The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-08-10

some witnesses have sworn before
, the congressional committee that
r everything Is peaceful and lovely in
I the southern states, and that there are
no ku-klGX there; bat their testimony
is negative and weighs nothing
against that Of hundreds Of witnesses
who swear to its existence and it,
= manifold Outrages. Let me say Ia
those who advocate q new departure
: that there is no acceptance of the
amendments while the power to en-
force them is denied. The power Ia
, enforce them is 4 part Of them. Ifa
state fails to secure cOlOred men SUI
, , frage it denies the right, and gives
cOngaess the right to secure it. Ii
was the very purpose of those amend
: ments TO place the rights secured bv
them in the safe keeping Of the con-
greSs of the United States. We know
: the democrats of Kentucky would
never enforce the amendments. We
know they trampicd on the llth by
electing hundreds OF ineligible men To
Office They treated it with defiance.
We did not commit the folly of in
. trusting enforcement of amendments
10 their enemies.
IL panders b every base prejudice
and Processes every principle. To the
skeptic and the unbeliever itdenOun-
oes Sunday and the Sunday laws To
the Catholic it denounces the Protest
ant and swears by the pope. In Penn
sylvania il clamOrs lOudest for high
/. protective tariff. In Indiana it rOars
for free trade. In the eastern states il
denOunces paper money, and demands
immediate return to specie payments
as mOnstrGus fraud for the benefit OF
hOndhOlders, and demands that
enough grccnbacks be ISSUED to pay
oil all the bonds ut once. In the east,
il is for national banks. In the west,
il Is against them, until within sixty
days IL denounced reconstruction laws
and unconstitutional and void, and
the lith and 18th amendments is
fraudulent, wicked and invalid. With
in sixty days, il pretendS 10 believe i'm
reconstruction and the amendments,
and to proclaim its cheerful accept
lance of them and faith in the princi-
Piles they involve. CIamOring for lib
erty, il always defended slavery; for
ever declaiming about the cOnstitut.
ion, it sustained the right OfseceSsiOn;
forever babbling about the union. il
sustained the rebellion. If you can
find a heresy-a prejudice or super
stitiOn in any neighbOFhOOd that ear
ries a hundred votes, it will put it i'm
the platform.
The democratic party propose to
acquire power 10y the abuse of the re-
publican party; they propose no
measure of finance; they don't agree
/ upon the tariff nor currency, aud, so
/ far rs measures are concerned, the
party is in a state of bankruptcy and
utter E0verty. II is doing NEST prod
/ igiOus lying about the republican
party, and gives forth foul OuthurSts of
I AIunchausen and Sindbad.
There are bad men i'm the republican
/ party, IS there are in every party,
church and organization, but that
party is the purest which contains the
/ fewest raScals and the least cOrrup-
I ton, and shows a.dispGsitiOn To arrest
and punish them when discovered.
/ There il less corruption in the govern
ment to-day that during the admin
iStratiOn of Buchanan and Pierce, al
| though the work of the federal power
has been vastly extended and the
amount Of revenue collected and dis
bursed has been vastly increased.
| Wherever in this nation is found un-
disputed democratic sway we find the
gTGsSest corruption.
The corruption of the New York
democracy shocks the sensibilitieS of
the world. There the greatest rascals
own their courts rs they own their
carriages and horses, and judicial
opinions are bought and sold like
merchandise. Is your city any except
ion To the misrule of the democratic
party? l am told not.
The administration needs no de
fense. It's defense is found in the
general prosperity Of the nation; in
the sOundness Of the currency; in the
unusual cnuiidence in the stability Of
her financial system, and in the faith
ful collection and disbursement Of the
revenue.
During Grants administration 200
millions Of the national debt have been
paid and the annual amount Of taxes
been reduced S. millions, which was
done against the vote of all the dem
Ocrats in congress. Such is the sue
cess Of the administration that 30 to
% millions more of annual taxes may
he t9llen oil at the next session Of con-
gress. The fact is that i'm all sub
stantial respects the country never
had a better administration II what
the people want is 4 good administFa-
ton, they have il now.
Most Of the democratic clamOr is
about the ku-kIuX, which have con
sidered, and the president appointing
relatives to office. lie has not ap-
pointed half as many rs reported, and
there is no complaint Of their incom-
potency tO perform the official duties.
II when he came To fame and power
he had turned his face upon his poor
relatives, those who had stood by him
in poverty and OlscuIity, when moth
ing was To be gained by il, and had
refused to allow them to participate
i'm his prosperity and 10 be benefited
10y his acccssiOnS 10 power, his course !
would have been approved by the
shOddy aTistOcracy, by the Aminadab /
Sleeks Of society, but not by men of
good hearts and good sense. ! am |
sure you don't think any the worse of |
him for what he has done Much of
the siulI written about nepOtism and |
appointing relatives To Office is affect /
ed and silly scntimentalism, and a /
great deal of this is written by men
who have been refused office on
account Of their dishonesty and in /
competency. lie is also charged with /
cOrruptiOns because he advocated the /
ACQUISITION of san Domingo. That I
matter he has referred To- the peO-
ole, and does not desire to take a
step in the matter contrary to their /
wish. The hypocrisy of the demOcra- |
cy on this subject is shown i'm their I
platforms. According to the demOc- /
racy of Ohio, that party are in favor Of
acquiring San Domingo, but are Op- |
posed 10 its annexation as Z job, and /
by the means by which it is proposed /
acquire it. They are for it, but not by 1
the,means the administration proposes. !
The intimatiOn that President Grant I
is corrupt i'm the matter, and that /
there is q job in it, is an infamous cal !
umHy, in support of which there IS not /
a single fact or circumstance, or for I
which there Is no excuse, whether it is |
told by one man or by 3UD i'm a cOnven- /
ton.
The democratic party, by history,
education and tradition, is incapable .
of reform. NOu can not engraft re- I
form upon it any more than you can
engraft live branch upon a dead .
trunk, or place a new roof on = tum-
BILE down house with rotten rlfters 1
and crumbling foundation. 1t has al
ready Outlived IFS time, and ought, for
the good Of the country, To pass away.
If the new departure has been taken
in earnest, there is no excuse for its
living another day. It's repentance
should be of deathbed character. IL
should ask only to be forgiven, not 10
live. But il seems to retain the re-
markable theory that by cOnfessing
its crimes and protesting to adopt re-
publican principles il is entitled to SUI
percede that party in power, and thus
acquire title over those who have
been doing right all the time. The
pretended new departure is but q
is but a develOpement of the
irresistible conflict in the democratic
party. II thus cOnfesses that it can't
succeed upon its own principles, and
that the time has come when it should
pass away, and, as a political Organiz-
alton, pass away forever.
y gentleman writing from Mans