The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-16

lican party, who claimed great credit
during the war for his opposition to the
democratic party, makes it necessary for
me right here to answer that statement.
| think his declaration will astound the
democracy, especially of the south, as
much as it will his former political asso-
ciates of the north. If the republican
party, through its state and national adj
mlnlstratlons, did not raise the armies,
did not vote the supplies, did not pass the
laws necessary for the preservation of the
union during the war, l ask him to answer
me: What party did? At what time did
the democratic party, north or south, in
any state, take such action as tended to
aid in any manner the suppression of the
rebellion? Who was it that was to be sup
pressed? Who rebelled, republicans or
democrats? If democrats, how were they
to be suppressed except by the authority
of the national republican administra-
ton? What member Of the republican
party, from 1861 to 1865, melted rebellion
aided rebellion, fought for the rebellion,
against the union? Senator Trumbull
says Grant was democrat He says / was a
DEMOCRAT, and voted with the democracy
in 1862. Gen. Grant and myself went in
to the army from Illinois in 1861, and re-
manned there until the rebellion was
closed. From the time of the first rebel
attack on Fort Sumter no honest patriot
acted with or sympathized with the democ-
racy IN Obstructing the cause OF the union
in any manner whatever.
Senator Trumbull gives figures, and
shows that more men went into the army
than voted for Mr.. Lincoln What Of
that? The first gun fired at Sumter, in
the spring Of 1861, made more republicans
than voted for Abraham Lincoln. Sena-
tor Trumbull says the state of Missouri
sent more troops to the war than voted for
MIR. Lincoln in that state, and more than
several of the northern states sent. Mis-
| souri,, although it is now a democratic
state, was during the war a republican
state, and up to 1870, when all rebels
were enfranchised by republican generosi-
ty. To-day it has 10000 republican
! voters. probably Il majority of them made
such by service in the union army. Illi-
nois was converted from democratic to
republican state by like causes. Why,
nine-tenths of the men who entered the
union service as democrats came out re-
publicans, and remain republicans to-day,
unlike the distinguished candidate who
! now assails them. They had their democ-
racy shot out of them at the muzzles of
rebel rifles and rebel cannon. If Senator
Trumbull's conversion from democracy to
republicanism had been from like causes
his gravitation back to his rebel democratic
associations would probably have been less
hrecipitate.
| THE RECONSTRUCTION ACT
was passed, on July 10, 1867, and March
II, 1865, the supplemental acts were passed.
These acts were for the purpose of reor-
clared that "no legal state governments
exist in any of the states mentioned.
Under the reconstruction acts state con-
situations were formed and legislatures
elected. These legislatures voted on the
adoption of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and
fifteeth amendments to the constitution of
the United States. These amendments
were all opposed by the democrats in con-
gress and out of congress, and in 1868 they
declared in their national platform that
these acts were Revolutionary, unconsti-
tutional, and void.'' Now, does Senator
Trumbull indorse this declaration by in
dorsing the present national democratic
platform, which pledges anew the democ-
racy to the constitutional doctrines here
before taught by their statesmen? Did
constitutionality of these reconstruction
acts? And if they should get into power
what would be the result in this case?
Would not q decision of the supreme court
of the United States, that these reconstruct
ton acts were unconstitutional, overturn
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution? If these
acts are void, would not the legislatures
convened under and by virtue of them,
which made up the quota of states neces-
sary to secure the adoption of these amend
ments, be illegal bodies, and their acts
void?. Have not the democrats already
commenced this programme?
The authority to enforce the constitu-
tlona! amendments by congress has been
exercised in the passage of various laws.
The act to enforce the right to vote, pro-
tect the ballot, ETC., was passed May 81,
1871. This act was not only necessary in
the south, but in the large cities in the
north.
1t lisa we'll known fact that
FRAUDULENT VOTING
in New York had been reduced to a science.
and it has only been since the enforcement
of those acts of congress that there has
been the semblance of fair elections. Our
old friend Senator Trumbull, however,
since he has become democrat, attacks
the modes even in New York of protecting
the ballot. He finds in list of some 1900
duputy marshals some five or six men who
had been accused of some ottense unknown
to the appointing power at the time of APP
pointment. He attacks the whole number,
as we'll as the law and the commissioner,
Mr.. Davenport. Senator Erumbull we'll
knows that democrotic committee have
been trying to throw mud on Mr.. Daven-
port for years, but have wholly failed to
find anything by which they could pro-
cure his dismissal. If democratic re-
peaters, thugs, blood-tubs, and gutter
snipes could commit indiscriminate frauds
In that city, and carry it by any majority
to overthrow the majority of republi-
can votes in the state outside of the city,
Senator Trumbull's political conscience