The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16
Whitney g Marsh, ltd.

today are individually responsible for
the acts of Democrats of a former
generation. But l do mean to say that
the Democratic party as a party is
identified beyond the possibility of a
doubt with the great crime that so
nearly murdered the American Nation.
/ do mean to say that it made for
itself record that can never be eX-
planned, obliterated or denied. To bor-
row and adapt a metaphor from an
other, "In the Talmud the Jews have
story that Og King Bashan once lifted
a great rock to hurl it on the armies of
Judah. God followed it in the middle
letting it slip over the giants neck,
there to rest while he lived" The
Democratic party lifted the strength
and the power of it's mighty organiza-
ton to burl it against the slave and
, against the flag, and God has hung it's
record like mill stone about its neck
forever more.
RECONSTRUCTION.
The war was no sooner over than the
Democratic leaders, South and North,
began 10 plot for restoration to politi-
cal power. and to effect a practical re-
establishment of the slavery which the
18th observation-disclosures against Demo-
cratic opposition-had forever hanished
from the land. Democratic legislatures
enacted in North Carolina, Mississippi.
and Texas, black laws and vagrant
laws, and laws to create a system of
peonage. They insisted that the people
of the late Confederate States were I'M
lawfully denied representation in Con-
gress. They demanded as a right to
:
l., The Union from whence they had
departed without provocation. They
said You Republicans fought us upon
the proposition that we could not and
should not go out of the Union You
won the fight. Very we'll; not being out
of the Union we are in it, and being
in it we have right equal with all
others to participate in it's Govern
rnent."
| THE REPUBLICAN ANSWER
And to this the Republican party re-
piled: 1T was not regiments of men
alone who marched to the relief of the
beleagured capital-it was 4,Iassachu-
setts, and on her banner the glory of
the dead shall be emblazoned forever.
1t was not the Palmetto troops alone
who hurled hot shot at the flag on
Sumpter's walls,-it was South Caro-
lima, and for it the broken shield of her
sovereignty shall only be cemented
through works of contrition and re-
form. Your assumption of a right to
secede has been trampled under the feet
of our legions. Your claim to help rule
this nation al present is not allowed!
We do not intend to have vengeance
for our dead, but we will have order
and law for the living and security
against renewed rebellion. Taxation is
a consequence of war which the South
must bear with us. Representation is
privilege not to be accorded to her
at present. Let her stand in the ante
chamber of Congress until her bloody
garments are dried before she aids to
make laws for the children of her vic
Tins. We will take abundant security
for the future and lock it in the strong
box of the Federal Constitution before
the people of the late Confederate
States shall be allowed representation
in Congress-"
I THE 14TH AMENDMENT.
/ The Republican party proposed the
14th Amendment and every Democrat
! in the land denounced it, l remember
how Democratic nominee for Con.
, gress in Nevada said IF you adopt i
the representation from Nevada will he
reduced unless you give Cinnamon the
, right to vote" He was called down b,
! the remark Nevada has but one Mem
Der of Congress. How can we reduc,
her representation unless we cleo
you?" Gaughter)
t DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION.
= Step by step Democrats fought ever,
Republican measure of reconstruction
Step by step they opposed the grea
5 war amendments framed to secure hu
: man freedom. national safety and man
: hood suffrage; and when the 18th, 14tl
and 18th amendments were adopte,
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