The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-05-26
The Ohio Democracy.

/ tansabandonment of its colors !; and if
! wise counsels prevail that Democracy
! is in no danger now. Year in and
year out heleaYen of the Ohio Dem
ocracy has maintained its quality, in
the face of the most dishearteningand
discouraging defeats-in the presence
of unhappy personal rivalry, and such
perfdy as would have betrayed any
encampment not entrenched by the
strongest surroundings. One by one
the old aspirants for Office have been
picked up. from the Democratic ranks
| and bribed into positions of power,
leaving their comrads to struggle al
most hopelessly against oVerwhelm-
ing odds. 1t is no less singular than
true that the Democratic party has
/ been more frequently betrayed by
men that it has picked out of the gut
ter and elevated to pedestals they.
4 were unit to occupy, that those same
men were the most virulent enemies.
to be encountered.-The cupidity and
perfidy of Northumberland as the
Abolition party elevates to power
have affected the Democratic party
and the country at large more injuri-
ously than all other of the instru-.
mentalities of the Abolition fanatics.
If the Democratic party had not been
founded upon irnmutable principles
and been gifted with an idea above
the bread and butter, that constitutes
the ambition of the thieves who have
Joined and betrayed it, the party
would have disappeared years ago.
But an organization that has the sense,
the brains and the courage to main
tain. itself through so many unmerci-
full disasters, must not and cannot fall
into that shameful apathy that pre-
cedes q mortal sickness. There is
nothing in. the sky or the signs there
of that. will Justify any conscious
Democrat in giving away to the del
] uge of fraud and fanaticism that, ap-
parently threatens the overwhelming
ofIthe entire vessel. 1t will be much
more to the credit of the Democracy
and the profit of the people and the
country for all to despise the dangers
and the frauds that environ their for
tunes, and make deep decent and up
right struggle for the ascendency that
is indispensable TO the preservation of
civil liberty good government.
There is vast quantity of senseless
blather. about submitting to finalities,
and hundreds of ffeeble.intellects favor
the policy ofacquiescing in the gross
Fest and most scandalous fraud ever
perpetrated upon q people, with a
view to.gain Office and power. Such
advisers should be, like the debt, re-
pudiated. They, are the representa-
sAIattiEes Of the donkey race, leading stile
columns of Hons. and their counsels
unworthy of esteem, because insti-
gated by motives never regarded by
the democracy of this country, In a
Republic. supposed to be governed
"by the people and for the people, :"
there can be no such thing as fraudu-
lent finalities. The umpireship OF
these fnalities rests with the people,
and if there is not spirit and intelli-
gence enough in them to resent such
imposftions as the Fifteenth Amend
ment, or this scandalous public debt,
there can be no need of parties, nor
can there be much excuse for the form
ations of factions i'll opposition to the
imperialism that has already assumed
sway. ..ss....i5 ..3. ..sG: sid. aa
Tn another column of this paper we
publish the call for the Democratic
State Convention to be held on the
first day of June. In that Conven-
ton, which will be a representative
body of the Democracy Of Ohio, there
should be q final quietus put upon the
time servers and policy mongers who
are anxious to recognize facts as
accomplished before anything has
been established. Such eounsels have
enervated the party heretofore, and
will do the like service again, if there
is not manliness in the Convention to
resent their shameful approaches.
The Fifteenth Amendment will be, as
1T ought to be, denounced and repudi-
ated as fraud, swindle and usurpa-
tion, such as the people of the State
of Ohio, with a becoming sense. of
their own rights and dignity, will re-
fuse to recognize of any force or effect,
as part of the law of the land, in the
form of a Federal Constitution. y 1t
should GO to the world as the opinion
of atileast one-half of the people of
Ohio, that the Fifteenth Amendment
is,the thimble-rigging trick of eau
Gus of thieves, who had no more right
to vote away the liberties of States
and peoples than they had to sell
dominions that they did not own.
The minor incidents of this issue can
be as summarily disposed Of. 1t seems
idle to discuss tariff questions, or dis
pute about which one of. many arti-
cles shall be taxed to pay revenue to
the Government when that Govern
ment itself is an organized robbery
and profiigate usurpation. The COL
lection of eight hundred millions of
taxes per annum to defray the ex-
penses of a caucus of thieves, who rob
the people of every right to life, lib
erty OF property, and burlesque all
government, is a badge of infamy
whieh no Caucasian race has long en-
dured, and cannot now. While the
question of the distribution of the
burdens of Government would be q
matter of vast Importance where a
government was conducted for the
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