Year: 1874

For fourteen years the grand old Dem
ocratic Party has struggled with its ad
versaries. The contest has been one
continued and earnest effort. How often
in that time have the political foe exult
antly shouted the party was dead, and
=. tauntingly referred to its resurrection


The struggle has been kept up against
accumulated odds that would have dig.
heartened any party that was not actu.
ated by the unfading principles Of truth
and Justice. 1t is impossible that such
party should not finally succeed in res
cuing the government from the thieves
and rascals who were taxing the people
almost to death. n. 'sA t


Several times during these fourteen
years the Democratic Party would have
triumphed and relieved the people from
the political leeches which had fixed
their fangs upon the body polite and
were sucking away the life blood Of the ma
ton. But each time the Democracy were
hurled back by the foul and detestable
resorts of the enemy. First the Army
and even tho Navy was used to keep the
people from voting, and to maintain the
party thieves in power, who were bleed
ing the nation to It's own ruin.


Then wholesale disf.anc. eLnent fol-
lowed with an armed force to sustain it,
and 10 crush oat tine efforts Of the peo-
pie to secure honest. liberal and cneap
government and to dash the horde oi
peculators from the unnecessary Offices
that had been created for the purpose of
corrupting and impoverishing the people
to keep the Republican party in power.


When all these combinations were
about to be overcome, the enemy, as n
last hope, resorted to negro suffrage.


With the addition CT eight hundred
thousand negroes to their aid accompa-
MED with the purse and the sword, and
t,ns of thousands of ofiice-holders Great
cd for the especial purpose Of carrying
the elections the prospect for the success
Of the Democratic party looked dark in
deed


III iListlly VI lAlt Olalto SuCSCS5 WIS OuI
Of the questionable hearts OF the De-
moeracy sunk within them; and had the
negroes been led in the right direction
by the white Radicals who, instead, used
his vote us a tool TO aid them to run the
States into debt and rob tho people, the
Republican party might have held pow
cr, with the means in their posscssio n.
Cor half q century.


In our own little State tho black cloud
OF voters almost disheartened the De-
mocracy, as was also tho case in our sig-
ter State Of Maryland. But by the noble
energy of the people struggling in the
right all the efforts of Northern fanati-
cism to put our citizens under tho heel
of negro domination were defeated and
our State institutions preserved from the
destructive clutches Of Radical dema-
gogues who have despoilcl every State
south of Mason & Dixon's line in which
they secured power.


And now we see tho Grand Old Demo-
cratic Party that has been thus for four
teen years struggling with tho enemies
Of popular government rising to the res
cue. 1t has overcome all opposition
even the negro allies that our opponents
sought when their acts became oppret-
siva and no longer tolerable. could not
save them, and Radicalism is about to be
put down again and freedom and justice
prevail all OYER the land klrnodv N n
people begin to feel the old love for their
country, and soon all the active energies
will b. inspired and the good times" will
come again il whic! every one will re-
joiee in the protection of the government
they lad so long dreaded as u heartless
usurpation, expressly fitted up for the
use Of opcregsors and tvr,nts