The Portland daily press., 1870-09-08

while and then going back, let me ask you
another question. In what party to day are
the men who brought war upon this naton9
Is there one of them in the Republican party?
Can any one in this hall tell me of a solitary
man upon whom the blood of that war rests
who is in the Republican party 4 Anolher
question. If there is a single one OF them IN
a SINGLE organization IN the land Is ne n9s III
the Democratic party? The rebels, reoeidoin
come out OF the Democratic party, and 1T
has gone back into the Democratic party. and
is there to-day up to the measure OF its infiu-
ence controlling, directing. shaping and mould
ing its future. Is it not SO? Answer the e
questions as I go along. Did you ever know
rebel to vote the Republican ticket? The last
vote he threw before going into the rebellion
and the first vote he threw when he came
back, what is it? 1t is in the Democratic
party do not mean to say that everybody in
the Democratic party is a dishonest rebel and
everybody in the Republican party is an i'm
maculate saint. There are a great many bad
men in the Republican party and great many
good men in the Democratic party in spite lis
one of the good associations around them and
the other the bad associations around them.
But am asking you upon what ground 1t Is th's
democratic party comes before the country
aud asks that the power shall be restored 10
them that as taken away from them because
their leaders were disloyal and proStltutihg Tue
power which a copfdng people had entrusted
/, them and to the behess of the slave power
', men the people said they should no longer
rule they swore they would ruin. Where are
they?
Well if it is unkind and ungenerous to the
Democratic party to Charge upon them disoy-
atty of their membe $, have another question
to ask and that is thls-Have they ever disa-
vowed them? The war broke outin their
midst, not ours; aided by their leading men,
not ours; and yet has the Democratic party, as
an organization, disavowei one Of them? Has
the Democratic party ever disavowed and con-
| demned the rebellion itself? When and where?
| n what national platform Of theirs, in what
| State platform or county platform, or town
| land had almost said Ward resolution, or
| Democratic caucus did the Democratic party
| ever put the seal of its condemnation on the
rebellion itself? 1t was 10 small thing, no
| mere ephemeral ebulition; it was great, a
mighty and gigantic struggle agains the life Of
| the nation sprung up in the bosom of great
political party, headed by its leaders, and nc
one of their political organizations from the
day the first gun at Sumter until this seventh
day of September, 1870, has ever passed reso
luton setting the seal of its condemnation as
party upon that mighty, gigantic and damna
BILE rebellion. (Applause)
Have come here tonight with any ratings
against them? tell you know patriotic and
true democrats through the whole war, bat
those who voted for supplies, who went into
the army, who brpke loose from their party
| ties, everywhere and always shall receive from
| me my hearty commendatiop, for tley had more
than we of the Republican party to encounter
they had the ieers and curses of their political
| associates to bear along with their other bur-
| dens. But what became of them? Is there a
| single one of them now in Democratic organ.
ization in the land who has not done one O
two things, sealed his mouth upon this subject
| or eaten his words 10 their organization. Take
those three leading men who saved the nation
before the 4th of March, 1861, Edwin NJ. Stan
ton, Joseph Holt and John A. Dix, without
whom in the Cabinet of James Buchanan dur
| ing the last three months of its existence there
| would have no nation over which to iuauguratt
Abraham Lincoln, who broke from their party
and if you want to know what was the inwar
sentiment of the heart of the party, go back
and remember how these men were treated
They were leading men in the party; grea
men in any organization.
But l ask you again i'm what convention
great or small, of Democrats from that day to
this, did the course of those three men in that
cabinet, whereby the nation was saved, evel
meet with their endorsement or cOmmenda
tion-and were they not driven out of their
| party and driven into the only loyal party in
the nation? Take them through the war as a
| party did they ever vote to raise single sol
| der to fight its battles, in Congress party
| Did they ever vote to raise a single dollar in
money to defray the expenses of the Union ar.
