Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-10-28
DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL Rights
Their Presidential Candidates Record
Their Party Platform.

ions aud mean appeals to race prcjudices
so worked upon the passions and prciu-
dices Of the Southern people, that murders,
whipping, assassinations, and finally open
rebellion have resulted. To show how ut
terly hypocritical is all their howl about
this Civil Rights bill, and how ready they
are to favor even worse doctrines than
those imputed to the Civil Rights bill we
quote from the Democratic platforms aud
the speeches Of their Presidential oaudj.
date in 1872, the great Horace Greeley.
First read from their platforms, State
and National The National Democratic
Convention, at Baltimore, in 1872, adopted
the following resolution:
" We recognize the equality of all men
before the law and hold that it is the duty
Of the Government in its dealings with the
people to mote out Cqudi and erdct justice
to all of whatever race, color, or pcrsua
>ion religious or political"
In Horace Greeley letter of July Is,
1872, accepting the Democratic nomina =.
ton for President, he said
Gentlemen, your platform which il al
so mine, assures me that Democracy is not
henceiOrth to stand for one thing and Ro-
publicanism for another, but that those
terms are TO mean in politics as they al
ways have meant in the dictionary, sub
stantiallv one and the methinC namely,
C9Udl riqhts, regardless Of creed or cline
or color. ! hail this rs a genuine N6J1
Departure from ouLworn fcuds and mean
ingless contentious in the direction OF
progress and reform
The Democracy Of Tennessee, on May o
1872 adopted the following among other
cardinal points Of their faith
1.-THE equality of all men before the Law,
and an equal participation Of all citizens
in the rights and 6CnCfts of Govern
ment.'
The above resolutions Of all Democratic
State and National Conventions are as eK-
plicit and strong for Civil Rights, Is the
Republican platforms.
But the Democratic nominee for the
Presidency, a few weeks before he was
nominated at Cincinnati and Baltimore,
made a speech at PoughEcepsie, New York,
to q Convention of colored men, in which
he said:
al trust the day is not for distant when
/ the common rights to any pUbiic con
/ uCyuncc, and in public meetings and in
ttutons will be recognized as they were
not recognized OF old, and ns they are bat
| impcrfcctlv recognized still. 7 hope the
time will come when our CdUcqtiOHuE in
/ Stiht'iOH3 and scUiiHdTiCs Will be open to
men Of all races with freedom and hos
pitlli.y which has never yet been enjoyed"
In the New York Tl-iJWr Of January
IL, 1872, Horace Greeley, in reply &, F.
question from a Lyuch5urg editor, said
We have already assured the T1rgy.ilca
that the editor of this journal locat 10 The
same common school jriM bluoG chi-
drcH, not for a few days, bat iOr three
TiHtgTs sat uu The same bench,
auiu recitel .u the same classes
with them, and received lao possible
damage thercfrou. Why not take
notice Of this assurance And We know of
no rural school district in New England
from whose school colorci children ara
excluded.
But this great Democratic candidate tor
President not only favored a,ired schools,
but lie favored uirCd marriages. In his
Tribune Of March lG, 1861 AIR. Greeley
said
Blu. this thing is certainly clear-tha
under the Constitution, in its most liberal
Interpretation, and admitting our cherished
American doctrine Of equal human rights,
If "a white man pleases to marry black
woman, the mere fact that She is black
gives no one n right to interfere 10 prevent
or set aside such marriage.
Again in the Tribune of July 81, 1865,
this Democratic candidate for the highest
office in this great nation said
" But If our correspondent means would
you by law prohibit and punish intermar-
ria es between white and black our an
swer must be, No, are trOltld nat Civil
law has no warrant TO interfere in matters
Of taste. We should certainly advise no
white man 70 marry q black, but if such
couple were resolved TO marry ere iCOui6
iateTp0@C no iCg0' obstacle, ana desire
none
These arr the sentiments Of the man for
whom nearly every Democrat voted Tor Pre-
idcnt, only tJCO gears ago, and they voted
for him knowing these were his sentiments,
for every Republican paper in the land
published them during the canvass Of 1872.
How can men who voted for mixed schools
and mixed marriages, in 1872, throw the
Civil Rights bill detiant!y into the faces Of
Republicans who never voted for anything
of the kind