The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-08
CONGRATULATIONS ADDRESS
OF THE
OHIO DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE CON-. Rooms, !
COLUMBUS, O, April II, 1867.
DEMOCRATS OF ONO: We congratulate
YOU upon the cheering political indica
fions. Our party, as it were, has passed
through a long, dark political night--so
lone and so dark that many have despair.
ed Of the dawning of the day; but at last
the night is passing away, and ray OF
light breaks through the thick darkness
eastward. In New Hampshire the Repub.
lican majority has largely fallen off. Con:
necticut nnfrlrls the Constitution and re:
cords decisive majority for the Democra-
ey-giving to the Democratic candidates
on the State ticket majority of about one
thousand, electing three out of the four
candidates for Congress, and causing the
Legislature to stand: Senate, II Republi-
cans and 10 Democrats; House, l27 Repub-
licans and ~ Democrats. At the spring
election of 1862, preceding the fall election
wherein the Democracy carried Ohio, Penn
sylvania, New York, Indiana, Illinois, New
Jersey and Delaware, Connecticut qare 10 the
Republican candidate far Governor n,ajoyitA,
of nine thousand The Senate was a unit
against the Democrats and the House stoud:
Republicans 18l; Democrats S.; being a
Republican majority of JAG on joint ballot,
against a majority of only eleven On joint
ballot now BY reference and comparison,
we find that the spring elections this year
in New York, Pennsylvania, New jersey,
Indiana, and particularly i'll Ohio, are as
much OF an improvement on the spring
elections in these States in 1862, as was the
election in Connecticut on the LIST instant
an improvement on the result in that State
in the spring OF 1862, in the fall of which
year the Democratic party triumphed SO
grandly.
We herein recognize cause for congratu-
lation and an incentive that should spur
Democrats everywhere TO the most ener-
getic effort. If our information is not faul-
ty, continuously for fourteen years did the
Democracy Of Connecticut encounter de-
feat at the polls; but, nothing daunted, be-
lieving in the righteousness of their cause,
they fought on, and they now find their re-
ward i'll a triumphant victory. They had
to encounter desperate antagOnism-intel-
lect, money, and incorporate appeals to
passion and prejudice. They have over
necticut did the Democracy of other States
can do through the same dauntless and
persistent effort. You, the Democrats of
Ohio, can do it. You have not suffered OK.
clusion from power in the State for four
teen years, as did the Democracy of Con-
necticut. You carried the State in 1862 by
a majority ranging from five to over seven
thousand, although at the preceding State
election You were defeated by majority
OF 81, 2O3-your aggregate vote in the State
being only 1874, whereas the Republi-
can aggregate vote in the State was 206,-
997 The very next year your vote for
Secretary of State was 1884, 332--an increase
OF 32,53o on the preceding year, whereas
the Republican vote for Secretary OF State
was H8,741-a falling off of 1926, as
compared with the vote of the preceding
year.
The Republican majority in the State
last fall on Secretary of State was 1866
12,507 less than it was against you in 1861,
and yet you carried the State at the ensu-
ing election triumphantly. We cite these
votes to encourage and stimulate you to an
active cooperation with US in the effort to
carry the State. Even did not the result of
the election in Connecticut and at the
municipal elections elsewhere bid us hope
for success as the reward of energetic work,
the revolutionary conduct of the Radicals
in Congress, and especially the effort of the
leaders of the Republican party here in
Ohio to drag the white man down to a
political, and thence to social equality
with the negro, should cause such repug-
nance as to arouse the pride of race in
every white man to resent SO impndent an
insult by voting upon the Republican
leaders and their candidates overwhelming
condemnation We, therefore, beseech you,
one all, so to direct your labors as to bring
about this result. 1t will require work
hard, nnceasing work, from now until the
election. Could a vote betaken tomorrow
on the question of negro suffrage, without
an appeal, pro or con, that question would
undoubtedly be overwhelmingly defeated
The advocates of that measure-and they
include all the leaders and organs of the
Republican party-intend to bring into
reqnisition every conceivable agent to Sc
cure its adoption. To be defeated it must
be fought with the same ceaseless energy
and stubborness. Every man who is OPP
posed to the establishment of an equality
Of the white and black races in this State,
and to the disfranchisement of those
soldiers who did faithful service through
out the actual continuance of the war, but
who returned home before receiving an
official discharge, must now be enlisted.
To this end, organize clubs in every town
ship in the State, disseminate Democratic
journals as extensively as possible, as well
as such publications as treat scientifically
and impartially upon the two races
Again we would congratulate you upon
the cheering indications for the Democratic
success in the fall and urge upon you the
Importance ofimmediately instituting such
measures as will Insure it beyond perad-
venture.
JOHN G. THOMPSON, Ch'm'n.
E. B. ESHEIaIAN, Secresary.