St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-23
MISUNDERSTANDING HIS TORY.
IN. Y. world, Editorial.

. Y. Y. World, Editorial.
A Republican organ in Rochester grows
angrysover the frmness with which the DEM
ocrats and honest Republicans took by the
throat and checked at once the apparent con-
spiracy Of Mr.. Blaine and his managers to
repeat the crime Of 1876 and again steal the
Presidency from the people. Our rural con-
temporary thus manifests its indignation on
he ta qEoqas principle:
What did your party 1.-THE Democ. acyl do
in 1860, when their defeat was beyond the
shadow of question or disputed Recall 1t for
a moment II may teach you patience and
calmness. Your party went 20 work deliber-
ately to break up the Union rather than sur
render their hold upon power. They would
not be content with continuing in possession
OF the senate. They would have the whole
or none; would rule or ruin. TIL ey seeded
ran away, set mp hostile govern ment and
rose in armed rebellion against the Union &.
And all for no cause whatever except that
the people of this country had voted for a
change---just what you believe they have vot-
ed for now. When that change was made,
the Democratic party resisted It TO the point
of bloodshed aud plunged the country into
war.
If il were true that the Democratic party
did as charged in this indictment ii would
not justify the crime committed by the Re
publican party in 1875, and contemplated in
1884. But the arraignment is false in part
and is a perversion OF history.
The civil war was not a war between par
ties, but between sections divided By con iict-
ing systems of labor. II severed politicsl
organizations as it did the rebellion Of the
states. The slang Of Republicanism speaks
of the Southern secession as Democratic
rebellion, but II utters falsehoOd which the
cold facts Of history make ridiculous.
The Democratic party did not control the
so-called Southern states before the war In
1910, Harrison, the Wing candidate for the
Presidency, received the votes Of Delaware,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi. North Carolina and Tennessee.
eight in all, casting 7S electoral votes. Van
Buren,. the Democratic candidate, secured
Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, South Caro-
lima and Virginia, five states, casting As
electoral votes.
In 1874, Henry Clay, the Wing candidate.
carried Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland,
North Carolina, and Tennessee, with A
electoral votes, while Polk carried the rest of
the southern states with 81 electoral votes.
In 1S4s, Taylor, the Wing candidate, re-
ceIved the votes Of Delaware, Florida
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
North Carolina and Tennessee, casting 66
electoral votes, while Cass, the Democratic
candidate, carried Alabama, Arkansas Miss
issippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas and
Virginia, with SIS electoral votes.
In 1852 Gen. Scott the whig candidate.
miserably defeated, received the electoral
vote Of only four states 10 the union and
two of them were southern" states, Ken
lucky aud Tennessee. These gave him "a
electoral votes, while his two northern states
Massachusetts and Vermont, gave him only
Is. So his principal support was at the
south.
In 1856 the Republicans put forth candi-
date in avowed hostility to southern interests
and drove the southern states into united
opposition. But in 1860, despite the well
known objects of the Republican party. Bell,
the Wing candidate, received the 80 votes OF
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.
The Democrats OF northern states went
into the war for the Union as readily as the
Wings of the southern states went into the
ranks Of secession. The names Of Grant
Hancock, Rosecraus, Schoheld. Mcclellan
Meade, Joe Hooker, Slocum and Others
Of military renown were contri-
buttons to the Union from
the northern Democracy. Logan, the lat,
Republican candidate for vice-President,
was Democrat and although he hesitated
between the Confederacy and the Union, 8
commission decided him to draw his sword
on the right side.
The war is over, the Union is restored and
we are again one people under one constitu-
ton. The issue Of the rebellion has beer
finally killed, even as political shibboleth
by the issue of honest government. But we
are not disposed to allow Republican block
heads to continue to misrepreseut the rebel
| lion OF the Wing and Democratic south
fought against so periodically by the Demo
cratic and Republican north, as a politica
rebellion. to be charged to the account O
the Democracy.