The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-10-07

Seymour, Bayard, Tom Hendricks. English, OF
And in 1850 its leaders in the North are Sem
| ators Thurman, Dan Voorhees,, Mr.. Enxltsns
Ter. % fGrest laughter. IL IN % isso its % msjorities %
cities. and in 1850 its maiorities are in the
and applause In 1858 all the gentlemen en-.
gagged in the draft riots in the City of New
were Democrats, and in 1880 all those who
| have not perished by delirium tremens and
other casualties are Democrats still. Iareat
| laaghter.] 1leaye IL to you gentlemen In San
Francisco if all the rank and file Is not about
the Same 1 saw its rank and file in process,
sion in lS60. There was the same scarcity OF
ears and the same dislocation of noses as
there Is now. In 1864 1 looked upon their pro-
look upon the professions now, and they
are wonderfully alike. In 1854 saw process
sion of Democrats march down the streets OF
| Chicago, thinking first they were
| AREGIMENT OF PRISONERS
| from Camp Douglas. asked who IL was, and
they told me It was q delegation going to the
Democratic Convention from Christian Coun-
ty. There were gentlemen there very pious
and religious in those professions. Mr.. Ryn-
wereopposedt 20 Abraham Lincoln because he
was not religious man, ana they couldn't
M tell S whether Christ Iva Was Gruoiiied on 0alyaTy E
have not been able to discover q very marked
difference between the Democratic party of
what makes the case still more e trouoiesome @
and significant II, that in 1880, by the very first
anew to the constitutional doctrinss and ira
ditions of the Democratic party" Now, in
1856, the Democratic party declared its doc
trine in its platform, and this doctrine was
opposition to national banks and the tndorse.
| in 1880: ave pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions of the
party reaiiirm%ed % the Democratic @ Se platform Of
1855, and in 1850 they say: 1--WE pledge our
selves anew to the constitutional doctrines
and traditions of the Democratic party" In
1854 the Democratic party declared that the
war was an experiment. and that the expert
pease anew " to % The sns
doctrines and traditions of the Democratic
time between 1851 and 1854 you remember that
the Democratic party put on a show of loyal
q the nj hS%
I'm favor of It; It insisted that the war should
be waged on
PURELY CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES.
II had ut the head of our army for q long
time purely constitutional General, a man
who would wage campaign more strictly ac-
pieadines ~ than anT other man ON anI the CONT.
nent-a man who would fight q battle so
peacefully and quietly that there would be no
G
OF the prosecution OF the war. but they were
70 the OF aad the by
favor Of the prosecution Of the war, but they
with with whom % the ~ war are was % to Be %ased. red % They
were in favor of the prosecution Of the war,
but they were opposed to raising the money
by which the men were to be paid clothes
supplied or Arms furnished. They were in
favor of the shadow, and all the while op-
posed i to the sa substance; &C. They were IN favor
measure by which our armies could be filed.
When a mob of Democrats in New York City
meaross i% ths street because OF .he
to enforce the draft, the Democratic leader
came before them called them his friends,
and proposed to Abraham Lincoln that he
tried in the United States Supreme Court, to
decide whether the draft law was constitu-
tional or not. President Lincoln replied: II
have no obiectionsto trying such . case in the
Supreme Court, but in the meantime the liti-
CATION and the draft will proceed on parallel
went on until the rebellion was crushed and
surrendered to the
GRAND SILENT SOLDIER,
before Horatio Seymour's test case could pos
sibly have been reached on the calendar of
The speaser az ia ss
vein to recount the impediments interposed
by the Democratic party to the reconstruction
single Democrat in the Senate and House, and
constitutional doctrines and traditions of the
Democratic party The Fifteenth Amend
regard % to race. color or previous &C condition % Of
servitude. In the National Congress every
Democrat opposed It, and In 1850 I'VE pledge
trines and traditions Of the Democratic par
ty." In 1858 il opposed the public credit bill.
and the practical reputation of the National
debt by its payment in greenbacks and in
lso. I've pledge ourselves e; anew TO the con.
Democratic party" The same Convention
declared the reconstruction measures usur.
void, and in 1880 they pledged themselves
anew to that doctrine. There Is not in our
Which this Sa.oe tis peope has de
rived the greatest benefit; there Is not a sin |
gle measure in which we take the slightest
legislative or otherwise, during
the long twenty years-not one in which the
TSere is not one such measure which the
Democratic party has not Indignantly, dia
and
PERsIsrENTLY OPPOSED.
You can't name Democratic State in the
Union where, If there was really anything to
protect the integrity of the ballot box, they |
the statute looking to the security of the bal |
lot box against fraud and fair. free and full |
is not a single measure looking to the return |
of an honest dollar for an honest days work |
Have Me %ads any .sae ie beasine
Where would we have been If they had beaten |
us us in M lssos SOFT Free 4 labor % driven from one; half
seryile labor and free labor driven from them, |
credit prostrated, public faith dishonored, |
That Is where we would have been had they |
succeeded in 1850. Where would we have |
sSey % were VIZ % Sawing ing for % peace, asking that hos
tilities cease at once? Our nag brought back |
In disgraSe' ,S our SoISIerhng heroes called
sible. Where would we have landed had |
paid in greenbacks. a hmitless imitation
OF the currency, our Government bonds |
ed, the reconstruction measures swept from
the statute books, the constitutional amend
come again, and the splendid Victories of our
soldiers in the neld basely. meanly and alb
iectly surrendered after the tolls and terrors
We would have landed had they beaten us
In 1858. The Democratic party has not made
q prediction since 1850 that history has not
The speaker gavenumerous instances of the
declaration of the failure-of the war in 1854 in
support of his statements. He then continued:
1t has never indulged I'm its platform in
any honest principle that was not
1850 they say: tThe right of free ballot is the
right preservstive of all rights, and must and
Hancock says in his letter of acceptance:
The bayonet is not the tit instrument for
ton laws were framed for the purpose Of Sc
curing free vo,e, a free ballot and fair
SSu1s nnion The DE Democratic party opposed the
have been repealed in the South by the shot
gun and constitutional methods of
MURDER AND ASSASSINATION;
but as these methods won't answer in the
North, the Democratic party has been striv-
ing for years to secure their repeal, so that
they may carry by fraud the cities of New
York. Albany, Brooklyn, Trenton and New
ark, in New Jersey, and Hartford, in Con-
necticut. Look at It in the South for a mo-
ment. In Alabama. in 1872, the Republican
vote was 90 600; in ISIS It was nothing. In 1872,
In Arkansas, the Republican vote was 4l,373;
in 1873 IL was ll6. In 1872 Mississippi had a
vote of 49,, III; in 1878 1t had ll6.
The right of free ballot Is the right preserva-
tive In all parts of the United States. Laugh
Ter and applause.l What has produced this
result? Can IL have been Tilden's literary
bureau that has converted all the negroes?
hardly think 30. Because Tilden's literary
bureau could have hardly increased the pop
nlaffon- In Alabama they had an election the
other day and the Democratic party had ANA
|ority of % ,0V0 This Democratic majority is
about IL, 900 more than the Democratic vote.
read to you again: "The right of a free
fa -