Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-11

has since been repudiated by many leading
men and Journals of the party. Besides,
whatever acquiescence has been given,
has been given sullenly and not heartily
as matter of policy, springing from party
necessity, and not from conviction OF It's
propriety. Wherever avote has been hon
estly given, or voice sincerely raised for
this new departure" 1t may very prop
erly be regarded as an extorted confession
that the Republican party has all along
been right in what the Democratic party
has steadily opposed; and this confessed,
what need Is there, or can there be, for the
further existence of the Democratic party?
When Gen. Grant came into office, in
1869, he announced his determination to
secure the honest and faithful collection
of the revenue, the steady reduction of the
public debt, and such abatement in taxa
tion as was consistent with this policy. In
the space of little over two years this de-
termination, faithfully adhered to, has re-
suited in paying OF $3.50, ,000,0 900 of the pub
lie debt, aud in the abolition of nearly all
the taxes imposed under the previous laws,
In addition to this, he has, by his wise and
firm foreign policy, succeeded in settling
all our outstanding difficulties with Great
Britain, in manner alike honorable and
advantageous to us as a people. The
treaty lately ratified by both nations, which
removes all causes of quarrel, and estab-
fishes peace and amity between them, has
commanded the admiration of the civilized
world, and placed the United States in the
foremost rank of the nations of the earth.
The result is one of which every American
may justly feel proud. To continue the
Republican party in power is to continue
the policy begun both in State and Ma
s.T- HI. lt. asttF
paying off our debt, reducing taxation,
settling international difficulties without
bloodshed, and sustaining the great princi-
Piles involved in the measures necessarily
growing out of war. To restore the Dem
ocratic party to power is tn destroy the
public debt, pave the way for reputation,
bring in the old tide of corrup-
tion, mismanagement and extravaganza,
and open up anew all the questions in
volved in the reconstruction of the South
ern States, now settled upon an honorable
basis. For present proof of this we
refer to the consequences flowing from the
accidental majority of the Democrats in
the State Senate last winter. To that fact
we owe session prolonged to the middle
of May, at an extra cost of 100000; the
re establishment of the forsaken policy OF
employing extra land uselessl " fficeTs in
the legislative bodies and granting them
extra pay an appropriation bill increased
beyond all former bounds TO the extent OF
half million; the defeat of all measures
| for calling cons itutional convention al
an early day to put an end to that curse oI
| our State-special legislation and, as If de
termined to show that this curse should
not be removed by their aid, the enactment
| of the enormous number of 800 loca
| ia hTIt a nf yIb "a ysf
should have had to endure had they haC
both houses and the Governor on theil
side.
A still further proof of the unfitness O
| that party to be intrusted with power il
| to be found in the melancholy history o.
| the late riots in New York. In that city
the Democrats have undisputed sway, anC
through it, in the State. They had the
| power in their hands to prevent this rio
and bloodshed, but they would not use i
either at the right time or in the righ
way. WhyI Because the party is pos
sessed of no principle which can lead i
t. respect the rights of man, be they
civil or religious Its sole idea of right
is derived from the maxim that nigh
makes right. This was clearly evinced OF
the Fifteenth Amendment, in which tn,
| Democratic leader in the State secuted tn,
claim that there were any such things a
human rights. The idea, he said, was
myth and humbug. And this sentimen
of the Democratic leader in Pennsylvania
mas been carried out to the letter in New
York. A few thousand men, in the ex
etcise of their constitutional right to as
semble together, inform the authorities O
their purpose to parade the streets on
certain day. Another body of men, VIII
| al 70 ha oh
numbering many more thousands, motif
the authorities that this parade must no
be permitted, and that if il is they will al
tack il and disperse it, no matter at wha
cost Of life or limb to the party attacked
The Democratic rulers of New York a
once decline to defend the few agains
the many in the exercise of their constitU
tiOnal right; deny that there is any sue
right; yield To the etiance of the mob bt
cause il has might ON its side and, at tn
demand of that mob forbid the pt aceabl
and law abiding citizens to assemble tC
gether as the constitution permits, or b
exercise the rights which the law allow
1t is true that at the last hour, when tn
public Indignation had been aroused {
this blse abandonment of the civil right
of the people, the State authorities steppe
in and permitted what the city author
ties had previously forbidden; bu
the mob had already triumphed to
far to yield peacefully to this sudde
change, and the slaughter which followe
is attributable solely to the official coward
ice which first yielded to mob it wa
afterward unable to control. 1t is plaiI
moreover, that the first act of prohibitin
the "a ade was the legi innate outgrowt
of the principles controlling the Den
1rr IL, IL, -
rights, AID that might alone gives righ
1t brought into view the ferOcious claw
which, though afterwsrd Withdrawn, th
: furred foot could not wholly conceal.
was clear indication of what we may el
} pect throughout the country should tn
! Democratic party ever return TO power.
our civil and religious rights are to be- pr
T served in this country against the attack
of turbulent mObs, and the demands of
: wild f8naticism, they can be preserved onl
by the party based immOvahly on dee
5 regard for human rights and constitution
al guarantees; and in the light of tbes
. facts we appeal to the people of Pennsy
vania TO rally to the support of their in
e periled constitutional franchises, and /
? the defeat Of the Democratic party, hiC
G has proven itself alike unwilling and III
able to uphold them, teach it that the pc
. pie will bear no yielding to mob viOlen,
I Ior tampering with th.ir constitution
{ rights, and will never permit the surrend
of the citadel they have erected at blood
! cost, sacred now and forever, TO civil al
: religious liberty.
Marvellous Recovery OF WGmG
+ Whose Brains have been Pierced.
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