Year: 1863

them as to the means Of rc-uniting our
people and the Union, and stand right
on theirrecord and are willing to abide
the issue. Had we run war candi-
date on a war basis, what would have
been our condition to-day? We would
have been defeated, most assuredly
would have been with vote, on our
side, more disgraceful than that of 1861,
without a shred of reputation left u.s.
Had we been successful with a war
candidate and war platform, we
should have stood just where John
Brough stands to-day, or been compel
led to change front and submit to the
base and dastardly charge Of getting
office under false pretencesl One Or
the other would have been inevitable,
and our party would have stood before
the world without principleand without
character, led and controlled by fresh
swarm of hungry flies to eat out what
substance was left of the people, after
the gorging of the stuffed and fattened
brood now sucking the life blood Of
the nation.


Thank God, we now stand before the
world, proud in charactcr-strong in
political virtuc-brave in the conscious
ness of right-and stand ready for any
emergency when and where character
and patriotism may be requiree. The
Democratic party never had but one
purpose in its organization, and never
can have: That was and is to guard
the liberty of the citizen, the rights Of
the States, aGd to preserve the Con-
stitution and the laws made under it,
and in accordance with it. The Dem
ocratic organization was not made to
plunder the public treasury and tram
pie upon the rights of the citizen, but
to protect both-and this in time Of
war as we'll as in peace. 1t has no
other purpose in electing men to office
than the preservation Of these great
rights, and hence the malignity and
slander it has ever had to endure from
all sorts of people who hate a demo
cratic form Of government. Mr.. Val,
landigham and the whole Democratic
party may well quote the lines of the
poet:


''Nne selfapproving hour whole years oatweighs,
Ofstupid sarers and of loud hnzzas;


And more true joy MarceIlus EXlLED fBes


han Caesar with a Senate at his heels"


1t is also a part of the Democratic
creed to sympathize with and hold up
the hands of all men persecutcd for
lberty's sake. 1t was this which gave
our country the brightest glow in all
it's greatness, "the home Of the op,
pressed of all nations" The cxiles of
Europe, from Ireland, from Germany,
from France, from Poland, Hungary
and Spain, ever found with US hearty
welcome, and happy home. Kings
ana Tyrants of all grades scowled at us,
showed their bloody teeth, but could
not--darcd not bite us, for we had
millions Of sympathizers groaning in
bondage at their feet ready to strike:
under this sublime spectacle, we grew,
we prospered and became the terror Of
all tyrants the world over, and they
succumbed to their fate.


Could then, dared then, this great
old Democratic party so long in power
and in glory, bow in humiliation to
acts of which few tyrants in Europe
were ever guilty? No, no, they dared
not do it and live-disgrace would have
followed Us to our graves and no one
mean enough to do US reverence.
Like brave and noble men we met
the issue--like men we contended for
the right, and if we have fallen it is
with our banners lying, our good name
untarnished, our courage undoubted,
our leaders covered with glory, even
of defeat in righteous cause, cause
which the crucifxion could not blot
from its enduring progress, and from
life everlasting. Such defeat is worth
a thousand ilI-gotton victories, with
death and dishonor in their Shiny wake.
Crisis.