Delaware straight-out truth teller. ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1872-18??, 1872-10-01

not one word about the source or the
limitation Of its powers. According to
his platform and his letter of accept
ance, all power is centralized In the
Federal Government. Whatever privi-
leges or franchise are TO be enjoyed by
the States under his plea of '1ocal gov
ernmeRt," are by the grace and favor
of the central authority, and not as
matters of original, inherent and inali-
enable right of the State. According
to Mr.. Greeley's platform and letter,
Congress has the right to pass such
acts Of despotism as the Enforcement
Bill, the Ku-Klux Act, the Bayonet
Election Law, and all the other abomi
nations embraced in the whole fatal
scheme of DEMONSTRATION" There
is, indeed, no outrage upon public lib
erty which the Federal agency may
not commit under the rulings of the
Greeley platform; for it holds all the
rights Of the States Subject to- powers
which they have never granted" ac-
cording to the intent of The Oonstitu-
ton. In the platform of the Demo
cratic party of 1868, all the i"Recon-
struetion" acts. including the 'sFour
teenth Amendment" were pronounced
'tusurpations and demonstrations
revolutionary and void" Only little
more than year ago the Democratic
members Of Congress, with one or two
exceptions, voted solid against the
valididity Of these so-calledI Amend
ments, The Democratic party in
every State has, within two Years, pro
nounced the eame to be tfrands,' -
which. in the le1guage OF Jo9h Quincy
Adams, have been 1forcedl upon the
Constitution, ard are thdrefore, in
thair legsI 4 A3eets, witEppt Apding. ef..
feet upon any State. No maA of sense
needs to be told that articleb forced
upon the Constitution" are NOT legally
] binding, as force and fraud vitiate
everything they touch. While we are
willing that the so-called StAmend-
ments" should be treated as s'dead
issues" for the time being, or till
such such time as the States can
get hold. of them in Constitutional
Convention, we cannot permit them to
be made ''living issues" and their va
lidity affirmed by the Democratic party
as part of its creed, without protest.
There is an infinite difference between
allowing question TO remain in abey-
ance, and affirming it as eternally valid
We are willing that the whole matter
shall be referred to the States in Con-
vention assembled. Such a Conven.
tion must be held at no distant day.
The Fourteenth Amendment contains
both an erp0st fdeto and bill of attain
der; and surely no man needs to be
told that these are in conflict with other
parts of the Constitution Nothing but
the free consent, or uncoerced will of
the States and make such vital changes
in the Constitution. This "Amend.
ment' also completely overrides and
subverts the Constitution of nearly all
the States, placing the people in the
attitude of subjugated communities, by
stripping them Of all control over the
vital question of franchise, and forcing
them into an equality with negroes,
which is not only hateful to them, but
is opposed to every dictate of their rea-
son and judgment. Whenever the
States of their own free will and choice
confirm negro equality, the matter will
be settled, and not till then. The
creed of more than seven -tenths of the
Democratic party in relation TO this
matter remained unchanged down to
the very hour of the meeting of the
Baltimore Convention. Now, was it
within the power of the Baltimore
Convention to change the creed of the
party on this subject2 Mol The great
majority of the Democratic party in
their inmost souls believe precisely as
they did before the Baltimore Convcn-
tion, and there is, therefore, no way in
which they can vote for the Radical
Cincinnati platform without disbonor
and shame. EVERY DEMOCRAT
WHO VOTES FOR THAT PLAT
FORM OUGHT to- KNOW THAT
HE PUBLICLY CARRIES A LIE
TO THE BALLOT BOX. He walks
before mankind as a self proclaimed
falsifier of his own opinions, and as one
deserving the contempt Of all honorable
men. Is politics nothing but cheat
and fraud? Are honored men to be
called upon to play the part of hypo-
critics and knaves under the terror of
the spoils monger's common cry Of
boiling regular nominations h''