Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-21

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A LONG LINE OF DEMOCRATIC STATES
MEN AND PATRIOTS.


LONG LINE OF DEMOCRATIC STATES
MEN AND PATRIOTS.
ave pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional
doctrines and traditions OF the Democratic party,
as illustrated by the teachings and example of a
long line OF Democratic statesmen and PATRIOTS
Democratic Platform, 1880.
JANIS BUCHANAN,
Who vetoed the Act granting homesteads to
settlers upon the public lands, upon the
ground, among others, that the bill would
proclaim to all nations that whoever should
arrive in this country from abroad, and de.
clare his intention to become citizen, might
have farm of 160 acres by settling upon it.
Upon the question of passing the bill over his
veto in the Senate, the vote was, ayes % (less
than two-thirds), noes is. The noes were all
Democrats, who constitute a part of the
long line of Democratic statesmen. The
ayes were 10 Republicans, and 9 Democrats.
Who, in his message TO Congress, in De-
cember, 1860, announced to the country and
the world that there was "no power in Con-
gress or any other department of the Federal
Government to coerce o State into gubmis-
sion, which is attempting to withdraw, or has
actually Withdrawn from the confederacy."
The substance of the message was /: First,
EcOuGn OaEOllud UIQ Jusl cause SECSll-
ing from the Union, or the confederacy," SO
Buchanan called it on this occasion. Second,
that she had q right to secede. Third, that
we have no right TO prevent her from seed
ing. A long line of Democratic Senators and
statesmen Endorsed this doctrine, and thereby
encouraged other States to follow the exam
pie Of South Carolina.
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
Who wrote to JEFF Davis encouraging him 60
20 on with war, and promising that it would
be Northern fields and cities instead of
Southern, that would be desolated Many OF
his brother statesmen in tie same line were
of the same way of thought and feeling, and
aided the secessionists in more substantial
manner than by mere letters of advice and
encouragement
FERNANDO WOOD,
Democratic Mayor of New York, who, after
Georgia had seeded and was arming against
the Government, apologizsd to Robert
Toombs for the seizure in New York of arms
designed for use against the Government.
Here is the correspondence:
MrLIrDGEyILLE, January "a, 1861
To His Honor Mayor Wood Is it true that any
arms intended for and consigned TO the State OF
Georgia have been seized by public authorities in
New York Answer at once. r. T00MBS.
Hon. Robert Toombs, Milledgeville, Ca: In reply
to your dispatch regret to say that arms intended
for and consigned to the State of Georgia have been
seized by the police OF this State but that the city
of New York should in no way be made responsible
for the outrage. as Mayor have no authority over
the police. Ii / had the power / should summarily
punish the authors of this illegal and unjustifable
FERNANDO WOOD.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR,
Who, in Democratic State Convention in
Albany, in 1861, pronounced coercion by
the North as no less revolutionary than seces.
sion by the South" and was in full accord
with his brother statesmen in that Conven-
ton, who declared. in reference to the " en-
forcement of the laws" by the President
every place and form, we must now and at
all times oppose a resoiute and unfaltering
resistance" and " if revolution of force is
to begin, it shall be iDaugurated at home"
The doctrines of the Democratic party in
the North in 1861, as illustrated by the teach
ings and example of a long line of the DEM
ocratic statesmen Of that day, were such as
to cause great exultation and comfort among
the secessionists, a leading one of whom, from
South Carolina, then in Washington, re-
marked, in relation to the speeches and pro-
ceedings of these Democratic statesmen,
'There will be more men in New York alone
down"
CLEMENT L. vALLANDIGHAM,
Democratic member of Congress, and candi-
date for Governor of Ohio-a Distinguished
expounder of the doctrines and traditions"
who was convicted by q military Commission,
appointed by General Burnside, of treason
able practices in attempting to weaken the
power of the Government in its efforts to sup
press an unlawful rebellion" He was sen.
fenced to confinement in Fort Warren DUR
ing the war. LincolA committed his sentence
to Punishment to the Southern Confederacy.
The Confederates did not want him. lie
came to his own, and his own received him
not" They needed men who could do fight.
ing instead of talking for the doctrines and
traditions" and so they sent him to Canada,
from which border, in connection with other
rebel agents, ne could do the most good. a
Democratic Convention, at Albany, n. Y,
composed largely of the statesmen referred
to in the platform of 1880, made an express
demand upon Abraham Lincoln to release
the unfortunate Copperhead, upon the
ground that it was no crime in a
free country, even during a civil war,
to preach democratic doctrines and ira
ditions to soldiers. The President declined
the insolent request, and in his letter said
she who dissuades one man from volunteer
the Union cause as much as he who kills
Union soldier in battle" Mr.. Lincoln also
alluded to the fact that they called them
selves a meeting of Democrats" and said
he was thankful for the country's sake that
not all Democrats have done So" and alse re-
minded them that "the Judge who rejected
the constitutional views expressed in these
resolutions, by refusing to discharge Mr..
Vallandigham on habeas corpus, is a Demo
crat of better days than these, having re-
ceived his Judicial mantle at the hands of
General Jackson"
OF such as the foregoing were those Dem
ocratic statesmen known by the names of
John Z. Floyd, Jacob Thompson, Jefferson
Davis, Breckenridge, Hunter, Mason Slidel,
Clingman, Bragg of North Carolina, Chest.
nut of South Carolina, Nicholson of Tennes-
see, Sebastian and Mitchell of Arkansas
Hemphill and Wigfall of Texas Samuel j.
Tilden, who attempted to steal the electoral
votes of Oregon, Florida and louisiana
Garcelon. who attempted to steal the Govern
ment of Maine by DISTINGUISHING the people
VIM. M. Gwin, who intrigued with Louis
Napoleon and Maximilian to overthrow
Juarez and republieanism in Mexico, and
establish hostile empire there, in aid of the
Southern Confederscy.
Ofsuch also, here on the Pacific coast, are
w. L. Wallace, David s. Terry. Democratic
candidates for Presidential Electors, James
L. Farley, Thomas IL. Williams, Charles L.
Bolts, George Penn Johnston, Volney f.
Howard and others who, in 1861, in Demo-
cratic Convention assembled, in accordance
with the Democratic doctrines of that day
and the traditions of the past, attempted to
prevent the Government from asserting its
over the seeded States by denying
its constitutional authority so to do; and re-
solved in favor of recognizing the indepen.
dence Of the Confederate States"
There has been very respectable line of
statesmen and patriots, such as
Stephen A. Douglas, John A. Dix, William
Cullen Bryant. Daniel Il Dickinson. Gen
eral Lewis Cass and many others who were,
unequiyocal supporters of the cause Of the
Confederate States. Evidently the platform
Of 1880 does not refer to them.
If there is tradition of the Democratic
party transmitted from the days of Franklin
Pierce and James Buchanan to the present
time unimpaired, it is that the Northern
Democracy, known before the war as dough
faces, and during the war as copperheads, al
ways were the superservicable instruments
and obedient lackeys Of the Southern dig
archy at their dictation they abrogated the
Missouri compromise, violated the compro-
misses of 1850, and used the whole power of
the party to plant slavery as constitutional
institution in Kansas and in all the terri
tories.
Under the same dictatiop, and in the same
interest, ever since 1874 it has adopted as
cardinal doctrine of its creed the resolutions