The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-10-22
The Democratic Party OF Fora
t2gjs ~ meF Years. al sHt3


until this war broke out, was connected;
and if there are here men who still call
themselves Democrats, let me, in, the kind
ness Of affection, address few words to,
them. My friends, it seems to me that
the so-called. Democratic party is tramp
ling under foot all the time-honored ira
ditions of the old Democratic party. The
Democratic party, when it possessed the
confidence of our people, and for fifty years
controlled the Government, was the war
party Of this country, enphatically and by
pre1eminence. It carried this country
through the war with England it carried
this country through our contest with
Mexico; and it was because, at all times,
it stood by the old flag that the people
stood by it. Is this organization, which
is the peace party in the time of war, and
that war one for the preservation of our
F.ational life-is this party, which is now
plotting and scheming to accomplish re-
bellion in time of peace, the successor of
the old Democratic party The old Dem
ocratic party was good hard-mOney par
ty the Jackson Bentonian party was too
strongly attached to the principle of hard
cash and specie payments to have ever
entertained the thought of flooding our
country, at the close of a war for the
preservation of the Union, with two thous-
and millions of paper money in order to
practically repudiate the national debt,
inevitably destroying all exchangeable
values, bringing lamentable confusion into
all the countless departments of trade, and
widespread ruin upon our country.
''Is it this party that would pow issue
these two thousand millions Of paper
promises to pay, thus initiating the curren-
cy to such an extent that there could be
no safety for business transactions. the
successor of the old Democratic party p
The old Democratic party which | loved,
the political school in which [ was IN
strueted, was not the school, my friends,
of jeff Davis, who would DESTROY this
blessed government, our Constitution, and
our Union; but it was the Democratic
party of the God blessed old hero, Andrew
jackson, who said THE Union, by the
Eternal, must and shall be preserved
the party winch Stood by ~ jackson wien
Jackson was at war with the South Caro-
lima nullifers, who refused then, as now
to obey the laws passed by Congress. Ii
: is not new claim. on their part that Con
gress is guilty of usurpation OF power. II
has been the cry Of the Calhoun men fol
the last thirty years, ever since they
found that by immigration and natural
increase of population, of power, anu Of
wealth at the North, the sceptre was pas
sing away from their control. --
''The present is the same old nullifca
ton party that jackson fought, and tn,
Union Democrats that sustained him il
fighting them are now ready TO stand by
the Union again. How can you, my Dem
ocratic friends, reconcile it with the pas
history of the party to strike hands Will
these men, when they have sought to des
troy this Government, and to aid them il
the shameless attempt to take possession
of the honors, the offices, the emolUment
and the powers of the Government tina
! they labored in vain to overthrow and T.
: destroy.
THE old Democratic party that love-
was party that, when it proclaimed ;
) principle, adhered to it and carried it ou
to the end What is that modern party
the particularly fine, the fnical, the fault
, finding, the grumblng, the modern Zan
t tippic, the scolding, the morose, the never
l to-be satisfied party !? The Democratic
/ party that loved was the party that wa
f In favor of the utmost liberty and freedom
: for all men and in the State of NeN
York it signalized itself as early as it
: Constitutional Convention in 1921, b,
0 proposing to make the franchise equal, an
: removing the restrictions which the oil
e property qualifications had imposed upo
J, its exercise. Yet you call this party tina
! proposes not only to deprive citizens of tn
: right to vote, but also to take away froI
the poor colored citizen the only power Q
protection he has against his own destruc
e ton, and the only safeguard you have i
e the way of building up loyal States-an
{ that is the ballot given to the black MAJ
n The old Democratic party that loved Wa
e the party that put it's hand upon the hear
f of the people, acted with them, and, b.
!, lieving in them, properly reached their il
, telligence and kept in communion wit
it them, knowing, to adopt the saying {
e Martin Van Buren, that the sober secon
h thought of the people is never wrong, an
o. friends, that saying and the present col
" dition of the party. The people have bee
Al pronouncing Judgment after judgmel
- against you, until you can scarcely s;
,e that you hold in your possession the ele
ct soral vote of single State, certainly not
n single loyal State. Are you right, OF a
r the people right +? You cannot both
20 right, because the people are pronounciI
against you. Why not repent Of yo
wayward course and return z" dH
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