New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-26
FACTS FOR CAMPAIGN USE
THE PAST OF THE DEMOCRACY
CONSISTENT RECORD Of REPUBLICANS

We copy the following from the well IN
formed Washington correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Gazette:
WASHINGTON, August l9.
The kew note of the Democratic cam
paign. as It's committee here is preparing to
sound it, appears to be that the questions OF
the war are settled, and the new issues are
tax, tariff, debt, and reform. The consistent
Democratic record, so closely allied to what
the constitution calls extending aid and
comfort to the enemies of the government,
is. as far as possible, to be pushed back out
of sight. And since the people have become
thoroughly out of patience with the con-
duct of individual Republicans, the Demo
cratic committee seems to think there is
chance of their attempting to remedy the
matter by abandoning the party which
saved the country and committing the ma
ton into the hands of those who throughout
the rebellion were allied with rebels:
glance at this Democratic record ought
to be sufficient to convince even democrats
themselves that the nation can not yet al
ford to trust its interests IN their hands. 1t
is thoroughly consistent throughout, and up
to the present moment shows no change of
heart.
THE RECORD IN OUTLINE.
If any one will turn through the Congress
sioual Globe. from the outbreak of the war,
it will be found that in the cases given be-
low the majority of the Democrats then in
Congress were arrayed against the govern
ment, and that in comparatively few Of the
instances cited was there any marked de-
parture from q strict party vote:
On the thirty first of December, 1861, the
Democrats in the House voted that any at
be mpracticable and destructive to repub-
ican liberty.
January I, 1861, they voted against a
resolution approving Major Anderson's
withdrawal from Fort Moultrie to Fort
Sumter, and indorsing the determination Of
the President to sustain him.
February Is, they voted against the bill
to suppress insurrection, and authorizing
the President to employ troops for the pur-
pose.
March g. 1868. protested in writing against
the act to indemnify the President and
other officers for suspending the writ Of ha-
beas corpus.
August, 1861. and again in May, 1862,
opposed a bill declaring such slaves free as
should be employed by their owners in aid
ing the insurrection.
March, 1862, opposed resolution, recon-
mended in a message from the President,
That the United States ought to cooperate
with any State which may adopt gradual
abolition of slavery, giving to such State pc
cuniary Aid, to be used by such State in its
discretion. to compensate for the incon-
veniences, public and private, produced by
such change of system"
April, 1862, opposed bill for compensa-
ted emancipation in the District of COlum-
bia, and prohibiting slavery within those
Limits except as a punishment for crime.
April, 1862, opposed instructing commit
tee to inquire whether any plan could be de-
x-,s for hn rvpaIrat ayna finp Of 10
slaves in the border States and how far the
Government ought to aid in the matter
January, 1863, opposed a bill reported
from select committee to secure compen-
sated emancipation in Missouri.
December, 1862, voted against resolu-
tion indorsing the Presidents proclamation
of emancipation, and for resolution de-
claring it ian assumption of power danger
Gus to the rights of citizens, and to the per-
petuity of a free people
June. 1864, opposed the repeal of the Fu-
gitive Slave Law.
July 9, 1861, opposed the passage of the
following: Resoiced, That in the judgment
of this House, it is no part of the duty of
the soldiers of the United States to capture
and return fugitive slaves"
March, 1862, opposed the new article of
war prohibiting all persons employed in the
military or naval force from employing any
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returning fugitive slaves.
June, 1862, opposed resolution forbidding
the employment of slaves, III navy yards.
dock wards, arsenals and forts, or at the
Naval Academy.
April, 1862, opposed the recognition of
Hayti and Liberia
April, 1862 opposed removing the dis
qualific alton of color in carrying the mails
February, 1863, opposed the enrolment
act, and, subsequently, all acts supplement
tary thereto.
December, 1868, opposed raising. arming
equipping or paying negro soldiers.
December. 1868, some of the rebel States
being occupied and held by the Union forces,
steps were taken toward reconstruction.
The Democrats opposed the first bill looking
in that direction. which authorized the
President to appoint provisional governors
in each State reclaimed by the national
forces.
June, 1862. opposed the resolution reouir-
ing the iron-clad oath for all appointed or
elected to offices of honor or profit under
the government.
June, 1864, and January, 1865, voted
against the thirteenth amendment, abolish
ing slavery.
February 90. 1866 voted for Mr. John
sons proposition to admit all the rebel
States to immediate representation.
Voted against the civil rights bill and the
Freedmen's Bureau bill, and to sustain Mr..
johnson in his vetoes of these measures.
July 13. committed the party against the
fourteenth amendment. and subsequently
to all measures passed in pursuance thereof.
December 81, 1866 voted for series of
resolutions offered by Mr.. Voorhees, indors
ing President johnson in the views he pre-
sented to Congress III his messages.
February 49, 1866. voted against resolu-
ton iustifying the President in still sls
pending the writ of habeas corpus in the
rebel States, and thanking him for employ
ing the military forces to protect Union
men and freedmen.
June II, opposed resolution declaring it
the opinion of the House that Jefferson
Davis should be held IN custody, and tried
under the laws of the land.
June, 1866, opposed colored suffrage III
the District of Columbia.
Such are some OF the main points of the
Democratic record during the war and the
year following it. OF course there is moth
ing new in the counts. But at the entrance
Of the campaign they will serve to refresh
the memories of voters, and prevent any
present Establishments Of the late Northern
wing of the rebellion from leading any one
to forget its real record.
Since the war, also, the party has been
consistent. Every step in reconstruction
has been contested, and every measure to
protect the Union men OF the South has
been bitterly opposed. The various rights
sought to be conferred upon the colored
population; the freedom of the courts; the
opening of the United States courts to Union
men prosecuted for aiding the government;
the fifteenth amendment, and all the legisla-
ton to enforce it; in short, each and every
attempt on the part of the government to
secure the results of the war has received
the undivided opposition of the Democratic
party. Its record can be summed UP in a
few words:
L A Democratic Administration plunged