The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-09-12
From the speech "r Hon. J.. man Trum-
bull, at KelIcViIlc. III.

But have not done with this false claim
of the Republican party. | propose to-day
to bury it so deep hy facts and figures that
only the dupcs of demagogucs can longer he
gulled by it. The Democratic State of Mis-
souri alone, in which Mr.. Lincoln received
but II, ,O2S votes in 1850 furnished l99, III
men to the Union Army-a greater number
than was furnished by all the Republican
States OF Vermont, Rhode Island, Minnesota,
Nebraska, and Kansas put together. Neither
Michigan, Wisconsin, nor Iowa furnished as
many troops to the Union army as Missouri.
John A. Dix and Daniel S. Dickinson, of
New York, Lewis Cass, of Michigan. and
Stephen A. Douglass, of this state, all life
the moment Fort Sumter was fired upon
came out in public speeches for the Union.
Gen. Cass said:
" He who is not for his country is against
her. There is no neutral ground to be occu.
pied"
Douglas declared:
"Thcre can be no neutrals in this war
only patriots or traitors. ! ex-
press il rs my conviction before God that il is
the duty of every American citizen to rally
around the Nag of his country"
Tho eloquent Baker, then n Senator from
Oregon, said
90 We are all Democrats weare all Rcpub-
Leans. We acknowledge the sovereignty OF
the people within the rule of the Constitu-
tion, and under that Constitution and be-
meath that flag let traitors beware"
Had the Democrats favored the rebellion
as they are now falsely charged by the Re-
publicans with having done, it must have
been success, and this glorious Union, with
its present greatness and hopes for the
future, must have perishcd from the earth.
SO far from the Republican party having put
down the rebellion and saved the Union, 1t
was the patriotic Democrats with Republi-
cans who rallied to its support that saved il,
n thing which neither could have done with
ont the aid of the other.
1t seems to me that no original Republican
who prefers principle to party, right tn
wrong, and fairness to dishonesty, can longer
act with such an organization. Where, then,
| shall he GOT Can he consistently vote the
| Democratic ticket That party has been
| out of power over twenty years. More than
half It's voters, ms well rs those of the liepub-
lican party, have become such since 1860, II
| is not, therefore, composed of the same per
| SONS as were in power at the commencement
| of the War of the Rebellion. II is to-day the
| open and avowed advocate of the principles
| and policy declared in the fourth and sixth
resolutions of the Republican platform oI
| 1860. One of the fundamental articles of its
creed is the right of each state to order
| and control it's own domestic institutions ac
cordiug tJ its own Judgment" This does
| not mean the right Of a state To s"ccede from
| the Union any more than II did when EN-
bodied in the Republican platform OF 1860
| but il means Just what II says The right
of the State TO control lis domestic Affairs
without interference hy the Federal Govern,
| ,,, l,u Int al a
lawlcss, armed force under any preteXt what
ever. lApplause. The Democratic part,
as such was never secession party, though
some of its members, as we'll as members o
the old Wing and old Abolition party, wer,
| nulli6.rB aud seccssiOnists. Some of tn,
abolitionists were accustomed to denounc
the Constitution of the United states as ~
league with the devil and 4 covenant Will
hell II was Gen. ackson, the leader O
the Democracy, who so clirclually crushe,
out the doctrines of the nullilication anC
secession in 1882 that it did not again shoy
its head till 1860, when the war followed
and buried it forever beyond the power o
resurrection. IApplause. Neither seces
sion nor African slavery will ever trouble u
more. The charge that "the pledge to tn
constitutional doctrines and traditions of th'
Democratic party, as illustrated by tn
teachings and example of long line q
Democratic statesmen and patriots mean
| "A pledge To the doctrine of secession rs q
far from the truth as it would be TO charg
the Republicans of 1856 with being seces
sionists because they favored restoring tn
action of the Federal Government 10 tn
principles of Washington and Jefferson.
| is only TO the constitutional doctrine Of tn
fathers that the Democracy pledges itseli
and, unless Republicans believe that seccs