The Portland daily press., 1868-04-17
The Democratic Platform.

Mr.. August Belmont is "as rich as a jew"
the agent of the Rothschlds in America, and
Chairman of the Democratic National Com
mittee. He has lately addressed a communi-
cation to the members of the Committee, to
which reference has heretofore been made in
our telegraphic columns. 1t is significant as
an indication Of what Eastern Democrats re-
gard as proper platform for the coming
campaign. Mr.. Belmont says:
l hope you will lose no time, in order to
cause such measures to be taken in your State
as will bring to our aid in the contest before
us the combined strength of all those who are
opposed to Congressional usurpation and ne
gro supremacy, and wao wish the restoration
OF peace and unity between all the sections of
our common country
The New York World endorses this plat
form and its three pretended declarations;
namely, opposition to negro suffrage and to
Congress, and advocacy of the immediate ad-
mission OF the Southern States. But in fact
there is but one principle set out in the whole
paragraph, and this is expressed more intelli-
gibly in the pet Democratic phrase, "a white
mans government" That is the substance of
split up into three parts to make it more i'm
posing. The ''usurpation" OF Congress means
the establishment OF righteousness in the
Southern States by giving the black patriot
ballot as well as the white rebel. 'Negro SUI
premacy" means the same thing.
| 1t is upon this narrow, obsolete, barbarous
| dogma, medieval in its form and devilish in
its spirit, that {" the great Democratic party
| hopes to carry All election in a civilized coun-
try in the year 1868. All the addition that
will be made is the possible insertion of a
greenback plank for the satisfaction of the
Western brethren who are afflicted with that
mania. We say the possible insertion, because
the New York and New England members OF
the party do not subscribe to the Pendleton-
ian financial creed, and are supposed to have
| proved their conGrolling influence in the par
| ty by having the convention called at New
York instead OF some Western city. So, for
the sake of harmony, it is probable that the
currency question will be waived altogether,
| and that Belmont's declaration of faith will
be adopted as truthful exposition of the
aims and purposes of the so-called Demo-
cacy.
| This is white mans governmentw To
| place those words side by side with the word
democracy" is a strange colocaton. II
would be hard to find six other words in the
language which taken together form dec
laration that so completely embodies the
worst and most stupid and irrational doc
trines of aristocracy. There are forms o
aristocracy not wholly lacking in intelligibi.
ity. Founded ON wealth or intellect or socia
standing, an aristocracy is susceptible of ex.
PLANTATION if not of justification. In compar
ison with this white-man" aristocracy al
other forms that now exist or of which histo
ry gives any account were of infinite breadth
and liberality. Wealth is possible indication
OF the existence of brains either in the pos
SCISSOR thereof or in his ancestors, and vet an
aristocracy of wealth deservedly rests under
universal reproach. But a white skin, which
is now to be the sole criterion of merit, indi
Gates the existence of even toerable intellect
ual development neither in any individual
nor in his ancestors. The white skin anC
the feeble mind may have come down through
generations of nobodes to the final, resultan
nobody of 1868 who acrogates to himself the
control of the American government.
1t is fortunate for the Republican party but
unfortunate for the American people, that
this monstrous doctrine is to be the shibbo
leth of The opposition party during the pres
ent campaign. 1t is another morbid out
growth of American civilization, marring it
otherwise fair proportions, like Mormonisu
and the many alterations of religious and po
litical feeling observed by Hepworth DixoI
and other foreigners who have travelled il
this country.