Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-09

Remuneration,

Remuneration. {
The following article was written by !
former citizen and Demo- :
rat of Marion township, in this county, ]
md published in the Adams County Net7
Era three weeks since. Mr.. Wood, the
writer, now resides in Adams county.
The article was handed us by a friend,
with the request that we publish it in
the HERALD:
WHY I LEAVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
O. A COOL AND DISPASSIONATE STATEMENT
FROM A PROMINENT DEMOCRAT.
A fair and honorable statement of facts
may be reasonably expected from one
who has changed, or seems to have
his party affiliations; therefore
it can not be considered a violation of
honesty in me to frankly state where |
stand politically. l have no aspirations /
for office, either now or hereafter, for, I
indeed, if l were to remain with the PIES |
ent sO-called Democratic party, md at
tempt TO ask for office, that innumerable |
company of candidates that swarm the |
country and love the people every spring |
and fall would push me off the track i'm
mediately. But aside from this, l neither
ask nor want an Office. But l am re-
sponsible being and therefore owe a duty
TO God and my fellOw-man, and they
both in a degree have a right to hold me
responsible for the course pursue, po-
litically as well as religiOusly.
Therefore | feel that it is not only my
privilege but also my duty to give the
reasons. or at least some of the reasons
why | intend. God permitting me to have
life and ability to get to the election, to
support the entire Republican ticket this
fall. | will state, in this connection, that
lx,rb ha hlinaa1 ~ hnp0u7PS
so devoid of stability that they shift and
twist and turn sOmersaults and go back
and pitch forward, like balky horse, as
| the sO-called Democratic party has done,
| will drop them as certainly as | live.
| Therefore | think il may now be dis
| tinctly understood that no party does now
| or can own me, except it be party
| strictly democratic--Or, in other words,
! in favor of a government by the people.
| Now, [ hope it will not be considered
| egOtistical in me to say that, to the best
of my judgment, l have strictly adhered
to and acted upon this principle, and
| voted for the man that would, as far as
possible, mete out equal and exact Justice
to all alike. Consequently, now being
able to see the grand and glorious con-
summation of Republican legislation, the
unparalleled management of the finances
OF the country, their success in remOVin e
one of the greatest evils that ever afflicted
! Il country GO-N lb, TO slavery anu IilC
| wisdom displayed in bringing the cOun-
try down to resumption from such an
extreme inflated condition of the circu-
I lating medium, and their high-toned and
| well-directed legislation, as l now see it,
/ shall vote with them this fall. just So
far as men allow themselves to be voted
by their party leader, just so far they fail
to act upon democratic principles. Let
that practice universally prevail, and We
have no more government by the peO-
pie, but have a government by the die
UatOrs.
Now, l ask, in the very depths of hu-
mility, how many will vote for the So
called Democratic nominees of Adams
county this fall? Can it be claimed truth
fully that One-fOurth of the Democracy
will? | think not. A certain young
man has been telling me for some timC
that he would not vote for the ring nOmi
nees. Now, sir, after being in company
with some of his more radical friends,
| again had a conversation with him, ant
, asked him: q" Well, what do you think O
the candidates nOW?'' He hesitated
little, but answered: :" Oar man that W.
are running for Governor says if we hay,
a party we had better stick to it, and
guess we had Now, | would inquire
with due respect, that if this young mar
remains in this notion until the election
who will vote hin-TOm Ewing or him
self?
Now, my old hard-mOneyed Democrat
of the days of jackson, Van Buren,, Poll
= and Pierce, let us honestly and impair
TALLY perceive the whereabouts of tht
two great parties at present, and Wha
they each have done for the country il
the last twenty-eight years. This take
! us back in our minds eye to the begin
ming, or nearly so, of the apostacy of on
good old party, when love of country be
gan to be exchanged for love of pOWe
and high positions. What did the Demo
D Gratis do when rebelliOus bands Wer
marching from county seat to capital il
, Kansas, Staying in their course every de
p, fenseless inhabitant that they suppose
would not subscribe to their particuIa
' political dogma, and the hand OF the as
. | SaSSin was felt in every community
Frank Pierce folded his arms and said
i "The Executive has no power to meddl
D | with the domestic affairs of a Territory
and so went on the merciless depreda
o tions unmOIested by him; and, by hi
t dastardly COwardice and disregard fO
u good order and peace, and leaning to tn
X South, gave subsistence to the serpent c
rebellion and did nothing to check il
Il growth. The whole time of his admin
: istratiOn it became fit child for the 70:
tering care of James Buchanan, and h
l was very mOtherly to it for bachelor
I indeed; for from his inaugural to his la!
t message he gave it the most luEuriOu
; nursing, and from the LecOmtOn bastar
to the final defeat of Stephen A. Dough-
t in 1860, for killing the bastard, every a.
3 and utterance was for the special subsis
: ence and growth of the spirit of rebellion
i and, when urged to check its rapid stride
e by what little soul vas left in the party
u he would say The Executive. has L
- power to cOerce sovereign State" An
u when he did issue public document {
any kind, almost the entire contents wei
- | nn11nnniatinnC nf the pannla of thp Mort
= that were opposed to the extension
- slavery, or even those that were in fave
of popular sovereignty. Well, then, Ou
u last two Democratic Presidents, tOgetht
> with all their followers, have been in fl
1. vOr of the extension of slavery.
Now, is there any intelligent man il
II ing that will risk his reputation to sa
=, that the extension of slavery would hay
, been best? If there is, God pity him fl
10 ex periencing the,fact that Cod sOmetim
~ permits evil that good may come of j
70 and in this case Overruled for good an
permitted the then Satanic hatred of tt
\, South to raise to such an extent that
p divided what was then called the DEM
If cratic party, and by that means the frieT
ir of God and humanity was elected Pres
! dent of the United States. Was tn
y right? If slavery was wrong, it w.
Is most unquestiOnably right, for there w;
1r no hope that the Democratic party won
e ever remove that wrong. Well, but, sa!
N some extremists, we don't admit that
r. was wrong. Well, the truth is mo
J. likely to be in the middle of two extreme
n Therefore Kentucky's distinguished Go
,e ernor was between the extreme NOrl
a and the extreme South, and theref0
te should settle the question. What did |
say upon being called upon to acconl
II for some admissions he had made in favl
,e of the cause of the North during the wal
10 He said we thought slavery was divir
Is lnSClCuLlOhJ DuG COO thOughG dlHefentl