put them
down. The Gazette will bear in mind that
the same New England politicians, thus
described by one of their political friends,
who knew them better than any other liv-
ing man, are now, they and their descend
ants, the rulers of the Radical party, and
that what ADAMS said of them thirty years
since, is sCill true to the letter.
From these facts, the Gazette, now scared
out of its wits, if it ever had any, at the
certainty of the defeat of its party this fall,
will find that it gains no credence when it
states that the Democratic party has no
sspIunk -