The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-11-02
4 Sto9.tIing Confession.

The endorsement OF the ClnclnnbU platform
by the Democratic party in national eonven-
ton assembled at Baltimore on the 9th fully,
is virtual acknowledgement that the Repub-
lican party has always been right. This is a
source of pride to all brave Republicans.
1t does another thing. 1t is square confess
sion that all the opposition that has been offered
by Democrats to Republican Advancement has
been wrong. 1t confesses that all the abuse,
all the vile ISLANDERS, all the outrageous villif-
cations that have been heaped upon the Re-
publicans by Democrats have been fagrantly
outrageous. 1t confesses that tho Democratic
party has been composed mainly of vilfers,
and that its business has been the wholesale
denunciation of those men whose acts it now
admits have always been right. 1t confesses
that opposition to the amendments and the
laws made for their enforcement was basely
wrong, and that every announcement of every
Republican for advocating them was an out
rageous slander-a wilful, deliberate, malicious
Misrepresentation. The Democratic party yir-
tually confesses itself band Of the most mali
cious villifers that have ever been banded to-
gether for any purpose 1t says that every cry
of "nigger" at Republican was wilful, de-
lberate, intential insult to the principles of
the Republican at whom it was hurled as well
as to the manhood and citizenship of the color
ed man. 1t confesses that every vote cast by
a Democrat against any man who was in favor
of any of the Republican principles was wrong.
1t admits that every vote cast by aDemocratic
member of State Legislature in opposition to
the adoption of one of the amendments, was
wrong. 1t says that every vote cast By every
member of Congress against one Of the amend
ments or of one of the laws passedfcr their en-
forcement was wrong. 1t proclaii to the
world that every act or policy of the emoera-
tic party has constituted one Of W. ac-
tons for the past twelve yea of
which has been wrong.
D, saeratic party hasASeef % =
4 rgetlcally engaged in the preparation ofwr,ng.
No act OF the party during that time can rise to
the dignity of claiming it was right. Nothing
that has characterized its course since patriotic
people elevated the great and good Abraham
Lincoln to the Presidential chair can consistent
tice and equality before the law. 1t confesses
that the vile ISLANDERS on the men who origi-
mated and placed successfully upon the statute
book Of the nation the civil rights bill were out
rageous wrongs for which the vilest criminal
should blush and ask forgiveness.
Every deEunciation of Sumner for his advo-
cacy of equal rights, every violent abuse of
Republican, court, jury, or of any officer of
the law for placing colored men in street cars
and state rooms of steamboats, was gross out
rage upon the iniubitable rights ofcolored men,
and a most infamous insult to them and those
who advocated their just rights.
The attitude of the Democratic party says :
eve opposed the adoption of the 18th amend
ment. 1t was right and we were wrong The
colored man should have been set free and we
committed a crime against bin and our coun-
try in opposingit We exerted every influence
in our power to prevent the passage and the
execution of the civil rights bill. That bill was
right. The colored man was entitled to the
benefit of its provisions and we were wrong. in
giving opposition to it. We opposed the 14th
amendment. 1t was adopted. We were guilty
of political crime in opposing its adoption.
We gave all the violent opposition at our com
mand to prevent the ratification OF the 18th
amendment. We contested in every state and
election district in the whole land We in
voked barbarous massacres in the South to de-
feat it. We perpetrated horrible crimes to Sc
cure its defeat. Every means, fair and foul,
that could be brought to our service was in
voked to defeat it. This was all wrong and we
committed great wrongs in opposition to great
rights. Our skirts are red with great crimes.
Our hands are stained with catalogue of politi-
cal mistakes. Our actions have been an I'M
broken series of errors. In twelve years we
have neuer once been right !"
The action of the Baltimore convention ga-
phatically admits all this, or it proves that the
Democratic party is a band of hypocrits so vile
as to be unworthy of a spark of respect at the
hands of decent people
Yet after the confession of twelve years of
criminal practice it asks to be restored te power.
We claim that the party that has done nothing
right in the past twelve years is incapable of
doing anything right in the next four. We
take it the vast majority ofthe American people
are of the same opinion.