here are matters in the Montgomery county resolutions which, it
is very safe to say, will not receive the approval of the State
convention, and which should not receive its endorsement. They have
faults of omission and commission. They evince a desire to sail
with the wind, and as near the water as possible without getting
wet. The Democracy everywhere believe that the constitution was
altered by fraud and force, and do not intend to be mealy-mouthed
in their expression of the outrage, whatever they may agree upon as
to how the amendments should be treated in the future, for the sake
of saving, if possible, what is left of constitutional liberty."

After the scheme was adopted in convention, the common sentiment
was well expressed by the editor who said that "the platform was
made for present use, and is marked with the taint of insincerity."

The speeches of Colonel McCook and other Democratic gentlemen
exhibit, when carefully read, clearly enough the character of the
new departure.

In accepting his nomination, Colonel McCook said: "Let me speak now
upon the fifteenth amendment, which confers the right of suffrage
upon the blacks. It was no legitimate consequence of the war; it
was no legitimate consequence of secession; but it was passed in
the exigency of a political party, that they might have control as
much in Ohio as in those States in the South. I opposed it, as I
did the fourteenth, from the beginning, and I have no regrets over
that opposition. But now a word more upon it. If it contained
nothing but this provision for suffrage there would be but little
objection in it; but it contains a provision intended to confer
power upon Congress which is dangerous to the liberties of the
country, and the dangers can only be avoided by having Democratic
Congresses in the future, who will trust no power to the executive
which bears the purse and sword to interfere with our elections."

When interrogated on this subject at Chardon, he said: "When he
received the nomination he had said that no black man who had
received the right to vote under the 15th amendment ever could have
it taken away. Repealing the 15th amendment would not take it away;
that amendment is no more sacred, but just as sacred as any other
part of the constitution; but repealing