The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-10
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. 1875.

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 history and
(Co9
WHEREAS, There is mo precedent in
history, and no canon in political phi
losophy" which the Republican party
has not outraged; and (Cos)
WHEREAS, The history of the Rspub-
hcan party has been the history Of spoil
alton, murder, death and tyranny in the
South since 1865; aud (Coa)
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 (Coa)
WHEREAS, That party las violated all
law, trampled upon the Constitution,
abnegated the pledges Of the fathers,
melted raids upon the oppressed people
of the South, and multiplied infidelities,
till, like the stars of heaven or the sands
of the seashore, they are without num-
Der; therefore, be it (Hil0
Resoloed, That this is not a nation
Tucker.
Resolced, That the right of secession,
though not expressed in the Constitu-
ton, is reserved rigbt.-6eorge z.
Pugh.
Resoeced, That martyrs owe no apollo
gy to tyrants, and while we are ready to
make every sacrifice to the Union, se-
cession, however defeated and oppressed,
will confess no sin to fanaticism, how
ever bigoted and exacting.-HM.
Resolced, That the grace and magnan-
unity of the Republican party is exhib-
tied in the master enslaved, in inteIli-
gence disfranchised, in society disorder
ed, in States subverted, and in Legisla-
lures dispersed.-HU.
Resoloed, That in Robert E. Lee, who
now sleeps in death, was embodied one
of the noblest Americans that ever trod
this soil, and no dishonor can ever, by
implication or expression, be thrown on
his grave that the Democratic party Is
not bound by all the memories of the
past to rise and repel.-Tucker.
Resoloed, That whatever horrors has
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 ne
cessity, and that necessity was fastened
upon the Confederates by Federal power,
and the Federal Government was direct
ly responsible for all untold horrors of
the war-HiH.
Resoloed, That all the horrors and
atrocities inflicted upon the Union pris-
oners at the South did not begin to CON-
pare with the cruelties and tortures in
flicted upon Confederate prisoners in the
North.-HiU.
Resoloed, 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 respon-
sible for every death in Andersonville.
Grand Rapids Democrat.
Resol1ed, That under the leadership
of the ex-rebel Hill our oppressed coun-
trymen would become band of patriot
ic brothers, and, instead of strife and
bloodshed, we would have peace, har-
mony and observation-disclosures 3D.
zette.
Resol1ed, 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 Breckenridge-yea, of the
martyred Lincoln, and the now insulted
jefferson Davis-will be read with COM
mon pride and common respect by the
American youth, and when the last shall
be honored as much as the first.-Jones,
Of Kentucky.