Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-10-23
LANCASTER, WISCONSIN. THURSDAY OCTOBER 49, 1873
Democracy as 1t Was.

By the nomination of ex-senator
Allen for governor upon platform
protesting undying fidelity to its
past history, the Democracy OF Ohio
has challenged the production of its
record for the last ten years. Even
partial recital thereof proves that
every liberal measure was opposed
with the same unreasoning aud dog
ged persistency which it evinces to
day to the progressive principles OF
Repubhcanism. The people refused
to be led astray by these false proph.
cts then, and there is no reason 10
think that their judgment will be re
versed in October next:
''Resolved, That the enactments of State
legislatures to defeat the faithful execution
OF the Fugitive Slave law are hostile in their
character, subversive of the Constitution, and
revolutionary in their efects.-NATIoNAL,
1860.
"Resolyed, That we have seen with indig-
nation the intimatlon of the Governor OF
Massachusetts that that State will be slow in
furnishing her quota OF troops, unless the
war be carried on for purpose of emancipa-
ton. STATE, 1862.
"Resolved, That the emancipation would
throw upon the border free States, and espec-
Tally upon Ohio, an immense number of ne
groes 10 compete with and underworld the
white laborers Of the State, and to constitute,
IN various ways, an almost or quite unheara-
bic nuisance il suffered TO remain among US.
And we would deem it unjust to our gallant
soldiers 20 see them compelled 10 free the me-
groes OF the South, and thereby fill OHIO
with degraded population to compete with
these same soldiers upon their return TO the
peaceable avocaiions of life - STATE. 1862
"kesolved, That we protest against the
emancipation proclamation as unwise, uncon-
sututlonal, and oid.-STATE, 1868.
Resolved, That the effort now being made
to confer the right of suffrage upon neg oes
IS an insidious attempt to overthrow popular
institutions by bringing the right TO vote into
disgrace; that the negroes are not competent
10 the exercise OF that right, nor is it neces-
sary 10 their safety or protection on the
contrary, its exercise bv them, if attempted,
would be fraught with terrible calamlties to
both them and the whites, and we are, there
fore, unequiyocally opposed 10 negro suffrage.
STATE, 1865.
"Resolyed, That we are opposed, both in
principle and policy, to negro suffrage
STATE, 1868.
"Resoved, That the attempt
10 regulate suffrage in Ohio by means of the
so-called fifteenth constitutional amendment
IS subversIye Of the principles of the Fedora
onstilution.-STATE, 1869.
"kesolved, That We regard the act recent
ly passed by Congress to enforce the fifteenth
amendment as unconstitutional, unjust andop-
pressIye; an invasion Of the rights of the
State, subversion of the best interests of the
people, end therefore dem and its uncondi-
tlonal repeal. STATE. 1870.
"Resolved, That the fourteenth and fl-
teenth amendments, so-called, having been
made parts OF the Federal Constitution by
violence and fraud, are revolutionary and
void.-State, lS7l-( Majority Report of
Platform Commlttee.) The majority report
recognized the amendments as accomplished
facts merely expressing no opinion OF their
merits.
"Resolved, That we not indorse said
amendments (thirteenth, fourteenth, and fiji
teenth) nor admit that they were right, eX-
peulehl UT polltiC.-I ia iVit GVuiV -, =
Democratic Convention, IS7l.)