Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-09-07

same as every other man from the North has
met who has zone there TO invest capital or
labor. "Carpet.baggers" indeedi One would
think, from what we read in the Enquirer,
that The entire Thirteenth Ward came over from The
old country Nth Saratoga trunks. [Lapghter.]
should like to know who the cnrpet-bagger is
The Democratic party, when l belonged to it.,
II fellow came over that hadn't money
enough to buy carpet-bag, II he had q vote,
he was good enough for them. [Laughter.1
Carpet-baggers, indeed Look at the Enquirer,
edited by gfcCnllagh, and owned by Mclean.
office without hitting an Irishman or q Scotch
whcthcr good Old Charles Fdra,, ,cto gave lite to
The son, came to this country Nth fottr-story trunk
or whether Wash. McLehd 'tods born wih brotei,
TO Andrew Jotksoiff that his father was an Irish
bogtrotter2. Not at all; but it Is the noblest
thing in Andrew Jackson's character that,
without any advantage whatever, he carved
his way, by the intellect he possessed and the
pluck he had, 10 the highest place in the
Nation. Is II any reproach to Sam. our Sam.
Cary-that his father was poor farmerf
Have they turned him Know-nothing2
Thisis q new idea, that because man is not
born in place where he aspires to Office, that
he must be denounced as carpet-bagger. In
faith, no man would be entitled to run but In
dians, and Democratic whisky has nearly
killed them out. (Laughter.] The Democratic
party must change their name; but they can
not afford to do that, for it is all they have to
to call it the aboriginal party, for they go in
for hostility to everything that is imported.
Why, my friends, what has become Of the old
Democratic partyf There was time when it
was an Abolitionist party. Some Of you have,
perhaps, forgotten It. / have not, for / was
1s49 and 1850 the Democratic State Convention
"iesolved that slavery was an unmitigated evil;
that it oughtto be eradicated, and that all con-
stitutional power should be employed to that
end" In that year Salmon P. Chase was
elected as Senator from Ohio, and George E
Pugh and Alex. Long at the head of the Dem
ocratic party, repealed the black laws which
forbade the black man living In the State; for
bade him testifying on the stand doing away
with the belief that the black man was neces.
sarily liar. The Democratic party repealed
those laws and adopted the resolutions drawn
up by Colonel Manypenny, ,denouncing slavery
as an evil, and every constitutional power was
pledged to remove it. That was the Demo
cratic party. The Democratic party. was hos
tile to know-Nothing, and now the Demo
cratic party is down on carpet-baggersj and the
Democratic party of those times had strong
flavor of gold and hard money about them
And said the Democratic party, under the
leadership of Edwin NJ. Stanton in 1876, in the
days when they had giants: "If we can not
get gold and silver enough to make money out
of, we will make it out of pot metal" and pot
metal was their name.
The chink of the yellow boys has passed
through the interstices of their purse and
mint boys are the candies of the Democracy Of
the North. NotD il is Young gGreenbdcksit the dif
ference bettueen Old and Young Greenback, beinl
that Old Greenback, issued enough, aud not more
than enough, aud tried TO make them ,eo,th some
thing, ,chile Young Greeabacks proposed to .fooc
the difference between small shower and {
Noah's flood. What has become
OF the hard-money Democracy Dc
you see any Of them around thi.
township No,o, Il is not long since Judge Thur
man held up tsnceat piecs and fre-dollar greer,
back, contrasting them. He said after vhile he
greenback uol,ld be Worth nothing. | am reminded
it was quarter of dollar Judge Thurman
held up; it was ten-cent piece they gave Val
landigham. The quarter OF dollar was helG
up as an exhibition of the good old times that
we should come back to. But now there is moi
paper money enough made, and S400 is to bt
ground out by machinery for every man anG
woman in America.
And this is the hard money of Democra
cyl Now, my friends, inconsistencies in :
party do not prove that that party is wrong
The Democratic party has Topped oter. u hd
quit being Whdt IL tcas and is got to be sometime
else. 1t is like the old story of the knife which
the Professor in school showed to his boys;
large knit, with number of blades that coult
be removed, and puzzled his pupils by askin;
if it would be the same knife if he lost on,
blade and put in another, and ii he should re
move the handle and throw it away and sub
stitute another, would it still be the sam,
knife? The boys said that it would. But
suppose some one should find the lost blades
and the thrown away handle, and put then
together, where would be the knife? The boy
gave it up. So what is the Democratic party
Is it the one with the label on it? Anybod,
can print greenback who has the type, pape
and ink OF the right color. Anybody can max,
label. You make piece of chocolate wral
it in piece of paper, and call 1t ice cream
candy, but it does not make It ice cream candy
So when the Democratic party swallowed thei
hostility to things native and took up tn
idea that man not born on Southern
soil ought TO go there, if he went at all
with one of those big trunks large enough
to make porters back ache carrying it III
one fight OF stairs at the hotel; that, in orde
TO qualify a man to hold office at the South
he has to show one OF these trunks big enough
to sleep in, or has to be born there and pro
duce his baptsmal register; when instead o
being bard-money men, instead of being il
favor of pot metal, when there not enough
of gold and silver, they could l..,,c an unlim
tied currency, so that u man would go to marke
with half bushel Of money and bring hom
his breakfast in his vest pocket, as it was il
the days of the Confederacy, under the regim
of Secretary Memminger, and that is tciere Nh
Peadieton learned his lesson. When they forge
that they made Salmon p. Chase Sena4or-wHEl
they forgot that they repealed the black laws
and made it lawful for negroes to live in Ohio
and testify on the stand, and took up the ide
that the one cardinal fundamental, never-to
be-forgotten, always-to-be-lived-up-to princi
pies OF the Democratic party were to hate
niger, follow him up, persecute him, chea
| him, drive him out, kill him; he is only
black fellow--he has no rights; when the
changed their principles, or prejudices, upo
every one of the great questions, l think It
| barl fNr ,ot;n tnl
myself TO be quite sure which is the Demo
cratic party-whether it is the one that Ina
got the label or the one that hasn't got one.
I can conceive Of a pure Democracy belicun.
that al The children of God are equals, or shoul
| be, before Him and among men, can conceiv
the idea that we are the children of one con
mon Father, and, so believing, would carr
out that doctrine in legislation by righteou
| laws to the effect that all men should have a
equal chance in the race of life to oppose a.
wrong enactment Such Democracy, wit
the flag of the Union which is the flag c
] the free, as its banner striving for til
! right to be done, legislating for the equalit,
and liberty and security of the lives
all men; such @ Democracy l can cor
ceive of, but such Democracy in thes
modern days is real Republican Government
| [Applause.l II has quit al Mis-ALL ExcEp
THE NAME--it leaves the name with the Democrat
party a; a wGrning TO Ol that may come after tho
names are nothing realities everything 1T LEAVE
THE NAME AS A MILESTONE TO POINT OUT TIL
ROAD NOT TO GO; to teach the American peopl
that it is not by names that the people OF tn
United States can be carried, but by the real
! ties, the actuality, the substance. [Cheersl
! Well, my friends what is the issue that W
are to try2 | said shortly after the war ende
that new rebellion of arts and artifices begar
1t began under the leadership of Andre
johnson. 1t might be as well to 80 TO the hea
at first.
After referring to the fact of the Duhme di,
] mond thief, in endeaYoring to make his oscar