Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-09-23
Party Records.

Ind, Vice President CUlfax spoke rs fol-
lows t6pphipK fiafty recordas = LII
Frankly and fully have thus reviewed
the results IF tpiA fepipistEation, P e and re.
psd obS "a WSS et me- % asS SSe
in conclusion, should the administration
be rebafBi,uor the Republican Congress
bo driYen from poweri What do you de-
sire above all things from your govern
mentt IA 1t NOT the faithful execution of
the laws, the maintenance Of peace, econ
omy minietration, honesty in officials,
the PRESERVATION ofthe ational honor, and
all possible relief from public burdens3
And have / not shown that, ever since the
Executive and Legislative Departments
were brought into harmony and political
accord by the Inauguration, Of President
Grant, these .essentialssof good Govern
ment have been realizedi The scandals
whichpreviously dishonered the admins
tration have oehsed.- The taxes have been
faithfully collected. The debt has been
steadily reduced. The National expenses
have Vbeena Tetrenohed. The National
credit has improved, THE burdens Of the
people, have been largely reduced. And
thoseis priceless, 20 words, HONESTY and
ECoNoMN,iare written on the portals OF
the White House. --
But have noticed recently, as a last
card of our opponents, the preparation
by their NHtiQnAl Democratio Committee
of sample cards of goods, with the amount
of their cost in gold in European nations,
under their cheap wages of labor and
their pffce hffs IN cnrrenoy, under our
American yhges Of labor It is hard to
see what Hey vex peet. to gain by this If
they mean that this disparity could be
remedied by cheaper wagesfor labor here,
it might explain why, when Senator
Stewart, of gNeysja, And other distinguish
ed Republicans, fought to pass a billl at
the last session prohibiting the imports-
ton, under contract, of servile labor, and
strengthening the law passed by the Re-
publican Congress of 1862 which was in.
tcnded to prevent the coolie system of
slaveTy in his eonntIE prominent Demo
cratic Senators talked against time day
after day, condemning its details, and find-
ing fault with its Provisions as not salts
factory to theh, f6ntif at last the great
pressure OF the ahnual appropriation bills
caused it 4ogbe postponed TIL the next
session. Twill not assume that their OBJ
ject was t0seSk 10 amaIiufacture political
capital for the canvass out of it; but do
say that their unwillingness to cooperate
in reasonable bill that could have been
passed. and their prolonged and antago-
able, apA lib a body whefe no previous
quesGdn existed to stop an interminable
debase, caused the postponement for the
session OF the bill have referred to. As
to the value to the country of adequately
remunerHted labor I have already spoken,
and need not repeat the argument FA"
Whatever the object of this election de-
vice may be, have one comprehensive
ansYeF tp'makd, TO it,, That for every
dolisr the patioH has to pay for interest
on the public debt, for every dollar of
taxation, internal and external, over the
ordinary and economical expenses of the
government 8 democratic rebellion ID re.
sponsible. do not deny that there are,
and were, many patriotic men inside of
the Democratic party. 1t is not my habit
10 arrslgn them, sweeping and en- masSe,
as thstf last National Democratic Plat.
form arranged all of us as guilty of "cor-
ruprQn and exttaVagsnoe exceeding sny-
thing known IN history, and /" "unparallel-
ed oppression and tyranny" and that if
we won in, that national contest, they
would have, to- "meet subiugated and
conqueted people, amid the Iuins of lib
erty and the scattered fragments of the
constltntieal Bttno matter what good.
men may stlff remain in its ranks, / speak
OF the Democratic party, its organization,
avs 80 lSdQGlEulD, anu 1IS MS
tory. Thatiis kGoWn of all men ard cam
not be denied Three points in illustra-
tion, Of, its. responsibility, as a party, for
the rsheuion, and the prolonged conflict
TO. suppress Il, can never be argued away:
15sEVery. State which rebelled had a
Dernocrstic Governor. Every Executive
ottioer OF the Confederacy was a Demo
crat-its President, Vice President, Sec
retary OF State, Secretary of the Treasury,
Secretary of the Navy and Postmaster
General, without an exception. Every
leading commander of its armies was a
Democrat. Lee, Beauregard, Wade
Hampton, tpAewan Jackson, Pemberton,
ExDhno oeratic3 Vice President Breckin-
ridge. HOOD, Sidney Johnston, and all
OtPply, the Republican party can it be
sal9d that not a singl one ever signed an
ordinance of secession, or fred on our
flag or ahot down its defenders.
3. The administration in power, which
could have crushed it in its inception, but
did MOTIVES Democratic. Its President,
BuohaAAn gave it~aid and comfort by pro.
claiming in his message of December,
1860, that Ethe Constitution has not dele
gat0d tp Congress, or any other depart
ment Of the government, the power to
coefce q State into submission, which is
attempting to Withdraw or has actually
withdrawn from the Contederqcy." as he
ca4ed, the, United States; and that Hthe
sword vas not placed in their hands to
preserve it (the Union) by force" 1t was
a Democratic Secretary of War who
emptied the. Northern arsenals of guns
and flied Southern srsenals with them,
thus aiming the South, and also disarm-
lngsthe4NQEth. 1t was Democratic Sec.
retaIYoot the Navy who scattered our
navy tofthe ends ofithe earth 1t was a
Denocrarc Secretary Of the Treasury
VINO 5tspted ouf pstional credit in that
dark honr, as he hoped to its death.
3. Every man who in the North shout.
ed M coercion f7every one who pre-
dlcted That the rebellion could not be
suppressed every one who denounced ali
measures devised for its overthrow, every
onewh6 stigmatized the brave soldiers as
Lincoln hirelings, every one who de-
msnded at the very crisis of the war an
lmmgdlate cessation OF hostilities and in.
slsted that The war was a failure, as re-
solved on in the National Democratic
platform of 1864 every one who branded
the faithful Lincoln as Nero OF Caliet1.,
Ia, was DemQcrat in good and regular
standihgTwithihis party rot "~trl
Nor can 1t be forgotten that when jeff.
Davis denounced Congressional confsca-
uo1S Wnne the Confederaoy were confis-
eating Union mems property, they were
Danoefats who echoed that denunciation;
when JEFF. Davis INDUCED his wrathfui
expletfves st'the employment of colored
soldiers to help put down his treason, they
were Democrats who echoed his inyec.
tive; when jeff Davis anaihemstized the
Emancipation, they were Democrats who
echoed.the, anathema; and when JEFF.
Davis Wandered Lincoln as a monster.
theYswsre Democrats who repeated his
iinveetiges. Thus, instead of thorough.
ly united North, which could have
crpshed the conspiracy in year, we had
divided North and for this prolonged
war, with its terrible losses in blood and
treasure, those who acted as i have stated
homeopathic. r.F| ''r
For our debt, therefore, and for our
taxes, they have solemn responsibility.
and cannot escape it. No show.cards, no
sophistTy, can relieve them from it. And
while taxes remain. every atamn vo,, -,