The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-23


Whiskey Rings, the Indian Rings, and
the Custom House Rings most did hour-
ish thai Indian agencies were cola
that the fraudulent claims OF Secor ana
Chorpenning were allowed and such
was the waste and mismanagement In
the Navy Department that Admiral Por'
ter testified on oath before a committee
of the House of Representatives in 1876 |
that "Our navy, taken as a whole, is
worth nothing, and the sooner the coun-
try understands that fact the better"
This was after Robeson had been Sec
retary of the Navy for nearly eight
wears, and had used more than $780,
100000 of the public money.
But why dwell upon this siCkening
record? The world knew it by heart,
and every honest man not blinded by
party zeal must bldsh at its recital. The
departure of modern Republicans in
their reckless extravaganza and corrup,
tions, in their lawless invasion by armed
force of the soil of the States Of Loulsl.
ana and South Carolina, in forcing illegal
Legislatures upon them, and in the law
less invasion by armed force of other
States, under the pretext OF preserving
the peace at the polls, are, in the Ian.
guage of the Republican platform OF
1850, among the "gravest Of crimes"
WHO SUPPRESSED THE REBELLION
Having shown that the Republican
party has repudiated its founders and
proved recreant to every living principle
on which it was organized, there is no
reason of consistency or otherwise Why
a Republican of fifteen or twenty years
ago should longer support it. Its claims
to support by reason of the suppression
of the rebellion and the abolition of
slavery in which the party in its earlier
history took 80 conspicuous a part, is
likewise false, because, as have already
shown, the Republican party under
whose auspices those great deeds were
accomplished was controlled by different
men and governed by different princi'
pies from what it is at present. Nor is it
true that to the Republican party exclu'
sively, even of that period, is due either
the suppression Of the rebellion or the
destruction of slavery. The statement
of few mathematical facts will demon.
strate this to every candid mind. The
popular vote of Mr. Lincoln for Presi.
dent in 1860 was .S66 1852; that cast for
opposing candidates at the same election
was 2, 2,Sl050l. While Mr.. Lincoln was
duly elected President by the electors
which each State appointed, he lacked
944, 149 of having majority of the pop
ular vote of the nation. 1t would be
we'll for the advocates of the absolute
supremacy of the nation over the States
to bear in mind that under our form Of
government the President is not elected
by majority of the people of the ma
hon, but by electors equal in number to
the presentation of each State in both
branches of Congress, elected in each
State in such manner as its Legislature
shall prescribe, and not as Congress may
dictate. .Oficial documents show that
the whole number of volunteers enlisted
during the war was 2,678. .967, Does any
sensible man suppose that the l,S66,35
persons wh1 voted for Mr. Lincoln fur.
nished 2678,967 volunteers, or that his
supporters alone could or did suppress
rebellion entered into, as Republicans
pretend, bv 2S1O SOL wno voted against
him2 Illinois in 1860 cast l72, l6l votes
for Lincoln electors and 1866 532 for cleo
tors of President al Candiia,es opposed |
to him. LinColn's ma Jrity over Douglas
in the State was only II 946, and over all
only 62l, and yet Illinois sent 259 l57
troops into the field Do not these fig
ures demonstrate beyond all question
that Democrats as well as Republicans
united in the suppression of the rebel.
lion? What think you, my COuntrymen,
of party which, to maintain itself in
power, can thus Delie history, d, like
the unworthy son of noble ancestry,
seek to cover up its corruptions and
crimes by the halo which surrounds
tlose from whom it claims descentP
HOW THE DEMOCRACY SUSTAINED THE
UNION.
But have not done with this false
claim of the Republican party. l pro.
pose to day to bury it so deep by facts
and figures that only the dupes of dem
agogues can longer be gulled by it. The
Democratic State of Missouri alone, in
which Mr.. Lincoln received but 1702S
votes in 1850, furnished 109 Ill men to
the Union army-a greater number than
was furnished by all the Republican
States of Vermont, Rhode Island, Min.
nesOta, Nebraska, and Kansas put to-
gether. Neither Michigan, Wisconsin,
nor Iowa furnished as many troops to
the Union army as Missouri. John A.
Dix and Daniel S. Dickinson Of New
York, Lewis Cass Of Michigan, and
Stephen A. Douglas of this State, all life
long Democrats, and leaders of that par
ty, the moment Fort Sumter was fred
npon came out in public speeches for the
Union. General Cass said:
He who is not for his country is against
her. There is no neutral ground to be
occupied.
Douglas declared:
There can be no neutrals in this war
only patriots or traitors. \ l ex.
press it as my conviction before God |
that it is the duty of every American
citizen to rIlly around the flag of his
country.
The eloquent Baker, then a Senator
from Oregon, said:
We are all Democrats; we are all Re.
publiCans. We acknowledge the SOW
ereignty of the people within the rule
Of the Constitution, and undo that Con.
stitutiOn and beneath that flag let trait
Ors beware.
Had the Democrats favored the rebel
lion as they are now falsely charged by |
the Republicans with having done, it |
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