The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-15
THE SAME OLD PARTY.

"There was war sixteen years ago.
sneeringly say the democracy, and ask if it
is not about time that the old war issue was
dead and burled2 We answer, that it IS
true that rebellion was causeessly and
wickedly inaugurated by the southern wing
Of the democratic party in 1866 that the
way for it was paved by the acts and ut
terances of such democrats as James Blu
chanan, Franklin Pierce and Samuel J.
Tilden-Tilden saying, in 1860, that the
success of the republican party would be
I" AN off nse which leads to allegation and
" hostility, if not to actual war;" that
from 1861 to 1865 the republican admins
tration was engaged in putting down this
rebellion, and for this purpose waged II
war, which Sanford +. Church, now prom
inently named as the democratic candidate
for Governor of New York on the Tiden
ticket, declared to be Gan unlawful! and
Unconstitutional war, wicked war, a
"crime against God and humanity that
In theif efforts to suppress the rebel
lion, the republican administration was
aided by a large and respectable portion of
the people who had, heretofore, been known
as democrats, and who, on that account,
were called "war democrats, and of whom
Judge Miller, a delegate from Iowa to the
democratic national convention which nomi-
mated Mcclellan, in 1864 said, in that con-
vention, "there is no difference between a
war democrat and an Gbolitionst-they
are both links Of the same sausage, made
from the same dog; that the democratic
national convention of that year, Samuel
J. Tilden and Thomas a. Hendricks being
present and asserting thereto, demanded 9
cowardly surrender to the rebels in arms
that eight months later, the last armed
rebel surrendered and that, from 1865 tC
1869, the republican party were engaged il
the work Of 'reconstructing" the states
lately in rebellion, which work was vir
tually accomplished in the latter year; arc
that, then, the old war issue ought to have
been dead and buried, and that it would
then, have been discarded and sunk out o.
sight, if the democracy, north and south
had not been continually reviving ii; ant
that, now or in the future, the issues of thu
war will cease to have any vitality when
ever the democracy, by their acts, votes
and utterances, make it possible.
Have the democratic party ever honest,
accepted the result of the war, and are the,
pledged to abide thereby; or are they tn
same old party, standing in the position
occupied by James Buchanan, Franklin
Pierce, and Samuel j. Tilden in 1860, an,
by Samuel j. Tilden, Thomas A. Hen
dricks, Sanford Z. Church and Judge Nil
Ter in 1864? Ii they honestly accept TIN
results of the war; they stand confessed a
having been wrong in every position the,
have assumed for the last quarter of a cen
fury, and thereby confess their inability t.
mature and carry out correct govern
mental policy. If they are the same oil
party as In 1860 and 1864 then, certainly
it would be blunder worse than a Grim
to entrust them with power. Let us Sc
whether or not they have repented of tt
past, and now honestly accept Of the result
of the war, so that it would be safe +
again entrust them with the adminlstra
ton of the government.
In 1872, in national convention Assem-
bled, the democracy declared that tn
party was in favor of equal civil and POI
itical rights to all, regardless of race O
color, and pledged themselves $50 oppos
ANY reopenlng of the questions settled b.
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteent
amendments to the constitution O.
this platform, they nominated for presiden
and vice president of the United States
two life long republicans, Horace Creole
and b. Graiz Brown. Here then was
full and explicit acceptance of the situa
ton. If they were honest and sincere,
was all that the most pronounced republi
can could ask-it was more than they coul
reasonably expect But were they honest
Let the facts answer. The same year,
report WIS presented to congress signed b.
Thomas f, Bayard of Delaware, cand
date before the st. Louis convention 70
the democratic presidential nomination
Frank p. Blair, the democratic candidat
for vice president in 1868; Samuel s. Coz
made by the democrats of the present cor
gress speaker pro temp0re of the house