Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-30
.OOLUMBUs, O., THURsDAY MORNING,

oue Jot Ut aIlIIlo from LAo fullest meas.
ure of military glory to which General
Grant may be justly entitled I have
not syllable to utter as to his personal
habits. / care not what his name is or
may have been, by baptism or usage ~
know Ulysses. Grant only as the cam
didate of the revolutionary Republican
party, and the representative of its pfrin-
ciples, its policies and its purposes. We
are not choosing the ring master of a
circus, nor the niagister of a feast, nor
the keeper of the royal horses or hounds;
nor even the commanding General of our
armies to wage war; but the Chief Ex-
ecutive officer Of a great Republic, to
restore peace and prosperity through the
arts of craftsmanship; and / know Ulys-
ses s. Grant only as the symbol of ne
gro supremacy, debt, hard times, high
prices, low wages, gold without taxa
tion for the bondholder, rags and taxes
for the people, and an imperial military
despotism instead of the simple but be-
nefcent Federal Republic Of our fathers.
Beyond these, General Grant represents
nothing except the cold lava of tile burnt
out volcano of civil war. .,,z-
So much then, gentlemen, as to can
didates. And now for a moment as to
platforms. .-ui G1sI 9dI 10 TlyAi 1noE
/. 4 ~ ,-.f... PLATFORMS COMPARED. =, :
~ The Chicago Platform of 1868, ex-
ults in the labors and fruits of the last
seven years of Republican rule, and
&c -.
such as they are. The Democratic Plat
form of 1868, recurring to the original
and fundamental principles of our Gov
ernment, and proclaiming the ancient
and sound policies of the Democratic
party, under which for sixty years the
country prospered, fourished, was hap
py and became truly great, denounces
the ideas, the wrongs, the burdens and
the expressions of the present, and de-
mands change. 1t buries the dead past
with all its discords and its differences,
and goes forth to meet the living present
and the quickening future, full of the
hope and promise of better times, and
rallies to its support, ON terms of perfect
equality, every element of opposition to
the revolutionary doctrines and practices
which threaten the overthrow of both
the ideal and the actual Government
which our fathers established.
1t begins with the declaration that its
trust is in the intelligence, patriotism
and discriminating justice of the Ameri-
can people; and, however for time this
people or any other people may err, or
run into madness or folly, or do or per-
NIT deeds of outrage or injustice, yet,
under Providence, no trust is more sure
and steadfast than in the sober second
thought of an intelligent, civilized and
religious people. #fs- a..-s
1t recognizes the Constitution as the
foundation of the Government and of it's
powers, and the limitation of them, and
the sole bond of Union, and the guaran-
ty of the liberties of the people; and it
admits of no fountain of power higher
than that instrument; of no military ne
cessity' or political necessity, and Of no
pretense of public safety justifying
usurpation of power and the doing of
acts for partisan purposes, outside of the
Constitution. t7
1t accepts, as the only fixed results or
consequences of war, the indissolubility
of the Union, and the final abolition of
slavery by the voluntary action Of the
Southern States in constitutional con-
yention assembled; but proclaims that
the original theory and fact and nature
and practice of the Government as Fed
eral Union. and not an imperial republic
or legislative oligarchy, remains just as
in the beginning. i'e7 q = a3i-l
It demands the Immediate restoration
of all the States to their rights in the
Union under the Constitution, and de-
nounces the military despotisms and ne
gro Governments which reduce ten
States toterritories or provinces, and ex-
clude them from the Union except upon
terms dishonorable to them and destruc-
tive of the fundamental principles of the
Government itself. ai T5.-5
Recognizing the sublime maxim, that
to err is human, to forgive divine, it pro-
claims, in the very spirit of peace and
of true religion, universal amnesty for all
past political offenses thus putting to
the blush of shame the shallow hypoc-
risy of General Grant, who, denying
both pardon and political rights to hum
dreds of thousands of his fellow-citizens
whom more than three years ago he over
came in open battle, and delivering them
over to the domination of degraded
and british race lately their slaves, yet
impertinently proclaims, 'let us have
peace" Of him we may well say, as
said the great historian of the desola-
tors of Roman provinces, che makes a
solitude and calls it peace"
Denouncing negro equality and su-
premacy, yet, in accordance with long
established doctrine, it RENTS the regu-
lation of the elective franchise in each
State to her own citizens without inter
vention of any sort by the Federal Gov
ernment. .-a -
Rejecting the insolent dogma that a
public debt is a public blessing, it de.
mands payment of the debt as rapidly
as practicable, and, unless otherwise ex-
pressly required by law or contract, in
the lawful money-the greenback cur
rSHcy VI Ino CouutIy' oHu Iuon, III lne
spirit of true Democracy, proclaims,
"one currency for the Government and
the people, the laborer and the office
holder, the pensioner and the soldier, the
producer and the bondholder."
1t demands, further, equal taxation of
all property. Government bonds includ-
ed; revenue tariff; economy; the resto-
ration of the rightful authority of the
Judicial and Executive Departments;
equal rights for native and adopted citi-
zens both at home and abroad; the right
of expatriation, and the resubordination
of the military to the civil authority.
1t proclaims the so-called "Recon-
struction Acts" of Congress, delivering
over ten States to the sunremacv of the