Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-14


laws, and yet they recognize the amend
ments. They believe in the Maine Liquor
law, but are opposed TO its enforcement
They confess their sins, but will surely
repeat them.
The New Departure Is a good enough
Morgan until after the election, and then
their platform is loose enough for them all
to creep through and follow their old
course of hate, persecution and violence.
While these tricks are played upon us
here, the mass of the Democratic voters In
the South arc waiting and watching-nOt
over the border--but In the heart of our
country, to restore the lost cause--to upset
all that we have gained In the last ten years.
II is only necessary TO read the Demo
cratic journals, both in Ohio and in other
States, to show that this New Departure
is only to shield themselves behind some
jugglery about the construction of the
amendments and the mode of their en-.
forcement. The essential notifications
made in the convention of the Dayton res
olutions gives color TO this idea, and the
whole, as they stand in the platform,
look like bad mixing of opposing ideas.
They felt that the public voice demand
cd that these amendments must be ratified
and indorsed by their party, and yet they
did not want to do IL. They did it with
eral loop-holes of fescape-with many anti
dotes-and in bad temper generally The
dose was Objectionable to many, but they
took 1t, and have not felt well since,
And now nothing could be more ludicrous
in political strategy-if IL were not dam
gerUus--than to trust the Democratic
party with the enforcement 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 powerless TO execute
their pledge. The same men who broke
that party at Charleston, the same men
who sacrificed Douglas, the same men who
covered our land with the graves of pa
trlot soldiers, would, by virtue of their
majority, seize the power of the Demo
cratic organization; and where, then,
would be the amendments, or the protec-
tion of loyal people, white or black, or the
public's honor as represented by the pen
sion list, and the public creditorsP From
the logic of affinities and the association
of names and events, it Is evident that no
sincere movement to enforce the amend
ments can ever be executed by the Demo
cratic party. Noisy crowds that hail with
enthusiasm the reasonable utterances of
jeff. Davis-the bands of midnight Demo
cratic 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 cannot yet be trusted with po-
litical power; while the uncertain, evasive
and divided voice of the Democratic party
ofthe North-with policy pulling one way
and ndprinciple another-with the politicians
preaching the new gospel of a new de-
parture, and the instincts and prejucices
of the masses still opposed-with its
| spoken utterances, like Delphic oracles,
| paltering in double sense-in such a con.
dition the Democratic party of the North
is utterly unfit to assume any responsible
| ity in the government except its old role
of fault finding; of opposing what we do !;
of proposing nothing; of voting against
everything-even the English treaty-in
hopes that something will turn up.
Test the Democratic party by what it
has done where it has been in power re.
Gently. What good did its temporary ma
iority in the Legislature of Ohio do the
people of Ohio9 1t pledged reform, and
yet increased the State expenditures in
every branch of the service, and largely
increased local taxes. What has it done
in New York, and especially in the city,
where, under Tammany influence, there is
established the most scandalous and cor
rupt municipal government in the world I?
| What can it do for the future of the coun-
try? Here is string of fifteen resolutions,
and there is not single affirmative pro
position in them upon which the Demo
cratic 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 de-
| % IL L.
group of bronze horses at Milan, They
appear eager to depart in every direction,
but 90 nowhere. They tell us that they
hold good to the old Democratic doctrine
of annexation of territory, but are opposed
to the acquiring San Domingo. They pre-
tend to be for hard money, but propose to
issue an unlimited amount of greenbacks
| They pretend respect for the laws and the
! courts, and they propose to disregard not
only the solemn pledges of our loan laws,
but the decision of the Supreme Court, in
order to cheat the public creditors They
declare their opposition to the national
banking system, but propose nothing to
take its place. In their wild and blind op.
position they would destroy the best
system of currency we have ever
had, merely because it was estab-
lished by the Republican party. Though
|
world are applaudiug it, and follow
ing our example; though Governor
Chase, now one of their candidates,
fathered it and supports it; though no
man has lost dollar as the holder of a
national bank note, yet they would de-
range all the business of the country by
uprooting the system, merely because
there is supposed to be virtue in a party
cry against banks. They talk about a
revenue tariff and wise tax laws, and yet
no member of their party in Congress
ever proposed either; but oppose every
measure offered by us. When we repeal
eighty millions of taxes they vote against
it. When we devise new guards against
fraud, they vote against them. They
talk about economy, and yet they
vote for every eXtravagant expendi,
ture. They would load us down with
rebel losses in the war They seize upon
every popular cry--here one thing, and
there another. In Ohio it is GTeenbacks s,
in New York it is Specie Payments, in
Pennsylvania it is Protection; here it is a
New Departure-in the South it is per-
petual war against the Amendments and
death to the Negro. With the Irish it is
Fenjanism. In Kentucky it is the Reso-
lutiOns of 99, slightly revised with JEFF
Davis and his powerful following il is
discord, war and disunion.
Let any impartial man look over the
whole field of National and State politics
let him look at the dangerous elements
comprising that pqrty-let him consider
what they would do if placed in power
let him combine in one caudron all the
ingredients, and say upon his oath, is il
wise and polite yet to turn over to tho
Democratic party the administration of the
affairs of great nation like ours?
When, on the other hand, we turn e
the gaea1 poItical orgsniza.ion nd 70 wnict
clouds, but the general policy of the Re
, publican party has been elevating, manly
and successful. Above all, we have ex
tended to all our inhabitants liberty ant
equality before the courts and the law il