Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-10-29


To that class of Democrats who
make Sham Democracy pay q divi-
deDd we make no appeal. We can
argue against doubts, but not against
dollars. But to those who vote the
Democratic ticket from some intend
ed reverence for the former PRINCIPLES
of the Democratic party: to those
who have come to believe that the
Democratic party is truly con-
seryative; to those that have
the notion that some feature
of its financial policy vrOuld
be favorable to tax-payers-tO anv
who, from honest motives, design to
vote for Seymour, we put the direct
question: Can you yourself afford to
have Seymour elected?
I. You are opposed YOU say.
" to the Congressional plan Of Recon-
stT1tctiOn.n Very well. What could
Seymour do about it If he were Presi.
dent? You had q Democratic Presi-
dent and Cabinet in Office during the
whole contest which resulted in the
abandonment of Reconstruction on
the Democratic, or White basis only.
and the substitution of the Republi-
can plan of Universal, or Negro Suf-
frage.
What, with Democratic President
in office, you could not prevent, how
would you with the aid of another
Democratic President, reverse and
undo? If with your bullrush you
could not check Niagara, how would
| you with the same weapon set it run
ming backward? The Southern
States are reconstructed on the basis
Of Universal Suffrage. Some Of them
are restored to the Union. More than
two-thirds Of Congress passed and
will maintain this policy, whoever
may be President. This majority
cannot be overcome in less than four
years. After the Blacks have voted
four years, do you hope then to dis
franchise them? Seymour as Presi-
dent, therefore, could do nothing to-
ward white Mans Government"
which Johnson has not already done,
unless, as indicated by Gen. Blair, he
should use the army, in defiance of
Congress and its laws. This would
be revolution and rebellion. You
tried these remedies under Jefferson
Davis. Do you need TO try them again |
to recall their effects? Seymour,
therefore, could avail you nothing |
whatever in the matter Of reconstrue- |
ton.
II. " You sCOstId like, +" you say, 81 to |
see tdres diminished" No tax is so !
disastrous as the depreciation of the 1
currency. Yet your Democratic party /
proposes to. convert the entire national /
debt into currency by paying it in
greenbacks. This would reduce its
value to a nominal figure or destroy
it altogether, so deranging the busi-
ness of the country as to bring ruin
on millions of people. Your Demo
cratic party would have a President
assume the rod of a dictstOr, prop
himself up by a standing army, and
defy the laws which he is sworn to en-
force. Such a course would call your
sons or yourselves again into the field
to fight, willing or unwilling, and
would drain the country of countless
millions of treasure to be destroyed in
civil wars. Can you afford it?
III. " You ddhere," (" you say, to
the ancient principles Of the Demo
cratic party" If so, that forms the
most conclusive reason why you
ought not to support its present plat
form and candidates. The Democrat
ic party believed anciently in a specie
currency. Now, it would flood the
country with irredeemable paper mon
ey. 1t believed ancIently in free
trade. Now its platform contains an
insecure and hypOcritical clause ad-
vOcating protective tariff, put in to
catch gudgeOns in Pennsylvania. It
was jealous anciently of a despOtic
Executive, and labOred to maintain
the liberties of the people, and the
power of their representatives. Now
it indorses one President for attempt
ing to override Congress, and nOmi-
mates another on his promise to re-
peat the effort.
The Democratic party was formerly ,
Jealous to preserve the rights OF States.
But if that question is in any way in
vOIved in this contest, the Democrat
ic party is on the Federalist side Of
the controversy. It acknowledges
the power of a President of the Unit
ed States to annul and destroy ten /,
State Governments, some Of which
existed from the formation of the I'm
ion, and to substitute for them new
dictated by himself,
without any authority of law. What
power can be more Federalistic, more |,
of State rights, or more
and despOtic? 1t then de-
MES the power of Congress to enable
bV law the whole people of
these States to form State Govern
ments Of their own, based on univer-
sal suffrage. What doctrine can be
more fragrant Federalism or more sub
versive of State rights than that
President may create ten new States
without consulting the representatives
of the other twenty-seven, or any
portion of the people?
Finally, the Democratic party was
anciently the party of Universal Suf-
frage. Noah Webster, himself a Dem
Ocrat, forty years ago defied a Demo
crat to be zone who advocates the
extension of the elective franchise to
all conditions of men, But the De- !
of to-day rests solely on the /,
hobby of the exclusion of a whole
race of native born citizens Of Ameri-
ca from the franchise. What princi-
pie of Democracy can inhere in par
ty which, abandoning State rights and
sovereignty, sustains the most
despOtie usurpatiOns by the Executive
of legislative powers? what in party
that abhOrs universal suffrage and
clings to caste? what in a party that
advocates protective tariffs in Penn
sylvania and free trade in Maine
that substitutes for the will Of the ma
jOrity the threat Of revolution? Ev-
cry Democrat who believes IN the sue
cess of time-hOnOred Democratic prIn-
ciples should vote for Granta and COlfaX.
N. 7. Tribune.
We learn that Hon. John A. Hell
man, tour candidate for Presidential
ElectOr) lost by fire on Friday, 9th,
all his grain and hay stacks, stabling,