Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-10-04


10th inst, we take the following on
the Democratic and Republican
record
THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD.
But | have noticed recently, as a
last card Of our opponents, the pre-
paration By their National Demo-
cratic 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
price in currency, under our Ameri-
can wages of labor. 1t is hard to
see what they expect to gain by this.
If they mean that this disparity could
be remedied by cheaper wages for
labor here, it might explain why,
when Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
and other distinguished Republicans,
sought to pass bill at the last ses-
sion prohibiting the Importation,
under contract, Of servile labor, and
strengthening the law passed by the
Republican Congress of 1862 which
was intended to prevent the coolie
system OF slavery in this country,
prominent Democratic Senators talk
ed against time day after day, con-
demning its details, and finding fault
with its Provisions, as not satisfact-
DRY to them, until at last the great
pressure Of the annual appropriation
bills caused it TO be postponed till
the next session. / will not assume
that their object was to seek to man
ufacture 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 antagonizing speeches, when
time was so valuable, and in a body
where no previous question existed
to stop an interminable debate caused
the pOstpouement for the session Of
the bill | have referred to. AS to
the value to the country of adequate
ly remunerated labor | have already
spoken, and need not repeat the ar
gument.
Whatever the object of this cleo
ton device may be, / have a COM
prehensivo answer to make to it.
That for every dollar the nation has
to pay for interest on the public
debt, for every dollar of taxation,
internal and external, over the ordi-
nary economical expenses of the
government, Democratic rebellion
is responsible. | do not deny that
there are, and were, many patriotic
men inside the Democratic party
1t is not my habit to arraign them,
sweepingly and en- mdSse, as the last
National Democratic Platform ar
raigned us all as guilty Of "corrup-
ton and extravaganza exceeding
anything known in history" and
"unparalcld oppression and tyranny"
and that if we won in that national
contest they would have to "mcet u
subiugated and conquered people,
amid the ruins Of liberty and the
scattered fragments of the constitu-
ton J" But no matter what good
mon still remain in its ranks, l speak
Of the Democratic party, its organ
ization, its inspiration, its leader
ship, and its history. That is known
of all men and cannot be denied
The points in illustration Of its re-
sponsibility, as party, for the re-
bcllion, and the prolonged conflict
to suppress it, can never be argued
away,
/. Every State which rebelled
had q Democratic Governor. Ev-
cry Executive officer of the Confed-
eracy was a Democrat-its Presi-
dent, Vice-President, Secretary OF
State, Secretary of the Treasury,
Secretary Of the Navy and Post.
master General, without an excep.
ton, Every leading commander OF
its armies was Democrat. Lee,
Bcauregard, Wade Hampton, Stone.
wall Jackson, Pemberton, eX-Demo-
cratic Vice-President Breckenridge
Hood, Sidney Johnson and all. Oh
only the Republican party can il be
said that not a single one ever signed
an ordinance Of secession, or fired
{ on our flag, or has shot down 1T
defenders.
,. The administration in power
which could have crushed it in its in
ception, but did not, was democratic
Its President, Buchanan, gave it aiC
and comfort by proclaiming in hi
message of December, 1860, that
l.Lo combination hoe ,0t JoIo,.o4
to Congress, or any other depart
ment OF the government, the power
to coerce u State into submission
when ~ attempting TO withdraw OF
has actually withdrawn from theCon
tederacy," as lie called the United
States and "the sword was not
placed in their hands to preserve il
(the Union) by force" 1t was {
Democratic Secretary Of War who
emptied the Northern arsenals o.
guns and filled the Southern arsenals
with them, thus arming the South
and also disarmiug the North. Il
was . Democratic Secretary of The
Navy who scattered our Navy L
the ends of the earth. 1t was {
Democratic Secretary of the Treas
ury who stabbed our national credit
in that dark hour, as he hoped to it:
death.
;. Every man who in the North
shouted mo coercion every one
who predicted that the rebellion
could not be suppressed, every one
who denounced all measures devised
tor it's overthrow, every one who
stigmatzed the brave soldiers as
Lincoln hirelings, every one who
demanded at the very crisis of the
war an immediate cessation OF nos.
tilities and insisted that the war wa:
failure, as resolved on in the Ma.
tional Democratic platform of 1864
every one who branded the faithful
Lincoln as Nero or Caligula. was q
Democrat in good regular standing
with his party.
| Nor can it be forgotten that when
jeff Davis denounced Congressional
| nonfispatiOn while the COnfaderacx,