Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-09-20
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
lis Black Record During the Pest Ten Years
A Collection OF Weli.known Facts for
Campaign Uso-staudIng ON the Verge
OF Active Treason.

preparing to sound it, appears to be
that the questions of the war are
settled, and the new issues are tax.
tariff, debt and reform. The con-
sistent Democratic record, so closely
allied TO what the Constitution calls
extending aid and comfort to the
enemies OF the Government, is SO far
as possible, to be pushed back cut
OF sight. And since the people have
become 80 thoroughly out of patience
with the conduct of individual Re-
publicans, the Democratic Commit
tee seems to think there is a chance
of their attempting to remedy the
matter by abandoning the party
which saved the country, and COM
hitting the nation into the hands of
those who throughout the rebellion
were allied with rebels.
A glance at the Democratic record
ought TO be sufficient to convince
even Democrats themselves that the
nation cannot yet afford to trust it's
interests in their hands. 1t is thor
ougbly consistent throughout, and
up TO the present moment shows no
change of heart.
THE RECORD IN OUTLINE.
If any one will turn through the
Congressional Globe, from tho out
break of the war, it will be found
that in the cases given below the
majority of the Democrats then in
Congress were arrayed against the
Government, and that in compare
lively few of the instances cited
was there any marked departure
from strict party vote:
On the 3lst ofDecember, 1861, the
Democrats in the House voted that
any attempt to preserve the Union
by force would be impracticable and
destructive to republican liberty.
Jan. Z, 1861, they voted against
resolution approving Maj. Anderson's
withdrawal from Fort Moultrie to
Fort Sumpter, and indorsing the de-
termination of the President to sus-
tain him.
Feb. Is, they voted against the
bill to suppress instruction, and au-
thorizing the President to employ
troops for the purpose.
March B, 1861, potested in writing
against the act to indemnify the
President and other officers for the
suspending of the writ of habeaS
corpus.
August, 1861, and again in May,
1862, opposed bill declaring such
slaves free as should be employed
by their owners in aiding the insur-
rection.
March, 1862, opposed a resolution
recommended in message from the
President, "Ihat the United States
ought to cooperate with any state
which may adopt gradual abolition
OF slavery, giving to such state Pc
cuniary aid, to be used by such state
in it's discretion, to compensate for
the Inconvenience, public and pri-
vate, produced by such change of
system"
April, 1862, opposed q bill for
compensated emancipation in the
District of Columbia, and prohibit
ing slavery within those limits ex-
cept as a punishment for crime.
April, 1862, opposed instructing a
com mittee to inquire whether any
plan could be devised for the gradual
emancipation of the slaves in the
border states, and how far the Gov
eminent ought to aid in the matter.
January, 1868, opposed bill re-
ported from select committee to
secure compensated emancipation in
Missouri.
December, 1861, opposed the pas
sage of the following "ReSolUed,
That in the judgment of this House
it is no part of the soldiers of the
United States to capture and return
fugitive slaves"
March, 1862, opposed the new ar
ticle of war prohibiting all persons
employed in the military or naval
force from employing any of the
forces under their command to aid
in returning fugitive slaves.
| June, 1862, opposed resolution for.
bidding the employment of slaves,
in navy-yards, dock-yards, arsenals
and forts, or at the Naval Academy.
April, 1862, opposed the recogni-
ton of Hayti and Liberia.
April, 1862, opposed removing the
disqualification of color in carrying
the mails
February, 1868, opposed tho en-
rollment act, and, subsequently, all
acts supplementary thereto.
December, 1863, opposed raising,
arming, or equipping negro soldiers
December, 1863, some of the rebel
states being occupied and held by
the Union forces, steps were taken
toward reconstruction. The Demo
Gratis opposed the first bill looking
in that direction, which authorized
the President to appoint Provis-
ional Governor i'll each state reclaim
ed by the national forces.
June, 1862, opposed the resolution
requiring the iron-clad oath for all
appointed or elected to officers OF
honor or profit under the Govern
ment.
June, 1864, and January, 1855,
voted against the the Thirteenth
amendment, abolishing slavery.
February 20, 1866, voted for Mr..
Johnson's proposition to admit all
the rebel states to immediate repre-
sen tation.
Voted against the Civil Rights bill
and the Freedman's Bureau bill, and
to sustain Mr.. johnson in his vetoes
of the measures.
| July ID, committed the party
against the Fourteenth amendment,
and subsequently to all measures
passed in pursuance thereof.
December Fl, 1866. voted for a Sc
ries of resolutions offered by Mr.,
Voorhees, indorsing President John
son in the views he presented to
Congress in his messages.
| February 10, 1866, voted agains
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