The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-08-15
Coming Over.

In every part Of the country honest
Republicans are deserting their party and
esPousing the cause of Democracy. Even
the politicians of that party, in anticipa-
ton of defeat and in alarm at the ad =
vanced revolutionary position they oc-
cupy, are stopping to think, and many
are beginning to speak in favor of the
party of the constitution and the laws.
Hon. Franklin It. Backus, of Ohio, has
been a lifelong opponent of the Dcmoc-
racy. In 1862 he was the Republican
candidate for Supreme Judge in that
State. He is a man of decided ability
and of unblemished character. On the
evening following the nomination of
Seymour and Blair there was largo
ratification meeting at Cleveland. At
this meeting Alr. Backus declared him
self a Democrat in the following admira-
bic speech
The last time attempted to address
crowd from this balcony, it was on the
occasion of meeting held under the
same flag that floats yonder. The meet
ing was held in gloomy hour of our
hepublIc. 1t was at 4 time when trea-
sons brazen front was erect, and when
thfSouth was arrayed in armed resist
aSte to the government Of our Revolu-
tlonary fathers who gave us all we were
proud to own. On that night you rallied.
and sent your brothers and sons TO the
tented field, to maintain those institn-
tlons. You rallied in your strength. and
IN the providence of God, were sHeeos-.
ful in upholding the far - -sfc- J, :, -
and we hoped s~e Pfcscrying ontAOb5u-
t,t;o1 for Us and descendants. But,
lark as was 6eet RRTE gEite vi e. as dark an
and whether the ,sl.e,.. - ii .-i'lenI now
I'd, or whether we are 10 have eteFuaI
night, depends on the success Of the
80 sealRblRastea bas to-day.
mo met to mouth Fov ( ,,u fellow Demo
tury / have been trained as kep~.lo lor
can: and it comes hard for me TO desiss
nate myself as a Democrat; but when
treason at the South has been crushed,
and treason rises up at the North, after
the flag has foated in triumph over re-
beiSon, when, for the unholy purposes
of the party in power, the Union has
been kept assunder-the Union that all
fought for, only to have it prove an
iqpaus fatuats; when one third Of the I'm
ion to-day is subject to a power, in time
of peace, unrecognized by the Constitu-
tion-not to secure victory, not to render
the triumph of the flag triumph for all
time, but for the selfish purpose of pre-
serving in perpetuity the power OF a
party unfit to WELD it when, al these
years that party has been laboring, not
to heal sectional wounds and the bitter
ness engendered by war, but to see by
what assumptions of power they prevent
the South from coming back as Demo-
cratic States, and thus keep in place the
party that is rioting in spoils-I say,
when such conditions have existed for
three years, he that would stammer in
pronouncing himself Democrat-whose
party is the only one to which we can
look for succor from these woes-is no
man for the times. And say tonight
what / have said before, that l stand
here a Democrat Democrat as deiin-
ed in the platform of the New York
Convention. l am willing to fight un-
der the banner of the Democracy, and,
God willing, we will achieve victory.
TCkeers.