The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-16
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
Their Significance Purpose of d
n SIZE y southern Democracy. s
Iron the Providence Ionrl

lcrOm the PROVIDENCE journal
When, in 1872, the Democratic Ma
tional Convention nominated for it's
candidate the lifelong, outspoken, and
conspicuously influential antagonist of
the Democratic party, Horace Greeley,
every sober-minded citizen oflthe United
States saw at once the faulty and ridicu-
lousness of such action. The Cincinnati
Convention has perpetrated.a an incon-.
sistency equal to, if not quite as absurd,
as that Of 1872. It has nominated fer
President General Hancock, and thus,
in SO far as this particular movement is
concerned, it has declared that the sup
preston of the Rebellion was right and
proper; that the South had no right to
rebel that it was as wrong, as migrate
full, as suicidal, and as unpatriotic in its
attempt to destroy the Union as the
Republican party has always declared it
to have been. It has said that the utter
ances of the Democratic leaders in Con-
gress during the extra session were false
in doctrine, were wicked and foolish in
the then situation Of the country. a4t
Gen. Hancock fought to maintain the
Union which the Democrats were fight
ing to sever. He was and is an officer
under the Government, bound by con-
stitutional demands to secure the rights
of class which the Democracy of one
half of the country has both fraudulently
and forcibly denied. There is no af6i-
alton between the Hancock who fought
for the constitution and the Hancock
who is supported by the red-shirts Of
South Carolina, and the bulldozers of
Mississippi. For, be it remembered,
that although in the last session of Con-
gross the Democrats, as matter OF pru-
dence, were silent as to the. doctrines of
and In favor of rebellion announced in
the extra session, they did not in the
leastrecant, modify or abate those doc
trines. They simply let II dare not
wait upon I would" They held to
old opinions they only, and that re-
luctantly, agreed not to faunt them in
the eyes of the country.
But the convention consoled itself for
this compulsory tribute to Unionism and
good government by nominating for
Vice President one who was "a notorious
svmpathizer with the South when the
very life of the nation was in danger,
and who was, in those dark and dreary
days when even the most hopeful patriot
feared and trembled, Confederate at
heart though without the Confederate
| honesty and courage. As he was Sc
cessionist then, is he not secessionist
now? Is it possible that the. Union
North should put him within the posi-
bility of being the President of the
United States? Upon the vital issues,
what sympathy can there be between
the Union General and the copperhead
civilian? 1t is not alleged that English
has changek if Hancock has not, then
they are now, as in 1861 to 1866. wide as
the poles asunder as respects the prin-
ciples now and then enunciated by the
Southern Democracy /; and the Southern
Democracy is the power and the helm Of
! the Democratic party.
But we say again, as heretofore, that
we care comparatively little who are the
standard bearers Of the Democracy IF
the Democratic party should gain con-
troll of the Government, it.wou1d be con-
trolled by the South. The Democrats
of the South have now as distinct and
grimly- held purpose as they had in the
ante-bellum days. Then it was seces-
sion; now it is recompense for the loss
es occasioned by the war of the Rebellion.
Even with q Republican in the execu-
tive chair of the nation, this has been
made apparent. What would be the de-
pletion Of the public treasury in case of
a Democratic administration can only be
conjectured from the attempts which
have been made in Congress to obtain
appropriations for the South of amounts
simply astounding to the Northern mind.
The idea Of the South is clear, and it is
logical, and, granted the premises, it is
fair. It is this I: |" We had b right to Sc
.cedeE secession cost us thousands Of
lnaillions of dollars the Government.