Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-08-24

out for himself" s.
Worse than the Misrepresentation of
the party in its views of the right and
validity of the Fourteenth and Fif-
teeth Amendments, is the confession
of previous errors and false opinions,
implied in the language of the first and
second resolutions.
They record the party as acknowledge
ing and acquiescing in the validity of
the reconstruction and force laws of
the Radical Congress and thus are
made to admit that Congress could
take away the life Of ten free States,
deny their existence, annul their con
stitutions and reduce them 10 the con
dition Of territories. without sover
eighty and without government, and
that by an act Or resolution of Con
gress they could be declared out of the
Union and without any but such gov
ernments as Congress might order over
them.
They make US acknowledge the
right of Congress to deprive native
white men of full age of the right to
vote, at its will, and to compel these
| dlstranclllsed white native citizens.
without representation in their Gov
ernment, to obey laws and submit to
authorities imposed upon them against
their wills, either by Congress or by
the votes of crowds Of dumb, gnorant
negroes, brutalized by their former
condition in slavery, knowing none Of
the duties of the citizen and obeying
the single instinct to vote as their new
masters, the Radical leaders may die
tate.
In recognizing the validity of these
amendments, and IN pledging our party
to the execution and enforcement Of
them, we acknowledge Congressional
reconstruction fully, against which VT
have contended with brave and hope
ful hearts, as party, for five years
We give up the old Constitution, the
reserved rights of the States the dear
est right of the native white man-hi;
suttrag6---and surrender absolute
power to Congress, to destroy States
to take away their sovereignty, to nulli
|, fly their Constitutions, to deny to then
and their people the right of self gov
ernment, to put over them foreign
! rulers, to control them by swarms o
newly made barbarian voters. to abol
ish their courts and annul their laws
su >stituting therefore the arbitrar,
will of Congress and of it's militar,
: satraps.
| Resistance to all of these laws dur
ing their accomplishment, which al
not acknowledged to be right or rem
ediess, in our party platform, brougIl
f into the Democratic party, or i'll full
/ accord with it. such men as Groesbeck
t Ewing, Campbell. Ward and a host O
others, who may we'll eXclaim, ''Wher
+ now shall we go?' Why use the cant
s senseIess phrase, dead politica
e issues 2" No convention of men eve
we've able by words to bury politics
n question SO long it touched the heart
o of the people, or ngitate the minds q
d men. An institution like SLAYER
5 might cease to exist, but a princips
d of government or political actio
i never ceases to be of interest to FIRE
: people-and to-day, although slavery
l. the institution, is dead,aone ofits coi
h sequences, rebellion, is as much I'll
N right of an oppressed people as whe
v Moses rebelled against Pharoah, {
le our fathers against the British crown
I'd If it be true that the Fourteen
and Fifteenth Amendments were mao
I'd parts of the Constitution by fraud an
IN violence, and are, therefore, revolt
N tionary and void, as the great boo
IL Of the Democratic party believe it
not certain that if that party can
d, into pow er so as to control legislati'
W. bodies of the State and nation it won
MS choose no man to a legislative off
II who would not be true to this idea al
Ike in exercising his right to judge of Il
ed election and qualifications of membc
lie, of the body he belonged to, would
e. not he bound to exclude any claimil
IL election or qualification under the
re void amendments? ?
III Equally unpopular is the rhetoric
if expression OF our eloquent leadt
Ok Mr. Grohsbeck, that "war legislate