The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-26
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
Address Of tho Democratic State Committee.

AAN'AV99 VI tho OemoeIatlC SLate O0mmlttoe
70 Tie Democracy Of the State Of Nerc
JOrk:
The result of the October elections de.
monstrate5 the fact that large accessions to
the democratic party have been made since
the last congressional election in 1866.
In Indiana we have reduced the republi-
can majority from 1916 to doubtful
| claim Of 800 majority. We have done this
on the largest aggregate vote ever given in
that state, and in what Schuyler Colrax con-
fesses to be "the severest political contest
ever fought in Indiana Even by the
showing of the republicans, a further change
OF one vote in 7j0-of one eighth Of per
cent.-wouId have completed political rev.
oIuton. We have also gained one member
OF congress, aud perhaps two.
In Pennsylvania we have reduced the re
publican majority of 1866 about one halt.
A further change Of one vote in $40 would
have given US complete victory in that
great commonwealth. We have done this
N spite Of vast patronage aud means of cor.
rupuon systematic frauds, skiltully organ.
lzed by the best masters in that art and in
spite OF the unjust exclusion OF the votes Of
citizens Of Irish and German birth by a par.
ty which claims the suffrage for the negro
as natural and sacred right and practical.
y gives him supremacy over the white man
in a sarge portion Of the republic. We
have also gained several members of con.
gress. F
In Ohio, in the congressional election Just
held, we have reduced the republican ma.
Jorty more than one half-from 40, 900 to
lO,OOO-trom the congressional election of
1866, and have gained three members Of
congress.
Never has the indomitablo spirit and he.
rolc energy Of the democratic party been
more nobly manifested.
You have driven in the republicans to
their baggage wagons. You have almost
routed them.
Fellow democrats is this moment for
doubt as to what you ought to do2 Is it a |
moment in which even to be counting the |
chances of the struggle to which we are ad |
yancing2 We know that we will deserve
victory. We will resolve to attain it.
Our cause is the nobest for which men |
ever strove. We aim to restore the repub. |
lie as our fathers created it, We would pa. |
CihCate the south 1t is calumnious to say
that we would restore any form of human |
slavery. We respected the local treatment
Of local evil ; and we awaited the gradual
process of civilizing and christianizing inAu.
ences, and Of moral and material agencies,
aud would have averted civil conflict, in
which have persisted more young men ofour
1wn race than all those of the same age and
tex who were held in slavery. But we new.
er sanctioned the servItude of any human
being and we know that personal slavery
once destroyed can never nor ever ought to
le revived. We and our fathers and our
yrandtathers have stood for the Union of
hesQ states against provincial factions,
lorth and south. We sacrificed political
'ower in nearly all the states, counties, and
owns in our great middle states, in the vain
fort to avert civil strife, and when that
allied, we have shed more democratic blood
n the war, which We sought to avert and
'hIch our political adyersaries managed,
han they gave to the same cause. And, to-
ay, there gather in our ranks more many
nore-of the SCARED survivors of the com
non soldiers Ofthat war than all the repub- :
leans can boast. Those gallant veterans
IRE for paciticaton, and we are for pscfica.
NJ 20 no AOuRtI NECESSARY, 1 he / /
ln!moSltes Of war have no longer any ex. i
;nse. We want peace, We want restored
harmony We would give back selfrov. ;
rnment to all parts of our country
nd believe It can be safely DOM. we
'aut our costly ornaments reduced, now
hat they are no longer necessary. W. want
ne industry of the north revived in orJar
bat our business may be improved and onr
axes hghsned. We want labor relieved
ON the unnecessary burdens which WEIGH =
down. We want trade to be KberslirSj 1
nd all our industries to be once mora on -.
We want the prosperity for onr "
hole people which is the natural fruit Of ~
e institutions of our fathers. ~
FeIiow.citizens, it is a false caumnv that ~
desire to overthrow the pernicious system m
our adyerssries-their government by
rec or by fraud in the southern states their Il,
ipremacy Of the negro over the white citi. On
'n-by any bat the peaceful remedy of the ca
iIiotbox, We resist bv lawful and peace bv
measures the practical revolution which ST,