The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-19

tion That is, the Douglas division were
willing to leave the question TO be deter
mined by the supreme court as to what
Congress and tho territorial legislature
could do, promising to abide by its deci-
slons. The BREcKINRIDeE division de-
manded that federal recognition be given
to slavery in the territories. The Repub-
publicans demanded Notwithstanding o
late decision of the supreme court of the
United States to the contrary-that slav
cry be prohibited in the territories of the
United States. AL went before the
country in the election, with the following
result:
LINCOLN. the Republican candidate, re-
ceived popular vote of 1866. 352; DoUG-
LAS, 1,375, l57, and BREcKINaIDaE only
S45. 763.
This result shows that the overwhelming
majority of the Democrats voted for DoUG-
LAS and the platform which proposed that
the decisions of the supreme court of the
United States be the final arbiter of The
question of slavery in the territories.
The Democrats in the southern states,
however, feared the triumph Of the Repub-
lican party meant the destruction of much
OF their property in the liberation of their
slaves and consequently determined on Sc
cesslon. But the returns of the presiden-
tisl elections four years later demonstrate
that the great BODY of the Democratic
party had remained with the Union an d
whatever settlement of the existing diff
culties they proposed must be upon the
basis of preserving the integrity of the
Union. The popular vote for LINCOLN in
that election was 2,2l6, 067; for GEORGE B.
MCCLELLAN, Democratic candidate, 1,S0S,
RS In the Democratic platform of that
election the following passages occurred:
Resolved, That in the future as in the past.
we will adhere with answering fidelity to the
Union under the constitution, as the only solid
foundation of our strength security and happ
ness as people, ana as a framework of gov
eminent equally conducive to the welfare and
prosperity OF all the states both northern and
southern. rhe aim and object
Of the Democratic party is to preserve the Fed
eral union and the rights OF the state unim-
paired;
Resolved, That the sympathy OF the Demo
cratic party is heartily ami earnestly extended
TO the soldiery OF our army and the sailors of
our navy. who are and have been in the field
and on the sea under the flag of their country;
and, in the event of our obtaining power. they
will receive all the care and protection, regard
and kindness, that the brave soldiers OF the
republic have so nobly earned
All the way through the danger that men
aced the existence of the Union the great
Democratic party worked for It's maintan-
ance both in politics and on the tented field
That the Democrats of the south seeded
is true and so did the Wings of the south !;
and the honest will see what we stated in
the beginning. that it was sectional not q
party movement; Tor the great Democratic
party, even with the Democrats of the
southern states cut off by the rebellion.
numbering but about four hundred thou
sand less than the Republicans, were
staunch and true to the preservation of the
Union. Let US hear no more of this rot
that the Democratic party Is the one that
tried to destroy the Union and that now
hold principles that would lead to it's de-
struction. The facts Of history are against
such charges.