Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-08-21
True Union Democracy.

From the Fremont Democrat.
Every days experience confirms us in
the belief that old party organizations have
fulfilled their mission and must be laid a.
siie as useless lumber. The great current
of patriotism requires one broad. deep
channel in which to flow. 1t overlcaps all
the narrow boundaries of party. We have
no confidence that this party or that, of it.
self, IS equal to the great emergency of the
day; but we have mistaken confidence that
the American people composing the several
parties, and who, loyal to the government
of their fathers, acting in concert with
Gods blessing, are able to exterminate
treason and show to the world that our
Republican government is not 4 failure
But our energies must be brought unitedly
to the work. 1t must now be as it was in
the days of the first Revolution. Let
those who 60 for their country without
qualifying their support by ''ifs" or lands"
take their place in solid column, shoulder to
shoulder as is the case with the
gallant men who have gone forth to
meet the enemy on the field Of battle
The old party organizations are only use
full for mischief in the present exigency-
to divide the patriotic mass by an imagin-
airy line, while there is a real unity Of in
terest and sentiment. Violent partizans
controlled entirely by prejudice and self
interest, oppose this movement for a union
of all loyal men under one party dcsigna-
ton, because they expect to be laid on the
shelf by it, and we are quite sure that
politicians who cannot forget party and
mere personal considerations, when the
government is menaced with overthrow,
ought to be laid on the shelf. The coun-
try will suffer no loss by that
[After copying the action of the Repub-
lean State Committee; the Democrats ar
ticle continues as follows
The Republican party of Ohio having an
overwhelming majority Of the voters of the
State, have nothing to gain in the line Of
Office by the personal movement. They
can elect their whole State ticket without
outside help. We regard their proposition
therefore. as unselfsh and patriotic, On
such a platform every loyal man can stand
without ~surrendering any former p%olicical
opinion. Such unanimity Of action Of the
people in all the Free States would do as
much to dishearten the rebels as a success
sion of victories. 1t would save US mil
lions of treasure and thousands Of lives.
why then shall We not accommodate ourselves
to the emergency, and act as the common
3 danger demands that We should act?
Hear what the Democratic STANDARD,
of Delaware county, says about the Dem
~ocratie State Convention.
This body assembled in the city of Co.
lumbus yesterday, and as might be expec-
| ted at the present excited state Of the
!. country, was largely attended. Many like
ourselves going for mere curiosity. to see
and hear in person, how far and what tack
the sympathizers with Breckenridge & Co.,
would take in the coming political contest.
We acknowledge tho movements were a
: droitly executed, by the skillful manage
ment Of old political Generals of the Dem
Ocratic party, aided by a few valiant re-
eruits from the Know Nothing party. The
5 platform We could in the main endorse. did
e we believe it to be the honest sentiment OF
those who profess to stand on it. But we
: know by commingling with the delegates,
| and thus learning their feelings and senti-
; ments, that it is only a masked battery
to be exploded as soon as these leader;
think they have the Northern mind sufi
I GENTLY demoralized to answer their purpose
by the cry of oppression and taxation
+ We have not time to fully unmask the by
pocricy Of this meeting. but will simply
b add that not one word did we hear cithe,
in private or public, condemnation Of tht
rebels and their pretended government; bu
Il was the same course pursued by them to
wards the present. Federal Administration.
not SO, for long and loud were their deuun
Citations against it, thus couclusivcly salts
: flying US which way their sympathy wa
directed"
J. From the Providence Post. a true Dem
Y %ocratie sheet
n The Democratic party has always beel
e true to the Union. 1t has never nlE"het
: in the hour of trial. 1t has never weighed
+ the Union in a balance and cast up its val
n ne. 1t has never said-Fair play first
= and cur Union afterwards" or ''our part,
/ first, and the country afterwards" but /
has always said-"THe Union Foyerey
7 and a remedy for all grievances in th,
!, Union" If the government, in the hand.
Of ~unprincipled villains, becomes oppres
| sive, and ~justifies revolution, Democrat
d will claim the right of revolution, and ex
g ercise it. But they will not ~suGakingly re
: sort to secession. They will not give u
c the Union. Certainly they will not at
e tempt to establish two governments, or fv
or twenty. upon the ruins of that whicl
we now have.
There are sympathisers with this assault
upon the government in every State
While deploring secession, they are con
n stantly excusing if not justifying it, a
though it actually could be justified or ex
d cused. Because Northern Abolitionist
If were first to resort to unjust language. an,
to carry the eternal niger into politics
II and seek actual encroaehments upon Stat
h ri.hts, they argue that VIC should hold gu
y peace, or lend a helping hand, By devotin
d all our energies to assaults upon abolition
n lists, when the pillars of tie government
f are assailed by its enemies. 1t is folly t.
L devote newspaper articles to such mel o
/ their arguments. But We insist that the
n shall not claim to be the Democratic party
They asked US a year ago to help to breaI
e up the Democratic party, SO that the
might elect Abraham Lincoln. Havin
c accomplished that purpose without our as
n s~istance, they now want US to help crus
d the Union itself, as a means of getting ri
of four years of Republican rule. Gu
IS answer is found in the answer of Dougla;