Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22

Y is. point to it as it stands before yol
: to-day and l let this last, great, best
: all other including and browning
: fact-THE COUNTRY'S CONDI
S TION-conclude my story of the
a deeds of the Republican party. A
| fact so eloquent with argument, SC
/, endowed with resistless force, per.
| haps never before made its appeals
: to the confidence and gratitude Of
any people.
Il l leave off these illusions to the
l past of the Republican party OF
J America by leaving with you, and
: you with it, this enormous fact, and
also its mute but amazing eloquence
I-THE STATE OF THE REPUBLIC
THE LOGIC OF IT ALL.
These two things being said, turn
now to realization of the spectacle
presented by the facts l have al
luded to in the past and present OF
this great Democratic party. There
it stands before you to-day, Ameri-
can people, demanding of you'that to
them, and instantly-this very year,
you shall surrender this, your new
government. In the presence of the
facts, which thus troop around them,
as they make this demand of your
surrender, look at the prodigious
audacity of it!
They come telling you that, in
deciding about this surrender, you
shall not name their resistance of
slavery's overthrow, because that
issue is "dead;" when, at the South.
they are, to-day, demanding elections
to Congress because they believe in
its reestablishment. They demand
you shall not name secession" be-
cause it is ''dead;" when they are
ielecting supreme judges, in the lar
gest State in the Union, "with the
declared expectation that they may
be called upon to array the State
against the Union. They demand
that you shall not name their deeds
Of notification, when, in '6S they
cast over two millions of votes to
elect a President and Vice President
who by their title, platform, and
that vote, were pledged to ''trample
into DUST every reconstruction
act" of Congress; and, by means of
a military command of their Presi-
dent to overthrow both the legisla-
lures of the reconstructed States,
and the Senate of the United
States!
They demand that you shall not
discuss the wisdom of the ''recon-
struction measures" because that is
"dead," when they are organizing,
Sin the interests of their party"
conspiracies, under the names of
"White Brotherhoods," and the like,
intended, or themselves avow, to
''defeat entirely the reconstruction
acts"
They demand that you shall not |
consider 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
laws; because these too are 'dead;"
when only the l1th day of July last
the party, by the about solid vote of
its representatives, declare that the
14th amendment not to be law,
which amendment first endowed
that race with rights which even
Democrats are "bound to 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 peo-
pie the right to vote; and when also
to-day, their platform in Ohio de-
mands unconditional 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
demand although it was only 29th
of July, 1870, one of their number
declares the existence of Demo-
cratic organization, embracing the
entire South, of which their Presi-
dent johnson was the alleged
"head CENTER" embracing in its
membership, hundreds of Demo
Gratis in a single county, the design
of which was to defeat entirely the
reconstruction acts,' and the colored
mans ''civil and political advance
ment;" and the means for the exc
cution which design this Democrat
declares was by whipping and kill
ing unoffending citizens" They de-
mand that the Republican admins
tration of General Grant shall give
place to a Democratic one, so that
thereby, the burdens of the public
debt may be diminished; when the
result (since 3rd of March, '69) of
the overthrow of the Democratic
administration of Mr.. johnson, has
been to diminish that public debt to
a sixteenth of it's entire amount, or
$156, ,13S,7S4 01.
They demand this change to
Democratic administration, so that
the frauds upon the revenue may be
and the revenues collected
when the effect of the expulsion of
the frauds of a Democratic Presi-
dent and his agents from the Gov
ernment, was the instantaneous in
crease of the revenues from $780,
943, TAI 81, for the last year of
Johnson's Administration, to $40S,-
S31 1878 42 for the first year of Gen
eral Grants; showing gain, by ,
substituting Republican for Demo
cratic frauds, of $37, ,SS6,526 81 in
a single year. They demand this
change to Democratic administra-
ton, so that the taxes shall be voted
down. But only the 18th of July,
1870, the Republicans passed {
the House bill (now a
law which reduced your internal
taxes $50, ,212,000; against which re-
every Democrat from Ohio,
who voted at all, voted, and against
which Al Democrats voted, being I
the entire vote except eight. They !
voted substantially soldid against a 9
made by the last Con- q
gress, of $26,040 90 of tariff taxes, d
on iron, tea, coffee, sugar, spices, ?
prints and the like. +