Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-07
The Demands Of the Democratic Party.

TnRRE II stauyfs before you to-day,
American people. demanding OF you that
TO them, and instantly--this very year
you shall surrender this your new gov
ernmept In the presence of the facts
which thus troop around them, as they
make this demand ofyour surrender, look
at the pf9dsious sudacity of it. They
come telling you that in deciding about
the surrender you shall not name their
resistance Of slavery's overthrow, because
thatissue IL Nsfead"; when at the South
they are to-day demanding elections to
Congress because they believe in its re.
establishment. They demand you shall
not name secession" because. 1t is
"deSdY gwhen they are electing Supreme
Judges i'm the lsrgest State in the Union,
with the declared expectation that they
may be called upon to array the State
against the Union" They demand that
YOU shall not name their deeds of nullifi.
cation when in '6S they cast millions of
votes 10 elect a President and Vice-Presi
den. who, by their letter, platform, and
that vote, were pledged TO trample into
dust" every unrepealed reconstruction
act" Of Congress and by means Of mil
itary command of their President over
throw both the Legislatures OF thereon
United States
They demand that you shall not discuss
the wisdom of the reconstruction meas
ures," because they are"dead," when they
are organizing, Gin the interest of the
party" conspirscies, under the names of
3" White Brotherhoods," and the like, in.
tended, as they themselves avow, TO
deieateutirely the reconstruction acts"
They demand that you shall not con-
sitler the Question of the rights of the
coloTed Fsce 7rneither his rights to the
cqusl protection Of law, nor his right to
vote in making law, because these too
are "dead;" when only the 11th day of
July last the party, by the about solid
vote Of its representatives, declared the
Fourteenth Amendment not to be law,
which amendment frst endowed that
race with nj yhts which even Democrats
are "h9gnd TO respect; :" and when on the
samo day, aud against the same resolu-
ton, they declared the Fifteenth Amend
ment net law; and which first gave
these people thu, right to vote; and when
also today their platform in Ohio de-
mauds unconditional repeal" of the only
law which. secures their right TO. vote ! 5
Theysdenata that you shall say moth.
ing of their party's assassination of loyal
men ht the South, becsuse this is also
"dead;" and this they demand, although
IL was only the 29,h of July, 1870, one of
theirmumber declared the existence Of a
Democratic organization embracing the
entire South, of which their President,
Johneon, was the alleged "head CENTRE"
embracing IN its membership hundreds of
Democrats in a single county, the ''deSGgn"
OF which WAS to defeat "entirely the Re
construction acts and the cOlored mans
"civil ard political advancement; !" and
the means f0t the EXECUTION of which de.
sign this Democrat declares was by
whipping and killing unoffend-
ing eitizers" They demand that the
Republican administration of General
Grant shall give place 10 a Democratic
one, 50 that, thereby, the burdens of The
public debt 10Y be diminished when the
result, since Sd OF March, 90, of the over
throw Of the Democratic administration
Of MIR. JohHscnshas been TO diminish that
public debt, (which he was increasingly to a
six;ee nth of rs entire amount, or 1885,
1&S,TS401. They demand this change to
uemCcgstiGg administration, so that the
auds-apoR tho revenue may be stopped,
aud the revenues cpllected-wbeh the
effect of the expulsion Of the frauds of a
Dcmocrajic President and his agents from
the Government was the instantaneous
ipcrease Of the revenue from $370 043,-
TAT 21, for the last year of Johnson's ad-
miuiskration, TO ,$40S. S31 373 40 for the
Girstyear Of Gen. Grants; showing gain
by suhstitntiB9 ReDublican for Democratic
frauds Of $3L LS36,f26.2t in e single year.
They dsIaand this' change to Democratic
administration, so that the taxes shall be
voted, down. But only on the 18th of July,
1870, tha Republicans passed through the
Al E..l1 5.,r sal, o11
your Internal taxes S55, ,212 900, against
which reduction every Democrat from
Ohio who voted at all, voted, and against
which forty.seyen Democrats voted, being
the e9tiTs, Eete except eight. They vote d
substantially solid gasainst asrcduction
made by, the Last Congress, of $26, ,040 600
of tariH lakes on irGn,. tea, coffee, sugar,
spices, fruits, and the. Ike. .'
They demand this change TO Demo.
craticruls 50 thst corrupt and dishonest
men 7hay be removed from the public
otlccsj .Lgt their last National COnven-
ton endorsed the admiDistrstion of An
drew johnson, who not only refused to
remove, but, on the contrary, becsme no
toriOsly unyieidingly and almost avow-
edly the champion, protector and ally of
that army of villains of his own appoint
ment, whose frapds upon the Treasury,
shOWnT6 him by sworn testimony, with
name, pIafe, timsa1d circumstances given,
amounted to peThsps hundfeds of millions
per yeSE, and re1iarGd the most impor-
tant Of the revenue laws dead letter.
They demand this change to, Demo
cratic admibistrStion so that there shall
be an egd to the waste Of the public
lands by taeirbestowment upon railroad
mOnoptlies, when the fact stares them
and the-oOuntry in the face that upon the
Cd day Of. May, A. D. 1850, the Demo
cratic patty IN Congress, by bill intro
ducedH by Stephen a, Douglas, began
this b>isiIeas BY bestOWing 2,595. .053 acres
of land fQF The creation OF a huge railroad
monopoly in the interior of the States |;
and not like that one to the Pacific we
have nsde, which brings into our laps
the wealth OF The Indies and Of all the
Fast, etFetches scrcss the country the
highway foT The copim5rce of the world,
and thrOueh our Territories new lines of
population and Of States, - BrtrGct from a
Speech by Hon. SGhlQel Stellab17gtT at Len.