The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-09-24
lola REGISTER
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER a 1880.
Democrat1c ssTraditions.,,

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The Democrats of the United States in
Convention assembled, declare, first:
"We pledge ourselves anew to the
Constitutional doctrines and traditions Of
the Democratic rty.-Netional Demo
cratic platform, 1880.
Now then, let US briefly review some Of
the traditions of the Democratic party,
- handed down to US from times past:
On June 9th 1889, in Congress, Pierce
Butler, of South Carolina, arose in the
o. 8. sendke and said:
"His State would live free, or die glo.
rious, "and threatened q dissolution OF
the Union with regard to his State Gas
ssnre as God is in the armament"
In 1890, Richard Lee, grandfather Of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, said:
"When we (the South) attain our
natural degree of population, 1 fatter
myself that we shall have power to do
ourselves justice. by dissolving the band
which binds US together"
70 the spring of 1883, John G. Calhoun
said:
'sThe South could never be united
against the North on the tariff question
that the sugar interest of Louisiana
wonld keep her out, and that the basis
Of Southern Union must be shifted to
the slave question"
I'm 1884 Henry Clay said:
*From the developments now being
made in South Carolina, it is perfectly
manifest that q party exists in that State
seeking dissolution of the Union"
Ins1S35 the members of Congress, from
the slave.holding States, held q caucus
toward disruption of the Union and
the establishing of . Southern Confeder-
acy, and urged the following resolution !:
'sResolved. That no member of Con.
gress representing Southern constitu.
ency, shall again take his seat until q
resolution is passed satisfactory to the
South on the subject of slavery"
In November 1860, Lawrence NJ. Keit.
speech in Charleston, s. c. said:
"John Hickman said, de6antly, that
if we went out of the Union, eighteen
millions of Northern men would bring
us back Let me tell you, there are
million of Democrats in the North, who,
whom the black Republicans attempt to
march upon the South, will be found
wall of fire in the 'front.'"
January 9Th 1860, franklin Pierce,
Ex.P President, wrote:
sWithout discussing the question of
right, of abstract power to secede, have
never believed that actual disruption of
the Union can occur without blood; and
if through the madness of Northern abol-
itionism, that dire calamity must come,
the fighting will not be along Mason's
and Dixon's line merely. 1t will be
within our own borders, in our own
streets"
Jan. 10th 1861, q meeting of Demo.
Gratis was held in National Hall, Phila-
delphia, and the following resolution
was offered:
'That in the deliberate judgment Of
the democracy of Philadelphia, and so
far as We know it, of Pennsylvania, the
dissolution of the Union. by the separa.
ton of the whole South, q result we shall
most sincerely lament, may release this
commonwealth to q large extelt, from
the bonds which now connect her with
the confederacy, Z
would authorize and require her citi>
zens, through convention to be assem-
bled forythat purpose to determine with
whom her lot should be cast, whether
with theNorth and the East, whose fan.
atacism has precipitated this misery up
on US or with our brethren of the South,
whose wrongs we feel as our own.
juno 9th, 1864, Davis, Of Kentucky,
offered the following resolutions in Con-
eress in substance that the war was .
failure, 80 far as restoring the Union is
and empowering the president
to enter into negotiations for peace with
the Southern Confederacy.
Dec. 18th 1868, Fernando Wood, Of
n. Y. offers resolution in Congress that
"The President is req uested toappoint
three commissioners who shall be EN-.
powered to open negotiations with the
authorities at Richmond, to the end that
this bloody, destructive and inhuman
war shall cease"
On the Och Of April 1864, Alexander
Long, . solid Democrat of Ohio, was ex-
PEELED from Congress for expressing his
strong Democratic feelings for the indie
pendence of the Southern Confederacy.