The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-09-03
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Its Vlllalnes Exposed -ElOQuent Ar
raignment by Senator Wilson.


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At a Republican meeting in wor
ccster, Massachusetts,, on FRIDAY
night, Senator Wilson, after shown,
that the Republican party had tn,
sympathy of all good men at home
aud abroad, be thus Rrraigncd tn,
Democracy;
Who is itthnt assaulted us1 Iii
the Democratic party, North ant
South, Seymour aud Wade Hampton
Pendleton aud Robert Toombs! Val
landigham and Howell Cobb These
are the gentlemen who propose tC
assail US.
You will remember that fourteen
years ago there was = magnificent
territory west Of the Missouri, CON
secratod to freedom. Who abrogat
ed that compact Of conservation The
Democratic party Who defended
aud justified the conduct Of the "bor.
der rufians ?" The Democratic par
ty Who made this domain slave
territory, and when those who strove
to save it for freedom were robbed
burned and murdered2 Who apollo
gized and defended such acts ? The
Democratic partyl Who removed
Gov. Reeder, made the Lecompton
Constitution, aud endorsed the bred
Scott decisiou2 The Democratic
partyl You will remember that iu
1861, when war was imminent, the
Crittenden compromise" was pro-
posed, asking that slavery might be
dcfouded south of SO 80, that slaves
might be transported at will through
all the States, that citizenship should
be taken away from freemen in the
free States, and that free negroes be
sent out Of the slave States at the
national expense. Who was il that
defended these outrageous demands
The Democratic party Then the
batteries were opened on Fort Sum :
ter-by whom? BY the Democratic
party! Then followed four years Of
war and countless graves by whomi
By the Democratic party Not one
loyal soldier went to his long rest but
by the hand of the Democratic party
Who murdered three hundred and
fifty thousand msn-who is respon
sible? The Democratic party then
and the Democratic party now
There arc three hundred thousand
besides who are manned by wounds
received in battle--who did it ? Men
who were Democrats then, and are
Democrats now You will remem-
Der the time when Congress, in order
to re.cuforce the Union army, was
obliged to pass an enrolment act
who denounced it2 Who reddeDed
the streets Of New York City with
blood and its skies with the lurid
flames from the homes Of the defense
less2 The Democratic friends OF
Horatio Seymour then and now
When it was thought necessary tC
pass the illegal tender act" who op,
posed it The Democratic party,
who, with Pendleton, said the lega
tender notes went out with the mark
of Cain upon them, an d would carry
bankruptcy aud ruin in their train
But he has changed his opinion
Who was it opposed the abolition
of slavery, the making Of the nation
al capital free-the territories free
Who opposed the constitutional a.
mcndment, securing freedom to the
whole of our wide domain ? The
Democratic party! When we got
constructed the South with traitors
in every post OF honor aud power, who
applauded his policyp The Demo-
cratic party speak only what
believe when say if that policy had
succeeded, reputation would, to-day
have been an accomplished and
achieved fact. The civil rights bill
the fourteenth constitutional amend
ment, the reconstruction acts, tho
formation of free constitutions fol
the Southern States, were all opposed
By the Democratic party North anC
South. Aud when the Southern
States we're admitted, and the Ma
tional Democratic Convention assem-.
bled at New York, of the 1872 South
ern delegates over 100 were rebe
officers, as then, more members O.
JEFF. Davis Congress than of tho
Congress Of the United States, ant
these men assume to declare recon
struction acts null and void
This is only part Of the recori o.
the Democratic party; l might 60 OIL
for hours extending the list Of it,
misdeeds. Therefore l do not come
here to defend the Republican party,
but TO assail the Democratic party
as the enemy of justice, ofhum anity
of truth, of country, Of honor. of God
It..is nov pretending tobe the champ
pion Of poor men. For fourteen year.
it has done more to oppress tn,
poor than any other organization
under Heaven. In the outset o.
the contest there was territory suf
6ciently large to make fifty States
ike your owD, consecrated to free
dom and open TO poor men Of the
country. The Democratic party re-
moved this prohibition of slavery aBC
admitted tho Southern plantation
system, the worst enemy of the poo
laboring man, North and South.
And what do they propose now t.
do2 We have given the rights ol
suffrage to 100000 men Of the Soutl
they propose to take them away
we have given tho Southern Statei
an opportunity TO make free consti
tutiOns--tbey propose to take then
away; wa propose to them fire.,
school systems, secured by Stat,
Consultations, and they vote agains
ii, aud propose to throw oVsEbosrt
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