Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-10-07
DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
Their Presidential Candidate's Record
Their Party Platform.

-their fArtN Platform.
The Democratic press has been bowling
about the Civil Rights bill, until they have
by their misrepresentation Of its provisl
ions and mean appeals to race prcju1ices
so worked upon the passions aud preju-
dioes of the Southern people, that murders,
whippings, assassinations, and finally open
rebellion have resulted. To show how ut.
terly hypocritcsl 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 and
the speeches of their Presidential candi-
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:
ave recognize the equdlHy Of all men
before the law and hold that it is the duty
of the Government in its dealings with the
people to mete out equal and CCdct justice
to all of whatever race, color, or persua-
sion, religious or political
In Horace Greeleys letter of July IS,
1872, accepting the Democratic nomina-
ton for President, he said:
"Gentlemon, your platform which is al
so mine, assures me that Democracy is not
henceforth to stand for one thing and Re-
publicanism for another hut that those
terms are to mean in politics g. they al
ways have meant in the dictionary, sub
stantially one and the same thing-namely,
equal riqits, regardless Of creed or cline
or color. / hail this rs "A genuine NClC
Departure from outworn icuds and mean
ingless contentious in the direction Of
progress and reform
The Democracy of Tennessee, on May 9,
1872, adopted the following among other
cardinal points Of their faith:
1.-THE equality of all men before the law,
and an cqaai participation of at citizens
in the rights and benefits Of Govern
ment"
The above resolutions Of all Democratic
State and National Conventions are as ex.
plicit and strong for Civil Rights, as the
Republican platforms
But the Democratic nominee for the
Presidency, few weeks before he was
nominated at Cincinnati and Baltimore,
made speech at Poughfeepsie, New York,
to a Convention Of colored men, in which
he said:
~ trust the day is not for distant when
the common rights to any 20uJlic con-
Ueydncc, and in public meetings and in
stitutious will be recognized as they were
not recognized of old, and as they are but
imperfectly recognized still. | hope the
time will come when our educational in
StitGtiOns and Summaries will be open TO
men of all races, with freedom and hos
pitality which has never yet been enjoyed.
In the New York Tribune of January
l6, 1872, Horace Greeley, in reply to a
question from Lynchburg editor, said
awe have already assured the Virginian
that the editor of this journal trent to the
same common school lOitb black CHI
dren, not for few days, bat for three
,Ci,ltcrS: sat on the same bench,
andn rccited in the same classes
with them, and received no possible
damage therefrom. Why not take
notice of this assurance? And we know Of
no rural school district in New England
from whose school colorcd children are
excluded
But this great Democratic candidate for
President not only favored mired schools,
but he favored nlired marriages. In his
Tribune of March lG, 1874, Mr.. Greeley
said:
But this thing is certainly clear tina
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
rives no one q right to interfere to 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, 1Ce UOUtd not Ciyi
law has no warrant to interfere in matters
of taste We should certainly advise nc
white man TO marry a black, but if such 8
couple were resolved TO marry ne 2rOuio
5nterpose no tcGat obstacle, and dcSir'
none
These are the sentiments Of the man fol
whom nearly every Democrat Noteu lor Tres
ident, only ttpO gears ago, and they vote'
for him knowing these were his sentiments
for every Republican paper in the LIANT
published them during the canvass ofl81z
How can men who voted for mixed school
and mixed marriages, in 1872, throw tn
Civil Rights bill defantly into the faces O
Republicans who never voted for anything
of the kind
7 I,TpIHp FROM RRTSTnT.