The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-08-14
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.

SA0CL' IL "Oulu DC ike the mariner upon
tempestuous seas throwing away his life
boat. There is not a measure of the
entire series of iniquities which was
devised by the Republican lawmakers in
their unholy combination with capital
for the robbery of industry and labor,
that was not opposed by the Northern
Democracy, and when they are repealed,
it will be by the cooperation of the
party in the North and the South.
But especially do the Northern De
mocracy commend themselves to the
confidence and good will of the South.
by their steady resistance to the meas
ures which were devised by the Republi-
can party to insult and harrass the
Southern States in their misfortunes. In
a speech delivered in the Senate by the
late Mr.. 0. z. Morton, of Indiana, April
l4th, 1870, he bitterly arraigned the
Northern Democracy for their opposition
to military rule and carpet bag recon-
struction' In the course of his speech,
he said:
The Senator from Ohio says that our re-
construction policy is a failure. | deny thar
statement 1t Is not complete success, |
put IL y great success; and [ want TO saw
TO him and the whole country that If onr !
reconstruction policy is a failure if is he |
cause the Democratic party has tried to |
make 1t failure; everything has been done |
on their part that could be done 10 make II /
a fall re; every obstacle has been cast i'm itS
way from first to last. and if it is a success
lt Is success in defiance of, and in desnfte
OF the Democratic party.
The Indiana Senator, who was the ora
Gle of his party, proceeded to furnish
proof as follows of the hostility of the
Northern Democracy to the cruel and
cowardly treatment of the South by his
own party
Why, sir, the platforms of the Democratic
conventions in the various Northern States
al united in declaring that our reconstruc-
tIOn acts were unconstitutional and vnid |
and by the most violent and infammatorT | :
resolutions stimulated the Southern peoDIe | .
10 resistance. Not TO go back beyond the
t!me OF the passage of the first RECONSTRUCT
u tioh ~ measures, l VIII present specimen of {
the adNlce, OF the Instruction given to the
southern people by the Democra tic party i'm 9
their state conventions in the North have {
some seventeen or eighteen of them here
Out nave not the time to read them ALL ! g
VIII, however, read two or three as sDpci- | /.
mems. First. the Democratic State Con
'entlon OF Indiana, in 1868, passed this res q
'lution: 70
Resolved, That language is inadequate TO
XpreSs our adherence and condemnation IS
1 the Radical reconstruction policy of
jong: esS-a policy condemned bv every | -
onsideration OF justice and constitutional RI
bhgation-a policy fraught with the most
farming apprehension OF evil to ten States 10
the Union and of destruction to tho &.
mon itselt-a policy that largely increases
tHation-a policy that requires a large Ell
anding army, which adds nearly one hun d,
req mllllons Of dollars annually to the ex-
enses OF the Government, while it beprars sa
he people.
| now read resolution passed by the pr
emocratic State Convention of Ohio i'm dis
,6S: III
u; That the numerous palpable and high lit
Lnded ADAPTATIONS of the party i'm power.
cir many public and private acts of tvran- Tie
:, tramping under foot the civil law and COZ
guarantees of the Constitution; their u,
TO deprive sovereign States OF TIE
presentation in Congress, ana to govern tina
ID States by military rule, show them to
the party OF despotism and unworthy
confidence and support of free peo-
Will next read resolution passed by -
2 Democratic State Convention of New Tax
in 1868; and these are fair spec pro
mat the Congressional plan of recon- sinh
uctiOn, as confessed by its trainers who'll
outside the Constitution, is reyonf Hon lett
: usurpation; and that the attempt by tho
ngresS to establish the practical suprem-
OF the negro race. is a most atrocious tire
me against the principles of repu blican Mr.
,ernment and the civilization of the age,
deserves the severe and indignant de- Boa
nclation OF every true American citizen. tho,
hat is fair expression of the action of al t;
Democratic party of the North from T.
tme that the reconstruction measures IL
re first passed up to this time; and | ocra
'c only to say that il the Southern peo-
believe what their Northern friends say "
'Hgard to the uncOnstitutionality of these 1t W
laborng under, the southern M pe t"I5 carp
ooun "a sy every principle, human and bere
tied States. upor
and resident, uniS Wh2e policy cumina- his
by the Democratic party in NatiopaI postt
E IaaTo = IN sew w YORK, IN 1865. and undo
not read the whole of it, but | will ment
Thai If ~ [n as SHOWS us charae paid
It of the Republican party: cy W
stead of restoring the Union, it has so hast
IS in its power, dissolved it, and sub
d ten States in time of profound peace will |
iii''a'9 0eSpo'isin anu negro suprem- sount
I'd then further on it says: ticul;
I'd that we regard the reconstruction NJ,
$50 called of Congress, as such. as usur- AZ
ms, and unconstitutional. revolution for til
act OF
VIC nii0 UT morton ton '
-. - - - "liien', ue- our p
ee Vi us ton
7, clothing their deformities in Ian nrora
80 ~ gu Tue opii'osl'e 81 'heir that i
intent and meaning, arraigning the stana
De.iio'i"cy ior 'neir continued the ST
opposition to them. In eocb ,
=" a. i0"n"' Oni'' august 'th' This |
~ the e1
in Indiana. Ohio New York ora-vN SECT
they are Rourbons. all. untainted the Sta
ingieact of patriotic resolve or acf;on one-ha
2 suppression of the rebellion. fhey prInciI
our Humans, Hendricks Tildens. of suPe
dss Seymours, kernans, Eatons PEN leVyln:
$ c! ia oseGc genus. gentlemen of abiI tax, wi
Gu and every one Of whom has been cents Q
lrelenting antagonist of the govern properi
from the day our flag was hurled ING iHde
IN blood from the summit of Fort oe e1eee,
T. They have ALWAYS denied the non, coed Itfl
congress to ooerce a State to remain tGoFN o.
Union They have ascarrad me - the col
utionaIity of every 0raat measnre - Washin
ute the war. They cast the whole IeHy ta1
OF their influence against the gov MN ho'
nc throughout the struggle. They tnousah
med the Presidents nrneismatio, -, of super
patton to be a fragrant violation of twenty
nstitation They went ~ ChioaTa taxable
, in the midst of the last great cam tax
and published 10 the world that the
: a failure, and should be abandon If tn,
.tS o iong9e 10 the bitter end the r. B. II