Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-08-25
"The Dangers Of ReAtOrInG the Demo
cratic Party To Power"

EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH ny SENATOR
SHERMAN OF OHIO.
We have received a full report of the
speech of Hon. John Sherman Of Ohio,
delivered recently at Marietta in that
State. AS the opening address for the cam
paign of one so widely and honorably
known, not only for his devotion to Re-
publican principle, but for his high charac-
ter as a legislator, his knowledge and skill
as a financler and his candor and modera-
tion as a statesman, this speech merits un-
usual attention at this :ime. It's length
precludes our publishing ii entire, but the
following extracts will give the substance
Of its tenor and power, and will be found
very useful readng;
DEMOCRATIC RESTORATION.
What will be the result OF the restoration
of the Democratic party 10 power?
The first result will be a severe check to
the growth OF Union sentiment-love for
the Union. Since the Republican party
came into power our country has made vast
advances 10 strength and unity as a ma
tion.
N~N
people of the Northern States, the love OF
Union, the love Of country, that, organized
under the 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 Dem
ocratic party would have completed its
work would have divided our country in
10 two confederacies, and have planted the
seeds of further division and arnachy. We
would have no broad country TO love.
Millions of men, women and children
would still be bought and sold as slaves.
Our rivers and IL. ountains and plains would
have had been divided by hostile lines.
Hundreds of thousands of brave men gave
their lives TO defeat this policy; and, thank
God, the Democratic party, North and
South, both on the field of battle and at the
ballot box, were defeated, aud as result
our country is one and indivisible. The
Mississippi flows through its whole course,
from its remotest soul ce to the gulf, under
the flag of one country, and that our own.
Louisiana, and Maine, Oregon and Florida,
thirty-eight States and eight Territories,
are united in one nation, and its authority
| 10 make and enforce the laws can no longer
| be denied.
And now the very men who fought and
voted to break up this Union, now under
the same name and organization, still call
ing itself Democratic, appeal 10 your gener-
| osily to surrender TO them all the great
powers of the Government. They ask TO
administer its laws, control its revenues,
and 10 mold its policy at home aud abroad.
Both OF their candidates, though living in
the North, opposed every measure of the
war, all the movements 10 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 lehe armies or who
frowned and complained in the North. The
same States that passed and maintained
ordinances of secession are the main
| strength of this coalition.
| II they succeed they have accomplished
| by a restoration what they sought 10 accom-
plish by a reVolNtioR. How will it read in
history if it is recorded that the American
people took up arms and overcame the
Democratic party.in order TO save their I'm
| ion, and when it WAS saved restored the same
party and the same men TO power again
Even the spectacle of such contest is re-
proach TO our patriotism and civilization.
FoRETAsTE OF SUCH RESTORATION.
As foretaste of what is meant by a DEM
ocratlc restoration, we have now a Demo-
cratic House of Representatives, where six
ty men who served in the rebel army OF
rebel Congress are making laws for you.
They are arraigning Gen. Grant and other
conspicuous leaders of the Union army.
They have turned out Union soldiers who
bear honorable wounds, from petty offices
to make way for rebel officers. They pass
ed bill to make Confederate officers eligi-
BILE for service in the army of the United
States. The whole tone. conduct and policy
of these men is the same as when l was q
member of the House sixteen years ago,
They talk about the revolution" bul
neither acknowledge its results nor respect
the great changes in the Constitution which
we hoped had been secured by the war.
REVIVAL OF REBEL CLAIMS.
When the war closed dinnumerable claims
against the United States were made by the
lately rebel States, and Congress in the
most liberal spirit made provision for the
payment of all that by the well-seLtled rules
of civilized war could be properly made
against the United States. The officers Of
the Departments. the Supreme Court, the
Court OF Claims, aud the Southern Claims