The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-10-05

| say the platforms Of Cincinnati aud
Baltimore outshine all past platforms 10
the history of the Republican party,
from 1856 to 1872 | dare challenge
comparison between these and all those
10 1866 there was simply defined the
elements Of slavery; now universal
equality is claimed for all the land. 10
1860 the question ofsecession was under
consideration; now, under the Cincin
natl platform, it has been put were it
can never again be called up; in 1864
the issue was the rigorous prosecution
Of the war, but from Cincinnati a1d
Baltimore came platforms aad senti
ments which would have saved the
nation from war. In 1868, when we
elected Grant, the issue was how the
bloody fruitnge of the war should bo
safely harvested in the fourteenth aud
hfIeenth amendments; but from Cinein,
natl and Baltimore came platform
which takes stately step in advance
even Of that, for here is one which de.
;lares that the franchises which have
been lost in the war shall be restored.
[Applause
In my youth there were seven won.
ders of the world there has been au
eighth added-the nomination Of Hor.
ace Greeley, by the Democratic party
as Republican have been rebuked
for entering into the brotherly alliance
between Liberal Republicauism aud
Democracy. There have been times
when | would not have entered into
any alliance with the Democratic party;
| would not in the interest Of slavery,
nor 10 the interests of secession, nor in
the interest Of war against the Union,
nor 10 the interest Of the disfrauchise.
ment Of the negro. But what is the
alliance which is here madeg One to
maintain the Constitution, and which
forever prohibits slavery on American
soil.
As Republican am proud to have
made an alliance with the Democratic
party. | would to Heaven it had been
twenty years ago 1t would have saved
this nation a universal pang. This
alliance has not come too soon it has
on y fingered too long.
Lord Chatham said, confidence is a
plant of slow growth" and that is the
kind Of growth from which this alliance
has grown. 10 furtherance of the idea
that this alliance was the natural growth
Of national feeling, Mr.. Tilton next
sketched the acts Of The Republican
party since 1856 with regard to those
issues in which they differed from the
Democratic party, but in the successful
prosecution Of which it was necessary
to make an open aud straightforward
appeal to that party, and obtain their
aid Taking them up one by one, he
showed that there had been grad
ual accretion Of Democratic supports in
the furtheranco of these measures, aud
said that 10 1856 Que tenth Of the Dem
acracy had gone over to them on the
issues then presented; in 1860 one
fourth had done the same 10 1864 a
third in 1868 half; "and now, y
said the speaker, "in 1872, in the full
ness Of time aud by the help Of God
the entire Democratic party comes over
to us" This was the perfection oil
confidence, aud the natural fulfilrneni
OF growing events. [Applause.] Aud
now the Republican party is being
gently laid away under the green grass
Mr.. Wilson had said that the Republi-
can party would last thousand years
think that foolish remark. Woe be
to that country 10 which the dominant
party shall maintain its power for one
hundred years, or even for ten years.
The close Of Mr.. Tilton's remark:
was devoted to reference to Mr.. Gree
ley, and to his perfect fitness for the
position to which he was sure to be
elected in November next
During the whole of Mr.. Tilton's ad
dress he was listened to with marked
and critical attention. Throughout he
received uubounded applause.