Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-02-25
A Democratic Confederate Platform.

ONE of our contemporaries (says the
Chicago 7ribune), the Toledo CONNIE, ciai,
has been collating mot cunstructing-a
Democratic platform from the utterances
and speeches OF the recognized leaders
and suvans of that party within the past
feWeweeks. 1t truthfully remarks that
A national platform OF principles, pro-
mulga,eASpy "A great national party, in the
words and phrases rs here given, may not
be the one 0FSpolcy, but the kernel is
there-the truGfpwardness of Democrat.
ic principles -audNSI will only re Iuire
plethora of words, on tlne-spun phrases,
exquisitelydrawn specfdtiGs and glitter
tering generalities, to conceal the hideous-
ness OF the true intent anil lSAypose. With
q Northern man with SoutherifsRrinciples,
like Hendricks, for President and u
Southern man with lost-cause' NArinci.
pies, like Tucker, or Hill, or LamSiA for
Vice e-President, platform more in ".
cordancc with the eternal fitness OF things
cannot be devised than that which fol.
lows:
WHEREAS, The Republican party "has saeH
proper, IN this Centennial year to tear awayfkhe
pasters from the green and bleeding wou1tS of
the late civil war, and has proper u11ustify
this conduct in the light of histO " aa1tI Gorl
WHEREAS, There is mo precedent Fiistory aud
no canon in political philosophy mitch the Re-
publican party hus not outragedsIHd [Cori
has been the history SiEpoiistion, murder. nj 1dit!
Death Death and tyranny III tR6Fsouth since 1865; and
WhhERxAs, That pa<yis not true. was not true
during the.war, h2I,sot been true since the war,
and d Is not true Istly; and CoTl
MIEhEAS, ~ party has violated all law, tram
pied upon t1seHonstitntion abne"ated the pledges
OF the fat5NE melted raids upon the oppressed
people of1Re South, and multiplied inhdeliries un.
III, III ne stars Of heaven the sands of the sea
shoXthey are without number; therefore, be 1t
sesoiusd, That this not natlon.-Tac6er.
HeSC yea, That the right Of secession, though not
expressed in the Constitution, is reserved right
-GeOrge n. Fugh.
r. sOfCed That martyrs owe no apology to ty-
rants and while we are ready to make every sacri-
nee To the Union, secession, however defeated aud
opposed, will confess no sin to lanatlcism however
bigeled and exacting.-HH.
ResOIced, That the grace and mngnanimity of
the Republican party Is exhibited in the master
ensayed in intelligence dsfranchised in society
disoFdered In States subverted and in Legislatures
ResOiged That in Robert E. Lee. who now
sleeps in death, was embodied of the noblest
Americans who ever trod his soil and no dishonor
cnn ever, by implication EXPIRE ssiOn, be thrown
on his grave, that the Democratic party is not
repei.-Tn,ker. '''N
ResO!pei, That whateyeF horrors had exi ,ted at
AndersOnyille, not one of them could be attributed
to single act of the Confederate Government
and that every one OF them grew out OF necessity.
rates by Federal power, and the Federal Govern
Went was directly responsible for all the untold
'norrors OF the War lHh.
Resot0ed That all the horrors and atrocities in
hicted upon Union prisoners at the South did not
begin To comlAra with the Crnelties and t0Ttures
inflicted upon Confederate prisoners at the North
-HH
Resolptd That on Grant and Stanton rests the
blood Of our honored dead who died prisoners OF
war, and history will hold them and the Govern
ment responsible for every death in Ander. on
Vile. GitiHd RdDiis Democrat.
Reso!ted That under the leadership of the ex-
Rebel I'LL. our oppressed cOnntrymen would be-
come band OF patriotic brothers and, instead Of
strife and blood he'd we should have peace har-
mony and prosperity. kalamazoo GAZETTE.
ReSoiged That II should be the aim Of { he Dem
ocratic party" In the future us in the past''-to
hasten the good time coming when the names
of q ant, and Sherman. and Sheridan, and Lee,
and jackson, and Brccknridge-- Of the mar
tyred Lincoln and the now insulted Jefferson Da-
Ns-will be read with common pride aud common
respect by the American youth, and when the last
shall be honored as much as the hrst.-J0Res, OF
htHtucky