Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-14

Ohorpenning were allowed, and such was the
waste and Encouragement in the navy depart
ment that Admiral Porter testified on oath
before a conmettee of the House of Repre-
sentatives in 1876, that:
"Our navy, taken rs whole, is worth moth
ing, and the sooner the country understands
that fact the BETTER
This was after Robson had been secretary
Of the navy for nearly eight years. and had
used more than $l00,0O0,0O0 of the public
money,
But why dwell upon this sickening record?
The world knows it by heart, and every honest
man not blinded by party zeal must blush at
its recital. The departure of modern Republic
cans in their reckless extravaganza and cor.
ruptions, in their lawless invasion by armed
force of the soil of the States of Louisiana and
South Carolina, in forcing illegal legislatures
upon and in the lawleas invasion by armed
force of other States, under the pretext of pre-
serving the peace at the polls, are, in the Ian
guage of the Republican platform of 1860,
among the ''gravest of crimes"
WHO SUPPRESSED THE REBELLION?
Having shown that the Republican party has
repudidiated it's founders and proved recreant
to every living principle on which it was Or
gained, there is no reason of consistency or
otherwise why Republican of fifteen or twen-
ty years ago should longer support it. Its
claim to support by reason of the suppression
of the rebellion and the abolition of slavery, in
which the party in its earlier history took a
conspicuous part, is likewise false, because,
as have already shown, the Republican party
under whose auspices those great deeds were
accomplished was controlled by different men
governed by different principles from what it
is at present. Nor Is it true that to the Repub-
1ioan oprt nyclIIsiva1v nf
that period, is due either
the suppression of the rebellion or the destruc-
ton of slavery. The statement of few mathe-
NAUTICAL facts will demonstrate this to every
candid mind. The popular vote of MIR. Lin
coin for President in 1860 was 1,S66,352; that
cast for opposing candidates at the same cleo.
tion was 2,810, sol. While MIR. Lincoln was
duly elected President by the electors which
each State appointed, he lacked 944,140 Of
having majority of the popular vote of the
nation. 1t would be well for the advocates of
the absolute supremacy of tn nation over the
States to bear in mind that under Our form of
government the President is not elected by
majority of the people of the nation, but by
electors equal in number to the representation
of each State in both branches of Congress,
elected in each State in such manner as its leg
islature shall prescribe, and not as Congress
may dictate. Official documents show that
the whole number of volunteers enlisted dur
ing the war was 2,679,967. Does any sensible
man suppose that the 1866, 1852 persons who
voted for Mr.. Lincoln furnished 2, 678,9 vol
unteers, or that his supporters alone could or
did suppress rebellion entered into. as Re-
publicans pretend, by 2,810, SOL, who voted
against him? Illinois in 1860 cast IT, 161 votes
for Lincoln electors andil66,5 32 for electors of
Presidential candidates opposed to him.
Llncoln's majority over Douglass
Op1v < 6C1 CSO
LAT troops into the field. Do not these figures
demonstrate beyond all question that Demo-
Gratis as well as Republicans united in the sup
preston of the rebellion? What think you,
my countrymen, of party, which to main
tain itself in power, can thus. belle history,
and, like the unworthy son of a noble ances-
try, seek to cover up its corruptions and
crimes by the halo which surrounds those from
whom it claims descent?
HOW THE DEMOCRACY SUSTAINED THE UNION.
But have not done with this false claim of
the Republican party. I propose to-day to
bury it SO deep by facts and figures that only
the dupes of demagog ues can longer be gulled
by it. The Democratic State eff Missouri
alone, in which Mr.. Lincoln received but II, =
02S votes in 1860, furnished 100, Ill men to
the Union army-a greater number than was
furnished by all the Republican States Of Ver-
mont, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Nebraska and
consin nor Iowa furnished as many troops to
the Union army as Missouri. John A. Dix and
Daniel 3. Dickinson, of New York; Lewis
Cass, of Michigan, and Stephen A. Douglas of
this State, all lifelong Democrats and leaders
of that party, the moment Fort Sumter was
fired upon came out in public speeches for the
Union. Gen. Oass said:
''He who is not for his country is against
her. There is no neutral ground to be occu-
pied
Douglass declared:
''There can be no neutrals in this war-only
patriots or traitors. I express it
as my conviction before God that it is the duty
of every American citizen to rally around the
flag of his country
The eloquent Baker, then Sen ator from
Oregon, said:
I'VE are all Democrats; we are all Republi-
cans. We acknowledge the sovereignty of the
people within the rule of the constitution, and
under that constitution and beneath that flag
let traitors beware"
Had the Democrats favored the rebellion as
they are now falsely charged by the Republi-
| cans with having done, it must have been a
success, and this glorious Union, with its pres
emit greatness and hopes for the future, must
have persisted from the earth. So far from
the Republican party having put down the re-
bellion and saved the Union, it was the patri.
otto Democrats with Republicans who rallied
to its support that saved it, thing which
neither could have done without the aid of the
other.
Mr.. Trumbull next proceeded to discuss the
federal election laws, the employment of troops
| at the polls. the fraud of 1876, the claim that
the reviving prosperity of the country is due
to Republican management and the question
of State rights. Touching the latter topic he
said:
The doctrine of the Democratic party as to
the rights of the States and the nation, re-
spectively, is simple and easily understood by
all who do not wish to obscure it. 1t is this:
That the people are supreme and the source of
all power under our form of government; that
ment the exercise of certain powers, chiefly of
q national character in the exercise of which it
is sovereign; that all powers not so delegated
by the United States constitution, nor prohibit