The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-15
The Democratic Party of Former

AAO DSAnOcEdAlO EAEty OF FORMER
Days:
Hon. Lyman Tremaine, of New
York, in his forcible and eloquent
speech in Philadelphia, on Thursday
night, said:
turn now to that party with which,
until this war broke out, was con-
nected; and ifthere are here men who
still call themselves Democrats, let me,
In the kindness of affection, address a
few words to them. My friends, it
seems to me that the so-called Demo-
cratic party Is trampling under foot
all the time-hOnored traditions of the
old Democratic party. The Democrat
tc party. when Il possessed the conf
dence of our people, and for fifty years
controlled the Government, was the
war party of this country, emphatical-
~ and by pre.eminence. 1t carried
this country through the war with
England; 1t carried this country
through onr contest with Mexico; and
It was because. at all times, 1t stood by
the old flag that the people stood by it.
Is this organization, which is the peace
party in this time of war, and thas war
one for the very preservation of our
national life; is this party which is
now plotting and scheming to accom-
plish a rebellion In time OF peace, the
successor of the old Democratic partyf
The old Democratic party was q good
hard money party; the Jackson BEN
tonian party was too strongly attached
to the principle of hard cash and specie
payments to have ever entertained the
thought of flooding our country, at the
close of a war for the preservation of
the Union, with two thousand millions
OF paper money in order to practically
repUdia the national debt. inevitably
destroying all exchangeable values,
bringing lamentable confusion into all
she countless departments of trade, and
widespread ruin upon our country. Is
IL this party that would now issue these
two thousand millions of paper prom
tses to pay, thus Initiating the currency
to such an extent that there could be
no safety for business transactions, the |
successor of the old Democratic party ]
The Democratic party which 1 loved, |
the political school in which was in |
strqcted. was not the school, my friends,
or JET. Davis, who would destroy this |
blessed Government, our Constitution |
and our Union; but 1t was the Demo-
cratic party of the God blessed old hero |
Andrew Jackson, who said: "This |
Union, by the Eternal, must and shall |
be preservedw [Cheers.l The Demo-
cratic party loved was the party which
stood by Jackson when Jackson was at
war with the South Carolina nullifiers,
who refused then, as now, to obey
the laws passed by Congress. 1t is
not new claim on their part that Con-
Rress is guilty of usurpatioHs of power.
It has been the cry of the Calhoun men
for the last thirty years, ever since they
found that by immigration and the
natural increase OF population, of pow
er and of wealth at the North, the
sceptre was passing away from beneath
their feet and from under their control.
The present is the same old nullifica-
ton paTty that Jackson fought, and the
UnionsDemocrats that sustained him in
hghtt48 them are now ready to stand by
the onion again. How can you, my
Democratic friends, reconcile it with
the peat history of the party to strike
hands with these men, when they have
sought to destroy this glorious Govern
ment. and TO aid them in the shameless
attempt TO take possession of the hon
ors, the offices, the emoluments and
the powers of the Government that they
lRbored In vain to overthrow and TO |
destroy. The old Democratic party that
loved was party that, when 1t pro-
claimed principle, adhered TO IL and
carried 1t out to the end. What is that
modern party, the particularly fine,
bling the modern Zintippic, the scold-
ing, the morose, the never-to. be. salts
fed party? The Democratic party that
loved was the party that was in favor
of the utmost liberty and freedom
for all men; and in the State of
New York it signalizsd itself as
early as its Constitutional Conven-
tion in 1921, by proposing to make
the franchise equal, and removing the
restrictions which the old property
qualification had imposed upon its ex-
ercise. Yet you call this party that
proposes not only to deprive citizens
of the right TO vote, butalso to take away
from the poor colored citizen the only
power of protection he has against his
own destruction. and the only safe
guard you have in the way of building
up loyal States-and That is the ballot
given to the black man. The old Demo-
cratic Party that loved was the party
that put its hand upon the heart of the
people. acted with them, and, believing
in them, properly reached their intelli-
gence and kept in communion with
them, knowing to adopt, the saying OF
OF Martin Van Buren,, THAT the sober
second thought of the people is never
wrong, aud always sufficient" But
contrast, my friends, that saying and
the present condition of the party. The
people have been pronouncing judg-
ment after judgment against you, until
you can scarcely say that you hold in
your possession the electoral vote of a
single loyal State. Are you right, or
are the people right7 You cannot both
be right, because the people are pro-
nouncing against you. Why not repent
of your Maynard course, and return2
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