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

in time of war in the President, whom they
designed 'the Government; ~ and when af-
terward they quarreled with the Executive,
they stripped him of every accustomed and
even of very many of his clearly Constitu-
tional prerogatives and finally sought, by
a gross abuse of power of impeachment, TO
remove him from an Office to which little
remained except the title and emolument.-I
And when the Supreme Court stood in the
way they began, by hostile Legislation, to
circumscribe and cripple its jurisdiction, and
to bring it into contempt with the people by
bitter and venomous denunciation ofits Chief
Justice.
Upon the other hand the Democratic par
ty insists, in the language of jefferson, on
'fhe support of the State Governments in
all their rights as the most competent ad-
ninistration of our domestic concerns, and
the surest bulwark against anti-Republican
tendencies and the preservation of the
General Government in its whole and Con-
stitutional vigor, as the sheet-anchor of our
peace at home and safety abroad"
As to policies or ideas, the two parties
differ fundamentally in this /: the basis of
the present Republican organization is big.
otry, hate and revenge. 1t4tolerates no diff
fcrences of opinion. 1t would forever fan
and keep alive the flames of that civil war
which for four long and weary years scorch-
ed the hearts and desolatGd the homes of one
third of the people of the United States. 1t
would cherish forever the hot passions and
the bitterness, and the feuds, and discords
which in our very midst arrayed neighbor
against neighbor, and wrought dissension
| and strife among those of the same house
hold. 1t refuses to forget the vile epithets
which found no apology, even amid the fury
of bloody conflict, and glibly spits forth
from its enVenomed lips, 'trebel sympathi-
ger, butternut, copperhead and traitor. y
Processing a religion which is founded on
eternal love, it builds itself up on immoral
hate. Invoking mercy and forgivness from
the God of heaven, it denies all pardon ol
grace to fellow men ON earth.
But do these, our enemies, realize that
they, themselves, are the very children OF
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accumulated wrongs and outrages whict
they hcaped upon our heads-the denuucia
tions, the calumnies, the cspionages, thC
mobbings, the arrests, the exiles and the
murder and assassinations which We, theil
fellow citizens, suffered at their hands ? L
is we, too, who have wrongs to forgive o.
avenge 1t is we who might shut the gate
of mercy upon them, and demand fer
and consuming retribution. Animated BY
their own relentless spirit, 1, too, might wei
eyclaim
ga plague upon them Wherefore should
curse them
Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake
groan,
I would invent as bitter, searching terms,
AS curs't, as harsh. and horrible to hear,
Delivered strongly through my fixed teeth,
With full as many signs of deadly hate,
AS lean-fsced envy in her loathsome cave /;
My tongue should stumble in mine esrnes
words
Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint
My hair be fixed on end, like one distract !;
Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban
But, gentlemen, if such be the spirit c
our political controversies forever; if theT
is to be no truce to our passions; if the pas
is never to be forgotten nor forgiven; i'll
dead carcass of the civil war, with all its er
gendered griefs and wrongs and hates, is NJ
some time to be buried out of sight, the
welcome to the fierce waters of the delug
: in which persisted the ante-diluvian world
) thrice welcome the fierce fire from Heave
r which smote and consumed Sodom and CT
morrah, SO that in Gods Providence a me-
and wiser and better race, worthier of thei
: noble heritage, may populate this Mort
| American continent