Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-09-11

two great organized parties. one or
o the other must carry the election. 1t
{ is impossible for a few gentlemen on
the eve of presidential election 10
form third party. They may take
: a parlnr at the Glenham House; and
= if the Democratic party comes to
that room it takes possession of the
room and for its own purpose; not for
any other. When the spider and the
fly project an alliance, it makes little
: difference whether the fly walks into
, the parlor of the spider, or the spider
walks into the parlor of the fly. It is
an alliance of consumption. There
can be but one party, and that is the
party of the spider. Those men that
went to Cincinnati, went as Republi-
cans. Then followed the Democratic
party in convention, called accor-
ding to its usages, followed the forms
of that party; and they took the Gin
cinnati platform and candidates, but
they took them as Democrats-not as
Republicans, not as members of q
third party, but they took them as
Democrats. A Georgia paper which
Tread last night was headed Nation
al Democratic Ticket: For President,
Horace Greeley" That is the party
with which we have to deal. All the
machinery and all the force-with
some exceptions-thatw will be brought
to bear for the election of Mr.. Greeley
will be of that party. Now, an ad-
ministratiOn is necessarily ofthe spirit
of the party which brings it into pow
er. Gentlemen may say they are net
| Democrats-never were Democrats.
They may say: "You do not call
Horace Greeley a Democrat. He is
q Republican of the Republicans
Are you doing wrong in supporting
him ?n They may say: 1--WE mean
only REFORM" But, as was said in
England long ago, ''the heads of par
ties, like the heads of serpents, are
moved and governed by the tail. -
/ The head of the Democratic party
may have been fashioned in Cincin-
natl, but if YOU would know how the
whole party must move, look at the
| tail that was fashioned at Baltimore.
| The spider has walked into the parlor
of the fly, but if that little Liberal
Republican fly should venture to
| buzz his small desires, there would be
a sharp, decided answer: "Shoo fly,
/ don't bother me-" That alliance will
be an ilI-fated one for the fly.
WHICH PARTY CAN WE TRUST?
Now, which of these two paEties,
in your Judgment, is the more likely
to keep its word? You see, my fel-
low citizens, am going to rake in
| the ashes. 1 believe I can not cast
my vote wisely in 1872, without re-
membering how and why cast my
vote in 1868, in 1864, in 1860. When
I speak of the Democratic party, you
will understand 1 am not speaking of
individuals. Every Democrat has
Republican friends whom he honors
and respects; and every Republican
has Democratic friends in whom he
trusts. When I say the French people
are q volatile people, 1 DO not say
GuiZOt is harlequin. When l speak
of the Democratic party l speak of
historical facts, not impeaching the
motives or actions of Individuals
The Democratic party for the last
generation had been the mere slave
of slavers. To serve slavery the Demo-
cratic party robbed the mails, tram
pied on the rights of free speech and
upon the right of petition and when |
the Democratic prrty in the South |
began to hint at secession and NUT |
ter rebellion, the great body of
the Democratic party espoused the |
doctrine of State sovereignty. What |
ever was done in the South by the |
real leaders of the party had the full |
and hearty support of the party |
throughout the country. And so it |
was when Lincoln was elected and 1
the rebellion was begun. We find |
the last Democratic President wiring
ing his hands in impotent despair, |
while the tears ran from his eyes, and |
whimpering, "The Union had no 4
right to dissolve, but, . dear! it had
no right to help itself" The last /
Democratic Secretary of War sent |
material to any but loyal men. The
last Democratic Secretary of the Navy
left our coast without prote ction, and |
the last Democratic Secretary of the
Treasury knocked the bottom out be-
fore he fed. During the four terrible,
cruel years of the war-which was
only a natural consequence and
natural growth of the teachings of the
Democratic party-during the four
years of the war, by every means
known to men, that party resisted the
prosecution of the war. l am raking
in the ashes; do not forgetit. 1t re-
sisted every measure that was brought
forward to save the government, lib
erty, and civilization upon this con-
tineAt. 1t had no part in the glory
of emancipation. Then came the
struggle of reconstruction. Struggle
why? Because of the position of
the Democracy. Every measure
that was proposed in the interest of
reconstruction, that was essential to
carry out the principles of liberty and
Justice, was sturdily resisted by the
party; and, while that question was
pending, the party hurried TO its con-
vention and declared that everything
that had been done was unconstitu-
tional, and sought to overturn all the
war had accomplished. / am. still
raking in the ashes of the past.
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
But the people of the United States
the loyal majoIity-Organized as
the. Republican party, have not only
succeeded in putting into the recon-
structiOn acts the principles which
conquered the war, but have so ad-
ministered the government that the
name of the United States was never
so respected and hOnOred, the world
over, as it is now. This being ,s,the
Democratic patty sees it so, and hur-
ries to its convention ct Baltimore
with most suspicious haste, folds its
arms, smooths its brow, muffles its
tongue, and whispers as blandly as
it can, "well we see that you've got
the better of US ; we can not exactly
help ourselves huTTa for tile darkey;
now give us the governmentW 1t
becomes every man in the United
States to rake in the ashes to see if he
can find any spark of a live coal that
may be blown up into new confia-
grafton. 1 ask you if you can trust
the party. All these things are the
history of twelve years. All these {
things have been accomplished with
in the lifetime of every body that I
hears me. The leaders of the party
to-day are the same men who did all [
these things. l have shown you what !
the party has done; do you believe it
wholly repentant? Are these the
men TO whom the guardianship of
equal rights and the government of
the new Union can be intrusted ? Is [
the man who yesterday held that the '
black man was of an inferior race,
and his place that of a slave, the one |
to intrust with the care of the black I
mans liberty? Is the man who yes s
terday declared that the national faith {
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