The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-10-19
From the speech Of Hon. Lyman Trumbull, at
Belleville. Illinois.
HOW THE DEMOCRACY SUSTAINED
= THE UNION II

HOW THE DEMOCRACY SUSTAINED
THE UNION. al
But | have not done with this falee
claim Of the Republican party. I pro-
pose to.dayto hurry il so deep by faets
and figures that only the dupes Of dema-
gogues can longer be gulled by it. The
Democratic State of Missouri alone, in
which Mr.. Lincoln received but l7028
votes ia 1860. furnished 1873 Ill men TO
The Union srny-a greater snumbertbsn
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
lifelong Democrats and leaders 81 that
party, the moment Fort Sumter was
fired upon came out in public speeches
for the Union. Gen. Cass said:
"He who is not for his country is
against her There is no neutral ground
to be occupied"
Douglas declared: '''t'
There can be no neutrals in this war
only, patriots or traitors, = = L
express it as my conviction before God
that it is the duty, OF every American
citizen ID rally. around the flag Of his
country =, o.. 80
Tue eloquent Baker, then a Senator
from Oregon, said: -.
I'VE are, ali Democrats We are all
Republicans. We arkno~ledge the
Sovereignty OF the people within tie inie
+ T the Canstilpiioh and beneath that Gag
let TRAITORS beware" - /.
Had the. Democrats favored the rebel.
lion as they are now falsely charged BY
the Republicans with having done, i,
must have been success, and this. gfo.
rious Union, with its present greatness
and hopes for the future, must have
perished from the. earth. So far from
the Republican party having put dowr
the rebellion and saved the Uuion, i
was the patriotic Democrats with Re
publicans who rallied to its support tha
saved it. . thing which neither ccuit
have done without the aid OF the other
CAN 4 REpuBuIcAx coNsrsrEsrLY voTl
Is THE DEMocRATIc TIcKEr,S.
1t seems 10 me that no. original Re
publican who prefers principle 10 party
right to wrong, and fairness to dishon
esty, can longer act with such an orgs
nization. Where. then, shall be go
Can he consistently vote the Democrat
ticket? That party has been out @
power twenty years. More than half il
voters; as we'll as those OF the Repaid
can party, have become such since 1851
1t is not therefore. composed of the sam
persons as were in power at the con
mencement Of the war OF the rebellion
: 1t is to-day the open and avcwed &C
vocate of. the principles and policy d.
8 clared in the fourth and sixth resolution
of the Republican platform of 1866
One of the fundamental articles of i
J, creed is "the right Of each State to o
der and control its own domestic inst
tutions according to its own judgment
q Tbs does not mean the right OF Sta
0 to secede from the Union any more ths
: it did when embodied in the Republics
!. platform Of 1850: but it means just wh'
J il says: The right Of the state to COZ
i troll its domestic affairs without Inte
# ference by the federal governments in
e elections, by federal officials or o la'
less. armed force under any prete
whatever. Applause. The Democrs
6 ic party as such was never secessit
/; party, though some of its members, j
n we'll as members of the old Wing al
y old Abolition parties, we're nullifiers al
,, secessionists. Some of the abolitionis
r were accustomed to denounce the Co
l. stitution Of the United States as
is league with the devil and covenant wi
J. hell" 1t was General Jackson, the lie
lie der OF the Democracy, who effectual
e. crushed out the doctrines Of nullifc
e. tion and secession in 1882, that it d
g not again show its head till 1860, VIII
III the war followed and buried it forev
y beyond the power Of resurrection A
y plause. Neither secession nor Afric
Is slavery will ever trouble US more. T
e. charge that the ''pledge to the cons,it
'e tional doctrines and traditions Of I
e. Democratic party, as illustrated by I
lnI teaching add example OF long line
I'd Democratic statesmen and patriots
as means pledge 10 the doctrine Of sec
toI sion, is as far from the truth as'it wol
ht be to charge the Republicans OF Is
rs With being secessionists because thew
~ vored restoring the action Of The frde
ns government to the principles otsWas
BE- ington and Jefferson. Iti only to
g, constitutional doctrines OF the faith,
be that the Democracy pledges itself, al
y. unless Republicans believe that secessi
OF is constitutional doctrine, how can II
a charge that pledge to mean secessio
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