Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-02-24
Democratic Platform. 1876.
from the Toledo Blade.

WHEREAS, The Republican party
"has seen proper, in this Centennial
year, to tear away the plasters from
the green and bleeding wounds of the
late civil war, and has seen proper to
justify this conduct in the light of his
tory" and (C0r)
WHEREAS, There is mo precedent
in history aud no canon in political
philosophy" which the Republican
party has not outraged; and (C0p)
WHEREAS, The history OF the Re-
publican party has been the history OF
spoliation, murder, death and tyranny
in the South since 1865; and (CoT)
WHEREAS, That party is not true,
was not true during the war, has not
been true since the war and is not true
to-day; and (Cor)
WHEREAS, That party has violated
all law, trampled upon the COnstitu-
ton, abnegated the pledges of the faith
erS, melted raids upon the oppressed
people of the South, and multiplied in
tidelities, till, like the stars OF heaven
or the sands Oh the seashore, they are
withoat number; therefore, be 1t,
{ (Hilt)
Resolred, That this is not nation
Tucker.
Resotred, That the right of secession
though not expressed in the COnstitu-
ton, is reserved right-Geo. Il. P,tgh.
ResOtred, That martyrs owe no apol-
ogy to tyrants, and while we are ready
to make every sacrifice to the Union,
secession, however defeated and oppos
ed, will confess no sin to fanaticism,
however bigoted and exacting.-HiU.
ResOtUed, That the grace and mag
nanimityot the Republican party is
exhibited in the master enslaved, in
intelligence disfranchised, in society
di5orlered, in States subverted, and in
Legislatures disperSed.-HiH.
ReSOtUed, That in Robert Z. Lee,
who nov sleeps in death, was embOd-
led one of the noblest Americans who
ever trod this soil, and no dishonor can
ever, by implication or expression, be
thrown on bis grave that the Demo-
cratic party is not bound by all the
memories of the past to rise and rebel.
Tucker.
ResoLued, That whatever horrors had
existed at Andersonville, not one of
them could be attributed to single act
of the Confederate Government, and
that every one of them grew out of
necessity, and that necessity was fast
ened upon the Confederates by Federal
power, and the Federal Government
was directly responsible fGr all the un-
told horrors of the war.-HiU.
Res0tUed, That all the horrors and
atrocities inflicted upon Union prison.
ers at the South did not begin to COM
pare with the cruelties and tortures in |
tiicted upon Confederate prisoners at
the NOrth.-HW.
ResOtUed, That on Grant and Stanton
rest the blood of our honOred dead who
died prisoners of war, and history will
hold them and the Government re-
sponsible for every death in Anderson
Grand Rapids Democrat.
Res0lUed, That under the leadership
of the ex-rebel Hill our oppressed coun-
trymen would become band of pat
riotic brothers, and. instead of strife
and bloOdshed, we would have peace,
harmony and prOsperity.-Kalamosoo
Gazette.
Resolred, That it should be the aim
of the Democratic party-''in the fu-
ture as in the past"-to hasten the
good time coming" when the names
Of Grant and Sherman and Sheridan,
and Lee and Jackson and Breckenridge
yea, of the martyred Lincoln and the
no v insulted Jefferson Davis-will be
read with common pride and with
respect by the American
youth, and when the last shall be hon.
bred as much as the first.-JOl1es, OIL
heEtUcbG. II