The New York herald., 1868-08-24

come come mere VonIgao nIe'o 70 spoiogize Tor or TO
the republican party. That party numbers three
millions OF voters, and 1t needs no defence on any
square mile OF this republic or any portion OF
Gods green earth Wherever there is liberal pro.
gressVe statesman he Is the side OF the republican
bright is with US. Go to France, every liberal Is
with and for us. Go to any portion OF Europe
Judgments are so be the udgmenRs Or hsre
after, with to-day as they have been with us
In the bloody war Of the last four years. II is not
not been great political question before the country
in the last fourteen years in which the republican
has not been wrong; not single issue in which,
measured by patriotism, love OF country
instcs DsS between R" the rich % man in power anS
the poor man out Of power, measured by such pa
riotism, such liberty such Justice, such humanity
the republican party has not been right and the
democratic party has not been wrong, and II seemed
determined to be wrong. The chiels OF the demo-
aggressive warfare upon u.s. In it they viii be only
as successful as in the warfare SO many or their
chiefs waged against our boys in blue. We have
defence to make against them; that Is already re-
corded in the success OF the grandest most glorious
political organization ever known earth. History
SO fully the truths OF Gods holy words and humanity
II has no peer living, and has had none. In the
fought for their own liberties and their personal
rights; we have fought for the freedom and rights
OF iour and half millions OF despised ana ae,
graded race; We have fought on higher plane
than any other political organization on the lace
OF the globe The record OF our party is made,
and II 1t were possible would not blot out single
line OF 1t. Who Is IL that assailed usY II s Inc
democratic party, North and South-Seymonr and
Wade Hampton, PendetOn and Robert TOombs Val
landigham and Howell Cobb. These are the gentle
men who propose to assail us. You will remember
that fourteen years ago there was magnificent ter
ritory west OF the Missouri conseCrated TO freedom.
Who abrogated that compact Of consecration? The
democratic party. Who defended and justified the
conduct OF the b0rder ruifans 7" The democratic
party. Who made this domain slave territory, and
when those who strove to save 1t for freedom were
robbed, burned and murdered who ap0lo9Zed and
defended such actsY The democratic party. VINO
removed Governor Reeder made the Lecompt0n
constitution and endorsed the bred scott decisonf
The democratic party. You will remember that in
1851, when war was imminent the Crit
tenden compromise" was proposed, asking
80 80, that slaves might ps transported
at will through all the States that citizenship should
be taken away from freemen in the free Suttes and
that free negroes be sent Of the States at
the national expense. Who was 1t defended these
outrageous demandsf The democratic party Then
the batteries were opened on Fort Sunter-by
whoms by the democratic party. Then followed
four years Of war and countless graves-fled by
whomp BY the democratic party. Not one lOyal
soldier went to his long rest but BY the hand OF The
democratic party. VINO murdered three hundred
and fifty thousand men, who Is responsiblea The
democratic parry then and the democratic party now
There are three hundred Thousand besides VINO are
manned by wounds received In battle-who did itt
Men who were democrats then and are democrats
now. You viii remember the time when Con
gress, In order TO reinforce the Union army, was
Obliged to pass an enrolment act Who de-
nounced itP Who redeemed the streets of New
YORK with blood and its skies with the ,urid flames
from the homes OF the deienceless the democratic
friends or hOratio Seymour then and now. When
IL was thought necessary To pass the Legal Tender
act who opposed itr The democratic party, who,
with Pendieton, said the legal tender notes out
with The mark OF Cain upon tnem and would carry
bankruptcy and ruin Ia Their train But ne has
changed his opinion. VINO was IL opposed the aboi-
ton of slavery, the making OF the national capital
free-the Territories freeY VINO opposed putting
and children IreeS Who opposed the constitutional
amendment securing freedom TO the whole of our
WIDE domainY The democratic party. When We got
through the war and Andrew johnson had recon-
