The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-23

lOlb W ylslu Ills lUulNluuhl OlibiDn III lul-
ty purposes. There arc occasions in the
history of nations and in the lives of men
when the duty OF hearty and active sup
port of government rises above all other
considerations of a public nature.
When hundreds of thousands of our fell
low citizens are suffering the vicissitudes
and confronting dangers of open, fragrant
war, and all are bearing heavy burdens of
taxation and earnestly praying for the sue
cess of the cause which involves the very
existence of the government, party which
meets in convention and proclaims that the
effort is idle and that the whole movement
Is failure, is guilty of a great political
crime and shows itself unworthy to be
trusted with power. The leaders of the
party who promote or permit such declara-
lions are not the men of whom presidents
should he made. This revolution of the
democratic party was not exceptional or
inconsistent with its known wishes and pur-
poses throughout the war. Since it pro-
claimed through its administration that
there was no constitutional right or power
to prevent dissolution of the Union by coer-
Give measures il has continued to be party
of obstruction and negations. 1t not only
failed as q party organization to give hearty
and fervent support to the war for the pre-
eervation of the Union, but at every step
it threw obstacles in the way its successful
prosecution. Who that observed the pro-
gress of the war can doubt for moment
that the conduct Of that party gave encour-
agement to the rebels in arms or that 1t
prolonged the war and added millions to
its cost besides increasing largely the num-
Der of those who nobly died in the cause of
their country. When the republican party,
rising to the importance of the occasion
and recognizing the necessity Of the hour,
determined to remove absolutely the cause
of the rebellion by ENGRAVING upon our
written constitution an amendment abol-
ishing slavery, the democratic party gave
neither aid nor countenance to the effort,
but obstinately resisted its adoption. 1t
now asks the people to elevate to the ecc.
ond Office in their gift man who as d
senator in congress from Indiana by his
voice and vote, opposed the submission of
that amendment to the people.
The thirteenth amendment is now the
GROWING glory of our constitution. Not
only did it have the effect to abolish slav-
cry of the blacks, but 1t makes it impossi-
bic to eDslave any race or class so long as
the constitution shall stand. The demo-
cratic party had no share in this grand
achievement. 1t asks you to put in office
men who, by their speeches and votes,
1penly and persistently opposed it, Will
such men be more likely to give their inllu-
ence and power in unfolding and enforc-
ing this amendment IN the spirit of its
adoption, than those who advocated
aud supported it because they be-
lieved in il? And so of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments which embody
,ri,,pi,,1ae ~ v,a1pa nd
the mainiainence and proper enforcement
# which is essential to the peace of the
country and the perpetuation of the liberty
of the citizen. The adoption Of these was
opposed and resisted by the democratic
party, and even after their ratification by
the requisite number of states, it was
openly asserted by it's party leaders that
these amendments were fraudulenly
adopted, and therefore were not valid as
parts of the constitution. Every measure
of the republican party for the enforce
ment of their amendments and for the re-
construction and paciiicatiCn of the SOUTH
ein states has me. fierce and uncompromi-
sing opposition and resistance from the
democratic party. Can It be trusted now
to maintain and preserve what has been
gained in spite of its opposition? Is it not
both wise and safe to select as guardians Of
be new order Of things men who took part
n the work because they believed it to be
right? Grievous as were the waste and
damage of war, and burdensome as were
the taxes imposed upon the people to raise
and support our splendid army, aad to
maintain and preserve the national faith
and credit, we have gained much of value
to US as q nation. We have secured
an indissoluDle Union. We have i'm
planted in our constitutions guaran-
lies of civil liberty and personal rights
which should endure while free govern
ment lasts. All that has been added is in
the interest of freedom and equality of
right and privilege. Shall these be endan-
gered by being turned over to the guardian
ship of party fresh from the conflict in
which it resisted them at every step Have
the people become SO Indifferent in the
work of their own hands as to be willing to
place it ia the keeping of party which
has all along denounced it as subversige of
the democratic theory of government, and
at war with the traditions of that party +?
Will the future prosperity and elevation of
The four million freedmen be more secure
with the national government in the con-
troll Of the party which resisted their eman-
cipaion than under the guidance and d.
rec,ion of the grea. party which gave them
freedom, aud is therefore more directly re-
spoDsible before the civilized world for
their advancement in all that makes useful
citizens? These are practical questions
which force themselves upon every voter
in this contest. -Four millions of human
beings have suddenly passed from the long
dark night of slavery into the full sunlight
of freedom, and have been clothed with
tho tinhto % .:
zenship. Their protection in the exer-
else of the rights thus given them, and
their better qualification to meet the re-
possibilities imposed upon them, is sub
jet which demands the serious and
thoughtful consideration of every man who
has care for the future Of his country and
the welfare of his fellow-men. Out of this
spring questions which will not down at
any mans bidding, but must be met and
settled from time to time. The republican
candidate for the vlce-pIesiIency well says
that "the north must not delude itself in
expecting the masses of the south, SO far
behind in enlightened improvements and
civilization, are in brief period to be
transformed into the condition of model
northern communities. This can only
come through course of patient waiting to
which no one can now set certain bounds"
Meantime it is essential that the north shall
take no step backward. The advancement
and Improvement of the south will go on
more rapidly under the auspices and influ-
ence of republican administration than is
possible under democratic rule. Nothing
can be clearer than that the freedmen of
the south are entitled to protection in the
full enjoyment of every right secured to
them by the amendments to the constitu-
lion. 1t is equally clear that the
democratic party is not qualified
by Its traditions or the teach
inss of its leaders to give such protection.
While republicans may not all agree
as to the particular mode in which this pro-
lection shall be extended, there is no dis
agreement as to the tact that it Is due in
some form, and that it must and shall be
given. The profession of loyalty to the
new order of things by the democratic
party aud of its acquiescence in the amend
ments to the constitution is too recent and
too strongly inconsistent with its record