Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-11-18


MR, AUGUST BELMoET was President of
the Tannnany ratification meeting in New
york, end tn his opening address an.
nounced that the country was tired of Rad.
ical misrule, and wanted a Democratic
Administration and presently the banner
appeared, ."Jo ohm r. Hoffman for Cover.
nor, 1870; for President, 1872" 2
Mr. August Belmont was chairman of
the Democratic National Committee In
u9sd4, Andg iully. represented the spirit of
bls perty. m bis house, as was publicly
hnnotmced at the time, on English noble
man wore secession badge unrebuked by
Ine most, who wasyery angry with young
Uuion officer who resented the insult to
MS country. While,he was still.the Off
cial leader of the Democratic party. Lord
Lyonn. tl1e English Minister, wrote to his
government Several of the leaders of
the Democratic party sought interviews
with me, :. The subject uppermost in
~theirminds, while they were speaking to
me, was naturally that of foreign mediation
sbetWeen the North and the South. If
their own party were in power or virtually
controlled the Administration, they would
rather II possible, obtain an armistice
without the aid of foreign Governments,
offer ofamediation II itappeared to be the
only means of putting stop to hostili-
The Democrats say that they prefer not
TO talk about the past. OF course not.
The last thing that a Democrat should
wish to tellOr to hear is the story of his
party. But it is not SO very long past :;
apd the moral of political reminiscence
gust now is that the Democratic party is
led by the same chiefs, and is inspired by
the same spirit, as during the war, while It
rpftIcnu tn -
to acknowledge the validity of the amend
meFts.- Mr.. Belmont says now that the
country is tired of Radical misrule The
chicago Convention, which, as national
chairman, he called to order, said the same
thing in 1884 1t said that it was ''the
sense of the American people" that the war
was failure, that the Constitution had
been disregarded in every part, that public
liberty and private right had alike been
trodden down, and that justice, humanity,
liberty, and the public welfare demanded
a cessation of the war.
Mr.. Belmont and his party had no com
prehension whatever of the loyal spirit and
piirpose of the American people then, be-
cause they were merely a political organiza-
ton to secure the ascendency of the slavery
aristocracy They have no comprehension
of The spirit and purpose of the same peo-
pie now. They do not understand that
tHe aUtumn elections, upon which Mr..
Belmont congratulates his friends, show
that the Republican party will still control
theGoTernment, and that the country is
not yet ready to trust those who would
have betrayed itonly six years ago.
Mr.. Horatio Seymour wisely confined
his efforts to a treatise upon the Erie Canal,
while Mr.. s. S. Cox, whom the Eoening
Post commends as a candidate for Congress,
did not remind his audience that he said
in Chicago, in 1864, according to report
of his speech, which we have not known
him to question, " Lincoln and Davis ought
to be brought to the same block together. "
,. The people, as appears from the elections
thus far, do not think that the height of
practical wisdom in politics is to shut your
eyes and-to refuse to remember-Hdrper's
Weekly.