Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-05-04
THE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS.

ty. 1t accuses the Republican par
ty,with much generality, but it avoids
committing the Democracy to any
principles or policy. We have no
doubt that after that unpleasant
ness" in heaven, when the confeder-
ates were beaten and cast out, they
could have issued just such an ad-
dress as this against the heavenly
host. But they did not. Satan and
his chiefs were not so silly as to sup
pose that any accusation they could
bring against the party that had
banished them to the bottomless
pit would affect public opinion. So
they did not raise an Outcry of ac-
cusation, but set themselves at work
so contrive to regain by strategy
what they had lost by force.
The Democratic Congressman are
silly enough to suppose that their
vague accusations against the Re
publican party will move somebody.
Else why did they illuminate it? 1t
will affect neither Democrat or Re
publican; nor is their anything in it
to guide the Democratic mind to-
ward the next campaign. 1t is as
empty proclamation as was ever
issued against the comet.
They state the vast sum of mon
ey that the war cost. 1t is the cost
of Democratic rebellion. 1t is, a
perpetual testimony to the Demo
cratic crime. Why do they state
this, unless to bring before our eyes
the cost of Democracy:
They state the annual expenses,
and say it is more than in Democrat
ic times. Over thirty millions of it
is for pensions to soldiers, widows,
orphans, maimed'and bereft by the
murders of the Democratic REBEL
ion. Let them keep before our eyes
the consequences of their own
crimes.
But they misuse words in their
comparisons. These are Democratic
times. The debt of $1,000, 100000
is Democratic. The interest of over
100 millions is Democratic. The
pensions are Democratic. The ex-
panded military and naval establish
ments by the war are Democratic.
The extra civil establishment re
quired to collect revenue to pay
these war expanded expenses Is
Democratic. Only a fraction of the
governmental expenses is Republi
can.
They say Congress has done moth
ing to reduce taxation. And the
Democratic members have distin-
guished themselves, even in the de;
nunciations of the journals of their
own party, for their incapacity to
originate or aid any rational system
of reducing taxation. They demon
strated that what they wanted was
not to reform taxation, but to de-
prive the government wholly of rev
enue to keep the public faith.
They denounce the legislation
against the Ku-Klux, but have not
a word to say against these organ
lied murderers; therefore, their ill
opinion of the law is the same that
is proverbial to those who are con.
demned by it. The land rings with
the murder of unoffending men by
the party friends of these members
yet they only arraign the law enact.
ed to punish them. Is Democracy
synonymous with Ku-KluX? True,
they denounce generally the idea
that the Democratic party can have
sympathy with disorders orviolence
but they show the character of this
by denying that there are any dis
orders or violence in'tm South.
Lacking the integrity to make a
plain recognition of the disordercd
and dangerous state of the South
they recognize it indirectly by a gen.
eral eXhortatiomto maintain peace
and order, and protect the rights OF
every citizen, and by prescribing
friendship and affection as the best
means to restore, peace in the
South.
But the Democratic mind does
not hold peace and friendship com.
patible with Republican rule. Il
does not mean that its Southern
confederates should abide by tho
law under 4 Republican administra
tion. What it means is war to carry
the Southern elections, and Demo
cratic administration to embrace the
redhanded. That is its notion o.
restoring Democratic tranquility.
This address is too feeble. Its
accusations of the Republican rule
amount to nothing. 1t is as if the
criminal classes should upbraid the
government for the cost of protect
ing society. 1t offers no policy ol
principle that can inspire the party
to new contest. And it can have
no influence, even if it has the de.
sign, to restrain the outrages in the
South which are now proclaimina
to the country the dangers of Dem.
ocratic rule.-Cincinndti Gazette.