Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-08-25

i Inc vounq rneo- iensrant because they have no
schools; idle because they think il below caste Ior
white man TO work cruel from the spectacle OF slavery,
which was cruelty intensified; narroE-mlnded De
they really think feeble, sparsey PopulAteo
State Is The center OF eiVIiz4tien; u9PS.i.ote o
cause they entered life when to hght their country
was patriotism: proud because their father was a
planter and owned slaves. These men may be
sobered BY the responsibilities Of 3 family
aud the march of time. Our hope
must be in their children; in policy Of
kindness and 6rmnezs; Of education and Development
We must convince them that 10 enjoy their own
rights they respect the rights Of others; and
believe greaTer injury could be done 10 them than
restore them TO their former control and domins-
tion. That means the barbarism of an uneontrOlled
rule over their freedmen; the burning Of school
houses the setting back in their advance to ideas
the arrest Of all emigration; the DISBURSEMENT of
capital and renewal Of the old contest between the
Republican and Democratic parties upon the color
federhcy. But not reason with men who viii
gain power by the success Of the Democratic party
It is the Northern Democrat who was patriotic during
the war, whose judgment invoke when 1 point our
10 him the dangers Of q Democratic restoration 70
power In the National Government.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
And Who would be willing to trust the Democratic
party to project the public schools from the sure ana
dangerous attack upon them by great and growing
church which openly, boldly, demands sectarlan
schools and division Of the school fund tor Their
support? This cloud no larger than mans hand is
sure TO enlarge and extend until the whole heavens
vii be darkened with its wrath. The Catholic people
cause Ne can not allow any particular form Of worship
to be used in the schools They are public schools,
maintained by taxation, into which ali children are
invited. and where no favor Is shoWn 10 catholic or
Protestant poor RICH white black. They the
children OF the country, soon TO be Its masters, and
their education is the safety OF the State Bnt the
Catholic priesthood insists upon separate, seearian
education Of Catholic children. We can not deny
their right maintain such schools as they viii,
I9Ougn seen i, sor senarstioa Of
Church and State. Education is the process
Of moulding citizens and sl experience proves that
this process should be free from sectaFan influence.
STILL If they will insist anti-Republican
poliey We demand that IL shall be Conducted at their
expense and not ours Upon this question the RePub-
Ican party does now, and ever will, speak with no
uncertain sound. appeal TO your judgment whether
the Democratic party be trusted this question
Read its history in New York Mark the hesitation
Of its leaders The proposed amendment to the Con-
sitution schools from seetaran 1nhuenee
was cogged By the DemOcratc House with provisions
that utterly nullify II, and when this great issue
comes squarely before you the Republican party viii
occupy the most advanced position in favor Of free
schools for al-education by the State and religion
by the family: and the Democratic party will be lag
gng behind afraid to oppose US, but with one eye on
the Catholic vote and one hand to the Catholic
DEMOCRATIC CONFESSION CT ERROR.
And now felIow-citizens, let US examine upon what
principle policy is proposed to restore the DEM
ocratic party 70 power. have said In the Senate,
and repeat Il TO you, that the Democratic party
does not dare TO present single issue upon which
It has stood since the foundation Of the Republican
party, not one These issues have been as numerous
As the wears that have passed. They have been Tar
the most important issues the framing Of the
Constitution However rihing may be the run Of
political contests one can question that the con-
tests between the Republican and Democratic parties
have involved the fate Of our country. They have
sounded the deepest foundations Of our institutions,
and have spread their light the whole world and
will influence future ages. We have been engaged in
no holiday work The war looms up now in the dis
tance, but 1t is a mountain in the skies. Our
right to wage 1t, our measures Of finance, our
organization OF armies the abolition OF slavery,
aud the reconstruction Of revoltd States with the in
finite number of collateral questions once hercey dis
puted, now almost forgotlen-al settled, aud by
the Republican party Every step in this history We
met and overeame the opposition of the Democratic
party, and can proudly appeal to our old ad-
versaries say If what has been done not wisely
done Tou must all admit that there must be some
thing great in political organization that has been
able TO achieve what Webster hoped for; that did
what all the world thought could not be DONE and now
stands before you justified BY the aequieseenee Of old
adversaries The Democratic National Convention, in
the second and chief plank Of its platform raes and
approves what have done against their opposition
and formally enters its confession OF approval Of
the distinctive element OF our faith.
