The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-18

I Ocratlc nominee, himself personally,
: a right-minded and well disposed
= msn, yet as the representative of the
= Democratic party the people had re-
: Jected him, re-electing Abraham
: Lincoln To the Presidency.
Z They knew they had again before
I the American people in 1865 with a
! Democrat as their candidate, and with
) their record still fresh in the minds OF
r the people they We're again rejected,
and the hero OF the century was car
! ried into the Presidential chair by an
: unprecedented vote Of the people, as
, the representative of the Republican
! party Of the United States. Zap
plause.
Mr. GREELEY'S NOMINATION.
Now, in 1872, not uumindful of the
fact that all that is briIIiant.aII that is
great, all that is glorious in the past
twelve years OF our National political
life belongs exclusively to the marty
of the people, and that the Democrat
ic organization ss such had neither
part nor lot in it, they come in the
hope to deceive this people by put
ting in nomination for tile Presiden-
cy Us the candidate Of their party the
lifelong enemy OF that party, whose
words are: 81 am the declared enemy
OF that party, even in its most re-
spectacle aspects" NY fellow eiti-
zens, it is an old-timee maxim. that
actions speak louder than words.
Here is q confession plain and clear
that the record Of the Democratic par
ty is indefensible.
1t is not improper, it is due to Won
Z = tn NnG s.F i
States that we should consider the
fact that however opposed their NOM
inee may have been hitherto to their
party, to its principles and to its Off
cial and unofficial acts though all
these twelve years Of our National
struggle, yet by accepting its nomin-
alton he does become and is the DEM
Ocratic candidate, and the Democrat
ic standard-bearer, and as such ac-
cepts and represents the principles of
! the party. No man ever vet was cleo
ted President of the United States
from the day of the organization OF
| your government under the COnstitu-
/ ton save as the representative of the
J principles OF a party organization.
/ Washington was Nominated and
/ elected President of the United States
rs the repI Iesentative man of the mar
/ ty of the Union who had ordained
that Constitutional Government
/ which made US one people. From
I that hour to this 10 man has heaD
/ capable of reaching the Civil NIagis-
! tracy of the United States of Ameri-
ca save as a representative Of a party
organization and of its prineipIes-
The people exercised their SOVEREIGN
power Of organizing Government in
the first instance, and maintained il
I thereafter only through their Dartv
| organizations, and by the election Of
the representative men Of their polit-
zeal principles.
RESULT OF GEEELEY's ELECTION.
So that il the people Of the United
States shall be deceived or misled by
this trick of the year 1S72-a trick
worthy of the most skilled thin ble-
rigger of the centHry-and shall elect
Horace Greeley TO the Presidency, it
will result in restoring to power the
Democratic party of the United States |
which, to use his own fOrceful words. |
plunged the country into the Red /
Sea Of secession and rebellion"
/ noticed, my fellOw-citizens, and / |
may be allowed to refer to it in pass
ing, that one Of the most influential 4
journals Of our State, hitherto inclined /
To lean to the Liberal Republican /
movement, said, in March or April /
last, it was absolutely impossible that /
the Democratic party should be in 1
trusted witt the Government Of the /
American people. I noticed that the /
same journal recently, while still some-
what the advocate Of the new move. /
ment, said-and it does infinite credit /
to the journal to say it-that it is es-
sential the Democratic party shall be /
kept out of power; that it should not 4
be intrusted with the destiny of the /
Republic.
But it is said in one OF these iourn-
ais that if the Democratic party shall
succeed in electing IFS nominee 10 tire 4
Presidency, and shall succeed in car
rying the House of Representatives
as well, the Senate will vet remain as
a check against mischief during the
Democratic administration. NV fel-
lOw-citlZens, I deem it but lust to saw
that whoever relies upon any such
broken reed as that for the security
and safety Of the Republic after the
Democratic party shall have succeed
ed to power, grasped the Chief Magfs-
tracy of the United States and secured
the House of Representatives, de-
ceives himself, and may perchanee
deceive others to the hurt and to the
great detriment OF the country. nj
the Democratic party has taken back
its principles-taken back its dogma L
Of secession, its dogma Of the right of
a State to secede from the Union,
and resist the laws, 1 don't know it,
nor do you. They have made no such |
announcement az Baltimore.
THE DEMOCRACY TAKING NOTHING
BACK.
They take nothing back by nOmin-
ating HOra0e Greeley. 1t is said they
adopted the platform of the Liberal
Republican party, recently put forth
at Cincinnati, and l understand they /
did; but in doing that they deal only
in the same general terms which they /
always employed in their platforms,
both before and since the rebellion.
They never took pains, that I know
of, at any time within the late years
of our political history, to say any,
thing directly in their National plat
forms about the right of State to Sc
cede; they never took pains in these
platforms to say anything about the
right of the people of any portion of
the United States To organize and arm
battaliOns to resist, by force, the laws
of the United States. But they are
careful to declare in general terms in
favor Of the rights of the States, and
so L notice they speak in this plat
form at Cincinnati. What is want
ing in these days is that the Demo-
cratic party shall declare plainly for
the rights Of the United States, and
for the rights of the Nation, and /
thereby accept, once Tor all, the fact
that the American people, during
these recent four years Of var, have
written in the flames of battle their
irrepealable decree that no State in
the Union has any right whatever
aboye the rights of the humblest citi-
zen of this land, and no colorado
right to secede from the Union, or
challenge the supremacy Of the Con-
stitutiOn. [Cheers.l
Nothing has been taken back by
the Democratic party by accepting
the Cincinnati platform. / have not
the time to review it in detail, and it
is not worth the review. It may be
truly said of it "that what is good in
II IS not new, anu what Il new IN IL
is not good" Laughter Most of
it find no fault with, and thank
God and take courage when / find
the DemOcrtie party going through
the formula of accepting and adopt
ing what is good in it at Baltimore or
else.
EQUAL RIGHTS.
Its first declaration is that "We
hOld-tO the equality Of all men before
the law" There are some Democrats
in the United States who will open
their eyes when they read that. They
have not forgotten the time when the
shout along the whole democratic line
from Maine to Florida was "This Is a
white mans Government" Zap 4
plause.l They have not forgotten
with what unctiOn their Democratic
orators were wont to stir their blood
in the days Of old by the cry, "Are
you going to make Niger equal 10
a white man ," That language adOp-
ted at Cincinnati IS simply the Ian
guage Of the Republican party Of the
United States. It is language that Of