Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-09-04
.be Democratic party reviews it.

the DemOcratlc party reviews IL.
When the Union army met the rebel
hosts at Gettysburg they did not ask
for declaration of their Intentions
Their previous history and declara-
ton, their banners and uniforms,
showed What they meant. And so
when we meet the Democratic party
in battle array, with their ancient BAN
ners flying, we know what is meant
without asking any questions. Their
present declarations or equivocationS
are wholly unimportant.
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
The maintenance of the Democratic
party means devotion to its principles,
its record, and IT'S traditions, and its
traditions, and its friends will not dare
say that it means anything else. The
men who control the Democratic party
throughout the United States to-day
were educated in the belief that the
Government is a compact or alliance
between sovereign and independent
States; that slavery was the normal
condition of the colored race; that the
Government had no constitutional
power to prevent the secession of the
Southern States or to suppress the re-
bellion.
In their hearts they mourn the abo-
lition of slavery; they do not believe in
the natural rights or capacity of the
colored race; they abhor the 18th, 14th
and 18th Amendments as eXcrescences
upon the Constitution. 1t is because
of this education and this belief that
they love the Democratic party, for it
means to them all these things. Nor
do question their sincerity and devo-
tion to the record and principles of the
Democratic party; and it is precisely
because of that sincerity and devotion
that the party is dangerous tc the fu-
ture peace of the nation. These men
look upon the changes and events of
the last ten years as the old party in
Japan look upon Christianity and the
civilization of Western Europe. They
want none of it.
These opinions crop out constantly
in their speeches, State papers, conven-
tions, and newspapers.
DIPLOMATIC GOVERNOR.
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana,
one of the representative men Of the
Democratic party, in his inaugural ad
dress last winter, at the end of a pass
/ age in which he complains OF Federal
aggressions upon State sovereignty,
said:
MY conduct upon all questions that
touch the relations between the State,
and the United States shall be govern
ed by an earnest desire to preserve the
legitimate authority of both, and to
maintain the most sincere harmony.
by the prompt and full discharge
of every duty and the exercise CT fra
ternal comfy l will labor to promote a
cordial and enduring friendship be-
| tween Indiana and other States"
The purpose here expressed is patri-
otic, but when the Governor of State
talks about maintaining friendly rela-
tions with the Government of the
United States and exercising fraternal
comfy to the other States, he is clearly
laboring under the impression that he
is the Chief Magistrate of sovereign
and independent State, the member of
a compact, and that the relations of the
State 10 the Government and to the
other States are of delicate and dip
lomatic character, which must be care
fully guarded to prevent collision-all
of which is the derry spirit of the Reso-
lutions of '9S.