Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-04
&c. When use the term Democratic party, do

lie. When use the term Democratic party, | do
not mean those soldiers.
There are others in the Democratic party who |
are there just because there fathers were Demo- |
Gratis. 1hey DO not mean any particular harm.
Others are there because they could not amount
to anything in the Republican party A man
only tit for a corporal in the Republican ranks,
will make a leader in the Democratic party. BY
the Democratic party mean that party that sided
with the South-thst believed in secession-that
loved slavery-that hated liberty-that denounced
Lincoln as a tyrant-that burned orphan asylums
that gloried in our disasters-that denounced
every effort to save the nation-they are the gen.
tlemen mean, and they constitute large ma or
lty OF the Democratic party.
The colored people have suffered enough. For
more than two hundred years they have suffered
the tabled tormentJ of the damned; for more
than two hundred years they worked and toiled
without reward, bending in the burning sun, their
bleeding backs; for more than two hundred years
babes were torn from the breasts of mothers,
wives from husbands, and every human tie broken
by the cruel hand of greed; for more than two
hundred years they were pursued by hounds,
beaten with clubs, burned with fire, bound with
chains. Two hundred years of toll, OF agony, Of
tears; two hundred years of gloom and shadow,
and darkness, and blackness; two hundred years
OF supplication, of cntreaty two hundred years Of
infinite outrage, without moment of revenge!
The colored people have suffered enough.
They were and are our friends. They the
friends Of this country, and, cost what it may,
they must be protected.
The whole loyal mass must be protected. They
have been ostracised, slandercd, mobbed and
murdered. Their blood cries from the ground.
These two thngs-payment of the debt and
protection Of loyal citizens, are the things to be
done. Which party can be trusted?
Which will be the most apt to protect the col
ored and white lOyallst at the South!
Samuel j. Tden is attorney. He never
gave birth to an elevated, noble, sentiment in his
life. He is kind of legal spider, watching in
web Of technicaties for victims. He is . COM
pound of cunning and he artlessness-of beak and
claw and fang. lie is one Of the few men who
can grab railroad and hide the deep cuts, tun-
nels and culverts in single night. He is . cor
poration wrecker. lie is demurrer filed by the
Confederate Congress. He waits on the shores of
bankruptcy to clutch the drowning by the throat.
He was never married. The Democratic party
has satisfied the longngs of his heart. He has
looked upon love as weakness. he has courted
men because women cannot vote. lie has con-
tented himself by adopting rag-baby, that really
belongs 10 Mr.. Hendricks, and his principal
business at present is explaining how he came to
adopt this child.
Samuel j. Tilden has been for years without
number, New York Democrat. This party has
never had but two objects to ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
and petit larceny. 1t has had in its pay for years
the worst criminals and the most abandoned
wretches. Ta1nmany Hall sustains the same
relation to the penitentiary that Sunday School
does to the church. All has been intrigue, plot
and counter plot They have waged war upon
humanity itself. New York has been. and still
is, the worst governed city in the world Politi-
cal influence is bought and sold like stocks and
bonds. Nearly every contract is larceny in dis
guise-nearly every appointment is a reward for
crime. and every election is a fraud. Among such
men Samuel J. Tilden has lived; with such men
he has acted; by such men he has been educated;
such men have been his scholars, and such men
are his friends. These resisted the draft, but
Samuel j. Tilden remained their friend. They
burned orphan asyums, but Tildens friendship
never cooled. They inaugurated riot and muir
der, but Tilden wavered not They stole a
hundred millions, and when no more was left to
steal-when the people could not even pay the
interest on the amount stolen-then these Demo-
Gratis, clapping their hands their bursting
pockets. began shouting for reform. He left
his private affairs long enough to assist the
Democracy to declare the war for the restoration
of the Union failure; long enough to denounce
Lincoln as tyrant and usurper. He was gen.
orally too busy to denounce the political murders
and assassinations in the South-too busy to say
a word in favor of justice and liberty; but he
found time to declare the war for the preservation
of the country an outrage. He managed to spare
time enough to revile the proclamation of eman-
cipation-time enough to shed q few tears over
the corpse of slavery; time enough to oppose the
enfranchisement of the colored man time enough
to raise his voice against the injustice of putting
a loyal negro political level with psrdoned
rebel; time enough to oppose every forward
movement Of the nation.
No man should ever be elected President of
this country who raised his hand to dismember
and destroy it. No man should be elected Presi-
dent who sympatzed with those who were en-
deavoring to destroy it. No man should be
elected President of this great nation who, when
it was in deadly peril, did not endeavor to save it
bv act aud word. No man should be elected
President who does not believe that every negro
should be free-that the colored people should be
allowed to vote. No man should be placed at the
head of the nation-in command of the army and
navy-who does not believe that the Constitution.
with all its amendments, should be sacredly en-
NJ ho ala etaA pr nj af
this nation who believes in the Democratic doc
trine of Estate Rights; who believes that this
Government is only federation of States. No
man should be elected President of our great
country who aided and abetted her enemies in
war-who advised or countenanced resistance to
draft in time Of war; who by SANDER impaired
her credit, sneered at her heroes and laughed at
her martyrs. Samuel j. Tilden is the possessor Of
nearly every disqualification mentioned.
He had read Tdcn's letter Of acceptance, for
wards and backwards and it was more Ineligible
backwards than forwards.
Why did not this great statesman tell us
of some gradual and sale process
of resuming specie payments" He promises,
if elected to administer the government that 1t
will soon reach benefcent result. How is this
to be done' What is his plan? Will he rely on
"a human intelligence at the helm, or on the
central reservoir, on some gradual and safe
process :"
defy any man to read this letter and tell ne
what Mr.. Tilden really proposes to do. There Is
nothing definite said. He uses such general
terms, such vague and misty expressions. such
unmeaning platitudes, that the real idea, if he
had one, is lost in fog and mist.
Suppose should in the most solemn and I'M
pressve manner, tell you that the fluctuations
caused in the vital stability Of shifting financial
operations not to say speculations of the widest
character, cannot be rendered instantly account
able to true financial theory, based upon the
great law that the supertluOus is not necessity,
except in vague thoughts Of persons tea
| absence of a central reservoir of coin with .
human intelligence at the head hasten BY any
| system of convertible bonds, the expectation Of
public distrust, matter how wisely planned and
| discreetly pursued, failure is assured whatever
| the real result may be.
| Must we wage this war for the right forever
| Is there time when the soldiers of progress can
rest Will the bugles OF the great army OF civil
| izaton never sound even halt? 1t does seem as
though there can be no stop, no rest It IS IA tne
| world of mind as in the physical world: Every
| plant of value has to be cultivated. The land
must be plowcd, the seeds must be planted ana
| watered. 1t must be guarded every moment Its
| enemies crawl in the earth and fly in the air.
The sun scorches it, the rain browns it, the dew
] 60 !. uo yhn wi IL must fiUht. But the