The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-09-12
The Democratic BiOedy-shirt
PIntfOrm.

Mr. EAitor.-I taxa the following
from the Democratic platform adop-
ted by the Democrats Convention al
Nashville:
"ln the name Of the Democratic
party of Tennessee, We, itS delegates,
in convention assembled, most sol.
EMMY arraign the Radical Republi-
can party, National and State, before
the bar Of public opinion, as the au-
thor Of all misfortuues which now
threaten and Cypress the people"
Cyrus the Great said that The first
thing he learned was to speak the
truth. He would not tell a lie even
in a jest; but he was not a Democrat .
In the above arraignment, had
they said the Rebel Democratic par
ty, they would have told the truth.
1t is nothing more or less than the
same old Democratic howl that has
been kept up by the Democratic par
ty, though under a different name,
from the days of the illustrious
George Washington down to the
present time. Slang and political
misrepresentation appear to be hered-
itary in the Democratic family, ais
ing from q hatred to the COnstitu-
ton of the United States and the
amendments t%hereunto. Ichabod
was written on the State of Tennes-
see, on the 9Th day of June, 1861,
when the misled people confirmed a
surrepticious ordinance made by men,
in high places, under the %solemnity
ef an oath to support the Constitu-
ton of the United States and the
State of Tennessee. l leave it with
those men to say whether they kept
their oaths or swore lies. Secession
and Rebellion necessitated resistance
on the part of the Federal Govern
ment to save the Union and preserve
the nation from anarchy. The rebels
being brave and determined to rule
or ruin, brought destruction on the
South and bankruptcy on both North
aud South. This is the point to
which State sovereignty had been
drifting for many years. 1t budded
in South Carolina in 1882, blossomed
at Fort Sumpter, and brought forth
fruit all over the South and North.
But the South got the bitter rot.
Your Democratic party is responsible
for the national debt being brought
upon us; for the destruction Of prop
erty, and for the shameful loss Of
life and limb. If brave men, in a
bad cause, put their legs in the wrong
place they ought not to be anglay, if
they got their legs broke, they had
better look upon their misfortunes as
a merciful visitation, by a kind heav-
enly Father to reform the transgress-
or. The honorable gentleman, who
is said to be the author of the plat
form, is represented as not having
been in politics. That is quite like
ly; he does not appear to be well ac-
quainted with the political history OF
his party; for all honest men who
are acquainted with the facts in the
case, believe that the gentleman is
too honorable and truthful to make
those false statements contained in
the Rebel Democratic platform, had
he known the facts in the case. The
platform is redotent with demagog-
ism; and makes paramount to all
other considerations. There is this
wonderful expression in the platform
speaking of the Republican party:
at preached the gospel of hate,
and filled the land with Olood, mis-
rule and anarchy"
Who that has any sense Of moral
obligation or %veracity would have put
this statement into a Rebel Demo
cratic platform? The authors must
have had Sumter, Jacksonville and
Fort Pillow on their minds.
Again to the platform: "Protes
ting its friendship for the Federal
Union. it sought to destroy it in Gen.
tralization." 1t ought to read,
"Practicing its friendship for the
Eadaral Uuion IL exhausted the re