Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-09-03

which eschews fossils" leaves to its
opponents all "faYoritism based on
class, creed. race, color or national ori-
GIN" which favors universal freedom,
impartial Justice and equality before
the lac Of all Who live beneath the
Gag, which enacts no law trenchiDg
upon equal rights and impartialjustiee
which scouts reputation, upholds the
public credit, redeems the obligations
of the country to the last penny. aud
condemns an irredeemable paper ur-
reney as a gigantic fraud upon the peo-
pie"
But alas for the Democratic plat
form if General Rosecrans is to be ao-
cepted as a correct interpreter of Dem
ocratic faith and doctrine. To adopt
his view is to send the visible admix-
ture act, the greenbaek theory, the
ValIandighams. Nasbys and Pendle-
tons 20 one commo ruin together.
We therefore turn, as a final resort. to
the party platforms, on which hang ali
the Democratic law and prophets. and
which certainly cannot mislead us, for
is not Democracy one and the same
everywhere and always?
Let no one be green enough to think
so. Democracy as defined in plat
forms is no more a fixed and certain
quantity than as expounded BY its
apostles, and appals US with greater
confusion than ever. Here we have
Ohio Democrats resolving, and PEN
dleton proclaiming, that We must pay
the debt in g~reenbacks, and on the
other hand We have the Eastern De-
mocraey demandipgan exclusively coin
currency, slaugbterIUg Pendleton and
his theory in a Presidential conven-
ton, aud denouneing greenbackery as
the most hurtful Ito use the Language
of Governor Seymour) "of all the de-
vices to cheat honest labor, to ~paralyze
honest industry, to degrade public
morals, and to. turn business pursuits
into reckless gambling We have
the Cincinnati Enquirer, in the West,
clamorOus for an unlimited issue Of
deprecated currency, and the New
York World, equally Democratic, in
the East, telling as that sit is incon-
ceivable in itself, and inconsistent with
the platform, that the old hard money
Democratic party should promise a
uniform currency Of bad money" and
that "one currency of deprecated
greenbacks would be inconsistent with
the payment in coin of that part Of the
public obligations which is acknowl-
edged by the platform to be due in
coin" We have an Ohio convention
deDouncing the national banks, and a
national convention in New York try
ing to nominate the father of the
banks, Mr.. Chase, for the Presidency.
So Of the tariff question. Pennsylva-
MIA Democrats insist on protection /;
Ohio Democrats say nothing short of
free trade is Democratic.
On the Chinaman they are in like
manner divided, the California Demo
Gratis .sisting that he must On no &C
count be permitted to land upon our
shores and the Southwestern Demo-
Gratis being clamorous for cargoes OF
Coolies.
On the negro it might be supposed
there would be uniformity of Democrat
&c opinion, but alas, not So! We have
the Democratic party insisting in Ohio
that the negro must be totally disfran-
chised; in New York that he should
be admitted to suffrage with a proper
ty qualification, and in Virginia and
Tennessee not only ~eoneeding his
right to vote but electing him to Office.
We have a Democratic candidate for
Governor in Ohio denodnciDg negro
suffrage and another advocating it. IN
Massachusetts,.
And so with these Inconsistencies
before us. we conclude that Demoera-
cy is n~ondeseript; that it is anything
or everything as may suit the purpose
of demagogues in carrying an election
aud that in our ending as in our begin
ming it cannot be more appropriately
defined than by calling it a What il
It?