M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-12-27
1he Rcpnh'icansas ti,ey Are Un-
derstOod nj ihe Smith

Ccratic journals and Democratic lead.
ers that the people at the Soutn regard
with such horror and aud alarm their
political organizatioE, and manifest a
strong disposition not to submi, 10 It's
authority. In other words, they as
sumo that the people o' the south, in
stead Of looking at political matters in.
the North through their own spcc.a
Giles, SOC them through those oi lhe
Northern Democrats. The inference
is that il il was nos Itr the latter. the
South would suppose the Republican
organization to DO itS friend rather
than its enemy. Now, this pretcnse
that tho people 0! the South, on a
question so deeply affecting their in.
ternal peace and tranquility, and in.
-volying such mighty consequences.
would act on the views and judgment
ofothers, not living among them, IS
all insult 10 their intelligence. They
see and Judge for themselves. They
take no secondhand testimony OF the
principles and policy OF the Repubi.
can party. The Republicans appear
to them through their own glasses
much more hateful and dangerous
than it they saw them through those
Of the Northern Democrats.
The people Of the South are Just as
well informed Of the state of affairs at
the North rs we of tho North are Of
those at the South. They read the
Congressional Globe, and know the
violent anti.slavery character of the
speeches Of the Republican leaders,
They have seen Helpers book, Nnd
noticed who it was that indorsed it as
cmiuently sound. They have obser
we'd who passed the Personal Liberty
Bills to nullily The Fugitive Slave
Law in the North. They noticed the
decapitation Of Judge Swan IN Ohio
and the reelection OF Judge Drinker
lIof, because the first was in favor Of
the execution Of the Fugitive Slave
Law and the second was not. They
observed who passed eulogies upon
and sympathizod with John Brown.
They remarked that the old Abolition
party became extinct whep the Repub.
licaR was formed, and that it was
transferred bag and baggage to it.
They have seen the views and decIa-
rations Of Seward, Lincoln and other
Republican leaders about the "irre
pressible conflict" between freedom
and slavery and OF the necessity of the
Union becoming al free in order to
endure. They read the atrocious ser.
nous Of Beecher, Oheever, Bellows
and other Republican preachers, and
the almost equally odiOus assaults up
on them in such sheets as the New
York Tribune, Cincinnati CONNER,
eiaL and other kindred prints. They
have seen the Chicago Platform,
which denies that any authority can
give legality to slavery in Il Territory;
and they have noticed that the party
that stands upon it has 10 existence
outside of the free States. But we.
will not recapituate these matters Of.
record, which have been spread by the
Republicans before the whole country
Tho Democratic press could not
have prevented the South from know
iug this. Nothing would have done
it except the stoppago .. the mails
and The suppression OF Republican
papers and documents. The Dcmo
cratic journals have done much 10 al.
lay feeling at the South by denounciug
these untriondy proceedings, thus as.
suring that section that an immense
party at the North discountenaucuu
them. Had they remained si,.uj, the
people at the South wonId have sup,
posed that the whole North favored
them, and their hostility would have
been much greater against us. We.
do not doubt that there is a large body
OF conservatives in the Republican
party-~men who would disapprovo Of
any assault upon the constitutional.
rights Of the South. We believe that
q large mass Of that party are as pa.
triotie and devoted to the Union as the
Democrats. But the mischief is, they
have been deceived by party.
leaders, and have been made to carry
the baggage Of the A Abolition train
These men are now waking up to the
imposition which has been practiccd
upon them, and will, we trust, make
their Influence left for Cancellation and
barmGny before it is too late.
The disastrous events which are now
transpiring and threatening to trans
pire are nothing more ihan what our
leading statesmen predicted, more than
twenty years ago, as the consequences
of the Abolition agitation at the
North, if it was suffered to 20 on
AS far back as 1907, General Wash
ington, in his farewell address, atiec-
tlonately warned us TO beware Of sec
tional parties-that they would de-
> stroy the Republic if they attained a
foothold. Their natural result, espe-
eially when they ere formed upon such