The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-24
NATIONAL ISSUES.
Speech of Senator John
Sherman, at Ma
rietta, Ohio.
Dangers Of Restoring the Demoo-
racy to Power.
The Candidates and Platforms
Reviewed.
THE COMING CONTEST.


ident of the United States for the next four
years. but the policy and principles that Will
guide his administration. The contest VIII
affect in greater or less degree every cluzen
of the United States. The choice Is between
the Republican ard Democratic parties. Inc
real question is shall the Democratic party be
restored to power again, not with new prlncl-
pies and new leaders, but the Democratic party
composed Of the same elements as before the
war Sixteen years have passed away, and
vet that party, IN soul, purpose ana
policy is the same as when under
Buchanan it left the country crumbilng
into anarchy party warning against 1t and
party voting against it, and both factions teach
ing that our country was mere confederation
of States. too weak to enforce It's own laws,
without power to protect its life and subject to
the veto of any State that chose to Withdraw
from its power.
THE HOPE OF DEMOCRACY.
Its only hope for success now. as then, Is IN
a united South combined with factionl and
discordant elements in the North, including
the war riotors OF New York, the Sons of Lib
erty Of Indiana, and the thousands Of men who
follow its name without reason or principle. 1t
it is union of the men in the North who, IN
1864, declared the war failure, and the rebels
who in the South, were fighting to destroy the
Union. The South IS to bring to tbs alliance
increased political power. Formerly It's slaves
were counted at three-fftbs OF their number
now as freemen, they are counted as other
ubs
vested bv the constitution with the rights OF
J freemen. they are to be overawed and held
+ down by violence and murder, and their poIltl-
cal power is to be welded against their own
will In the North the dialoyal elements are to
be reinforced by the inevitable dlscOntentS OF
political strife. Men disappointed in Office or
ambition. or who exaggerated the faults and
failings of a Republican administration, will
unite with the Democratic party, and thus en-
danger all that we have won in our long strug-
ar,d4 11O1fyr I n In a0t
underrate the contest before us, but come to
YOU fully impressed with its dangers and in
? woke you to consider them.
RESULTS OF THEIR RESTORATION.
What will be the result of the restoration of
the Democratic party to power?
The first result will be a severe check to the
growth of the Union sentiment-love for the
Union. Since the Republican party came into
power our country has made great advances in
strength and unity as q nation.
It was the fierce patriotic fervor of the peO-
pie of the Northern States, the love Of union,
the love of country, that organized under the
E name of the Republican party. Overcame In war
and at the ballot-box the Democratic party,
and secured US union liberty and country.
But for this the Democratic party would have
completed it's work it would have divided our
country into two confederacles, and have
planted the seeds of further division and an
archv We would have had no broad country
to love- Millions of men, women and children
rivers and mountains and plains would have
been divided by hostile lines. Hundreds of
3 thousands of brave men gave their lives to de-
feat this policy; and thank God the Demo-
cratic party, North and South, both on the field
of battle and at the ballot-bOX, were defeated,
and as a result our country is one and
indivisible. The Mississippi flows through
its whole course from its remotest source to
the gulf under the flag Of one country and
that our own. Louisiana and Maine, Oregon
airl1% and iC
ritories. are united in one nation and its au-
thority to make and enforce the laws can no
longer be denied. Aud now the very men who
fought and voted to break up this Union, now
under the same name and organization, still
calling itself Democratic appeal to your gen.
erosity to surrender to them all the great
powers of tie Government They ask to adj
minister it's laws, control its revenues, and to
mold its policy at home and abroad. Both Of
their candidates, though living in the North,
opposed every measure of the war, all the
movements to organize the army that beat
down the rebellion, and all the safeguards
adapted to secure the results of our victory.
The men they would bring into the chief
places of the Government are those who led
the rebel armies, or who frowned and COM
planned in the North. The same States that
passed and maintained ordinances of secession
are the main strength of this coalition.
If they succeed they have accomplished by a
restoration what they sought to accomplish by
is recorded that the American people took up
arms and overcame the Democratic party in
order to save their Union, and when it was
saved restored the same party and the same
men to power again? Even the spectacle of
such a contest Is a reproach to our patriotism
and civilization. Its success would have only
one parallel in history, that of the restoration
Of Charles the Second in England after the
people of England had executed his father and
won their liberties under Cromwell. The peo-
7ola nf E71ol nNuIG rio of fboi,
restoration by another revolution; and we, by
following their example, will only involve our
country in q struggle dangerous as the
reigns of Charles the Second and James the
Second was to the people of England
When the rebels commence to make laws for
us we shall learn how dangerous il is to trust
our Union, our Institutions the liberty now
enjoved by all, to the custody and care of the
very men who wsged war against tie Union,
who sought to overthrow our institutions aud
who held in slavery 1000, 900 of our country
men made free by our policy.
But it may be said that these rebels are MOI
the Democratic party, and it is the Democratic
part that seeks to be restored to power. The
answer is that they would be the controlling
element of the Democratic party-the majority
OF it-who will furnish the majority OF the
electoral votes for It's success. Who controlled
the Democratic party before the war? The
very men who control it now Why VIZ s it thai
tens of thousands of Northern Democrats
sweIled the ranks of the Republican party il
1863? Because they would not submit to the
domination of the same elements that will con
trol that party now. Bot who in the North vii
be their allies in this contest Who are TlIdeI
and Hendricks, and whom do thew represent
The very men who held us in check and pro
longed the war. The men who doubted, hest
tated, wavered, and finally proposed to sur
render in 1864, when our national life hune
suspended by thread.
But it is said there are brave men, patri
otto men, and Union soldiers in the Demo
cratic party. So there are; and to then
I would appeal; to their memory of GU
danger and victory. How few are they il
number; how feeble In influence in TIN
Democratic party compared to the number ant
Influence of these who during the war wer
open enemies or left-handed friends? Wher