Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-08-06
The Democratic Programme.


THE late Democratic Conventions have
thoroughly undcceivcd those who sup
posed that the leopard would suddenly
change his spots. More amusing and even
ridiculous spectacles have seldom been
presented TO public attention; ridiculous,
because there is always something absurd
in the incessant reiteration of offers that
are perpetually rejected. The onlyallevia.
tion of the old order is the nomination of
General Rosecrans for Governor of Ohio.
But as il to extlnguish any hope that
might begin to glimmer in consequence,
Mr.. Wallace, the Chairman of the Penn
sylvania Convention, in calling it to
order, remarked that principles, not men,
are the Democratic doctrine. That, in.
deed, was evident ut Columbus, as II was
at Chicago in 1864 Then the man was
one who had been Union soldier-the
principles were surrender 10 the rebellion
Now the man Is Rosecmns--the principles
arc Vallandigham. And as Mr.. Wallace
truly remarked, principles, not men, are
the Democratic doctrine. Those who are
not Democrats, however, are expected TO
look solely at the man. Republicans in
Ohio, for instance, are respectfully re-
quested to contemplate the Union uniform
of Rosecrnns while they give their votes
to Vallandigham.
But with this exception the men and the
principles are equally familiar. Vallan-
digham in Ohio and in PENNSYLVANIA Mr..
Wallace, Mr. Hughes, and Mr., Asa Packer,
the candidate for Governor, are the same
old Copperhead managers who conducted
the business during the war. They told
us then that the Government was a dark
despotism because il would not let our
rebel brethren depart in peace; now they
tell us Il Is q fell tyranny because It will
not let them stay upon their own terms
the Government being the people oi
the country, Then we were being taxed
TO immediate our brethren; now we are
taxed TO pamper bloated bond holders
who are not our brethren, probably, be,
cause they sustained the war. Then the
negro was an inferior, and this was a
white mans government now also the
negro is AN inferior, and still il is a white
mans government Then the local rights
of States were ruthlessly invaded; now
the local rights OF States shall never be
overthrown, In fine, now as then, in the
estimation of the old Democratic mana.
| gers, all Is tyranny, corruption, and black
despair, and universal night is at hand,
unless-ahl unless-nyr. Vallandigham
and his friends are permitted to direct the
taxation, to handle the money, and tn con.
troll the Government; in which happy
case AstrWa will return to earth, and the
hopes OF mankind may revive
There were those who supposed that
this party might have learned something
that inaSmuch rs the country had decided
that the national faith should be kent, and
that colored citizens should vote and be
no longer ostracised, those issues would
hANA hann rAltnnttfahnl nd haN III. 1
upon other and more promising grounds
There were those within the parry who
advised this course, who recommended Il
last year, and who had the emphasis ot
ruetol experience 10 support their counsel
this year. But all has been subliuply dis.
regarded. Even In the city of New York,
where year ago there was party in
Iammany Hall which seriously wished Ia
nominate Mr. Chase, this year TalAmany
Han, as Il Fourth of July ieStivity, repu.
diates the war aud its results, and after AN
oration worthy of a Vallandigham or AL
eNander III. stephens or Henry Clay Dean
cheers for John r. Hoffman as the Presi,
DENTAL candidate while, simultaneously
rs 4 to refresh In the public memory the
claims OF the party TO the confidence OF
honorable and patriotic men, It's late oantli
date for Vioe,President, General Blair, eX,
iois rebels at a social meeting of faithful
Union soldiers
And all this denunciation of equal
| rights, and praiSing Of rebels and demand
for reputation and dishonor, is put forth
under the name of Conservatism" /" as In
the bitter hours of the war, during the tor
lures of AndersOnville aud the horrors of
the battlefield, IL was Conservatism . Ia
palliate the rebellion and to sneer al the
Government Is there any thing In the