The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-06-01
The Meaning Of the Victory.

The triumph of the Democracy in
Oew York State on Tuesday has a
greater meaning than that indicated
in the simple election of the Democra-
tic candidates.
siasm manifested anywhere. There
was a want of interest on the part of
the Republicans; a carelessness that
grew from disgust, and they gave little
heed to what was going on. With
the Democracy there was little said
but much done. Without demonstra-
ton, they were earnest and determin-
ed, and they have lifted a finger of
warning to the oligarchy at Washing
ton which must be needed.
1t was not a question of the election
of the Democratic candidates, worthy
and estimable as those candidates
were
1t was the perpetuity of the Govern
ment,
The liberty of the people,
Equal justice to all,
The true principles of Democracy
which were at stake, and these wore
triumphant.
The people have too long and too
quietly submitted to the discriminate
ing class Legislation ola Congress own
ed by the capitalists, a Congress bribed
and held in slavery by bank corpora
tons, railroad corporations, and the
thousand and one organizations design
ed especially to plumber the land and
The people of their wealth. They have
seen, year by year, how all the legisla-
ton of ~so-called Republicans has been
directed to their destruction; how:it
has made laws for the benefit of the
rich al the expense of the working
man. They have seer how their fami-
lies have been robbed, that the fami-
hes of those protected by Congress
could live in luxury. They have seen
how a Republican Congress has made
infamous tariff laws to protect the
cotton-mills of New England, at the
expense of the workshop and the farm.
They have seen how a political junta
ut Washington has constituted an oil
garchy, and designed the destruction
OF u form of government. They
have seen how tens of thousands of
true men fell in a so-called ewar for
the Union" and now, five years after
the wal has ended, the Union is not
yet restored, and all because a thiev-
ing carpet-bagger would be thrown out
of Office if it was.
All this the people have had about
them as a dark cloud, which betokens
a destructive storm. They foretold
the decay of civil liberty-ofa govern
ment of the people-and gave warn
ing most distinctly of the coming
power of money and wealth
To rave themselves from a condition
ofslavery from which they would never
emerge, the people arose in mass and
gave this warning.
A month since Connecticut advanced
to the front, and now the solid lines
of the New York Democracy are
strengthened by tie doubling of her
majorities.
Gre heed to this!
Let the Federal garroter release his
clutch upon the sovereignty and indie
pendence of the State. Let the Fed
eral usurper understand that this is
still a Government in which the voice
of the people is the law, and there is
no Government superior to the Gov
eminent of the State. Let the present
administration, from Congress down
to the ~nonentity at the White House,
understand that the fifty thousand ma
Jointly which the people of New York
gave against that administration is her
declaration of independence, and that
she will not be trihed with.
Let them understand that this is an
indication of what they are to have
from all over the Union when the fall
elections transpire. New York will
not be alone in its adherence and devo
ton to the true principles of our Gov
eminent. These are serious times,
and the people will look them squarely
in the face M. Y. Democrat.