Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-10-04
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LOOK MERE.
Says the democratic platform adop-
ted at st. Louis in June last:
We do hereby re-affirm our faith in
: the permanence of the Federal Union,
our devotion to the Constitution of
the United States, with its amend
ments, universally accepted AZ a final
settlement of the controversy that
engendered civil war;" etc.
Now, those amendments protect the
colored men of tho South by making
them citizens, by giving them the
elective franchise, and clothing them
with an the legal rights Of any white
man. All know this. Honest, INTEL
ligent men know that while the de-
mocracy thus declared, the southern
portion Of them, and in fact, tens Of
thousands of northern democrats, in
their hearts, do not endorse the
amendments to the Constitution and
the equal rights of black men. In
1868 they declared these amendments
revolutionary and void. They only
swallow them just as the thief puts on
the garb and countenance Of honesty
50 that he can get within the gates,
and gain an entrance into where the
treasure Is. Once in reach of the
treasure, he throws off the cloak Of
honesty and acts out what he really
Is. There are few men among
them, however, that fail to hide their
real sentiments.
Having thus declared, the democ-
racy 60 right down South, and in
obedieneepto Tilden's circular sent in-
! to the old slave States, telling them to
be sure and carry solid South for
him, they ostracise white and black
republicans, and kill and murder
scores upon scores in order to fright
en- and intimidatc the balance. They
lie with ease. OF course 1t is no
trouble for citizen Of this nation to-
day, who was q traitor or who truly
sympathised with traitors, and aided
their cause, to falsely declare that
they mean to stand by the Constitu-
ton, and be faithful to the rights of
all men, Of whatever color. They
readily profess anything to gain .
point, to give them hope of success,
and yet they turn about and cut the
throat of their victims. This insin-
cerity is by no means confined to the
South.
The platform adopted at st. Louis
appears weekly in the Ottumwa
,Democrat--wc quoted tho above cx-
tract tr0R that paper. Take copy
of the Dem&cyat, and see If we have
quoted it corscctly. After you have
sdOne this look At the head of the
editorial column, aud see the motto
1t fiaunts in Latin: "Album Emancipa
Populum." That is to say, the Demo
crat demands emancipation for tho
white race, as though it were in
slavery. Next following this, II
quotes from Stephen A. Douglas, a
saying of his long before the rebel
lion, when he was cringing to the slave
power, as many great statesman did
before him. This quotation from
Douglas, the Democrat heads "OUR
PLATFoRM," and what is this "Our
Platform" as it calls it? Here It is: i
"TH1s is GOVERNMENT OF WHITE
MEN, MADE BY WHITE MEN, AND FOR
THEIR PosTERITY FOREVER"
Now let us make a query right here.
The Democrat supports the democrat
ic ticket from head to foot-it pub
fishes the platform adopted at st.
Louis--it has declared its acceptance
of that platform time and again, just
as did southern democrats, indeed it's
chief editor was q member of that
convention as an alternate delegate
and yet that paper, thus endorsing its
party platform. acknowledging and
recognizing the equality OF all men
before the law, as citizens, as voters
I, of this country, hoists at the head of
its editorial column, in capital letters,
sits platform denying the civil equal
.ity of all men, and declaring that this
country is for white men alone. For
, shame on mans professions In the
South, democrats by prescription,
fraud and murder, take from both
black and white republicans their
dearest rights and life itself, while
northern democrats come home and
spit upon that part of their platform
which declares for the rights of the
blacks, and set up another platform
! which, by fair inference, declares
+. either for the debasement in slavery
Of the blacks, or that they be driven
out of the country. This is not de-
mocracy, it is the worst kind of aris-
ttocracy. No man Is entitled to the
name of democrat who stands upon
the platform of the Democrat. Not
a monarchy in Europe, not crowned
head in the enlightened world, makes
any such prescription Of races. The
! prejudice which causes the aristocra-
cy of the Democrat, applicable to the
black man, springs from the same
source, from the same cause, as that
f, which the Lord entertains for his
/ peasant, and If the circumstances had
been favorable, il would not be CON.
fined to the colored man, but would
fetter the poor white man, a. well.
The New York Tribune has stood
up for Tilden's honesty good while,
and insisted that he would yet ex-
plain that income business satisfac-
torily but 1t begins to despair. The
explanation which Judge Sinnott Of
fers induces it to believe that the
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