Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-30

party, its organization, Its inspiration, II
leadership, and its history That
, known of all men and cannot be de
MED. Three points in illustration of it
| responsibility, as party, for the Rebel
lion, and the prolonged conflict to sup
press it, can never be argued away:
First: Every State which rebelled haC
a Democratic Governor. Every Execu
tive officer of the Confederacy was Z
Democrat, its President, Vice President
I Secretary of State, Secretary of the
Treasury, Secretary of the Navy, and
Postmaster General, without any excep-
ton. Every leading commander of its
armies was a Democrat, Lee, Beaure-
gard, Wade Hampton, Stonewau Jack
son, Pemberton, ex-Democratic Vice
President Breckenridge, Hood, Sidney
| Johnson, and all. OF only the Repub-
Gcan party can it be said, that not a sin
gle one ever signed an ordinance Of Sc
/ cession, or fired on our flag, or shot
down one of its defenders.
Sec0Ha. The administration IN power
which could have crushed it in its ncep-
ton, but did not, was Democratic. It's
| President. Buchanan, gave it aid and
comfort by Proclaiming in his message
of December, 1860, that ''the Constitu-
ton has not delegated to Congress, or
any other Department of the Govern
ment, the power to coerce a State into
submission, which is attempting to with
draw, or has actually Withdrawn from
the Confederacy, as he called the
United States and that 'ithe sword was
not placed in their hands to preserve it
1.-THE Union) by force" 1t was a Demo
cratic Secretary of War who emptied
Northern arsenals of guns and filed
Southern arsenals with them, thus arm
ing the South and disarming the North
It was a Democratic Secretary of the
Navy who scattered our navy to the
ends of the earth. It was a Democratic
Secretary of the Treasury who stabbed
our national credit in that dark hour,
as he hoped to its death.
Third Every man who, in the North,
shouted mo coercion, every one who
predicted that the Rebellion could not
be suppressed, every one who denounc-
ed all measures devised for It's over
throw, every one who stigmatized the
brave soldiers as "Lincoln hirelings, = |
every one who demanded at the very
crisis of the war an immediate cessation |
of hostslities, and that the war was /
failure, as resolved on in the National /
Democratic Platform of 1864, ever one
who branded the faithful Lincoln as a |
Nero or Caligula, was a Democrat in |
good and regular standing with his
party,
Nor can it be forgotten that when Jeff |
Davis denounced Congressional confis-
cation, while the Confederacy were con-
fscating Union mems property, they
were Democrats who echoed that de-
nunciation when Jeff Davis INDUCED
his wrathful expletives at the employ
ment of colored soldiers to put down his
treason, they were Democrats who ech-
oed his invective; when Jeff Davis
mathematical the Emancipation Procla-
nation, they were Democrats who ech-
oed his anathema-and when Jeff Davis
slandered Lincoln as a monster, &C.,
they were Democrats who repeated his
nvectives. Thus, instead Of a thor
oughly united North, which could have
crushed the conspiracy in Il year, we
had divided North and for this pro-
onged war, with its terrible losses in
blood and treasure, those who acted as
have stated, were responsible.
For debt, therefore, and our taxes,
hey have the solemn responsibility and
;annot escape it. No show-cards nor
ophistry can relieve them from it.
And while taxes remain, every stamp
1ou put on a deed or mortgage IS a
sticking plaster to remind you of Dem
1cratic Rebellion-De Democratic in its or
gin and its oflcers-Democratic IN all
he aid and sympathy it received in the
North-and sorrowed over when it was
crushed by our gallant armies, only by
Democrats.
rHE DEMOCRACY ALWAYS ON THE
ONO cTT1I i
In fact for the last twenty years it has
seemed impossible for this Democratic
as a party to get on the
light side of any issue, new or Old
When Border Rufians drove the people
If Kansas from their polls, and by ..
votes elected a Pro-Slavery
legislature, and finally sought to i'm
,ose a hateful Constitution establishing
Slavery there on a people who almost
denounced it, the Demo
ratio party championed this wiCkedness.
When the bred Scott decision, intend
ID to make Slavery national and all
powerful, was proclaimed, they cordially
it. All through the war, ev-
Try measure to strengthen the nations
lrm and weaken the enemy's, whether
,onf1scation, or emancipation, or color ,
ID soldiers, &C., was, in their opinion,
III wrong or unconstitutional, and flt =,
,nly to be denounced. When the war
,loSed and the question came up, wheth-
r the insurgent States should be re-
stored to the rule of the very men who
lad used their Executive, Legislative
and Judicial powers to organize the Re
oellion and to raise its armies, or wheth-
er every effort should be made, on the
contrary, to organize them on a basis
oval to the Union, the Democratic par !
" instinctively insisted on the former.
When tax bills and draft laws became a
necessity to the preservation of the na-
ionaI existence, they warred upon all
our details as wicked and tyrannical.- :
When the interest on the national debt
could only be honestly lessened by
showing the world that our national
credit would be sacredly maintained at
he highest point by all parties, their
speakers and presses denounced those
who had lent US the money as II they
we're swindlers, and in every possible
way sought to poison the public mind
against them. When our greenbacks, !
whose ultimate value they had formerly
were rising in value toward
gold, they cIamored for issues of hun
dreds or thousands of millions more, to
verify their unfulflled prophecies of ev-
il about them. When President Grant
paying off the debt, with
the surplus revenues that his honest and
efficient officers had collected, they de-
nounced his buying the bonds, at their
current value in the market of the
world. When a Republican Congress
passed biUreducing taxation S8o. 700,
900 per yer, they registered their votes
as a party, against it. When the same
Congress passed bill to honestly re-
duce the interest on our bonds, by a mu-
tuaI arrangement with our creditors, or
by paying off our old bonds with the
proceeds of the new, they voted against
It. When it passed bill to enforce the
XIVth and XVIII Amendments, with
penalties only against evil doers and Of
tenders, they resisted it with vehemence
and zeal. When it passed laws for the
restoration of Rebel States to represent
+a+;or, II, the TTuion the DamOcra ~ ron /