Btructed the south win traitors IN every post
of honor and power who appauded his
pOlicyY The democratic party. 1 speak only
what l believe when say II mat policy had sue
ceeled reputation would to-day have Deen an ac-
comp!ished and achieved tact. the Ciyil Rights bill
the fourteenth constitutional amendment, the recon-
structon acts the formation Of Tree constitutions for
the southern States, were all opposed by the demo-
cratic parry North and south And wnen the south
ern States were admitted, and the national demo-
cratic convention assembled at New York, OF the
49, Southern delegates over 100 were rebel cers
as then, more meluiers OF Jef Davis Congress than
OF tue Congress OF the United States, and these men
void THIS Is only part Of the record Of tie
cratic party; l might go on for hours extending
here TO defend the republican party, but to assa
the democratic party as the enemy OF justice, OF
Ga, ad oi @ ,s1' n,etan E2uny' % o non"r no, ana OF
Of poor men, For fourteen years 1t has done more 10
oppress the poor than any other organization under
heaven. At the outset Of the contest there was
territory sufficiently large 10 make ity States ike
your own, consecrated To freedom and open to the
poor men Of the country. The democratic party re-
moved the prohibition OF slavery and admitted the
Southern plantation stem, the enemy IF the
poor laboring man, North and south. And what do
they propose now to dor We have given the right
OF suffrage to 10 900 men in the sOuth-they propose
to take II away we have given the southern STATES
an opportunity to make Tree consntutons-tney pro-
pose TO take them away we propose to give them
free school systems secured by state constitutions
and they vote against It, and propose to throw over
board all we have DONE and do it in the name OF aid
to labor. Let me tell You that they who would
degrade tne aISrS % g., class a and degrade labor at
then proceeded to discuss the charges Of
extravaganza made against the republican party
first abiding to the fact that the burden Of taxation
should justly be aId at the door OF the democratic
party, who brought OH the war. Tbey accuse US OF
extravagance; We have paid $647 900 OF the debt
incurred before the close the war. When closed
we had over million OF soldiers In the held and we
were in debt to them. In four months We paid over
$500 900 coo To them. In nine months we paid
600 to the army and $50, 600 the navy
We paid over $7oo coo and Mr. Pendleton says we
spent 1t. We have reduced taxation S167 900 600 in
year. and have reduced our expenses $3.50 00O,V 700
the present year. and in all these matters Of reduce
us We proposed SO reduce our rate Of Interest 70 four
and half per cent, and we could without doubt have
consolidated and changed all our debt to an interest
at five per cent but the democratic party voted
against It and the President pocketed the bill. They
knew II we did thus reduce our interest they could
cia policy, and n Will cost the country several mil
lions to crafty them. might say more, but enough
has been gwen to show the real issue. The repno
hcan party proposes In this campaign to elect Gen.
eral Grant President and schuyler Colfax, gentle
man OF talent, Of high culture aud great personal
Innuence vice President, and q majority OF from
seveny-ive to one hundred in the House Of Rep
rcsentatives TO sustain General Grants administr-
ton. believe General Grant VIII carry nearly thirty
OF the th.rty-four States voting In the election.
expect Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky viii vote
the democratic ticket They have chance to carry
Georgia aud oregon, but claim the rest the re-
publican ticket, aud II people do their duty we
cannot fail We arc the same party as'in 1864 but
with eight hundred thousand more votes than then.
We have the same battle To fgh and shall the
same result. BY our victory then Killed the
bellOn; eject Grant and the Ku klux Klan Is dead,
and iampVance Wise and Forrest VIII look for other
employment than In assuming to lead I'm the politics
oi tnis country. Robert 1oOmbs recently said the
war was caused by tue democratic party going out
OF power in 1850. aud there he peace until
II renstated. We do not propose to take peace ON
such torns, but we do propose 10 make him and all
Ike him obey the laws. He went into the war for
the precious privilege Of calling his slave roll on