Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-08-25
SUPPOSE IT HAD WON.
Wa. Democratic Victories Would II
Mean. rhr the CountrN.

! Meant Tor the Country.
TEc Republican party made its Erst
/ presidential nomination thirty-six years
a3o and was heaten. Four years lltc1
IT elected Mr. Lincoln. and from ti&t
ilt" down there has been only one Dem
, critic p-czi lent of the United States.
.I'hrougl al these years the Democracy
/ hes been co2tendinS that the Republican
party is destroying the country, stran-
Cling the constitution, overthrowing
popular liberty and perpetrating other
outrages which would require from now
until election day to recount.
Suppose Democracy had been the vic
tor from 1860 down, what, taking that
party on the record it has made, would
be the condition of the republic?
First-We should have not one but
two republics. The southern states were
determined to secede. and the Demo-
cratic party would have allowed them
to 90 rather than make war TO keep
them in the Union. 1t maintained the
doctrine that there was no power in the
I HUI " COclCC a SONClClSA SldlC. llldi
state could remain in or go out just as
it pleased. The Republican party sue
cessfully combated that heresy in the
forum of debate and crushed it to death
on thousand battlefelds. 1t was the
greatest service rendered to the republic.
Second-If Democracy had won, we
should today present to all mankind the
repellent picture of the only nation in
the world maintaining the diabolical
doctrine that man has the right 10 hold
property in man. We should have the
slave pen and the slave auction block in
the market place of all the towns and
villages below the old line of Mason and
Dixon, or whatever other line southern
aggression should have demanded and
northern Democratic cowardice conced-
ed. Is there today Democrat in all
the four and forty states who would
wish for the restoration of that ''iusti-
tuition" to maintain which Democracy
made the bloodiest war of modern times?
Third-If Democracy had uniformly
won during all these years, our skilled
industries, which challenge the admira-
ton of the world, would scarcely have an
existence. We should be the vassals of
Europe for every manufactured article
from common screw up to the mag
nifcent machinery that will drive the
new Columbia through the waves at a
speed never yet attained by vessel of
war. Look at the mills and factories
that rise in every town and village be-
tween the two oceans. They emplo,
the greatest and the best paid army Of
labor in the world. Around them clus-
ter the church, the home, the school
house. One and all they are the crea-
ton of the tariff That is the seed from
which they have sprung. There is no:
a single one of those manifold and
mighty industries which the Democratic
party has not endeavored to crush ont
by proposed legislation that happily has
been defeated
If. then, during the last thirty years
Democracy had won and Republicanism
had lost, we should have:
First-The affirmation of the right of
secession and the disruption of the
Union
Second-Slavery would be declared to
be a divine institution, and it would be
held that black man has no rights
which white man is bound to respect.
Third-Protectien to American indus
try would be high crime and misde,
lneanor.
What a calamity that these Demo-
cratic ideas and principles have not pre-
vailed during the last thirty years.
New York Recorder.