Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-10-07
What Democratic Success Means.


1.-The subordination of the Republic
to the supremacy of the so-called "Sov-
ereign" States, and the surrender of Ma
tional sovereignty.
1.-THE readoption of the pusillani-
nous doctrine of the last Democratic
Administration under James Buchanan,
that the United States have no constitu-
tional power to prevent secession, and
hence no constitutional power to main
tain their existence.
lila radical change in the present
admirable financial policy of the Gov
ernment and the substitution of untried
financial experiments by untried men.
IV.-The destruction of the National
banking system and the substitution of
the State banks, or of paper promissory
notes, issued under the assumed
authority of the General Government
whose volume and value will depend
upon the result of the ayes and nays on
a vote in Congress.
V.-Placing the debt of the Nation fol
payment in the hands of men all Of
whom vehemently opposed the resump
ton of specie payments, and large ma
jority of whom have either repudiateC
the debts of their own States, or have
favored the Pendleton plan of National
reputation.
VI-Putting an end to the policy OF
protection to American manufacture:
and American labor, and reducing the
Nation to State of dependence upoI
foreign countries for the neceSSarieS OF
life.
VII.-The continuance of intimida
tiOn, terrorism and acts of violence to
ward the colOred citizens of the South
and the refusal of employment, undel
penalty of starvation, to all who pre-
sumo to vote with the party that gave
them their freedom.
VIII.-And, therefore, the continued
disfranchisement of the race in defiance
of the supreme law and supreme author
ity of the National Government.
IX.-Reversing the verdict of Gettys
burg and Appomattax, and the verdict
of the war; reversing the solemn judg
1
king the Lost Cause" the VictOrlou:
cause.
X.-The continuance of ballot-box pol
luton, in the use of tissue-ballOts, anC
the false and fraudulent counting Of
lawful votes actually deposited.
XI.-The elevation to the chief place:
of power in the Union of all in the
South most serviceable and most con
spicuous in the war for the Unions de
struction.
XII.-The placing in the hands of the
late insurgents the power to reOrgan
ize the Supreme Court of the United
States in the interest of State Sovereign
ty and secession, and the probable adop
tion by that reconstructed Court of the
theory distinctly justifying secession
in the Kentucky resolutions of 1913
which assert that the State is to be the
Judge "of the mode and measure of re-
dress" in all cases of "infractiOns" OF
the compact on the part of the Nation,
al Government.
XIII.-Making the endorsers of these
| reasonable resolutions, which were re.
adopted in the National Democratic
platform of 1856, the indorSers of nulli-
| uCdllOH III 1907 anu Cllo plOlHOGCIo VI anu
actors in secession in 1861, the guardi-
ans of the Nation, which their acts and
teachings, unchecked, would have three
times destroyed.
XIV.-The elevation to our most ex-
allied offices, requiring the most varied
knowledge and largest attainments, of u
military officer without training or expe-
rience in civil affairs, who has 70 knowl-
edge of the science of government, of po-
litical history, or of constitutional law.
XV.-Raising to the dignity of Vice
President, and successor apparent to the
Chief Magistracy, defender of the as
>assin Brooks, and supporter of slave
ry, who has since exhibited his love OF
oppression by grinding the poor and
ejecting them from their almost entire
ly paid for homes.
| XFI.-Finally. Democratic success
means placing the Capital of the Union
and it's Government in the peaceable
possession of those enemies from whom
they were kept, for four years of open
war, only by the expenditure of six bill
ions of money and almost million Of
lives.