The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-09-23
THE CAMPAIGN.
FROM THE SPEECH OF HON. LYMAN
TRUMBULL, AT BELLEyILLE,

L pIOpOot " I'd " bui IL ~ oNtf
by facts and figures that only the
dupes of demagogues can longer be
gulled by it. The Democratic state
of Missouri alone, in which Mr.. Lin
coin received but 1923 votes in
1860 furnished 1919, i'll 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. Dickson, of New York, Lewis
Cass, of Michigan, and Stephen A.
Douglas, of this State, all life long
Democrats and leaders Of that party,
the moment Fort Sumpter was fred
upon came out in pulic speeches for
the Union. Gen. Cass said:
"He who is not for his country is
against her. There is no neutral
ground to be occupied"
Douglas declared:
"There can be no neutrals in this
war-onlv patriots or traitors.
x | 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 a Sen
ator from Oregon, said:
awe are all Democrats; we are
all Republicans. 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 Republicans with
having done, it must have been a
success, and this glorious Union,
with its present greatness and hope
for the future, must have persisted
from the earth. So far from the
Republican party having put down
| the rebellion and saved the Union,
it was the patriot Democrats with
Republicans who rallied to its sup
port that saved it, a thing which
neither could have done without the
aid of the other.
Can a Republican consistently
vote the Democratic ticket? 1t
seems to me that no original Repub-
lican who prefers principle to party,
right to wrong, and fairness to dis
honesty, can longer act with such
an organization. Where, then, shall
he 90? Can he consistently vote
the Democratic ticket? That party
has been out ofpower twenty 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 were in power at the COM
mencement of the war of the rebel
lion. 1t is to day the open and
ayowed advocate of the principles
and policy declared in the fourth
and sixth resolutions of the Repub-
lican 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 own Judgment. =
This does not mean the right of
state to secede from the Union any
more than it did when embodied in
the Republican platform of 1860;
but it means just what it says: The
right of the state to control its do
nestle affairs, without interference
by the federal government in its
elections, by federal officials or
lawless, armed force under any pre-
text whatever. Applause. The
Democratic party as such was never
a secession party, though some of
its members; as we'll as members of
the old Wing and old Abolition par
ty, were nullifers and secessionists.
Some of the abohtionists were ac-
customed to denounce the Constitu-
ton of the United States as "a
league with the devil and a covenant
with hell" Itwas General Jackson,
the leader of the Democracy, who
so effectually crushed out the doc
trines of notification and secession
in 1882, that it did not gain show
its head till 1860, when the war
followed, and buried it forever be-
yond the power of resurrection
Applause. Neither secession nor
African slavery will ever trouble US
more. The charge that "the pledge
| to the constitutional doctrines and
traditions of the Democratic party,
as illustrated by the teachings and
example of a long line of Democrat
ic statesman and patriots, means a
pledge to the doctrine of secession,
is as far from the truth as it would
be to charge the Republicans of 1856
with being secessionists because they
favored restoring the action of the
Federal Government to the princi-
PIES of Washington and Jefferson
1t is only to the constitutional doc
trines of the fathers that the Demo-
cracy pledges itself, and, unless Re-
pubhcans believe that secession is a
constitutional doctrine, how can they
charge that pledge to mean secession?
[Cheers.