Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-07-07
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BELLOWS FALLS, JULY I, 1871
Senator Sherman's Speech.

better guaranty TO the the country than
it has had before from the party of OBJ
struction and disloyalty. While pro-
Tossing to accept the amendments, the
democracy demand that they shall be
constructed in such way as to deprive
them of all force. Without appropri-
ate legislation" says Mr.. Sherman, "the
amendments are mere dogmas without
inherent power of enforcement" Yet
the "new departure platform clearly
shows that all the laws for their enforce
ment would be repealed by the democra-
cy, if they could by any means gain the
power to do so. Under the analysis
which Senator Sherman gives it, this
movement presents itself in its true col
ors, as a piece Of political trickery.
We make some extracts below from
Mr.. Sherman's speech, and commend es.
pecially to the careful attention OF
the reader the exposition of the re-
publican and democratic financial poll
cies. Mr.. Sherman is chairman of the
Finance Committee of the Senate, and is
thus thoroughly acquainted with the sub,
ject. He presents, in strong contrast
the wise, wholesome and successful legis-
lation of the republican party, and the
reckless and disturbing course of the de-
mocracy, and shows most clearly to any
fair mind that the country has nothing
to gain, and much to lose, from a politi.
cal supremacy in the nation:
THE NEW DEPARTURE"
/ congratulate you that we have now
in Ohio, at least, the formal approval Of
the great distinguishing measure of re.
publican policy by the recent convention
of democratic politicians here in Colum.
bus. 1t is great matter to secure even
a formal aequiescence in the constitution.
al changes, especially when they involve
the rights of millions of people, and
when they have been so steadily opposed
in all stages by the democratic party
North and South. They were the issue
of the war. They are the issues since
the war. They were mainly the issues
of the last Presidential campaign. Op
position to them was the starch, the unit
ing element of the democratic party
Where would they have been without the
hate of the negro =? What line holds the
mass of the people of the South to the
democratic party but negrophobia p
Where will Kentucky be without this
tie? Her old afinities were not with the
democratic party. Where will be the
great mass of honest but mistaken men
who feared the effect upon our institu
tious of the citizenship of emancipated
slaves? Where will be the other class
of democrats whose only political idea
was founded upon prejudice against and
hate of negroes, and who, in the mobs o.
New York, and in organized mobs of the
South, hunted down, whipped, and mur.
dered negroes, to prevent them from ex
ercising either civil or political rights
and who whipped, scourged, and murder
ed white men, and women, too, for edu
eating and being friends to the negro
race? What will JEFF. Davis say, who
though his life was fairly forfeited by
his treason, yet commands influence over
more votes in the South than we have
democrats in Ohio? What will the large
minority of Ohio democrats say, who pro,
tested in the convention against acquies
cling in the amendents? Still, in spite
of all this uncertainty, it is glorious
fact. of which republicans may feel proud
that majority of the democrats of Ohio
acquiesce in the great measures we have
brought about, promise obedience to them
and the enforcement of them, and beg
of us no longer to consider them as po
litical issues before the country.
THE DEMOCRATIC FLING AT THE AMEND
MENTS.
We would have greater cause for re.
ioicing if we did not see SO many reasons
for regarding this new departure as a
Trojan horse-a new device of the enc
my-to steal into our camp and betray
our cause. What do they mean by de
pouncing the " extraordinary means" by
which the amendments were adopted
They were passed by vote of two-third:
of each House of Congress, and ratified
by three-fourths of the States. Was
this consent given? If so, the amend
ments are the supreme law. Do they dis
pute the fact? If not, why this "black
handed lick at what they ratify and
agree to enforce Again, what do they
mean by vigorously applying the dem
ocratic rule of strict construction to the
amendments ?" Does this conceal some
covert purpose to defeat them2 Is thi:
new Kentucky resolution of '9S, con
tanning the heresy of secession and nulli
fication? The Fourteenth Amendment
is mainly only the true Interpretation oi
the old Constitution /; but the vital prin
c;nIes and Guarantees of the old Consti