Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-02
THE vILLAINIEs OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.

AtN Republican mucting in Worcester, Mass
achusetts, Senator WlLsoS, after showing thni
the Republican party had the sympathy Of all
good m,n Mt home and abroad thus arraigncd
lhc Democracy
Who is It that assaulted us?
Itis the Democratic party, North and South,
Seymour and Wade Hampton Prndldtnn anl
Hib0tt Tnomhs Nallandigham and Howell
Cnbhl These are tho gentlemen who propose
~ asSGl us.
You will remember that fourteen years ago
thnre WAS mtlulNecnt i"rrinry west Of the
Missouri, cousecrdteA tn freedom. Who abrO.
gated that compact OF conscCratiun
fhe Democratic marty
Whodccuded aud ju,utol The conduct Of the
border ulliius -
The Democratic party
Who mldJ this domain slave territory, aud
when thnse who strovc TO save it for freedom
were robbed, burned and murdered, who apol-
uEiEod and defended such acts
The Dtmocthic party
Who removed Governor Rccdcr, m1io the
Lccomplou Constitution, aud indurscd the Drcd
Scott decision
The Democratic party
You will remember that In 1891, when war
WAS imminent the "Crttcndrn crmpromisc"
whS proposed, asking that slavery might be
defended south Of 80 80 that saves might he
transported AT viii through all the States, that
eiuz1nshlp should be- t,ken away from fretmcn
IN the free States, aad that free negroes he scut
uut of the slave States at the national expense.
Who was Il deicniRl thcse outrageous i, maudsG
The Democratic party
Thcu the batteries were opcned ON Fort
Sumter -ly whom?
Nv the DomucriUc party
Then followed four Years ot war AMI count.
less graves filled hy wAom
by th. Democratic pMtYl
M lt.p IA k,tt
ly the hand Of The Democratic party. Who
murdered three hunlrcd and tiNy thousand men
who Is resp uNlle
The Democratic party then, and the Demo
cratic party now
There ara thrrc hundred thouspnl besides
who are maimgd by wounds received in battle
.-wh1 did IN
Men who vcrS Democrats then, aud are Dem.
oerats n0W
Yuu will remember the time when Congress
in order to reinforce The lmnn army, was
obliged to pass an enrolment act--whn de
n0uncedit2 Who rrddtucd tho streets Or New
York With blood aud IT'S skies with the luiid
flames from the lomes oi the delcnsolesS2 ?
Tile Democratic friends or horAuo seymour
Ien and noN
Whoa It Was thought accessory 10 pass th,
legal tondiracG' who opposed itt
The Democratic party, Who, with Pcnd'etuu
talI tac ltGal tender notes went out with th
mark u Cain upon them, aud wonld carr
bankruptcy AMI ruin ia thuir train, Buthe ha
thmg,d his epininn
Who was II opposed the abolition of slavery
Tao making of the nitiuuW capital tree tn
territories free Who opposed putting bael
lnvn into the army aud making their wives an,
children irtu2 Whoopposed the constitutions
ancudmont, scouting freedom 10 the whole q
sur vile dnnan2
The Democratic party
When we got through the war aud Audrc'
JOHNSON had rsonstructed tho South and trai
tnrs IN every post "l honor aud power, VIII
applauhed his policy
The Demncrauc party
speak only what believe when say
that policy hail succeeded, repu iit;ion would
to.ldy, have been an nccnmpl saed and acli ve
fact, Tnc civil rights Till, the fourteenth con
sntutiunal amsudm,nt, thc rccnnstructiun act,
tie formation OF nee constitutions tor th
Southern States, were all opposed by the Dyn
ocrauc parry, North and Suth. And when th
Southern States were admttol J, ami the y tiou
vi Democratic Convention assembled at Ne,
YORK, ot the ls2 Southern delegates over 10
We're rebel oihccrs, as then, murc members q
leu; Davis Congress than or the Congress q
the United states, and these non assume ~ dc
clare the reconstruction acts null aud void
ms ~ only part ut the reeura of the Dem
aeratic patty | might so ON for hours extend
ing the list ol It's mjsdeeds. Therefore do ne
eomo here to defend HE Republican partr. b,
justice. n humanity, Of truth OF country,
honor of God. It's now pretending to he III
champion Of poor men. Fur fourteen Years
has done moro 10 upprcss the poor than an
othnr organic ltion under Heaven. la the on
set Of the contest there was ierritnry sufficient
large n make ;iiy Sites like your own, eor
Fecrated 10 freodnm aud open to the poor me
Of the country. The Democratic party remove
the prohibition of slavery aud admitted tli
Southern plantation system, the worst encm
ot the poor laboring men, North and South.
And what do hey prnpose nov b do2 W
have given the right ~ suffrage to 750U0O NE
az lhe south they propose 10 take Il awayi "
nave given the Southern States an opporiunt
maze lFee eonsututions--lhe propose TO tax
thsm away we pupnse 10 give { EN- FIRE
sehool systems, secured by State Constitutions
ana ,hey vote against II, and propose to ihroy
"'efoolIa an we have done, ana do il ia th
name - all % labor. Let me tell YOU tha
they wh9 wonld degrade lie laboling cla.s am
degrade labor at the South, will also degrade
hcIe
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Jea. Darla sSglcA. Soyu.egf a.d nlair.