The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-08-18

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The speech opens out With short
sketch OF the greatness Of America and
the American people. It then arraigns
the Republican party for high crimes
and misdemeanor Of various kinds. The
Gentleman closes his arraignments with
these words: 81 charge upon it that it
has had absolute power for seven years,
and to day it has Gone all that was in
the power of the party to destroy our
government and bankrupt the people"
I make this extract simply for the pur
pose of showing TO all who read, into
what lengths party strife will lead men
Here is man, who, two months ago
was prominent candidate for the Pres
idency, and now for the mere pretense
Of gaining votes and making fine
speech, tells to twenty thousand people
what he knows to be wide Of the truth;
as the history Of the last seven years
will prove, as also will the present posi-
ton Of our party. He then proceeds to
slight sketch of the Democratic party,
beginning: 'sThe Democratic party, my
friends, is q colossal figure in the history
of the United States;'' and ending; "But
the Democratic party, like the tabled
giant Of old, whenever he was thrown
to his mother earth, sprang up again
with renewed vigor from the touch"
It had best been compared with an aero
bat in country circus, doing vaiorous
deeds Of ground and lofty tumbling.
For this party once advocated hard
money. At ore time it was the hard
money party. Naught but gold and sid
yer would satisfy it. During the war
Mr. Vallandigham used to carry in one
hand a twenty dellar gold piece and in
the other tattered greenback, exhibit
ing them to ad,niring crowds at the
hustings as symbols of the two parties;
tie former Of the Democratic, the latter
of the Republican party. "a"
Now very respectable majority have
been led captive by the greenback they
used to despise In 1848 it was the
Free Soil party. A little later it passed
the Fugitive Slave Law to be part Of
the law Of the land. Then follows
short history Of the Republican party,
which, though longer than his history of
HIS party, is marked by so many the
more errors. He says it was formed
from the fragments OF the old Wing
party, as if that was disgrace to begin
with. He does not seem TO know that
the only hope Of the Democratic party
lay in nominating Judge Chase on his
platform, and then casting behind them
all their former rebelliops record. He
says it was formed Of all ,"the bigoted,
the fanatica1, of those who hated the
Governme nt,' and "the Constitution"
In regard to the bigotcd and fanatical
charge, l can only say that almost all
the scholars, and eminent men in all the
ranks Of science, almost all the minis
tiers Of the gospel, almost all the mem
8 bers of our college faculties, and almost
all the teachers of all kinds are Repub
licans. In regard to our hatred of the
Government, ask the gentleman to
point out such scene enacted by the
Republican party as that of the late &c
bellion, whose objects was for the sub
version Of the government, the Consti
tuition, Of every sentiment of liberty and
advancement, Of every hope of the op
preston in all nations of the globe, and
fifty styled the Democratic Rebellion. Can
the gentleman point to a Republican
who lowered himself to the level of the
murderer, and murdered President in
cold blood? Gail US bigoted and fanat
ical, forsooth! Then the gentleman
gives the Republican party credit for
the troubles in Kansas and the John
Brown raid, saying that they were the
logical sequence Of the principles Of the
Republican party. He forgets. lie.
does not remember that the territories
of Kansas and Nebraska were thrown
open to slavery and freedom of squatter
sovereignty; that bogus voters from
Missouri focked into the territory by
droves and drove the legal voters from
the polls; that the free state men were
forced to take up arms in self defence,
and that they were neverthe aggressors.
But the Border Ruffians were from the
South-the South can do no wrong
The way to avoid bloodshed is to sub
NIT to Southern tyranny, say the Dem >
ocrats. He also forgets, that after the
tragical close Of the gohn Brown raid,
the Democracy left no stone unturned
in their frantic search after something
to implicate the Republicans in it: but
the efforts were in vain. They found
nothing, because there was nothing to
find Yet John Browns soul Is march