Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-13
+" WHY GO BACK ?"
TCosrINuED FROM FIRST rAeE.l

than a war measure. 1t concerned universal
humanity and all time to come. 1t was one
of the great events of history. As we recede
from it in the perspective of the ages. it will
rise above the pyramids, above the Hima.
layas, above the stars. Then the clock OF
time struck II. Then, if ever, "the morning
stars sang together and the sons of God
shouted for joy." In this jubilee of humanity
there was one note discord one voice OF
lamentation. To the Demo cratic party the
light was darkness. No wonder that In us
counsels the war was failure. What 10 IL
was the Union without slavery!
IN THIS GREAT CHAPTER OF EVENTS
Which makes cur age heroic, l ask, what
natriotic act or utterance can rightly be
ascribed Co the Democratic party Ihere
were Democrats who were patriots, but their
patriotism found voice and action outside the
partv. The more they were patriots the less
thew were Democrats. Whygo back How can
the spirit. the tendency of party, its moral
force. direction and purpose be judged but
bv its history? These are not CHANGED in an
hour. by resolution, or by setting up figure
head for office. l charge that the Democratic
narty has been false to the Union, false to
freedom, false to humanity. Its claim to
administer the Government, which it was
willing to abandon or eager to destroy, is
monstrous-a satire on patriotism, reason
and sense. Nothing in its life would become
it like the leaving of it.
WHY co BACK?
The Democratic party itself gives the
challenge. 1t pleads no baby activities no
statute of limitations. It comes into this
canvass Haunting its traditions, proud of its
identity. It appeals to the followers as
''the gel-orious old Democratic party !"
The distinguished gentleman who presided at
its late National Convention congratulated
that body because it contained so many men
who were in the convention of '56. which
nominated James Buchanan, and took hope
that the party would again succeed,
and restore the administration of the
Government to Democratic principles.
Think of that The administration of
the Government of the United States brought
back to the point where james Buchanan
left it A local orator recently asserted in
yass was Democratic uprising to reconquer
the ground which had been lost in the past
twenty years. Think of that The ground
which the Republican party has conquered In
twenty years for stability of government, the
supremacy of law, for human liberty and
progress, is to be retaken in one charge by
the massed Democracy
THERE Is NO OCCASION TO GO BACK TO THE
PAST.
The Democratic party to-day bases its hopes
of success on the assurance that it will receive
the support of every State that joined the
Confederacy-a support secured and made
certain by the same means which carried
their secession If it ought to succeed, if it
deserves success, the preservation of the
Union was blunder, emancipation crime,
the war for the Union gigantic murder, and
the Republican party monster OF iniquity.
1t will not succeed the stars in their courses
fight against it the time has not come when
the American people will concede that on
those great questions of government, human
ity, liberty, which in our generation were
championed on the one hand by Abraham
Lincoln, and on the other by Jefferson Davis,
the right is in doubt. They are not ques lions
of day or an age, but of all time. They
are part of a conflict which in some form is
old as history. 1t has come down by the
pyramids of the Nile, by the fountains of
Judea, by the temples of Greece, by the am
phitheaters of Rome, by the schools of the
Middle Ages, by the palaces and cities of
modern art and it will continue in some
form until the right shall be overthrow or
established, until anarchy shall come down
like night, or liberty and order shall become
the peaceful heritage of all the nations of the
whole earth.