The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-10-30
Misrflla
NOVEMBER.
Asdgtss Ct IL: Democratic National Com
m!tteo to tho Conservative Citizens
Of tho United States.
Cur HdaHs iRGrOkeN-Our Courage In.
Gbdtod--Oncc More to the Breach
and This Time Victory!
NEW YORK, oCroBsR 20.


! FELLOW CITIZENS 1t is privilege
and duty to address you on the eve Of
/ the great battle which we are to fight,
and which is to decide whether the gov
ernmcnt Of this Republic is to remain
four years more in the hands OF the
Radical party, or whether by an ener-
getic, united, and last effort you will
wrcst the power from its grasp, and
give to us, under Democratic Conserv-
ativc administration, IA government
based upon principles of justice, econo-
my, and constitutional liberty.
The issues Of the present campaign
are plain and self-evident. They ap-
peal to the intelligence and patriotism
of every voter in the most unmistaka-
bic terms. They have been ably di.
cussed by distinguished orators and
leaders of our party since the nomiDa-
tion of our candidates.
What the Democratic party intends
to do, ifplaeed in power by your sufr-
RACES, is to restore peace and union to
our country; to heal the wounds and
sntTerings caused by the rebellion to
give to the people Of the South the
! rights to which they are entitled under
the Constitution, and by which alone
we can bring back prosperity and quiet
TO that distracted section; to reduce
materially our military and naval cs-
adjustments, kept up now ON an i'm
Ia. n,a1 of -
to introduce into every department Of
government the strictest economy, and
to develop, by an equitable system Of
impO'ts and taxation, the growing re-
/ the Federal finances on IA solid and sta
BILE footing and to pave the way to II
| gradual and safe return to specie pay
mentS. We are charged by the Radical
party, the party Of violence and usur-
| patton, which for the last four years, to
| prolong its own existence, has sot at
nought the Constitution and the fun
damental principles OF ourgovernment.
/ that we intend revolution and defiance
| Of established laws. The accusation is
unfounded and absurd it cannot be en-
! tertaincd for moment by any intelli-
| gent voter, who has even the most SUI
! periical knowledge of the history of the
country. The Democratic party can
! proudly point to every page Of Its re-
cord. IT has never violated a single OBJ
/ legation of the Fundamental compact by
/ which these United States entered into
the family II nations. It's watchword,
in peace q. in war, has been and will al
ways be the Union, the Constitution,
and the Laws. And no man, nor any
set Of men, however high they might
be laced by tho suifrages of their fel-
the support of this great Conservative
party in any revolutionary attempt
against established laws. The ballot
box and the supreme will of the Ameri-
can people are the only means of redress
to which we look.
Fellow democrats You are fighting
for good and righteous cause. You
have for your leader a tried statesman /;
| p''Aiiot WIN stouu by llt ~ nun III ltS
darkest hour; man equally beloved
for the purity Of his private character a.
rs honorcd for his public virtues.
Opposed to you are the men who
have subverted the structure OF our
system of representative selfgovern-
ment, vindcatcd to the world by more
than half a century Of prosperity and
greatness the men who have increased
our enormous debt by proiiigacy and
corruption unparalleled the men who
in two successive Congresses have de-
monstrated their incompetency to dl-
mlnish our burdens by economy or ap-
portion them with equity; the men
who have so distributed our burdens
that they pres. with excessive weight
upon the labor and industry of the coun-
ry,making rich men richer by making
poor men poorer.
Opposed to you are the men who haye
denied for three years of peace, and