Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-10-01
ADDRESS
Of the Democratic State Central
COlMmittee.---TO the People of
Ohio.
CoLUMBUs, Sept. 10, 1857.

NOAMAAAAlGlCCs--oA n " INV u CVRAO va
Ohio.
CoLUMBUs, Sept. 10, 1857.
The, State Central Committee deem it
their duty to return to practice for
some time fallen into disuse, and briefly
address their fellow citizens upon the
ueslinvolyed in. the present political
canvass. Comprehending, as they think
they do, the importance of the ques-
tions now to be resolved by the people,
and fully impressed with the convic-
tion,1that the popular will is about to
recall the Democratic party to admins
ter the affairs of the State, the Commit
tee believe, that they ought not to ne
gleet to confer with their fellow citizens
insthis manuer.s has vIs--...a
The perpetnity of the Union is now,
as heretofore an object upon which
the Democracy are infexibly resolved.
The party in this State, one of the lar
gcst integers in the National Democra
cy. have always made it cardinal prin-
ciple of their faith. Tho preservation
of the liberties of the people is the
chief end of the Democracy, and the
maintenance of the Union is indispen-
sable to its attainment. The bulk of
our opponents do not intend to destroy
that inestimable legacy of our wise and
patriotic fathers; but, considering
the blind fanaticism of many of their
leaders, the reckless and unscrupulous
alnbition,s which animates another large
portion of them, aud the success which
has hitherto attended their efforts in
lighting up the baleful fires of section
alzanimosity and distrust, we are COM
PEELED to regret, that so many of our
fellow citizens should have suffered
themselves to be drawn into their per-
nicious and dangerous organization.
Support given to that party creates a
seemingly wcllefounded suspicion in
the, minds of your brethren of the
South that "a large portion of our peo
pie are prepared to rcnounee the COM
promises of the Constitution, and to
interfere with the domestic institutions
of the several States. The inevitable
result of the established success of the
Republican party must be the destruc-
ti0n of all fraternal confidence among
the people of the States, and the final
disruption of the confedcracy. The
country, SO grand and majestic in the
eyes of the world, not less from the
simplicity and wisdom of its political
system, than from the splendor of its
achievements the vast extent of its
domains, aud the marvellous rapidity
of its moral and physical progress, is
threatened with danger where, alone, it
Is not imprcSnable. lmpervious to all
attacks from without, and able to con-
tend with the world in arms in defence
of.our homes and liberties, internal dis
scnsiou menaces the safety of the Re
public The fortress which cannot be
carried BY assault succombs at last to
the sap and mine and this Empire of
the Nest, which defies with impunity
the combined efforts of all the despots
in the world to overcome or restrain it,
may fall by the persevering wickcdness
of a FEW, treacherous agitators. The
Goths are not at the gates, but i'll the
heart Of. the Capitol, ...- ..-. ....
When the great body of the people
North and South shall have become es-
traneed, and hostile to each other, it
will not Pequireia question of real mag
nitude to hasten. the development of
the frfghtfth eonse4ucnces. In an ex-
aeerbated state of the public mind,
such as might follow the success of our
opponents, some matter of trifing i'm
port, like the reported suct on the cat
ridges of the Sepoys, may be sufficient
to precipitate the destruction of the au-
gust fabric our fathers raised, and to
seycr the Confedcracy they constructed,
into numerous petty and hostile com
munities. When such feeling pre-
walls, the peace and wellbeing of the
body polite are no longer within the
control of the just and prudent, of any
party; but at the mercy of the first
knaye or madman who may be found to
rush upon destruction for the sake OF
anarchy. The fires of hate, SO insid-
iously kindled by the. enemies of the
Union, burn low at first; but if not ex-
tinguishcd by your efforts in due sea
son, they will sometime burst forth in a
general coufagration. The Committee
earnestly call upon you to stop that in
the green tree, which may not be stayed
in the dry,
The Committee believe that upon the
success of the Democratic party the
preservation of our race pure and in
tact, in Ohio, mainly depends. They
proclaim, once and for all, their unalte
rablc conviction, in the graduation of IA
res, The white race of people in the
United States, like the ancient Roman.
and tic English, the offspring of tn,
most intellectual, energetic, pcrscverins
and warlike varieties Of the Caucasian
people, is believed to be the highes
type Of linan yet developed on the globe
i'hel crafty and savage tribes of thi
continent withcred at its near approach
by reason; of some mysterious agenc,
never explained, but never by any bar
baffaans 16hg withstood. 1t supplantcc
fhc French in all their vast possession
below the Great Lakes. 1t elected tn,
former occupants of the Northern ant
Western shores of the Gulf of Mexico
1t appropriated the coast of the Pacif
from Che thirty to the forty nintl
degree Of North latitude. 1t has re
ddced to its dominion all the interme
dfafe territory between the first earl.
settlement at Plymouth, and on tn
banks of james River, and the distan