Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-10-31
WHICH.

fairs, will have been fought. Tuesday next
November Sd, is the day upon which the
most momentous political struggle the Amer
lean people were ever engaged in, will be de-
eided at the ballot box. and upon the issue
hangs the future welfare of our common
country. But two parties have entered the
lists for the supremacy-theU Union Republi-
can and the so-called Democratic. Each
organization has its platform of principles
its candidates and its record. In every re.
spect-in the line of policy marked out for
the future, the position occupied at present,
and the history of the past, the parties are
diametrically antagonistical. One is the par
ty of progress. peace, justice, equality and
liberty, the other that of anarchy. despotism,
dishonesty and revolution. We contend tha,
the platform of the so-called Democratic
party is practically declaration of wa,
against the restored States, is dangerous to
the peace and prosperity of the nation and
II its doctrines are ever carried into effect,
would destroy our credit both at home and
abroad; that its measures were proposed and
policy dictated by those who have been in
open rebellion against the Government and
in whose hearts fierce hatred of our free in
stitutions is only cloaked for ulterior de-
signs; that it favors reputation, synonym
for national dishonor; that it declares the
Reconstruction Acts of Congress null and
VOID" and insists that the control of the re-
constructed States shall be again placed in
the hands of the rebels that in fact, it vir-
tually promises to undo all that the war did,
SO far as the great cause of human rights is
concerned; that it proposes a deliberate
b.each of the National faith by taxation Of
Government securities which were issued
with the express understanding that they
were ever to be exempt. Such are some of
the beauties of the Democratic PLATFORM
The candidates of the party are fit exponents
of its doctrines. Horatio Seymour is not
nor never-was loyal man. From the COM
mencement of the rebellion until its suppress
sion, his sympathies, his hopes, and his
prayers, were on the side of the enemies of
his country, and he is now the nominee of
Southern traitors, standing upon a disloyal
platform. While holding official position he
did not one patriotic act, never evinced alac-
rity, cordiality or warmth in his support of
the Government. His obedience to its re-
quirements was simply a cold acknowledge
ment of its supremacy, prompted by fear
and selfish policy, Their candidate for
Vice President, F. p. Blair, has publicly de-
clared that if elected, he will disperse the
State Governments of the South by force.
Once an abolitlon;st, then Federal butch
er.' now traitor, he is fit subject to lead
the Democratic hosts to the ballot box, then
if successful, to the battle field.
On the other hand, the platform of the
National Republican party guarantees equal
rights. justice and freedom to all; it favors
the payment of the Indebtedness to the ut
termost farthlng in strict conformity with
the meaning of the contract; it declares that
the seeded States must be reconstructed in
accordance with the wishes of the loyal men
who saved the nation. and that the heca-
tombs of victims offered up to the Moloch,
treason, shall not have been sacrificed in
vain; it guarantees protection to the Amer
ican citizen, native born and naturalized, at
home and abroad: it expresses a desire to
preserve invio!ate the National faith regard
ing the taxation of Government securities,
favors the reduction of taxation, and prom
ises to secure the future prosperity, advance
ment and peace of the nation. AS its candi-
dates, the party of progress presents the
names of the nations most illustrious citi-
zens-men whose patriotism, ability and in
tegrity are not called in question, even by
their opponents-General Ulysses S. Grant
and Schuyler Colfax. No recapitulation Of
their acts Is necessary. Their lives form q
portion of the history of the nation, and are
loyal men.
Voters OF California, which will you sup
ports The party which promises peace and
an undivided nationality. or that which is
pledged to plunge US again into war, and
will place tie country once more under the
control of rebels If you choose the former,
vote for Grant and Colfax.