The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-03-02
Democratic Confederate Plat
form.

form.
The Toledo Commercial has been
collating-not constructing-a Dem
ocratic platform, of the utterances and
speeches of the recognized leaders
and savans of that party within the
past few weeks. 1t tru,hfully re-
marks that national platform of
principles, promulgated by a great
national party, in the words
and phrases as here given, may not
be the one of policy, but the kernel
is there-the 'true inwardness" of
Democratic principles-and will only
require plethora of words, of fine
spun phrases, exquisitely drawn
specialities and glittering generali
tees, to conceal the hideousness OF
its true intent and purpose. With a
Northern man with Southern princi-
pies, like Hendricks, for President,
and a Southern man with "lost cause
principles, like Tucker, or Hill, or
Lamar, for Vice President, a plat
form more in accordance with the
eternal fitness of things cannot be
devised than that which follows:
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 prop
er to justify this conduct in the light
Of history; (Cor,)
Ind JThercds, There is "no pre-
cedent in history and no canon in
political philosophy which the Re-
publican party has not outraged"
(Gor)
-i,oI Whereas, The history of the
Republican party has been the his
tory Of spoliation, murder, death, and
tyranny, in the South since 1865;
(Corl
Ind 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; (Cor)
Ind Hhereds, That party has vio-
lated all law, trampled upon the Con-
stitution, abnegated the pledges of
the fathers, melted raids upon the
oppressed people Of the South, and
multiplied infdelities until, like the
stars Of heaven or the sands of the
seashore, they are without number;
(X1i) Therefore,
he II Resolced, That this is not a
nation. - Tucker.
Resolred, That the right of seees-
sion, though not expressed in the
Constitution, is reserved right. -
George 4. Pu9h.
ResoleeR, That martyrs owe no
apology TO tyrants, and while we are
ready to make every sacrifice to the
Union, secession, however defeated
and oppressed, will confess no sin to
fantacism, however bigoted and ex-
acting.-IHN.
Resotrea, That the grace and mag
nanimity of the Republican party is
exhibited in the master enslaved, in
intelligence disfranchised, in society
disordered, in States subverted, and
in Legislatures dispersed.-HH.
Resolced, That in Robert 4. Lee,
who now sleeps in death, was EN-.
bodied one Of the nohlest Americans
who ever trod this soil, and no dis.
honor can ever, by implication or ex-
preston, be thrown on his grave, that
the Democratic party is not bound
by all the memories of the past to
arise and repel.- Tucker.
Resolued, That whatever horrors
had existed at Andersonville, not one
of them could be attributed to SIM
gle act of the Confederate govern
ment, and that every one Of them
grew out Of necessity, and that ne
cessity was fastened upon the Con-
federates by Federal power, and the
Federal Government was directly v re-
sponsible for all the untold horrors of
the war.-HN.
Resoluei, That all the horrors and
atrocities inflicted upon Union prls-
oners at the South did not begin to
compare with the cruelties and tor
lures inflicted upon Confederate
prisoners at the North.-UiN.
Resoired, That on Grant and Stan
ton rests the blood of our honored
dead who died prisoners of war, and
history will hold them and the Gov
ernment responsible for every death
in Audersonville.- Grand Rapids
Democrat.
Resoltea, That under the leader
ship Of the ex-rcbel Hill our OPP
pressed countrymen would become a
band Of patriotic brothers, and, in
stead of strife and bloodshed, we
would have peace, harmony and
prosperity. Rakaaa=oo gazette.
Resolred, That it should be the
aim of the Democratic party-"in the
future as in the past"-to hasten the
''good time coming" when the names
of Grant, and Sherman, and Sheridan,
and Lee, and Jackson, and Breckin-
ridge-yea, of the martyred Lincoln,
and the now insulted Jefferson Davis
will be read with common pride
and common respect by the American
youth, and when the last shall be
honored as much as the first.-/ones,
Ky.