The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-09-24

TRUMBllLL TilLKS,
The Great Illinois Orator on the STUMP.


HOW THE DEMOCRACY SUSTAINED THE
UNION.
From tho speech Of Hon. Lyman Trumbuu at Belle
vllle Illinois,
But | have not done with this false
claim of the republican party propose
today to bury..it so deep by facts and fig
ures that only the dupcS of demagugcs
can longer be gullcd by it. The Demo
cratic state OF Missouri alone in which
Mr. Lincoln received but l7,02S votes i'm
1860 furnished 100, IL | mentu the Union
Army greater number chan furnished
by all the republican states of Nermoat.
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 :. Dickson. of
New York, Lewis Cass,of Michigan, and
stephen \. Douglass, of this state. all
lifelong Democrats and leaders of that
party. the moment Fort Sumptcr was
fired upon came out in public speeches
for the Union. Gen Cass said
lie who is not for his countryls against
her. There is no neutral ground to be
occupied
Douglas declared
There can he no ncutrals in this war
only patriots or traitors. |
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 Senator from
| Oregon, said:
we are all Democrats. we are all Re
publicans, We acknowledge the sover
eighty of the people within the rule of
the constitution, and under that const
tuition and beneath that flag let traitors
beware.
Had the Democrats favored the re
bellion as they are now falsely charged
by the republicans with having done, it
must have been success, and this glorious
Union, with its present greatness and
hopes for the future, must have persisted
from the earth,. SO far from the Re
publican party having put down the re
bcllion and saved the Union. it was the
patriotic Democrats with Republicans,
who rallied to its support and that saved
it, thing whichneither could have done
without the aid Of the other What and
whom would the Republican soldiers of
Illinois have had to meet had it been
true, as Republicans falsely charged,that
the Democrats OF the state opposed the
war! rs | have shown already. they
would have had to meet, in the first in
stance, nearly an equal number Of Demo
Gratis OF our own state, and who would
have led him? Generals Grant and Lo-
gan, both of whom at that time were
Democrats The only vote for president
ever cast by General Grant was for
james buchanan, and General Logan. rs
late rs S62 II member of Congress. elcc-
ted by Democrats, and acting with the
Democratic party. do not mention
this by way of assailing General Grant
or General Logan, both of whom per
formed gallant service for their country,
but they We're both Democrats when they
entered the army whatever they may be
now. 1t would be n reflection upon
either of these gentlcmen.as it wouldbe,
and is, upon every true soldicr.to say that
he entered the service as partisan
or for party purposes. In the language
of the eloquent Baker, we are all Demo
Gratis, we are all Republicans, in our eff
forts to save the Union, and no man de
serves the name of patriot who entered
his countrys service merely for sci
fish or party purposes. Let us hear no
more of this false claim of Republicans
that they crushed out the rebellion As
well might it he claimed that the Demo
Gratis did it, for without their aid it could
not have been done.
Nor is it true that the Republicans
abolished slavery. That was the result
OF circumstances, and was accomplished
by what is known as the thirteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States which had the honor of
reporting TO the Senate of the United
States. by which it was passed April 6.
1864. by the requisite two-thirds vote.
But it failed in the llouscof Representa-
tiyes. The vote by which it was de
tcatcd was reconsidered at the next scss-
ion, and ii was then passed. So you see
that the claim of the Republican party
that ii abolished slavery, like many of its
other claims, is false
1t seems to me that no original Repub-
lican who peters principle to party, right
to wrong, and fairness to dishonesty,
can longer act with such an organiza-
ton. Where, then shall he 90? Can he
consistently vote the Democratic ticket?
That party has been ont of power TWEEN
ty years. More than half its voters, as
well as those of the Republican party,
have become such since 1860. 1t is not,
therefore, composed of the same persons
as We're in power at the commencement
OF the war of the rebellion, 1t is to-day
the open and avowcd advocate of the
principles and policy declared in the
fourth and sixth resolutions of the Re
publican platform of 1860. One of the
fundamental articles of its creed is ''the
| right of each State to order and control
its own domestic institutions according
to Its judgment" This does not mean
the right of a state to secedc from the
| Union any more than it did when en-
bodied in the Republican platform of
1860; but it means just what it says:
The right OF state to control its domcs-
tic affairs without interference bv the
federal officials or lawless. armed force
under any preteXt whatever. Applause.