The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-04-24
GENERALIZATION ADDREs s
THE
Democratic Executive Committee.
DEMOCRATIC tx. COMMITTEE Rooms, !
COLUMBUS, O.. April IL, 1867.

DEMOCRATIC tx COMMITTEE Rooms,
COLUMBUS, o.. April IL, 1867.
DEMOCRATS OF OHIo:-Ee congratulate
you upon the cheering political Indications.
Our party, as it were, has passed through a
long, dark. political night-so long and so
dark, that many have despaired OF the
dawning of day; but at last the night is
RAISING away, and ray of light through
the thick darkness eastward In New
Hampshire the Republican majority has
largely ia len of. Connecticut unfurls tn Q
Constitution aud records decisive majority
for the Democracy-giving to the Democratic
candidates on the State ticket majority of
about one thousand, electing three out of
IL four candidates for Congress, and causing
the Legislature to stand: Senate, II Repub-
l;cans and 10 Democrats: House, l27 Repub-
licans and III Democrats. At the spring
election of 1862, preceding the fall election
wherein the Democracy carried Ohio, Penn
sylvania, New York, Indiana, illinois, New
Jersey AMI Delaware, Connecticut gare to
The Republican candidate for Goranor a
majority Of nine thousand. The Senate was
unit against the Democrats and the House
stood. Republicans 1Sl; Democrats Sc;
being a Republican majority of LAG on joint
ballot, against a majority OF only eleven on
joint ballot now. By reference and compa-
rison, we find that the spring elections this
year in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey, Indiana, and particularly in Ohio, are
as much of an Improvement On the sering
elections in these States in 1862, as was the
elections IN Connecticut on the lSt instant
an improvement on the result in that State
in the spring of lS62,i the fall of which
year the Democratic party triumphed So
grandly.
We herein recognize cause forcongratula-
ton and an incentive that should spur
Democrats everywhere to the most emerge.
tic effort. | our information is not faulty,
continuously Tor fourteen years did the
Democracy of Connecticut encounter defeat
at the polls; but, nothing daunted believing
in the Righteousness of their cause, they
fought on, and they now find their reward
in triumphant victory. They had to en-
counter desperate ntagonism-intellect,
money, and intemperate appeals to passion
and prejudice. They have overcome all!
What the Democracy in Connecticut did the
Democracy of other States can do through
the same dauntlcss and persistent effort.
You, the Democrats of Ohio, can do it.
You have not suffered exclusion from power
in the State for fourteen years, as did the
Democracy of Connecticut. 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 55, 203-your
aggregate vote in the State being only l57,-
794, whereas the Republican aggregate vote
in the State was 206,997. The very next
year your vote for Secretary of State was
1874, 332-an increascof 32,53S on the prece-
ding year, whereas the Republican vote for
Secretary of State was IFS, ,14l-a falling
off of 2S, 256 as compared with the vote Of
the preceding year.
The Republican majority in the State last
fall on Secretary of State was ~, 696-12, 5O7
less than it was against you in 1861, and yet
you carried the State at the ensuing election
triumphantly. We cite these votes to en-
courage and stimulate you to an active CO.
operation 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 rev.
olutionary conduct of the Radicals in Con-
gress, and especially the eoffrt 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,
shold ueause such repugnance as to arouse
the pride of race in every white man to
resent so impudent an insult by voting upon
the Republican leaders and their candidates
overwhelming condemnation.
We therefore beseech you, one and all so
to direct your labors as to bring about this
result. 1t will require work-hard uncsasing
work, from now until the election. Could
vote be taken tomorrow on the question
Of negro sutfrsgA, without an appeal, 32ro
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 requisiton every con
eeivable agent to secure its adoption. To
be defeated it must be fought with the sam G
ceaseless energy and stubbornness. Every
man who is opposed to the establishment of
an equality Of the white and black races in
this State, and to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
those soldiers who did faithful service
throughout 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
journal as extensively as possible, as we'll
as such publications as treat scientifically
and impartialy upon the two races.
Again we would congratulate you upon
the cheering indication for Democratic sue
cess in the fall, and urge upon you the i'm
portance Of Immediately instituting such
measures as will insure it beyond peradven-
turc.
JOHN G. THOMPSON, Chm.
b. B. EsHELMAN, Sec'y.
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