Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-08-13
r,o nomocraile Party.

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Tar recent result in Virginia show,
plainly enough the dilemma OF tne VIu
Democratic party, which Is o2nnrhnyu ~
its aoflon m ihe No1hgrlr States, AZ pas
hitherto held tcnhtio1sly not only owhht
n calls the ipferiority Of the negro, but TO
its refusal 10 allow him political equality
But upon this very peint the party Is now
divided. In Virginia the Democratic vote
Is cast solid for negro suffrage. In Cali-
fornia and Ohio negro suffrage is de
nounced.Tf In MaSaghusglls Jud eg a. ABB
bott, one OF the chief Democratic leaders,
writes to Tammauy Hall that rcconstruc-
tion and negro suffrage have been finally
settled, however wronglyyand Iammany
Hall responds by glorifying the prinCipn
of the rebellion. The New York World
urges acquiesconce IN what Is evidently
accomplished, ami hopes fot Che uomipA-
tion OF General Hancock In Pennsylvanta.
Pennsylvania replies by denouncing the
Fifteenth Amendment, which Virginia
accepts, and by nominating typical Cop
perhead Cor Governor. The Ohio Dernoe.
racy virtually declares for reputation, and
the Iowa for the strict letter Of the con
tract. The party agrees only in vague de-
nunciations of "despotism and cen
tralizailon'l and ''tyriPny y and Iuli
scruPueas htJorttiss ,Sl!lcns :. N 4.
moau HOthlugs anu iuihiSh nv i'oNSo W
an election.
This condition ct affairs merely hlas-
trates the old truth that the Northern
Democratic party was an instrument used
wholly by Southern leaders for Southern
purposes. During the last Ten years II has
had but one moment Of apparent revival,
and that was at the opening Of the last
Presidential campaign N The rcsson was,
that the Southern leaders returned for that
occasion from rebellion TO the control Of
the party. The result was its defeat, de.
spite IFS desperate frauds In New York,
Pennsylvania, and Indinna. Butnow that
the Southern leaders have again with.
drawn, the party drifts and driyels
among its old dognas, wholly unable TO
confront the situation and 70 adapt itself 10
the utterly changed aspect Of affairs II
is paying the penalty or It's old sioservi-
ency 90 Southern ma Astery. That mastery
forbade indepeudence and rewarded the
meanest servility n Inundated Dix and
Douglass and promoted Pierce and Blu
chanan - -. .. ....
AS national party processing certain
great principles and. advocating "A distinct
policy, the Democratic party does not
exist; but as an organization FOR place and
plumber il is still powerful IL Ia the camp
of all the discontentcd and disaffected II
watches eagerly for the n,staI<ea Of the
party in hower. While IT'S Northern wing
fears to ALLEVIATE Its Southern by accepting
equal rights, the Southern wing prochims
them and snccrs at lis Northern allies.
Such is the ludierolls and pitiful dilemma
of those allies that ihere can be no doubt,
if the, Northern conventions had been
held after the result In Virginia had been
fully considered. tbev world ali have fol.
lowed rho lfad ~ sibiiiration ami bayr
done what Jndye Ahbott .ativisc1 Tam.
many Hall to Al with what 5nroC,nnd
contemnt "A man like Wade Hamnton ,nust
watch The habby lmlitical freblenpss Of his
old lHelyeVsi sIIIT9I 71-~ : FlT TTa
Meanwhile nm orgnnized marty intent
upon obtaining power nj all hazards is TO
be carefully watched also Inv those who
know I'm what wav il homes to. crafty lis
desires nv fb,, st,,nid tyst ,r, 81 rl,ytin !,
President, 10 which we still pertinnoluus,
ly cling, Che etnoStirnnortant of alIelrctions
is esneeiaIiy bxnosef 10 Irand Tho rcal
Presidential campnicn IL now ALWAYS cons
ducted in three or f5ur States whose vote
is decisive LAST year lhs baftie .rrnnnd
of tha Prea;dnnev ,vas No,y. Y,,L ep,r,nN
sylNnia. and indian, ) 'sTbc1 % c,,ctn,s,l s,,a
yotdihthcsn States niShp haye abbldnd
the resuIts AGAINST .immsnse 'nonular ma
ioritiss elsew here : Thna Inc tScctiab of
the President Is not necessarily the ex.
preston of the nonular will ~
The Democratic managers would hardly
expect. under any -eireS,m staocns' to nh
an actual lnhiorhy of fbc votes caSt III tfbn
next national election, hut they have
shown, in the States mentioned, how they
will not vcrunlc 10 attemnt To carrythe
electoral vote. Mr., Charles Fanois
Adams, jun, in his striking paper before
the Social Scirnce Association. nj Albany
last winter, shows that ten thousand ma
jorty for the Seymour, electoral ticket in
New York had the same legal influencc
upon the result as one hundred and sixty
thousand majority for the Grant electoral
ticket in Illinois, Massachusetts, and Yer
mont. 1t is notorious that that majority
was fraudulent. The methods nre known
The. chief method was A system of dis.
honest naturalization. Of which Tammanv
Hall was The head.cftla rters The EDen6.
cratic party eyerywhora onnoses any
scheme for nurifyiug tho hllnt. .hnx, snA
its reliance for the neSt general election +
a concentration and tleyelopment m n eM
States of the method that carried Nav
York lastgyypar.i iis1 efrrTieG Mo NS"
Dove therefore claim that All ho,,oa,
mem belong 10 the RepubIIcan marty
By no means But we do mnst heartily
reputiiate the 1pieriIity that onc Marty Ia ~
bad as another. If this were true there
would be no Union today. Tho Re-.
bers, and undoubtediy makes mistakes