Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-06

pass any law to enforce any of these
amendments. Every effort OF ours to en-
force them has been met by the most vio-
lent parliamentary opposition and the laws
have been resisted by organized violence
Now they tell us they will repeal the
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 snd 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 are waiting and wetching-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.
1t is only necessary to read the Demo
cratic journals, both in Ohio and iii 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 a bad mixing of opposing ideas.
They felt that the public voice demand
ed 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 if-and damn-and a slap with sew
eral loop-holes of fescape-with many anti
dotes-and in bad temper generally. The
dose was Objectionable to many, but they
took it, and have not felt well since.
And now nothing could be moro ludicrous
in political strategy-if it were not dan
gerous-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
triot soldiers, would, by virtue of their
majority, seize the power of the Demo
cratic organization; and where, then,
would be the amendments, CT the protec-
ton of loyal people, white or black, or the
public's honor as represented by the pen
sion list, and the public creditors2 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 treasonsble 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
of the North-with policy pulling one way
and principle another-with the politicians
preaching the new gospel Of 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 con-
dition the Democratic party of the North
is utterly unfit to assume any responsible
of fault finding; of opposing what we do /;
of proposing nothing; of voting against
everything even the English treaty-in
Test the Democratic party by what it
Gently What good did its temporary ma
jority in the Legislature of Chic do the
people of Ohio? 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 ?
What can it do for the future of the cOun-
try? Here is a string of fifteen resolutions,
and there is not a 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 cali the new de-
parture They remind one of the famous
group of bronze horses at Milan. They
appear eager to depart in every direction,
but go 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
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
the first commercial nations of the
world are applaud:ng it, and follow
ing our example; though Governor
Chase, now one Of their candidates
fathered it and supports it; though nc
man has lost a dollar as the holder of q
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 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
| 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 upor
every popular cry-hers one thing, anG
there another. In Ohio it is GIeenbacks
in New York it is Specie Payments, il
Pennsylvania it is Protection; here it is
New Departure the South it is per
petual war against the Amendments ant
death to the Negro. With the Irish it il
Fenianism. In Kentucky it is the Reso
lutions of '9S, slightly revised; with JET
Davis and his powerful following it i
discord, war and disunion.
Let any impartial man look over tn
whole field of National and State polite
let him look at the dangerous element
comprising that party-let him conside
what they would do if placed in power
let him combine in one .cauldron all tn
ingredients, and say upon his oath, is j
wise and polite yet to turn over to tn
Democratic party the administration of tn
affairs Of great nation like ours?
When, on the other hand, we turn t
the great political organization to Whic