Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-10-03
The Democracy and the Union.

The Democracy of this country hasalways made
one issue with is opponcnt-thc preservation o
the Union and the maintenance Of the Consttu
ton. This is the issue it now makes, and il thi
Is party issue, then is the attitude of the Dem
ocracy that Of party otherwise, it is not
The old opponents Of tho Democracy are fonc
OF quoting the patriotic Douglas as saying that al
party issues should be laid aside during the war
Democrats havc with one consent, agreed to lay
aside until the rebellion is crushed the agitation
of all political questions, save those that relate
directly to the maintenance Of the Union and the
enforcement ofthc laws. We defy the opponents
of tho Democracy TO point out a single other ques.
tion which Democrats Rrc now raising, or one sin.
gle position they now take, which docs not bear
directly upon the one grand point--thc prescrva
ton Of the Union as our fathers made it..
Democrats are not party men in tho sense in
which the charge is made. They are accused OF
seeking to maintain their organization fr the
mere sake of low partisan cuds-thc acquisition o
Office and power. The rciutaton Of that charg,
lies in the fact that the Democratic organization
has in our past history, been the salvation of Iii,
country, opposing an inprcgnablc bulwark to th,
assaults Of the foes of the Constitution and th,
Union. 1t maintains to-day the same position,
and its dissolution would be the precursor of the
dissolution of the Union.
The Democracy has been, aud is tho only safe,
sure and reliable Union organization in the coun
try. III this sense, it Is no mere party, Mboring
TO effect mcrc partisan ends but band of patri-
ots dovoting its energies and using its orgnnza.
tion for the one great and patriotic purpose OF
saving the Government from overthrow, and the
Union--the whole Union from dissolution j
constitutes nuceus--R true unfaltcring Uniol
organization, around which good and patriot
men viii yet rally in sufficient nunbcrsto to sav
our glorious fabric of Federal aud State Govern
ments from either partial or total destruction.
The men who from tho press or the stump
make the charge that the Democracy il maintain
ing its organization for merely selfish aud partisan
ends, utter what's false. Many oc them are seek
ing to accomplish thn annihiIaton or disbanding o
the Democratic organization in order 10 pave th'
way for dissolution of the Union, knowing tha
while that organization exists and continue pow
erlnl, their disunon schemes will be thwnrtcd.-
This is evidently the design of many OF the lead
ers in the recent No.party movement in Ohio
who believe, with their candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, that the great mistake in tho form,.
ton Of our Union was the union of free and slave
States in tho SAND Confcdrrocy, between whom
until they are separated, there must he, according
to STANTON and hid co.workcrs, an endless con
nct
Tho popular sentiment IA now in favor Of main
taining the Union 1t would not do for the Dis
unionlss at heart to oppose openly this popuh,
current hence they hlpocritically nrrogatc h
themselves the exclusive title Of tnion men, an,
attempt to throw the olum of Disunioni,m from
their shoulders upon the Democracy. II the,
could thus break up the only saunch Union or
gAni@don In hc country, then, the public min,
might bc gradually brought round to sanction tlc
plan of a sep ration of the free and slave States
In order 10 escape the horrors Of nm mtcrminabl,
war.