Year: 1866

of such craven bloc in your veins, you


would n IT have done me the honor Of


this too fattcring demonstration. Your


presence here Is proof that, in your po-


litical principles, you are white men,


and that you are determined that the


Government shall be preserved "for the


benefit of white meh and their posteri-


ty forever" Your presence here is


proofthat you will stand for the Union


as it was, and for the Constitution as it


was, before either was tinkered by the


traitorous hand ofBlack Republican


ism. The Union our fathers made
that is your platform, and it is mine.
We stood together upon this platform
during the war, in opposition to the
Abolition traitors who were seeking to
overthrow the great American princi-
pie of consent, and to establish the old
despotic European principle Of force
We are Democrats offthe same school
as the wise and patriotic founders of
our Government. We, fellow-citizens,
are Democrats, without the Black Re-
publican improvements. During the
whole of that black and bloody time
between the years of 1861 and 1866, we
stood upon precisely the same platform
of principles the Democratic party had
stood upon all the way from 179S to


1860 If Others got off that platform,
we did not. If Jefferson and the foun-
ders of the Union were right, we were
right If the immortal platform of
principles known as the Kentucky and
Virginia Resolutions, on which the
Democratic party was brought into eX-
istence, were right in 1898, they were
right in 1860. They are right now, and
they will be right forever. They involve
the fundamental organic principles Of
our Government. If they have been
overthrown, their Overthrowis is crime,
and we must treat it as crime. TO
acquesce in crime is to be party to
it after the act. If we are honest in
wishing the Union our fathers made
restored, we must return to the princi-
pies on which our fathers based it.
The Democratic temple Of self f-gOvern
ment and liberty can never be made to
stand upon the foundations of Black
Republican dcspotism. And every
Black Republican stone or plank put
in the foundations Of the Democratic
cdilicc will bc Il source of weakness and
danger. We have seen some strange
We have several times
seen queer looking nag brought on to
the political course with Il Democratic
body and Black Republican head and
.ail, but we have never known a great
ace to be won by such an animal. We
gfobably never shall. l say this, not
rom any admiration of mere party
lamcs, but from profound conviction
Of the virtues Of Democratic principles.
If the Republican party should CHI nge
is revolutionary character and adopt
Democratic principles, l should follow
5he principles whatever name they
Dore. On the other hand, should the
Democratic party swing off from its
[ should not follow it. l


M not one who would accept mere
party success by the sacrifice Of the
of Democratic liberty. Sue
;ess on such ground is the most ruin
Jus defeat. That motto of shallow
that "half loaf is better
Ian no Bread" does we'll enough for
jcggars and mcndicants, but it is a
shame in the mouth of statesman.
Liberty is not duality; it is one and
ndivisiblc. 1t is like virtue, and can
not be halved and quartcred and
at and scattered about in
1t must stand or fall, as
whole. The man who is willing to ac-
,ept half loaf of liberty deserves new
II to be free If the immortal princi-
,le did exist in halves, then l am for
lighting for both halves at once, and
or never giving up the conflict until
We are either dead or victorious! Now,
elbow citizens, let our simple platform
continue to be: The Union our fathers
made! the Union Us it was! the glo-
ious old Union! the Union without
ne of these Black Republican improve
nents 1t will take time to work our
orn and bleeding country all the way
'ack to that glorious first estate, but If
Ge are faithful we shall reach it. At
ny rate, that must he our platform.
)n no other can the Democratic party
yer be united and victorious. The
nan who talks of acquiescing in any
'art of this Black Republican revolu-
ion is traitor to Democracy and lib
rty, and is already half way over to
rhad. Stephens and old John Brown.
.ct not the craven wretch call himself


Democrat, but let him at least have
he decency of Judas, and Ego to his
,wn place." Fellow citizens, again
hank you for this manifestation of
our confidence and respect.


At the close of Mr.. Burr's remarks,
hrce deafening rounds Of applause
we're given for the speaker, and for
resident Johnson, and the Union as it
Vas.