For the Democracy of the whole country We do here
reafhrm our faith in the permanenee OF the Fed
eral Union, devotion to the Constitution OF the
United States, with its amendments universally ac-
copied hna settlement OF the controversies that
engenjered civil war; and do record seadast con-
dence in the perpetuity OF Republican sef-sOvern-
ain the absolute aequieseenee in the will of the ma
joritythe vital principle of republics in The suprem
acy Of the civil the military Guthority; the
total separation Of church and State for the sake alike
Of civil and religious freedom; in the equality of all
Citizens before just laws of their enactment; in
the liberty OF individual conduct unvexed by sumptu-
ary laws in the faithful education Of the rising gen.
GRAFTON, that they may preserve, enjoy, and transmit
these best conditions Of human happiness and hope,
we behold the noblest products of hundred years Of
changeful history"
This is Republican resolution. How strangely it
sounds in Democratic platformI 1t the vital
questions of the war; the integrity of the Union 50
ercey asailed aequiesees in The will of the maiOri
fT9 The eoUaitv of ali citizens the
ration of Church ana State. These principles are
what we have maintained iu bloody war, and now
they acquiesce In Them But viii they enforce them
We know they will not, The only danger that threat
ems these great safeguards is in and from the Demo-
cratic party They can not be trusted to enforce one
Of them.
There are some more recent questious which have
not been embraced in this confession Of auescence
and the resumption law, each of which had their vo-
lent opposition, but quietly ignored eyaded,
and which will come again before Us.
THE ELECTION QUESTION.
The election Law grew of the wholesale fraud in
the presidential election OF 1885, by which the vote OF
the great STATE of New York ccented for Horato
Seymour for President instead of Gen. Grant That
election was made the subject of Congressional in
Testigaton and The fraud was established b7 over
whelmlng proof. In the single month of October,
1868, than Al 100 naturalization certificates
issued in the city OF New York, or more than four
times the average number Of previous years, and
nearly three times the largest number in any pTev-
year, and was mainly the work OF two corrupt
and infamous Democratic judges. McCunn and
Barnard. In single day McCunn issued 955 certif-
Gates These certificates distributed TO several
| counties, but mainly in New York. They pro
cured from the Supreme Court fictitious names and
delivered without cost aliens and citizens to enable
them to register and vote "repeaters." The evil
dence conclusively shows that bands Of men on the
dayS Of registration and election traversed the city Of
New York, registering and voting on assumed AID
hetitions names. These gangs Of repeaters were pro-
tected by police force OF city, But the special
feature Of this Infamous conspiracy against The election
franchise to which wish now to call your attention
is the plan adopted by the great leaders
of the Democratic party in New York 10
cheat the the people of that State. 50 that repeating
and fraudulent voilng did not sufice the deficiency
could be made up by stufing the ballOt-bOxes with
tickets never voted and by falsifying the returns
NEW YORK BALLOT srUFFERs-
Immediately preceding the election in November,
1865 A. Oakley Hall the Secretary Of the Democratic
State Committee, and shortly after Mayor OF New
York issued secret circular ana sent It to the chair
Of every coDnty Democratic organization In the
state
PRIVATE AND STRICTLY ooEFIDEETIAL."
"RooNs OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE,
"October 27, 1868
"MY DKAR SIR: Please at once to communicate
with some reliable person in three or four principal
towns and in each city of your county, and request
him expenses duly arranged for this end to telegraph
/ TO William ii. Tweed, TRmmany Hail. AZ the minute
OF closing the polls, not waiting for the count, such
PERSONS estimate OF the vote.
| LET the telegraph TO be as follows:
| Il MS town Will show Democratic gain Tor loss