Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-05-25
New Democratic Departure.


The Democrats of Montgomery
county held County Convention at
Dayton last week, for the purpose of
appointing delegates TO the Demo
cratic State Convention, which is to
come off at Columbus on the first of
June. Mr.. Vallandigham was the
leading and moving spirit in the Con-
vention, and startling as it may seem
to the old time servers of the dogmas
of the party, Mr.. Vallandigham struck
out in new line, laid down his re-
bellious arms against the war for the
union, with the new amendments to the
Constitution, and accepts the situation,
universal suffrage, negro equality, and
all the old issues, and comes squarely
upon new platform and the only
fighthe shows in his new platform is
IN the 18th resolution. This resolution
is where the whole fight is made !;
not against the present Republican
party (Which he declares is not the
Republican party that ex listed before
or during the war, but against Presi
dent Grant, and what Mr.. Vallandig-
ham call the Bayonet Bill and the Ku
Klux law. This is nothing more than
a thin sugar coating put on with the
hope Of modifying the new democratic
nostrum so as to make it sufficiently
palatable for the Southern rebels and
bunker, of the party to swallow. Mr..
Vallandigham, in his new departure,
surrenders completely to the present
condition of things and swallows the
whole, Cufy and all. Gould more be
asked of O rebel?
Below we present few of the reso-
lutions which forms the new platform.
"ResO1Ued by the democracy Of Mont
gomeTy county,
IL. That agreeing to disagree in all
respects as to the past, we cordially
unite upon the living issues of the day,
and hereby invite all men of the re-
publican party who believe now upon
present issues as we believe, to CO.
operate fully and actively with us upon
the basis of perfect equality with every
member of the democratic party.
%. That waving all differences of
opinion as to the extraordinary means
by which they were brought about, we
accept the natural and legitimate re-
suits Of the war SO far as waged for its
ostensible purpose to maintain the
union and the constitutional rights and
powers of the federal government, in
cluding the three several amendments
de factO to the constitution recently
declared adopted, as q settlement in
fact of all the issues of the war, and
acquiesce in the same as no longer
issues before the country.
SO. That thus burying out of sight
all that is of the dead past, namely
the right of secession, slavery, in
equality before the law and political
inequality and further, now that re
construction is complete, and repre-
eentation within the union restored to
all the states, waving all questions as
to the means by which it was accom-.
plished, we demand that the vital an6
long established rule of strict construc.
tion, as proclaimed by the democratic
AdIiSlS, aCCeIlteu ny LuS SldIcsIAeA "
all PARTIES previous to the war, and en-
bodied in the 10th amendment TO the
constitution, be vigorously applied
now to the constitution as it is, inclu.
ding the three recent amendments
above referred To, and insist that these
amendments shall not be held to have
in any respect altered or modified the
original theory and character of the
federal government, as designed anC
taught by its founders, and repeatedly
in early times, at later times, and al
all times, affirmed by the supreme