American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-06-26
The Democratic State Platform.

! II new tutpIy VI lle IemdThdOte
GOODNESS of the season were needed, we
respectfully suggest that plausible one
might be constructed on the ground Of
the approach of the Democratic Conven-
tion and its comicalty cool platform
! That party which has been traditionally
| opposed to a Protective Tariff law, party
| that has had the varied experience of
both standing and falling, of success and
Edefaat for its support of free trade, should
! denJunce the Republican party for the
failure If the Ttarilf law in the last Con> 4
'sress certainly proves, ifit proves moth
! ing else, that whatever OF sterling mas
Itetial the Democracy has lost Of fate
years, it keeps It's stock OF s.certain bascr
metal undminished The Tariff, often
test question on which the two parties
have divided, has beeu invariably sup
ported by the Republican party and op.
tposed by the Democratic, the few excep.
tions being easily accounted for by the
predominance of local considerations.
And the specific matter of proposition
in the Senate oil Pennsylvania 90 longer
ago than last winter, to instruct our rep
.
sage of the Tariff law, the, actien and
vote o. the Democratic members we're
opposed to the proposition. Once, we
| are aware, as an election ttick-admitted
to be such after electon-a banner was
paraded in some c0uRfies of this State,
purporting that the Democratic party was
in favor Of the tariff Of 1872 But the
c5nyeuton's dendnciation Of the Repub
lican party on Tuesday last, is trick of
brass that quite outshines the former one. ).
Again, the Democratic convention as
sumes a martial tone and says, it Twill
resist to the last resort the threatened
! measures Of the Republican party in the
elective franchise in Pennsylvania"
his fierce attitude is taken against
man of straw set up By the Convention
itself. No threat has been made and no
measure proposed by the Republicans,
touching the elective franchise in Penn
sylvania If the bugbcar of negro suf-
lrage is referred to, as we presume it is,
every person of average sense and infor-
aatiUn knows that this is not, has not
been, and during the coming canvass.
cl not be madea subject at issue between
ihe parties, 1t can only be Approached
under proposition to amend the Gon.
stltuioa OF the State on the suffrage
question, aud any amendment is PIE,
cludeG Tor a dCfinite time, far enough in
the future tc carry it beyond the next
| election The negro Suffrage question
is used therefore by this grave State
Convention merely for the usual purposes
answered by bugbears and scare crows
As to another point in this extraordi-
nary platform Of the Democracy the
feature Of the reconstruction plan that
admits the freed people of color ID the
right of sult'rage--it issuiicieut to say.
as 1t Is gratifying to knowNhat the wiser
men Of the South, who are certainly as
good judges as the mass of the Northern
Democrats, are approving the manner of.
| reconstruction that embraces negro
suffrage, white at the same time they are
declining the couns5ls, the sympathes
and most mortlfying Of all, even the
party alliance of the Northern Democrats
General Lbngstreet says, in express and
highly significant words, that, " the
south has no, interest with the Demos
cratic party, because of its opposition to
negro suffrage" Similar sentiments have
beeu expressedaby others ag iJ 5|E
% Norris il surprising chat suet senti-
mant should gain ground among the
Sluthern people, as they perceive the
true beariagof the Republican p5iicy on
] their restoration to lheir normal co1di-
ton in the Z nion, and or the recupsra
ton and prosperity Of their physical af,
fairs. And that feeling vii OF course
become more extended AMI influential in
the same quarters when it is seen hat
the policy Of the Democratic party simply
regards the eSOuthern people as make
weights aud auxiliaries to it. This idea
cropped out distinctly in the speech of
Hon. w. A. Wallace in opening the
Convention, describing the enterprise and
purpose OF the purity as doing battle for
the sceptre Of dominion,
1t is a strange position FOR party to
take. II anything coula demonstrate the
torloIn condition of the party as to all
live questions of public policy, its own
platform does it most f5rcibly. 1t pro
poses issues that are not born, as well as
hose That are dead 1t courts the South
by deuouneing what the South has de-
cided to accept, and seeks a fellowship Of
partisanship with the Southern people,
while they are wisely and honestly re-
fasiug 1t 1t cour rts the american work
ihgman. by preteuce that he knows to
ibe untrue, and eudeayors 10 throw the
deserved odium of the Democratic hos
tiliiy to protective tariff on the Repub
liean party which is an1 has been its
only true friend Il Pr Oomu,erciat.
L t.fI fIns. --------As--- s---<s---s-s-- .1
NEVER KISSED A White GIRL.--
Some time ago planter a short distance
from Memphis glvc party to-the young
folks in the neiehbbrhOoi6 It1was a gay
one and in the epnrse OF the everiDg the
boys and girls paid lor.eits. While this
was going on: It CHANGED that the son of
the planter, nice, modest f5llow had to
eiaihi forfeit of some Of the girls, but
he was oveTcomo with diffiGence. 'Bo
ahead, John, said the planter, and kiss
some Of the girls John hitehed from
one foot to the other blushed, and finally
| biurted out IL never kissed a white