The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-07-20

The New Departure is a good
enough Morgan until after the cleo
ton, and then their platform is loose
enough for them to creep through and
follow their old course of hate, per-
secution and violence. While these
tricks are played upon US here, the
mass of the Democratic voters in the
South are waiting and watching
not over the border, but in sbe
heart Of our country-to restore the.
lost cause-to upset all that we have
gained in the last ten years.
1t is only necessary to read the
Democratic journals, both in Ohio
and other States, to show that this
New Departure is only to shield
themselves as behind some jugglery
about the construction of the amend
ments and the mode of their enforce
ment. The essential notifications
made in the convention of the Day
ton resolutions gives color to this
idea, and the whole, as they stand
in the platform, look like a bad
mixing of opposing ideas.
/ They felt that the public voice de-
manded that these amendments
must be ratified and indorsed by
their party, and yet they did not
want to do it. They did it with an
Iif--and a damn-and a sIap--with
several loop-holes Of escape-with
many antidoteS-and in bad temper
generally. The dose was objection
able to many, but they took it, and
have not felt well since.
And now nothing could be more
ludicrous in political strategy-if it
were not dangerous-than to trust
the Democratic party with the en-
forcement of these amendments.
Better give the lamb to the wolf
than either the blacks of the South
or the loyal people of the South to
the Democratic party of either the
North or South. The Democratic
party of the North would be power
less to execute their pledge. The
same men who broke that party at
Charleston, the same men who sacri-
feed Douglas, the same men who
covered our land with the graves of
patriot soldiers, would, by virtue of
their majority, seize the power Of the
Democratic organization, and where,
then, would be the amendments or
the protection of loyal people, white
or black, or the public's honor as
represented by the pension list, and
the public creditors ? From the logic
of afinities, and the association of
names and events, it is evident that
no sincere movement to enforce the
amendments can ever be executed
by the Democratic party. The noisy
crowds that hail with enthusiasm
the reasonable utteTances of jeff.
Davis-the bands of midnight Dem
ocratic outlaws who make night
hideous in the South by murder and
nameless crimes, without danger or
fear of punishment-clearly show
that the Democratic party Of the
South can not yet be trusted with
political power while the uneer-
tain, evasive and divided voice Of
the Democratic party of the North
with policy pulling one way and
principle another-With the politi-
clans preaching the gospel of a New
Departure, and the instincts and
preiudices Of the masses still oppos-
ed-with its spoken utteranees, like
DeIphic OracIes, paltering in double
sense-in such a condition the Dem
ocratic party Of the North is utterly
unfit to assume any responsibility in
the Government except its old role
of fault-fuding; of opposing what
we do; proposing nothing; of vOt-
ing against every-thing-even the
English treaty-in hopes that some
thing will turn up.
Test the Democratic party by
what it has done where it has been
in power recently. What good did
its temporary majority in the Legis-
Iature of Ohio do the people Of Ohio {?
1t pledged reform, and yet increased
the State expenditures in every
branch of the service, and largely in
creased local taxes. What has it
done in New York, and especially in
the city, where, under Tammany
influence, there is established the
most scandaIous and corrupt munic-
ipal government in the world =?
What can it do for the future of this
country? Here is a string Of fifteen
resolutions, and there is not a single
affirmative proposition in them up
on which the Democratic party
could stand united, except the one
demanding amnesty to Davis,
Toombs and the rebels of the South.
| The first seven resolutions they call
the New Departure. They remind
one of the famous group of bronze
horses at Milan. They appear to be
eager to depart in every direction,
but 90 no where. They tell Us that
they hold good to the old Demo
cratic doctrine Of annexation of ter
ritory, but are opposed to acquir-
ing San Domingo. They pretend to
be for hard money, but propose to
issue an Unlimited amount Of green
backs. They pretend respect for the
laws and the courts, and they pro
pose to disregard not only the sol
emn pledges of our loan law, but
the decisions of the Supreme Court,
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