Elizabeth daily monitor., 1868-10-16
FRIDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1868.


tizanships as we'll as from progressive
principles the Republican party carried
negro suffrage in the South, now so
much intensified by Democratic ora
tors, who take advantage of the proud
feeling inherent in you, that you par
ticularly are about to be equalized with
the negro. No, fellow countrymen, no
more than the President of the United
States. To-day it is negro suffrage,
yesterday it was negro emancipation.
How cordially all parties now agree on
the latter question Notwithstanding all
protests and denunciations. Edmund
Burke, the greatest of Irish orators and
statesmen, in the British House of
Commons, proclaimed, Freedom to
the slave" whose Phillipies against
British aggression towards the Ameri-
can colonies remain unanswered, whose
name is endeared to the American peo-
pie. and who almost, prophetically
prognosticated the events of the day.
Daniel O'Connell, the great Irish Lib
orator, who, struck off our claims un-
holy" with his colleagues and associ-
ates in the legislatives halls, were
staunch advocates of universal emanci-
patton, civil and religious liberty. Is
| ~ oil to, II.
aspirations, when we
| "Flee from the hand that bore u.s.
And leave the chains that gored u.s.
to assume new and different vote, in
this western Eden, made so by boun-
tiful Providence, wise legislation and
the sturdy arms of her invincible yeo-
manry, and which affords us an asylum
for our poverty, proceed no matter
from what cause. We must have for
gotten centuries of murder, rapine and
extermination, when we become the
oppressors of the oppressed to refuse
to do justice to all mankind, ''to do un-
w oOllCIo, do VIC MOiI1 uOb udN6 Outlets
to do unto us.
1t is true, there has been o time
when Democracy was the opposite of
arlstocracy, our own, our forefathers,
our loved but abandoned country's he
reditary prosecutor. We dreaded aris-
tocratie ascendancy. The conceded hos
tility of Democratic principles to Eng
lish intrigue and assumptions, found in
us warm expansive sentiments, and the
moment we stepped on shore we were
Democrats, but Democracy in the days
of Andrew Jackson is very different to
the Cracy in the day of Andrew John
son. The former, its principles were
broad, national and we'll defined, the
latter seemingly makeshift, hanging
on to the skirts of radical legislation,
with the view of finding something to
sound the toscin of Alama, "that the
rights of citizens are invaded, the Con-
stitution violated, and that if the peo-
pie will not rise en- nnsSe and hurl the
usurping power out, the sun of liberty
has sank beneath the horizon of civili-
zation to rise nos more on terra f1md
Cannon, all for party purposes The
Republican party has as much solicitude
for the happiness of the people, the
perpetuation of united republic, and
our liberties unimpaired as the Demo
cratic party can have, no matter what
superior patriotism it claims One is
as firm in the belief that the policy
presented is the only one that can bring
peace, happiness and prosperity on the
land, as the other. One is progressive,
the other stationery.
In conclusion, fellow countrymen, l
earnestly and strongly recommend. to
make yourselves familiar with the is
sues presented, let not your fears coun-
Gil you, no party associations deter or
coerce you, but vote according to the
intelligence acquired, and you will dis
charge your duty to God and man, for
our first duty we owe to God, and next
to our country.
Your humble but loving countryman,
AN OssoRoNIAN.
CoLIIsIoN. five o'clock this morn