The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-10-27
IMPORTANT ADDRESS.
FROM THEE NATIONAL DEMO-
CRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMIT
TEE.
what the Democracy Intend TO
DO il Placed I'm Power,
RADICAL MISREPRESENTATION
REpELLED.

RADICAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
REPELLED.
The Real Parties 10 the Contest.
ana the Tlue Issues knvGlyed.
NFw YORK, October 21.-The Demo
cratic Committee have issued the follow
ing address:
New YORK, October 90. 1868.
FELLow-CITIzENs: 1t is a great privi-
lcge and duty to address you on the eve
of the great battle which We are to fight,
and which is to decide whether the Gov
ernment of the Republic is to remain
four Years more III the hands Of the
Radical party. or whether, by an ener-
g2tic, united and last effort you will wrest
the power from its grasp, and give to us,
under 4 Democratic Conservative Ad-
ministration, a Government based upon
principles Of justice, economy and Con-
stitutional liberty.
The issues Of the present campaign
are self f-evident. They appeal to the in
telligence and patriotism of every voter,
in the most unmistakable terms; they
have been discussed by distinguished
orators OF our party since the nomina-
ton of our candidates. What the Dem
ocratic party intend to do if placed in
power by your sutfrages is:
TO restore peace and Union to our
country:
To heal the wounds and sufferings
caused by the rebellion;
To give to the people of the South
the rights to which they are entitled I'M
der the Constitution, and by which alone
We can bring back prosperity and quiet
to that distracted section;
TO reduce materially our military and
naval establishments, kept up now on an
| immense scale at an enormous cost:
To introduce into every department of
Government the strictest economy;
And to develop by an equitable system
of imports and taxation the growing
resources Of our country, and thus place
the Federal finances on stable and sol
id footing, and to pave the way to a
gradual and safe return to specie payment.
We are charged by the Radical party
the party of violence and usurpation
which, for the last four years, to pro-
long its existence, has set at naught the
Constitution and the fundamental prin-
ciples of our Government--that we in
tend revolution and the defiance of es-
tablished law.
The accusation is unfounded and alb
surd. 1t can not be entertained for Il
moment by any intelligent voter, who
has the most superficial knowledge OF
the history of his country. The Demo
cratic party can point to every page OF
its record. 1t has never violated a sin
gle obligation of the fundamental com
pact by which these United States enter
ed into the family Of nations. Its watch
word, in peace as in war, has been and
always will be, ''THE UNION, TIE Con
srITUT;oN AND THE LAWS" and no man
nor set Of men, however high they
might be placed by the sutfrages Of their
fellow citizens, can ever expect to receive
the support of this great conservative
party in any revolutionary attempt
against established laws. The ballot box
and the supreme will of the American
people are the only means Of redress to
which we look
Fellow-Democrats, you are fighting fol
q good and righteous cause! You have
for your leader tried statesman-a pat
riot who stood by the Union in its dark
est hour; a man equally beloved for the
purity of his private character as honor.
ed for his public virtues. Opposed tC
you are the men who have subverted the
structure Of their own system Of repre-
sentative self government, vindicated tC
the world by more than half a century Of
prosperity and greatness; the men who
have increased our enormous debt by
protiigacy and corruption unparalleled
the men who, in two successive Con
crosses have demonstrated their incom
potency to diminish our burdens by
economy or apportion with equity; The
men who have so distributed our burden:
that they press will: excessive weight up
or. the labor and industry of the coun
try, making rich men richer, by making
poor men poorer.
Opposed to you are the men who have
denied for three years Of peace-and vii
continue to deny, until your votes arres
them-self-government to the people o
ten States; the men who have takel
away the power of our Chief Magistrate
to insure a faithful execution of tn,
laws, or to command the army and navy
Of the United States; the men who die
their worst to expel the President from
the White House for obeying faithful,
the behests of your supreme law; th'
men who,' being conscious of thei
crimes, dreaded to have the Supreme
Court declare their quality, and therefor
abridged its jurisdiction and silenced it
voice the men who have usurped ant
are grasping and welding powers no
possessed to-day by any monarch anon!
civilized nations!
Against these men-their crimes il
the past-their nefarious designs in tn
future-you are soon to make one tina
and determined onslaught. Four year
ago we failed to expel them from power
!, though we predicted then, as we nov
, predict, their incompetency to give tn
, people peace; declaring them as we nov
declare the revolutionary purposes o
their most active leaders, who ruled tn
party as they would rule the country
, with despotic sway! But these fou
, years have justified our warning. Gu
worst predictions then are their enact
ments now; what we feared they hav
done; the revolution has made stead,
} progress.
, Once more we call every patriot t,
, join our ranks! If the people will no,
rise in their majesty and nigh, they cal
save their institutions, and rebuild them
If they are supine and regardless of thei
sacred interests-so much in the las
four years has been accomplished and 81
much in the next four years may easil.
be accomplished, that no obstacle vii
be remaining, that the revolution vii
IL.