New-York tribune., 1880-10-02
I'LL pruocRlrIc SUccESS MEAys.

TBaT DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS MEMS.
1.-The subordination of the Republic to
the supremacy of the so-called Sovereign
| States and the surrender of National SOW
| ercignty.
U.-Thc readoption OF the pusillanimous doc
tIinc OF the last Democratic Admin 'tration
under James Buchanan. that the United States
have no constitutional power 10 prevent Sc
ccssion. and hence no constitutional power 10
maintain their existence.
| HI.-A radical change in the present adj
mI'able financial policy of the Government
| ard the substitution OF untried financial ex-
periments 10y untred men.
! V.-Thc destruction of the National bank
! ing system and the substitution OF State
banks. or OF paper promiss y notes, Issued
under the assumed authority of the General
| Government, whose volume and value VIII
depend upon the result OF the ayes and nays
on a vote iii Congress.
V.-Placing the debt Of the Nation for pay
ment III the hands of men all of whom
vehemently opposed the resumption OF specie
payments, and large majority of whom
have either repudIatcd the d"blS OF their own
States, or have favored the Pcndeton plan OF
n tonal reputation.
VI.-Putting an end to the policy of pro-
tpciI0n to American manufactures and Anerl-
can labor. and reducing Tie Nation to state
OF dependence upon foreign countries Tor the
ncceSsaIicS of life.
VII-The continuance of intimidation. ter
rorism and acts Of violence toward the colored
/ citizens of tae South and the refusal OF en-
poymcnt under pcualty Of starvation, to all
who prcsume to vote with the party that
gave them their freedom.
VlII.-Anii. therefore, the continued dl'-
/ franchiscmcn; of thc race in defiance Of the
supreme law and supreme authority oi the
Nation Government.
! IX.-Rcycrsing the verdict of Gettysburg
! aud Appomattcx, and the verdict Of the war /;
rcvc sing the so.emn judgment Of the Ameri-
can people. and making the Lost Cause"
/ the victorious cause.
X.-The continuance of balot-box polu-
/ ton. in the use OF ti>Su -ballo :, and the
false and fraudulent counting OF lawful votes
! actually depj.i ed
| XI.-The elevation to the chief places Of
power in the Union of all in the South most
! scrviceabe and most conspicuous III the war
| for the Unions destruction.
! XII-The placing in the hands of the late
insurgents of the power to reorganize the
/ Supreme Court of the United Srates in the
interest of state Sovereignty and secession,
and the probable adoption by that recon-
structed Court Of the theory distinctly justify
/ iug secession IN the Kentucky resolutions Of
/ 1913. which assert that the State is to be
the Judge "ol the mode and measure OF re-
/ dress" in all cases OF nlractions Of the
! compactn on the part OF the National
! Government.
XlI.-Making the mdorsels Of these trea-
sonablc resolutions, which were readoptcd in
the National Democratic platform Of 1886,
the indorscrs OF notification IN 1892 and the
promoters Of and actors in secession in 1861.
the guardians of the Nation, which their acts
and teachings, unchecked, would have three
! times destroyed.
/ XIV.-The elevation 70 Our most exalted Of
| fee, requiring the most varied knowledge and
| largest attainmentS, of a military officer with
ont training or experience in civil Affairs, who
has no knowledge of the science Of govern
mcnt, Of political history, or Of constitutional
! law
XV.-Raising to the dignity Of Yice-Presidcnt,
| and successor apparent to the Chief Magistracy,
n defender of the assassin Brooks, ana a sup
port T of slavery, who has since exhibited his
/ love of oppression by grinding the poor and
| ejectlng them from their almost entirely paid
! for homes.
XVI.-Fmally, Democratic success means
placing the Capital of the Union and its Gov
ernmcnt in the pcaceable possession OF those
enemies from whom they were kept, ior four
years of open war, only by the expenditure OF
eiv billrons of money and almost a million of
| lives