The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-10-30

ty, the party of Horatio Seymour, the
President of the New York Convention,
has been notoriously, within the knowl-
edge of all living men, the deadly foe of
human freedom.
1t is hard to say whether the impu-
dence of these declarations is more lu-
dicrous or contemplate. But, however
| that may be, they will not deceive a sim
gle voter Jefferson's one idea was hu-
man liberty. The one purpose of the
Democratic party for generation has
been the extension and perpetuation of
human slavery. The restoration of sla-
very, indeed, is now happily impossible.
But were it still existing N this country,
Mr.. Seymour and his Democratic Con-
vention fortnight ago at Utica would
| have resolved that it was all right, and
| that any discussion of it would be incen-
diary and reasonable to the Union. AS
they could not do that, they declared
that they were now, and always had
been, the champions of liberty, and in
vited us all who love liberty and law to
join them.
Upon what ground? In 1S45, after the
election of Mr.. Polk, when it was sup
posed that the Wings and the Barnburn-
ers in New York might unite to call a
Constitutional Convention, Mr.. Horatio
Seymour, speaking of the Wings, said,
There is reason for suspicion when a
great party has been overthrown, when
the~country has repudiatsd its principles,
and it seeks to change its position, and
produce a new order of things that may
be more favorable to its designs and OBJ
jects." 1t was wisdom which Mr.. Sey-
mour found in Burke, but it is still wis
DOM For what reason, We repeat, should
those who accept the principles quoted
from Jefferson cooperate with the Dem
ocratic party? While its policy has been
un-American and inhuman, has its ad-
ministration been more honest and capa-
BILE than the Republican? Its last Presi-
dent was Mr.. Buchanan, with Floyd for
his Secretary of War and Jacob Thomp-
son for his Secretary of the Interior Its
last Governor of New York was Mr.
Hoffman, the tool of the Tammany Ring.
1t denounces the Credit Mobilier. But
while Republicans have been politically
ruined by it, the worst offender was a
Democrat. 1t condemns the salary
grab" But while the Republican Con-
gress and President must bear the res
possibility, because they were the major
ity, yet the Democrats were equally gull
| ty. Of the seventeen Democratic Sena-
tors, five only voted against the bill, and
of those five three only have returned
the money to the Treasury Of the
| ninety-six Democratic Representatives,
eight only have returned the money.
The Ohio Democratic Convention de-
nounced the grabbers, but every Demo
cratic Representative from that State
took the money and kept it.
Nothing is more puerile and futile
than the effort of the Democratic mana
gers to make party capital of the Credit
Mobilier and the SALARY grab 1t is
their party name and organization which
are fatal. 1t is not to Democratic Con-
vention led by Mr.. Horatio Seymour,
and to which Mr.. Algernon S. Sullivan
reports doctrines of Jefferson which the
Democratic party has despised, and cen
sures of corruption in which it has ca
gerly shared, that the people of New
York will look either for purity of prin-
ciple or honesty of administration.