Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-26
THE BOURBON GRAVEYARD.

4, 1876, in the National House of Rep
resentatives
Mr.. Chairman, it is now time to inquire
as to the fitness of this Democratic party
to take control of our great nation and its
vast important interests for the next four
years. put the question to the gentle
man from Mississippi, Mr.. Lamar, what
has the Democratic party done to merit
that great trust ? He tries to show in
what respects it would not be dangerous.
/ ask him to show in what it would be
safe. / affirm, and believe I do not mis-
represent the great Democratic party,
that in the last sixteen years they have
not advanced one great national idea
that is not to-day exploded as dead as
julius Caesar. And if any Democrat here
will rise and name great national doc
trine his party has advanced within that
time, that is now alive and believed in,
1 will yield to him. [Applause.] In de-
fault of an answer, 1 will attempt to prove
my negative.
What were the great central doctrines
Of the Democratic party in the Presiden-
tial struggle of 1860 The followers Of
Breckenridge said slavery had right to
go wherever the Constitution goes. Do
you believe that to-day? And is there
man on this continent that holds that
doctrine to-day? Not one. That doctrine
is dead and buried. The other wing of
the Democracy held that slavery might
be established in the Territories if the
people wanted it. Does anybody hold
that doctrine to-day? Dead absolutely
dead!
Come down to 1864. Your party, I'M
der the lead of Tilden and Vallandigham,
declared the experiment of war to save
the Union was failure. Do you believe
that doctrine to-day? That doctrine was
shot to death by the guns of Farragut at
Mobile, and driven in tempest Of fire
from the valley Of the Shenandoah by
Sheridan, less than month after it's
birth at Chicago.
NOIuC uONn W 1OOCs LOU ucCldIC bllC
constitutional amendments revolutionary
| and void. Does any man ON this floor
say so to-day? If so, let him rise and de-
clare it.
Do you believe in the doctrine Of the
Brodhead letter of 1868, that the so called
| constitutional amendments should be
disregarded? No; the gentleman from
Mississippi accepts the results of the
war The Democratic doctrine of 1868 is
| dead
| 1 walk across that Democratic cam
paign ground as in a graveyard. Under
my feet resound the hollow echoes Of the
dead. There lies slavery, black marble
column at the head Of its grave, on which
1 read Died in the flames of the civil
war; loved in it's life; lamented in its
death; followed to it's bier by it's only
mourner, the Democratic party, but dead
And here is double grave; sacred to the
memory of squatter sovereignty. Dice
in the campaign of 1860. On the reverse
side: Sacred to the memory Of Dre(
Scott and the Breckenridge doctrine
Both dead at the hands of Abraham Lin
coin And here monument of birthstone
Sacred to the memory of the rebellion
the war against it is a failure. TIlden e
| Vdlldndighdna fecerunt, A. d. 1864. Deat
on the field of battle; shot to death b,
the million guns Of the republic. TIL
doctrine Of secession, of State sovereign
ty, dead. Expired in the flames of civi
war, amid the blazing rafters of the Con
federacy, except that the modern Kneas
fleeing out Of the flames of that ruin
bears on his back another Anchises O
State sovereignty, and brings it here il
the person of the honorable gentleman
: from the Appomattox district of Virgini
| (Mr. Tucker.) Laughter All else
dead.
Now, gentlemen, are you sad, are 20
sorry for these deaths? Are you not gla
: that secession is dead? that slavery
dead? that squatter sovereignty is dead
3 that the doctrine of the failure of the wa
? is dead? Then you are glad that yo
, were outvoted in 1860, in 1864, in 1865
and in 1872. If you have tears to she
over these losses, shed them in the gray,
. yard, but not in this house of living mel
e l know that many Southern man r.
s joices that these issues are dead. I'll
r gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Lamar
q has clothed his joy with eloquence.
, Now, gentlemen, if you yourselves al
glad that you have suffered defeat durin
the last sixteen years, will you not /
equally glad when you suffer defeat ne1
November? Laughter. But pardon TIL
remark; 1 regret it; 1 should use no br
u vado.
: Now, gentlemen, come with me for
b moment into the camp of the Republics
# party, and review its career. Our ce
trail doctrine in 1860 was that SLAYER
seOuld never extend itself over anoth
% foot of American soil. Is that doctril
u dead? 1t is folded away like victorio1
10 banner; it's truth is alive forevermore
1t this continent. In 1864 we declared tn
q we would put down the rebellion and S
-, cession. And that doctrine lives, al
:, will live when the second centennial h
Il arrived. Freedom-national, univers
T. and perpetual-our great constitution
TO amendments, are they alive or dea
ID Alive, thank the God that shields DO
10 liberty and the Union. And our nation
credit saved from the assaults of Pc
dleton; saved from the assaults of tho
III who struck it later, rising higher a
ne higher at home and abroad; and OF
ut now in doubt lest it's chief, its only enel
to the Democracy, should triumph in \
bo vember.
:. Mr.. Chairman, ought the Republic
party to surrender it's truncheon of co
Gu mand to the Democracy?