Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-10-07

eloquent with argument, so endowed
with resistless force, perhaps never
before made its appeals to the con-
fidence and gratitude of any peo-
pie.
leave off these illusions to the
past of the Republican party of
America by leaving with you, and
you with it, this enormous fact, and
also its mute but amazing eloquencc
The State of the Republic.
In speaking of the demands of the
Democratic party he said:
They demand that you shall not
discuss the wisdom of the recon
strustion measures" because that is
"dead," when they are organizing,
sin the interests their party" con-
spiracies, under the names of"Whitc
Brotherhoods," and the like, intend
ed, or themselves ayow, to "defeat
entirely the reconstruction acts'
They demand that you shall not can
slider the questions of the rights of
the colored race, neither his rights
to the equal protection of law, nor
his right to vote in making law /; he
cause these too are "dead;' when
only the 11th day of July last the
party by the solid vole of it's repre-
sentativcs, declare that 14th
amendment not to be law, which
amendment first endowed that race
with rights which even Democrats
are ''bound 10 respect" and when,
on the same day and in voting against
the same resolution, they declared
the 10th amendment not law which
first gave these people the right
to vote; and when also to-day. their
platform in Ohio demands "uncon-
ditional repeal of the only law
which secures their right to vote.
They demand that you shall say
nothing of their party's associations
of loyal men at the South, because
this is also "dead )" and this they de-
mand although it was only 80 July,
1870, one OF their number declares
the existence of a Democratic organ
ization, embracing the entire South,
of which their President johnson
was the alleged "head CENTER" men,
bership, hundreds of Democrats in a
single country, the "design" Of
which was TO defeat "entirely the
reconstruction acts, and the color
ed mans "civil and political ad-
vencement; )" and the means for the
execution which design this Demo
crat declares was by whipping and
killing unoffending citizens" They
demand that the Republican admin
istration OF General Grant shalI give
place to q Democratic one, so that
thereby, the burdens of the public
debt may pc diminished; when the
result (since 3rd ofmsrch, '69) of
the overthrow of the Democratic
administration of Mr.. Johnson, has
been to diminish that public debt to
4 sixteenth of its entire amount, or
S156,7S4 OIL.
They demand this change to DEM
ocratic administration, so that the
frauds upon the revenue may be
stopped, and the revenues collected !;
when the effect of the expulsion of
the frauds ola Democratic Presi
dent and his agents from the Gov
ernment, was the revenues from
S370,S43,I47 81, for the last year of
Johnson's Administration, to S40S,-
S31, 1873 ~ for the first year of Gen
eral Grants; showing a gain, by
substituting Republican for Demo
cratic frauds, of S37, ,SSG,626 81 in a
single year. They demand this
change to Democratic administrat-
ion, so that the taxes shall be vot-
ed down But only the 18th of July,
1879, the Republicans passed
through theHouse a bill (now a law
which reduced your internal taxes
S55, ,212. 900, /; against which reduc-
ton every Democrat from Ohio,
who voted at all, voted and against
which AZ Democrats voted, being
the entire vote expect eight. Taey
voted substantially solid against a
reduction, made by the last Con.
gress, of S26, ,040 90 of tariff taxes,
on iron, tea, coffee, sugar, spices,
prints and the like.
They demand this change to Dem
ocratic rule SO that corrupt and dis
honest men may be removed
from the public offices; but their
last National Convention endorsed
the administration of Andrew John
son, who not only refused to re-
move, but on the contrary became
notoriously, unyieldiugly and almost
avowedly the champion, protector
and ally of that army of Williams, of
his own appointment, whose frauds
upon the treasury, show to him by
sworn testimony, with name, place,
time and circumstances given,
amounted to PERHAPS hundreds o!
millions per year, and rendered the
most important of the revenue laws
dead letter.
They demand this change to Dem
ocratic administration so that there
shall be an end to the waste of the
public lands by their bestowment
upon railroad monopolies when the
fact that upon the End day of May,
A. D. 1850, the Democratic party in
Congress, by bill introduced by
Stephen A. Douglas, began this
business, by bestowing 2.595,053
acres Of land creation ola huge rail-
road MONOPOLY, in the interior OF
the States; and not like that one to
the Pacific, we have made, which
bring into our lap the wealths OF
the Indies and of all the East,
stretches ACROSS our country the