The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-08-05

the fullest measure of military glory to
which General Grant may be justly entitled. !
have not syllable to utter as to his per-
sonal habits. care not what ms name is or
may have been, by baptism or usage 1
know Ulysses S. Grant only as the candi. |
date of the revolutionary Republican party, /
and the representative of its principles, its
policies and its purposes We are not choos-
ing the ring master of u circus, nor the mag
lister of feast, nor the keeper of the royal |
horses or hounds, nor even the commanding
general of our armies to wage war but the
Chief Executive Officer of the Republic, to
restore peace and prosperity through the
arts of craftsmanship and know Ulysses
S. Grant only as the symbol of negro su-
premacy, debt, hard times, high prices, low
wages, gold without taxation for the bond
holders, rags and taxes for the people, and
an imperial military despotism instead of
the simple and benificent Republic of our ia
thers. Beyond these. General Grant repre-
sents nothing except the cold lava of the
burnt-out volcano of civil war.
So much then, gentlemen, as to candidates
And now for a moment as to platforms.
PLATFORMS COMPARED.
The Chicago platform of 1868, exults in
the labors and fruits of the last seven years
of Republican rule, and promises continu-
ance of its blessings, such as they are. The
Democratic Platform of 1868, recurring to
the fundamental principles of the Govern
ment, and proclaiming the ancient and sound
policies Of the Democratic party, under
which, for sixty years, the country prosper
ed, fourished was happy and became truly
great, denonnces the ideas, the wrongs, the
burdens and the expressions of the present,
and demands change 1t buries the dead
past with all its discords and 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, ev-
cry clement of opposition to the reTolutiona-
~ doctrines and practices which threaten
the overthrow of both the ideal and the actu-
nj Government which our fathers established.
IL begins with the declaration that its trust
is in the intelligence, patriotism and dis
eliminating justice of the American people !;
and however this people may for time run
into madness and folly, or do, or permit
deeds of outrage or injustice, yet, under
Providence, no trust is more sure AMI stead
fast than in the sober, second thought OF an
intelligent, civilized and religious people.
1t recognizes the Constitution as the foun-
dation of the Government and of its powers,
and the limitation of them, and the sole
bond of Union, and the guaranty of the lib
critics of the people, and it admits of no foun-
tain of power higher than that instrument ;
no ssmilitary necessity or political necessi-
ty, and no pretence of public safety justify
ing usurpation of power, and the doing OF
acts for partizan purposes, outside OF the
Constitution.
It accepts as the only liked results or con-
! sequences OF the war, the indissolubility OF
the Union, and the final abolition of slavery
by the voluntary action or the Southern
States in Constitutional Convention assem-
bled but proclaims that the original theory
and fact and nature and practice of the Coy
ernment as a Federal Union, and not an i'm
perial republic or legislative oigarchy, re-
mains just as in the beginning.
1t demands the immediate restoration OF
all the States to their rights in the UNION un'
der the Constitution, and denounces the mill
tary despotisms and negro government!
which reduce ten States to territories O
provinces, and excludes them from the I'm
ion except on terms dishonorable to them
and destructive to the Fundamental princi
pies of the Government itself.
Recognizing the sublime maxim, that Il
err is human, to forgive divine, it proclaim
in the very spirit of peace and pure religion
universal amnesty for all past political often
ses, thus putting to the blush of shame tn
shallow hypocrisy of General Grant, who
, deHying both pardon and political rights t
hundreds of thousands OF his fellow citizen
whom more than three years ago he oyer
came in open battle, and delivering ther
over to a degraded and british race latel
their slaves, yet impertinently proclaims, le
us have peace" OF him we may well say
as said the great historian of the 'desolatol
: of the Roman Provinces, she makes sol
tude and calls it peace"
: Dcnouncing negro equality and suprem'
cy, vet, in accordance with long establishe
t doctrine, it RENTS the regulation of the ele'
5 tive franchise in each State to her own cit
: zens, without intervention of any sort b
the Federal Government.
Rejecting the insolent dogma, that q pul
: | lie debt is public blessing, it demands pa
ment of the debt as readily as practicabl
and, unless otherwise expressly required L
: law or contract, in the lawful money, Il
u. greenback currency, of the country. Ar
: then in the spirit Of true Democracy, pr
claims 'one currency for the government al
: the people, the Isborer and the ofticeholde
the pensioner and the soldier, the produc
and the bOndholder."
1t demands further, equal taxation of {
y property, government bonds included
q revenue tariff !; economy the restoration
: the rightful authority of the Judicial and E
: ecutive Departments equal rights for natl
. and adopted citizens at home and abroad
a tue IlBnL OI -eA EdlIlaLOn, anu INC ICSuDO
dination of the military to the civil autho
ity. "a
: 1t proclaims the so-called 'Teconsructic
. acts" of Congress, delivering over ten Stat
to the supremacy of the negro, under go
ernments controlled by negroes, to be usu
pations, unconstitutional, revolutionary al
void.
Il To the soldier and sailor it guarantees IL
y faithful execution of every pledge given
: their favor by the Government to the az
"a ual settler it promises the public lands Al
" finally to the working men ittenders the Fl
% sympathy of the Democratic party, in tn,
4 efforts to protect the lights and promote Il
a, interests of labor and the laboring class "a
the country.
d PARTIES COMPARED. -'
g So much for the platforms in general.
d And now allow me to consider sol
1t of tha urinary and fundamental. 1i;7er,snt