Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-22
The New Departure.

THE Memphis Appeal refuses to take
kindly TO the doctrines Of the new de-
parture." In its issue of the Sd inst, it
thus deals with the subject:
"Since it is evident that the Democrats
will acquiesce in a mutilstion of the con-
stitution and make no effort 70 rid it of the
hideous excresences fixed by fraud and
usurpation, the Democratic guns are
spiked. There is nothing left to fight for,
save the spoils of office. This new de-
parture' by the Democrats will induce the
Radicals to make a retrograde movement,
and at the next session of Congress they
will grant universal amnesty and make the
same bid for Democrats which the Demo-
Gratis have made for Republicans. Already
the Republicans are adjusting their plat
form, so as to secure reduction of the
tariff, discontinuance of direct taxation,
reform in the civil service, economy in the
working of the governmental machine,
and sweeping correction of these numer-
Gus abuses that have grown and tiourished
from reeking battle-fields and prostituted
law. The Democrats can promise no
more, and the contest will be simply
scramble between the ins and the outs-a
war as ridiculous and contemplate as that
which ragged in the empire of Lilliput be-
tween the Big-endians and the Little-end-
ians, as to whether eggs should be broken
on the large end or the small end. Repub-
licans are guilty of mis-rule, tyranny,
usurpations and corTuptions, and when the
Democrats acquiesce in the outrages, there
is Just about as much difference between
the two parties as there is between the
thief and the receiver of stolen goods.
Some wag has prepared a platform for the
National Democratic Convention, from
which we make a few extracts:
"Resolred, That the arrest of C. L. vallandig-
| ham, the battering in of his doors, the branding
him as a traitor and escorting him " out OF his
country" was right, proper, patriotic, and in ac-
eordance with the bayonet power OF the constitu'
ton
DONE and all it may do, has been and will be
| right
"ResOlUed, That whereas, there is no difference
i between Democracy and Republicanism, one par
/ ty or the other should disband at once.
| " "ResOiUed, That the Democratic party disband
and its members join in a carpet-bag crusade
against the long-outraged and submissive people
Rssofced, That the battle-cry of the Democratic
party in the next canvass shall be Put ne an nj
lnke bed.'
"The words that are now put in thu
mouths of Democrats are nothing but stu
pendous lies. The party is assuming {
position which is false in theory, wicked
and rulnous in practice, unworthy of hon
est men, slavish in spirit, a stab at th'
principles of liberty, and at war with tbs
traditions of Democracy"
The Appeal represents that portion o
the Southern Democracy which care LITTLE
for the spoils of office, but a great deal fol
the principles of the lost cause. Mistaken
and even wicked as we may esteem 1t
cause and the doctrines of the wing
represents, we must concede that the DIP
peal represents the earnest and jealous De
mocracy of the South. If they must en-
dorse Republican measures at all, the.
would prefer to go over openly and boldly
to the Republicans who have somethin.
TO offer them, rather than succumb to th'
same measures within the Democrats
party. The Vallandingham faction vii
find that the working portion of th'
Southern Democracy will decline a victor!
which must be gained, if gained at all, b.
deception, or else by a surrender of al
they deem worth fighting fortified
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