The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-20
mental principles Of the Republican party

McnS@s pAi1SAPAes VI inc Repupuchn party
NOT ONE woRB rs SAID OF HOSTILITY To
THE DocTHrNE OF srATx sogER,EEaNTr'
on hsoontrary, among the fundamentsl
principles laid down by the Republicans 10
1850, with Abraham Lincoln at the head
was the following:
HThst the msiatenance inviolate of the rights o.
states and especially the right of each state e
order and control It's own domestic institutions
essential 20 that;baiance Of power on which the
perfection aid durance OF our political fabric
eePvhuss M 90 &8#A Isl sF& SSE
Was It Misrepresentation. and If so by
whom, TO state that fundamental priuci-
bic thus laid down, and which MIR. Lin
coin embodied in his inaugural ad.
dress. was hostile to theidoctrine Of state
severeienty? Does not the right OF q state
TO order and control its own domestic
institution according to itsown judgement
exclusively, mean that lin those respects
the state is sovereign? Can not Gen,
Logan understand that the sovereignty OF
9 state to control, exclusively, its OWE
domestic institutions does not mean right
to secede from the union? The powers
OF government In this country .are divided
between the federal aud the state govern.
ments, and each is sovereign within lie
own sphere. To the national government
are nhded certain powers by the con-
stitution. and rs toithese the federal govern
Inentis sovereign. The powers not,con6ded
TO the federal government by the constitu-
ton are, by the very words of the CON-
constitution.
REsBRVKD TO THE STATES OR THE EoPLE.
In the control Of their local affairs the
SwA~ sn4ow.a-AnGk na 80 ha
federal government in the control oil
national affairs confided to it by the con
stitution. Ii is upon this division of pow
ers that thei liberties and freedom of this
people rests. IF all governmental power
had been committed to one man or men,
the government thus established would
have been despotism. Our fathers who
founded this government understood this
and knew that the only safety for liberty
was in q distribution OF the powers of
government Hence certain powers only
are eonfided to thesfederal government and
others are seserved to the states. The
motto upon our state seal: reads State
Sovereignty "-National Union" Would
Gen. Logan strike from the great seal OF
Illinois these words, which are stamped
upon the commission sof every officer in
the state. or does he suppose that the
words state sovereignty" mean the rights
of the state to secede from the union
The doctrine proclaimed by Gen Logan
in one of bis speeches as that of the Re-
publican party that this lis q sovereign
nation; that its powers is above and over
al other power in this.county." is subver,
siye of our form of government, and il
carried out would be as fatal to liberty as
would be the doctrine of secession TO the
union Of the states.
Again Gen. Logan III quote from the
report of his speechl says: 'Ex-Senasor1
lrum bull on the 30th of Augustus Belle
Vile, ILL.,. makes the statement that the
republican party is not entitled to the
credit of either. a%EtEt
SUPERVISING THE REBELLION oR..ABoLIsH
~ ING SLAVERY"
What J did say was: Nor is it true
that to the Republican party exclusively
even of that period. is due either the sup
preston Of the rebellion or the destruction
Of slavery" l never stated that the Re-
publican party was not entitled to credit
for its share in the suppression OF tho
rebellion aud the abolition of slavery. As
! Republican of those days, aloried 10
hose acts, and shall never go back upon
them; but it was not to Republicans alone |
hose great deeds were due. What / !
stated was that 1T was patriotic Demo |
Gratis With Republicans who rallied to its !
the Unien's} support, and that saved 1t, |
a thing which neither could have done
without the aid of the other.
Gen. Logan does not pFetead to deny
this statement but goes into violent
1enuDciation of the men who went i0to |
he rebellion. Is this any answer to my
,tatement2 Does not everybody know
hat the people of eleven states, of all
parties, went into the rebellion? And |
Toes not every body know that Democrats
10 we'll rs Republicans of the other states
vent into the Union army and crushed
,ut the rebellion2 Does Gen. Logan deny
ms statement? Why. then, attempt 10
nislead the public by a deBuDclatiop OF |
rebels, as ii that were an answer to the
Fsct that Democrats as we'll as Republic
cans contributed to the suppression of the
rebellion? Gen. Logan says the Demo
Gratis had their Democracy shot out OF
them at the nugzles of rebel rifles and
rebel cannon."
Is THAT. THE WAY lie LOST HIS DEMOCRACY.
and hence is unable to give a sensible |
reason for the change? Upon the same
theory, it might be said that every honest |
man who entered the Union service had |
his honesty shot out of him at the muzzls |
If rebel rifles. What wonderful log cI
t ia to be feared that something more
han Democracy was shot of Gen Logan |
rom the muZzles of rebel rifles.
He wants TO know If che Democrats have |
rot already commenced programme By |
which
HE THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH AND FIT
TENTH AMENDMENTS
o the constitution are to be overturned. |
tell him no, and if something more than
Democracy had not been shot out of him |
ne would know better than TO ask such q |
question. / will inform him, that the |
platform of the Democracy of 1880, COM
nits tbs party to the principles announce
ID in the platform of 1876. enc of which |
declares the devotion of the Dom ooracy |
o the constitution of the United States. |
With its amendments, universally acUep 1
ed as final settlement of the ceBtrever- +
les that engendered civil war; / would |
lso point him to Gen. Haucock's letter |
acceptance, iu which be says that It'll
allied TO the presidency, | should deem it |
oy duty to resist. with all my power. any |
tempt to impair or evade the full force
nd effect of the constitution. which in
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