The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-05-26

party, dating back to March 4, 1854, and to be
Judged by its record, totally hostile to the doc
trines and policy herein maintained, and who'll
lv committed policies and doctrines herein de-
nounced, it deserves the emphatic condemna-
ton Of the people.
In reporting the resolutions from the Com
mittee, Mr.. Vallandigoam said
tThese resolutions, Mr.. President, sufficient
policies which they enumeTate require the
honest censure Of those only whose hostility Is
sincere. Carping criticism we both expect and
condemn. For more than two years the bit
ter and bloody passions of war have been
gradually and surely breaking out. Continual
and irreconcilable dissension upon new issues,
necessarily born of to-day, snd even
bitter personal discord among men
Of the Republican party, who had
stood together on questions Of the past, tol-
lowed. The Democratic party wisely remain
ed silent or confined itself to new issues. The
Republican party, having fulfilled its original
mission, was rapidly falling into decay. Mod
Grafton, justice and peace were becoming, 70
its more violent enemies, the sentence OF DEATH
The administration party, into which, since
the 4th of March, 1864, it has been transferred,
has begun, from causes thoroughly understood,
to be intolerable to the people. Upon the is
sue Of amnesty, of honesty in the legislative
and executive departments, of the tariff, OF
revenue and civil service reform, of land grants
to corporations, the currency, taxation, San
Domingo and other questions, it was certain
to be condemned. Necessity required that
some decisive movement be made to avert i'm
pending defeat. Not statesman bat mere
politicians, the sycophants of the party, the
parasites clinging to and desiring nurture from
executive favor, were called into council.
These Bourbons Of the present hour, the men
who forget nothing and learn nothing, resolved
upon one more appeal to the expiring passions
and prejudices of their partisans, the war cries
of the past. If civil war, in fact, could not
again be inauguarated, civil war in form, with
all legislative and executive machinery, and all
its political appliances must be revived in
every State to secure first the nomination, and
next the reelection Of General Grant. The
belligerent pronunciamento went forth. The
bloody blast Of the war bugIe again sounded.
A distinguished Senator, the adviser and main
support Of the President himself, a consum-
mate partisan leader, but powerful in proper
ton to the unsklllfulness and coWardice of his
foes, was put forth as the chief fermenter of
this new crusade. But 1 say to him, and to
all behind him, the hour has now come
when neither he nor they can be permitted to
provoke or dictate issues for the people, or to
ignore those which the ever changing condi-
ton Of the country necessarily brings forth.
That which, since 1868, has been but ques-
ton of time, is now upon US. The auspicious
moment, the tide in the affairs of men, to be
taken at the food, has now In my judgment
reached us when the Democratic party of to-
day, laying aside the weight and shading from
it the dead body Of the past, yet adherng to
its ancient principles, can aad must at one
bound place itself upon the vantage ground OF
the present, and defy its foes to battle upon
the living issues Of the hour. 1t is the purpose
OF these resolutions to establish the Democratic
party OF montgomery county openly upon this
firm and impregnabls basis. Tacitly and in
fact we have stood upon it for the past two
years, and victory has been ours. Confident
I am that we shall meet a hearty response
from our brethren elsewhere and everywhere,
in this and in other States. Personally care
not for denunciatlon or criticism from any.
Upon the fullest deiberation and ample coun-
sci with the wise and brave men of the party,
I take the responsibility. With pride and
pleasure / add that as these resolutions are the
fruit of the joint labors of the gentlemen as
sociated with me here, so also this movement
meets their hearty concurrence. 1t Is not a
new departure, but return, the restoration
of the Democratic party once more to the plat
form of progress and reform establishing the
fact that party, like everything else IN Ma
ture intended to endure, is capable Of adapting
itself to the perpetual growth and change
which belong alike to the political and the
physical world, and retain yet intact the orig
NAL principles and laws of It's being. More
over, as to the movement here, we all bear
witness that in it there is nothing of a merely
personal character, either to advance or to
hinder members of the Democratic party any
where, nothing except a fixed purpose to pro-
mote the welfare OF the whole party, and with
it Of the whole country.
On motion Of Mr.. Thompson, the resolu-
lions were adopted by acolamation, and the
adjourned.