The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-10

and OF equal liberty TO al. and II II American
In the same length OF time never was given to any
party 70 perform 50 many ilustrious deeds 70 asso-
ciats its name with changes so profound, 90 wide
spreading that are TO be ilustrious portion OF
future history. 1t has revived and reared again the
original doctrine Of our fathers who were In Baby.
radical doctrine Of liberty and achieved the emanci
patton Of bondmen second only to the emancipation
which Russia has given to its sers Il has rssisted
the country against them as in $780, When the South
made war II was the republican party raised the
armies and the means and carried the country.
When the South made war IL was the republican
party that raised the armies and the means and car
which the whole world, the most friendly as wel a.
the most unfrendly, feared prophesed that there
would be disaster that it would be futile but under
the direction OF the republican party that VAST
continental war achieved the objects for which
it was waged and saved the nation: The
doctrine OF the essential unity OF this American peo
pie. II has removed from further discussion whether
this people Is great nation or only temporary
tied. ir was settled under the auspices OF the
republican party. That. party has made itself
standard currency OF the world OF all the
money that was borrowed to feed the soldiers and
it, ns g na
OF commercial fidelity. (Renewed cheerso Now,
shall the work which ten years has seen thus deve-
Quoted it thus far, or Shall it be put into other
hands9 That Is the question Of to-day. Has the
party OUCH u Has lts Iuit uCSh
unsatisfying? Are we to reverse its policy or II we
pursue the policy. are we to select better leaders
and better workmen to carry IT to its inal execn-
tion9 That Is the question. II a change Is made
It must be either that the country 10 dissatisfied with
the policy OF liberty land no man will believe tnat)
or that II chooses to put the Development OF liberty
into the hands of men that viii better perform the
task than the republican party has. Tnere Is put
competitor for the place Of the republican party
and that Is the democratic party. ask you to-ngnt
has the democratic party earned the right TO admin
lister on the goods OF the republican partly HAS ].
AaAy Of Hos
in the emergency courageous and effecually wrought
victory for this land2 Now. as party
antecedently to the war with all those councils
which brought on the war; The democratic party
were in sympathy with the South and but Tor tGe
l believe, and you believe, that the South never
would have yentured into the most monstrous blum
der OF that great war; When war came sucn was
the spirit Of the democratic party that the
truly loyal members in It, and there were
found it impossible to maintain In their party
their standing and yet be true to their instincts OF
liberty, assuming the name OF war democrats Tney
posed the war either openly and frankly or insdu-
ousy and silently Give me a man that strikes fair
that takes me by the beard and says, GLOW art
thou ?'' while he smites under the fifth rib with
hidden 6e ae tne Eay BY step TspnS
STANDARDIZATION, the enrolment Of colored
men in the army, their seipr otmaot by BY
heavily on the wheels, not Of Pharoah, but OF the Is
under one pretence and another every step by which
the republican party sought to work out the problem
OF liberty during the blaze OF war; And II you were
TO select party that to carry out the great work
or rendering liberty to every man In the land II you
were to search the world over 1t seems TO me you
present,eaders less qualified to do It than the demo-
cratic party. Here on the one side stands party
%as Up G TO oy Gno ho have given
sons, who have given themselves many OF whom
have come home manned and wounded, who poured
nothing too dear for the salvation Of the nation by
liberty; and this has been their constant
aa paPy ss for ten has e
untried no expedient to undermine the cause OF
liberty, rivet the old doctrines OF oppression upon
they come before the country and claim the privilege
OF taking possession OF the government and oustng
the parable hen The bridegroom came.the Ave vIr-
gins that were wise filed their lamps with oil and
them and were ready to 60 IN Win tine bride
a lamps S have aa gone Out is too o. ate
General Grant elected But IL Is proposed BY them
in the newborn zeal Of patriotism; In their desire to
been false 10 their trust selfish and self-seeking;
that they have overslaughed the great principles OF
liberty, and that they WIN reverse the policy
they have done, declaring 1t to be un-
constitutional, revolutionary and . void. Let
elected 10 power There Is ut least this merit-they
have proposed frankly their programme. All the
States that have been brought in according to the
democratic purpose are now to be cast out again;
they are to pass again into confusion by the shock
and recoil to be turmoiled anew as II nothing had
been done. And yet for the last four years no COM
plant has been more incessant than that the
republican party were keeping out the Southern
States, and Tor their own bad purposes. Now that
they are brought in the democratic party says that
they shan't stay in; they shall go out again. They
would not receive the Southern members when they
tobo irnn clad Oatha. The raDuhlicnna
have admitted them; but the democratic party says
they shall be kept out and they shan't stay in Con-
f SsSss;a INV in the south and the machinery
working smoothly the democratic platform
nropoges to overthrow 1t ALL SUPP liant the
ppoyeernmonts and plunge again these States into
confusion, IL not into actual revolution. At least,
gentlemen there is the merit OF frankness in this
enunciation. II Is said, however, that they arc in
these states by conditions and usages which de-
stroy liberty and violate the constitution. Now
what is the nature OF these new constitutions
that exist In the Southern States, and by whom
have they been ordaineds It's Is said that
they were constitutions tlat Were framed under
time I stood in Norwich, near the old church and
ground where our Puritan fathers used to go to
were Obliged TO with their rifles and nad their
sentines standing out because the Indians proving
would perhaps Otherwise , steal upon them IN their
had raised the charge that these men were
singing psalms under the coercion OF these
men that were standing by with their riies?
here were Legislatures that were attempting
to do the work OF reconstruction. Violent men In
the South attempted TO destroy them; our army put
sentnels there TO protect them from those wild men,
Did they form the constitutions under the protection
OF the bayoneH The bayonet was q protector, not
despot. But Ii IL said these constitutions not
formed by the whole OF the people. No; they would
not have been SO good If they had. tAppiause) n
the men that had before that formed laws to
execute inquity, untaught and untamed; II the Old
plantation that had done the thinking aud the
legislation for the South for fifty years; II they had
their way to form these constitutions venture to
say they would not have been Just what they are
now. Who were they formed byS They.were formed
by the common people: very common they are down
who were the poorest. Ladies and gentlemen, there
is no class Of persons that know what they want
people who have been ground under the heel OF OPP
preston. There Is nobody that can tell the doctor
where the ache IS so wei as the man that aches.
Have they revolutonized the courtsY Have they
In any manner changed the civil procedure2 In no
whit have they changed the course Of commerce,
have these constitutions introduced monarchcal
IDEAS. The charge that has been made against them
is tnat ihnY ore eXceEaiYely demncratic. They