The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-09-16

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TnE DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDE
Thr Southern UHHflIniacy Nas HHrrt
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cause God ana fHD 10Th century were
against o. Ana SHAT duHnr iha great
contest Usa thr BtiItuie uf the urwn-
cratic urt' lis members ipN Do lN
hundreds si thousands. Hud Joined thr
Republican ranks. Tue result ulF thnt
Those who remained Boo % su controlled
Its Organization that taey pres uf.l %
record OF treason and blood Hf tha
South. OF obstruction and murrnfy at
the North At the south ~ member.
hurled armed gions against flag
which had never waved over them save
iu protection and kindness At The
North they discouraged enllstmout-.
ard resisted drafts. and Deprecated
credit. and In their National Cunyeu-
ton in 1864 they cried out for peace
even at the price Of national dlsmom-
berment They derlded and insultei all
those VINO n ncstly ught for the coun-
try. they encouraged and apulauded
those whose trcachcry. incompetency,
or aint-heartednoss precipitated disas-
ter upon the armies Of the Republic;
they denounced Grant and cheered for
Mcclellan; they cried out against Sher-
man and euloEized Fitz John Porter;
they paid nothing voluntarily into the
Federal Treasury; they contributed
sparinEly or not at all to funds for the
relief of our wounded soldiers. Even
those who professed devotion TO the
Union were opposed to all stringent
measures to preserve the Union Those
who favored the war We're opposed to
bloodshed They denounced Lincoln as
"A tyrant and usurper, and their most
widely circulated journals placed
Wilkes Booth on their list of martyrs.
The Democrats of those days made
their own record and from that record
the party organization cannot escape.
Wherever a convention resolved that
the war was failure and demanded
that the Southern Confederacy be rec
ognized It was a Democratic Conven-
ton. Wherever men conspired to re-
sist the draft, or laid n plot to infect
a city or destroy its public works
there was a Democratic meeting. CAP
plauseD
| do not mean to say that thousands
upon thousands of brave true Demo-
Gratis did not enlist and fight and sacri-
flee and die for the good cause do
not mean to say that the Democrats
today are individually responsible for
the acts of Democrats of former
generation. But ! do mean to say that
, the Democratic party as 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 a record that can never be eN-
planned obliterated or denied. To bor-
row and adapt a metaphor from an
other, I'm the Talmud the Jews have a
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 hurl it against the slave and
against the flag, and God has hung its
record like a mill stone about its neck
forever more.
| ... RECONSTRUCTION 49,
The war was no sooner over than the
| Democratic leaders, South and North,
/
cal power, and to effect a.praetical re-
| establishment of the slavery witch the
1l3th amendment-passed against Demo:
cratic opposition--had forever. banished
from the land. Democratic legislatures
enacted in North Carolina, Mississippi,
and Texas. black laws and yagrant
laws, and laws to create 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
Immediately return without condition
To 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 II we have a right equal with all
others to participate in its Govern
ment."
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 captal-it was .hassachu-
sets and on her banner the glory of
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 at 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
consequence of war which the South
must bear with us. Representation is
a 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