Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-08

vonted from exercising their righta ~ suffrage
by armed men and midnight raiders, the only
way 70 meet such outragcs q by aenlinR more
~ ~ the right which the Governments, not tho
state, Youchsnlos 70 every citizen, aud u y
bound n protect him in II, and under such
circumstances submit that the Government
can put ~ bayOneta 10 no boiler uge. Laugh
teri In the platform Of 1850 they ANNOUNCE
thoy declared for the repudiaii0n Ot the Ma.
tiOnal debt, they rgpudiated tho Rrcenbnck,
they opposed the National banks, the public
credit bill, and demanded the repeal OF the
Resumption act; afterward they became fiat
money meu, and have been swallowed up by
the GreenbHckors, as IN Maine. All the South.
ern States have
RErUDnrED THEIR DEBTS,
and the Democratic party 20 night, blackened
all over with tho sin and shame Of Tepudia-
tiOn, bawls I'm It's platform its hypOcritical pre-
tense of having honest money. The Demo
cratic party pretends 20 DO the friend OF tho
lnbOring man. Wherever the lnDOrinR man is
FREQ 70 think, free 20 speak and free TO vote, he
him q ths anywhere | re Z u5 or can be- be hs friend
But this Democratic party does deprive every
labOrinR man Of his right 70 think, ~ speak
and 70 vote as he please5 in Just one half Of
the Union. The Democratic party degraded
labor and made II servile in one hali the Union,
and owned the labOrer They sought 70 iOist
the same scheme upon the territories inhab.
tied now by prosperous labOring men. The
Democratic party pretcnds to be the friend of
the foreigner. The old Know nothing party
u
| The Republican party has made anotherknow.
nothing party Impossible by the Fifteenth
Amendment which makes it impossible for
any State Legislature ever to deny men the
right to vote because of their race, color or
previous condition. The Democratic party
opposed II solidly. Gen. Hancock says, The
amendments must be kept inviOlate." Just
| as sure as we are here 70 might the success OF
/ the Democratic party nc the pending elections
means the destruction everywhere OF these
| amendments. Tue history Of the Democratic
| party Is opposed to them. They opposed all
| Of these amendments when they were put
| upon their passage, and I'm the three great
| States of Indiana, Pennsylvania and New
| York the Democratic Legislatures withdrew
| the ratification Of the preceding Republican
! Legislatures from these amendments, and thu
/ undertook to defeat them. The Reconstruction
! measures were declared void by the Demo
| cratic party in 1863 If these measures are
! void then these amendments are void, because
| II Is under these measures that the COnstttu
| tional amendments have their validity. Thl
| circumstance of uancOck's being sent to New
| Orleans by President johnson, where III
| proved the willing tool of that accidental per
/ sOnage, i'm virtually abrOgating the recon
/ struction measures, which Sheridan was re
| moved for refusing TO do, were detailed a
| length, as well a. those under which llancOcl
| issued his famous order No. 40 ON the day h'
| reached the city. This was clearly shown 4
| be n setting aside Of the reconstruction meas
ures by Hancock, and guaranty that he VII
/ not stop now, II elected President, TO carr,
! into execution the policy in which he wa
| then thwaIted by Grant.