Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-10-21
nrnurRAcY ANn rIYLL RIGnIs.
their Presidential candidates Record
Their Party Platform.

Ahftf h7NNAN
The Democratic press has been bowling
sbou, the Civil Rights bill, u1til they have
by their 1nisrcprcs cnatons Of its rroyisl
ions and mean appeals to race prcjudIccs
so worked upon the passions and prciu-
diccs of the Southern people, that murders, .
whippiugs, demonstrations, and finally open .
rebellion have resulted. To snow how ut .
terry 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 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:
" 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 mete out equal and erdct justice /
20 all Of whatever race, cOtOr or pcrsua- 7
sion, religious or political
In Horace Grccey's letter Of July Is .
1872, accepting the Democratic nomina-
ton for President, he said:
Gentlemen, your platform which is al |
so mine, assures me that Democracy is not
henceforth to stand for one thing and Re-
publicanism for another, but that those
terms are to mean in politics as they al
ways have meant in the dictionary, sub
cguai riqhfs, regardless Of creed or cline
or color. l hail this ms d genuine NcJr
Departure from outworn feuts 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
The equality Of all men before the law,
and an lguQi participation of all citizens
ia the rights and 6cUgta Of Govern
ment"
The above resolutions of all Democratic
State and National Conventions arc as OK
icit and strong for Civil Rights, o. the
Republican platforms.
But the Democratic nominee for the
Presidency, few weeks before he was
nominated at Cincinnati and Baltimore,
made Il speech at PUughEccpsie, New York,
to q Convention of colured men, In which
be said:
4" / trust the day is not for distant when
the common rights to ouy 1)tJiic con-
UeYaHcC, and in public meetings and in,
situations Will be recognized as they were
not recognized OF Old and as they arc but
impcrfecty recognized still ! hope the
/ time will come when our ,6UcTNOHut in
stifltORs and Summaries Will be open to
men Of al races, with q freedom and hos
/ litali.y which has never yet been enjoyed
In the New York Tribune OF January
+ lG, 1872, Horace Greeley, in reply to a
/ question from Lynohburg editor said
1--WE have already assured the Tirgiainp
that the editor Of this journal lrCHt to the
same common school lUHh LlucE CHI
II. drc1, not for few days, but for three
1ciutcrs; sat ON the same bench,
audn recited in the same ,elafses
damage therelrom 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 no, only favored n,irCd schools,
but he favored H,ircd maJTiage2. In his
Tribune of March 1G, 1864 Mr. Greeley
said
Bu. 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 q white man plcsscs TO marry blacl,
woman, the mere fact thst she is black
gives no one a right to interfere to prevent
OF set aside such marriage.
Again in the 7ri5uuc Of July 81, 1868
this Democratic candidate for the highest
+ Office 10 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
j swer mus, be, No, 1Cc lUOUid nat Civil
law has no warrant to interfere in matter.
b OF taste. We should certainly advise nc
! white man TO marry black, but if such 4
couple were resolved TO marry lrc UOul0
j iHtCTpOsC no tCqdf obstacle, amt desire
nOUC.'
] These arc the sentiments Of the man foi
s whom nearly every Democrat voted for Pres
. ident, only tUo gears ago, and they voted
{ for him knowing these were his sentiments
Z for every Republican paper in the lanC
Z published them during the canvass Of 1872
% How can men who voted for mixed schools
I and mixed marriages, in 1872, throw thu
70 Civil Rights bill dehlntly into the faces o
Republicans who never voted for anything
az the Kind
THE FIERY REGIONS.