Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-22
The Meaning of Democratic Success.

1.-The subordination of the Repub-
lie TO the supremacy of the so-called
Sovereign" States, and the surrender
of National sovereignty.
1.-THE readoption of the pusillani-
nous doctrine of the last Democratic
Administration under James Buchanan,
that the United States have no Consti-
tutional power to prevent secession, and
hence no Constitutional power to main
tain their existence.
III.-A radical change in the present
admirable financial policy of the Gov
ernment and the substitution of untried
financial experiments by untried men.
lV.---The destruction of the National
Banking system and the substitution of
State banks, or of paper promissory
notes, issued under the assumed author
ity of the General Government, whose
volume and value will depend upon the
result of the ayes and nays on vote in
Congress.
V.-Placing the debt of the Nation
for payment in the hands of men all of
whom vehemently opposed the resump-
ton of specie payments, and large
majority of whom have either repudi-
ated the debts of their own States, or
have favored the Pendleton plan of
National reputation.
VL.-Puttiug an end to the policy of
protection to American manufactures
and American labor, and reducing the
Nation to state of dependence upon
foreign countries for the necessaries of
life.
VII.-The continuance of intimida-
ton, terrorism and acts of violence to-
ward the colored citizens of the South,
and the refusal of employment, under
penalty of starvation, to all who pre-
sumo to vote with the party that gave
them their freedom.
VIIl.-And, therefore the continued
disfranchisement of the race in defiance
of the supreme law and supreme au-
thority OF the National Government.
TX. Reversing the verdict of Gettys-
burg and Appomattox, and the verdict
of the war; reversing the solemn iudg-
ment of the American people, and MAX
ing the "Lost Cause" the victorious
cause.
X.-The continuance of ballot-box
pollution, in the use of tissue-ballots,
and the false and fraudulent counting
of lawful votes actually deposited.
XL.-The elevation to the chief places
of power in the Union of all in the
South most serviceable and most con-
spicuous in the war for the Unions de-
struction.
XlI.-The placing in the hands of the
late insurgents of the power to reorgan-
ize the Supreme Court of the United
States in the interest of State Sover-
eighty and secession, and the probable
adoption by that reconstructed Court of
the theory distinctly justifying secession
in the Kentucky resolutions of 1898,
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 Ma
tional Government.
XIII.-The elevation to our most ex-
allied Office, requiring the most varied
knowledge and largest attainments, of
military officer without training or ex-
perience in civil affairs, who has no
knowledge of the science of Govern
ment, of political history, or of Con-
stitutional law.
AIV.-Raising to the dignity of Vice
President, and successor apparent to
the Chief Magistracy, defender of the
assassin Brooks, and supporter of
slavery, who has since exhibited his
love of oppression by grinding the
poorand eiecting them from their almost
entirely paid for homes,
XIV. - Finally, Democratic success
means placing the Capital of the Union
and its 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
billions of money and also million of
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