The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-29
Address OF the Democratic state Gem
trail Committee.

trail C0mmittee.
One would naturally suppose, that with
the light shed by the conventions ant
addresses of other states, a committee o
Wisconsin Democrats, comprising lhe
ablest men in the party, would issue an
address which would not only shake uI
the dry bones CT its own superanuated
! partizans, but cause to quake with terror
the victorious legions of their opponents.
On the contrary, however, the address
is hardly creditable re-hash of the edi-
torials of country newspapers. IF it was
intended to throw light on the situation.
it comes about as near to it as a lightn-
ing bug would to Illuminating the expanse
of heaven. AS clarion call to assemble
the faithful, it is about as inspiring as
would be tin whistle to call together
the whole army of Kaiser William. 1t
is hardly an apology for the Democratic
party,-much less an earnest appeal for
its success.
The first complaint is that we have
opposed to them "a close, compact and
powerful enemy''-all of which we ad-
NIT. The next charge is that "the coun-
try has not reaped the substantial fruits
of peace and reconstruction. This is true
TO the extent that, owing to encourage
ment from northern Democrats, the south
has not entirely accepted the situation.
but under the new departure" we can
not doubt that when equal rights are
guaranteed to all men, white and black,
! we shall see the triumph of Republican
principles as endorsed by their late op-
ponents.
The ghost Of centralized despotism
haunts the dreams of the committee,
who state the issues of the campaign in
the following sentiments, most of which
are borrowed from Republican platforms
''The necessity of the present hour is
the exercise of wise and prudent state
manship and the adoption of legislation
burdens of taxation which are depressing
every material industry; the reduction
of public expendituresiand of the number
of public Offices, which have been multi
piled beyond all precedent or necessity,
the reform Of the tariff and civil service
system; adequate protection of the la bor-
ing and producing classes against veal
thy and priviledged monopolies; the re-
peal of the odious class legislation in
which have been repeated In this country
the political errors of the old world; the
encouraging of ship building, and our
agricultural interests now oppressed and
burdened by legislation In favor of mo-
nopolists and priviledged classes; against
indiscIiminate and wholesale donations
of the public domain to wealthy corpora
tons, and the universal tendency of the
Federal Government, as at present ad
ministered, to usurp rights belonging ex-
clusiyely to the states and to engross and
centralize power In the general govern
ment. --
The address concludes according to
our version with inviting all who believe
in sound Republican doctrines to Join
the Democratic party. Honest laboring
men are asked to stand shoulder to shout
der with Boss Tweed and Tammany;-
and friends Of free speech by the sides
of Toombs, Jeff Davis. and the patrio-
tic Ku Klux. The new departure" is
quietly ignored, and Wisconsin Demo
Gratis are honest enough not to declare
that they accept the situation, although
they desire to ignore the past.
We quoted from the New Orleans
Price Current the other day to show that
correct principles of political economy
are gaining ground in the Crescent City,
and now we have a no less significant
paragraph from the Rscayune. Speak
ing of the career and prospects of the ne
groes at the South. it says:
'No colony, ever planted, has grown
so fast, advanced so far. or become so
rich, as the Africans who came to these
western shores within the past century
and half. While we may pray never to
see anything more of that kind Of invol-
untary and unconscious benefcence, we
may equally hope that the good which
has grown out of the original evil may be
permanent, and that the five millions of
colored people may prosper, improve
and multiply in the full enjoyment of all
the fruits of their labor"
There is evident candor in this remark.
1t was not made for political effect. but
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