The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-10-29
NOVEMBER.
Address OE the Democratic Ea-
LiORai Committee.
The Democratic National Committee
has issued the following address:
W. Nnp- O .t.h..r % 1879


NEW YORK October %. 1868.
FELLOW CITIzESs-It Is a great privilege
and duty to address you on the eve Of the
great battle which we are to G ght, and which
is 10 decide whether the government of this
Republic is to remain four years MOI in the
hALds Of the Radical party. or whether, by
an energetic, united and last effort, you will
wrest the power from is grasp, and give Us,
under a pem0cro tic Conservative admlnistra-
tjUn, Government based upon principles Of
Justice, economy and constitutional liberty.
The issues Of the present campaign are
sel.-svideut. They appeal to the Intelligence
md patriotism Of e' cry voter in he most IN
mistakatle terms. They have been discussed
by distinguished orators ol oGr party since
the nomination Of our candidates.
What the Democratic party intend to do,
if placed in power by your suffrages, is 20 re
store reace and union to our country; to heal
the WOUNDS and sutferings caused by the re
belion to give to the people of the South
the rights to which they are entitled under
tie Constitution, and by which alone we
can bring back prosperity and quietude to
that distracted section to reduce materially
our military and naval establishments, ke; t
up now Cd an immense scale and AZ Al enor-
mons cost TO introduce into every Depart
ment OF the Government the strictest econo-
my and to deveiope by au equitable system
Of ic1posts all taxation the growing resOur-
Ces OF our country, and thus place the Fed
eral finances on a stable and solid footing,
and TO pave the way 70 gradual aud safe
return to specie payment.
We are charged by the Radical party
the party Of violence and rpatiou-whjch
for the last four yeats. to proloDg its eX st
euce. has set at nsught the Constitution and
! the fundamental principles Of our govern
ynent, that we intend revolution and the de-
/ fauce of established. he accusation is un-
founded aud absurd. 1t cannot be enter
tanned for moment by any intelligent voter
I who has the most superficial knowledge of
/ the history of his country. The Democratic
4 p5rry can proudly point to every page Of its
/ record. 1t has never violated a single obil-
CATION of the fundamental com pact by which
these United States entered into the family
| OF nations.
It's watchword in peace as IN war has been
aud will always be: The Union, the Con
stitution, and the Laws; !" and no man, or
set of men, however high they may be placed
by the suffrages Of their fellow citizens. can
ever expect 10 receive tho support Of this
! great conservative party in any Tevolutiona-
/ ~ attempt against established laws. The
! ballot brx and the supreme will Of the Amer
/ can people are the only means of redress t.
I which we look.
Fellow Democrats, you are fighting for a
good and righteous cause. You have loI
your leader a tried statesman, patriot who
| stood by the Union in the darkest hour, q
man equally beloved for purity of private
character as for his public virtues. Opposed
to you are the men who have subverted the
structure Of their own system Of set-govern
ment, viudicated to the world by more thar
half a century of prosperity and greatness
the men who have increased our enormou.
debt by profligacy and corruption unparaI
leled the men who. IL two successive Con
gresses have demonstrated their incompeten
cy to diminish our burdens by economy, O.
apportion them with equity; the men whc
have distributed our burdens, that press will
excessive weight upon the labor and indus
try of the country. by making poor mel
poorer. Opposed to you are the men VIII,
have denied, for three years of peace, Cane
will continue to deny until your votes aTres
them }, self government to the people of ter
States the men who have taken away tn
power of the Chief Magistrate to ensure
faithful execution of the laws, or commanC
the army and navy of the United States; tn
men who did their worst to expel the Presi
dent from the White House for obeyinj
faithfully the behests of your supreme law
the men who, being conscious of their crimes
dreaded 10 nave Iue OupI6ul6 COuTB OeCIdr
their quality, and therefore abridged it's ju
risdiction and slenced its voice; the me-
who have usurped and are grasping an
welding powers not possessed to-day b.
any monarch among civilized nations.
; Against these men and all their despot
purposes, which General Grant would be a
power iess to hinder as the man they electe
, four years ago has been-against these men
their crimes in the past, their nefarious de
signs on the future-you are soon to max
one final and determined onslaught. Fou
years ago we failed to expel them from pow
er, although we predicted. then, as we nov
predict, their incompetency to give the peo
pie peace declaring then. as we now declare
, the revolutionary purposes of their most act
i've leaders, who ruled the party as the,
! would ruS the country, with despotie sway