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Library of America ^ | August 27th, 1868 | Frederick Douglass

[Old Teufel Hunden]

It is eminently creditable to the sagacity, if not to the honesty, of the Democratic leaders that they prefer to limit discussion of the merits of their party, in the present canvass, strictly to the platform adopted in New York by their Fourth of July National Convention. For very obvious reasons, they are “dead” against dead issues. There is as much shrewdness as apparent resignation in their willingness to let “bygones be bygones.” In this prompt, business-like course there would be much to commend, if one did not see lurking behind it a very ugly fact which it is designed to conceal. In the effort to withdraw the war record of the Dem- ocratic party there is either a sense of its criminality or a convic- tion of its present odiousness. Their policy evidently is to attack, not to defend; and in this they are wise. They are smart men, and largely gifted with powers of utterance; but the task of defending the policy of their party during the war would leave time for little else, were they once to enter upon it.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

This is a speech given by Frederick Douglass, brought back courtesy of the left leaning Library of America. In it, he is stumping for Republican Grant against the Democrats. I post this to show that not much has changed in the Democratic party. In this era where they always call us the racist, it is they who are and have always been the party of racists. From the article:

"The slave- holding rebels, struck down by Gen. Grant as by a thunderbolt, scarcely recover from the terrific shock before they stagger off to the Democratic party."

Oh, how true Mr. Douglass, how true....

[Behind the Blue Wall]

“The more things change . . . “