| my in putting down the rebellion? Did they
| not as party vote solid against the raising Of
| men and money during the whole war? Did
not their VOORHEES,, and Vallandigbam and
| Pendleton go home and boast that they never
| when they met in Cincinnati and nominated
! Gen. Mcclellan, one of the generals of tire ar
my, they put him upon platform declaring
that the war for the preservation of the Uoion
was failure, and in 1868 when they nominal
| ed Horatio Seymour, who pomipa. ed him but
the veriest rebels in the land? In the conven-
ton at New York was Forest of Fort Pillow
| infaDy, and Wade Hampton. l am not re-
| preaching these men. L am asking whether
| the party, for its course during the war, comes
taken from them in the beginning shall be re-
| stored to them. And now when they nominal
| Ell HoratiO Seymaur, how did he undertake to
ingratate bimcelf into the party? You know
vary well he wrote letter atter his nomination
| in which he thanked God he never ownee a
dollar of the United States bonds, that were
issued TO raise money to pay the soldiers of the
| war. He knew what s.r:ng to ioucb, he knew
what was The boast and the real male senti
ment of the party who nominated him.
The democratic party went out of power be
cause it suffered itself to be bound haLd and
foot to the slave power, and it has never ID
strength enough 10 burst those bands
Look to the rebeliOus element down South
since the war closed; the murders with which
| the papers are filled. IS there single Demo.
cratic organ IN any State North that condemns
them? If so, l want to see it as curiosity
| and carry it home. Is there man that hears
| me that can point me to newspaper Oh Demo
| cratic convention, or Democratic orator be.
| IO,t btuOCTdJlC duuteuCb uiSpOSpu 10 SpP Tx
that which is most in accordance with the in
| ward sentiments of his heart who ever con.
| demned any one OF these outrases? Then
| ask you how it is this party can come before
the people of this country when the graves are
| still green, and while the nation is still strug.
| Cling under the burdens of that war. and while
the crippled soldier goes cut before rs daily
| and the W dows' weeds a"e still worn in every
hamlet iu the lond, urrepenlant as that party
is. with the anthors OF all this woe in theil
| m ~ hn g 7 aslr hat hat
comes before the American people and demand
that the power shall be restored 10 them? Lei
no man say say he is disloyal let no man say
| charge him with being traitor, and let nc
man say have said more than the truth when
| say If be be Democrat and acts ia the Dem.
| ocratic organization, he can find no act OF his
party as an organization that condemns trail
| tors.
| Do the Democratic party come before tie
| American people and ask to be restored be-
cause of any new attitude they take on the
question that rent the country in twain, and
kept bloody war in this land ard rolled upon
the shoulders of the people even to this day
| these great burdens.
They are fair in their promises, they are speci-
Gus in their talk and in their resolutions; they
| are high sounding; they cry out against cOrrup.
| ton IN the party In power, extravaganza, bur-
| dens, and taxation in the lands Why, they
boast that they have never voted to impose a
| dollar of burden upon the people to save this
! notion. Iti true there was a mountain of debt
| when Gen. Grant come into power of So 800, :
10000, and for what? Who is responsible for
that? Either the Republic party or the Demo-
| creto party: for there has been no other party
| in power TO shane and mould the doctrines OF
! this country. If the Republican party is re-
| spons:ble, If is because the Republican party
preferred deliberately to take this load and save
| the nation. If the d 3mocratc party has released
| itself from the burden OF the debt, they have
done it at the expense of their loyalty and be-
| cause they preferred to be traitors as a party
| and to see the nat dismembered, rather thai
be to the expense of money or of life to save il ;
ne or the other.
am willing to take nv share as member
of the Republican party of the honor of hav-
ing chosen TO take this great load upon the
shoulders of this nation and save it, rather
than the lasting infamy of running away from
IL and letting the country be destroyed. As
they did nothing to bring upon us this load of
debt, so, fellow citizens, they have done moth
ing towards paying it. When it was contract
ed and it became absolutely pecessary in the
c-ergencies of the nation. that greenbacks
should be issued to pay our soldiers in the fiel Id
or the war com, TO an in .lor Gus enc, then they
cry out against paper money aud against the
coDstitutionaliy of greenbacks. And in it the
country sustained the Republican party in ex
ercising that authority and power, and issuing
a. a war measure the paper money which re-
suited in two things, in the debt and in the
triumph at Appomattox Court House. And
when they found that the rebellion could not
be carried on successfully by that war cry,
that the patriotism of the country was equal to
that emergency and willing to tale the load,
then they turned round and said in some parts
OF the country that they repudiated the debt.
In Ohio the Democratic party have declared
for rau iafin tI,a 1ahf Tn 1rAt +hox,