The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-08-08
Rssohurfons.

hho was secessionist before lhs war and
wbO is . tory since. They neither repre-.
sent the sentiments Of the Democracy or
the people, They ere batch Of indirect
aid and comfort to the rebellion, and will
be hailed with delight by traitors IN both
sections. The Charleston Mercury will
publish them--the rebel army applaud
them, haiing them as not only evidence
Of divided North, but aid and comfort
to come, They are lie upon the Gov
ernment. scandal upon the Democracy
and an insult to the honor aud loyalty Of
the people. The great length Of the res
olutioDs precludes their publication. We
c0utent ours,kes BY giving the following
extracts which will show their genera
character: a..,--
WArrsaS. the present war could and
ought to Rave been avoided by compton,.
iss, and would have been. had not the
Republican party, by their persistent Of
for' to engraft on our government their
irrepressble conflict doctrines. defeated
every measure offered by the democracy
% secure peaceable solution Of our sec.
tional troubles; and whersas, our Gov.
ernment, State and National, are now in
the hands Of our ive.lorg enemies: who
have, as we believe. prscipitatsd us into
an unn necessary war with our brethren OF
be South; and vhSreas. be lieving as We
do. that the prosecution Of the war will
be utterly destructive 10 every interest
aud section Of our country.
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We most empbatically condemn the
Republican party for opposing every meas,
urs looking 10 peaceable and honorable
sett!emen, Of our national troubles. and
hold them responsible for inaugurating Q
civil war-tendiDg to the widest anarchy
before which State Rights and individua
liberty will be crushed. ..
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Our motto is millions for defense, bu
not one cont forIhs coercion or ,uyugatio,
Of sovereign States. -.... ..
Resolved, That We believe the purpose
Of the party now in power (under the falls
and hypoori.ioal plea to save the Union,
is TO prosecute the war for the subjuga
ton Of the South--ior the freedom Of th
negro,--for the subversiou Of State Gov
ernment, and for the erection Of eonsol
idated government on the ruins Of ou
Federal Constitution.
/ Rcsolved, That we hearty endorse tn
!, Ohio Eagle. believing its course has hee
truly democratic, just and patriotic. an
most cordially recommend il tn the libel
al patronagsd Of our friends throughor
the country. ..t
These resolutions were endorcsd an
applauded by the Convention, and W
submit 10 the good sense of the people I
know if we have said to much 10 callinI
them reasonable.
SPEAKERS AND SPEECHES.
Upon the adoption Of the resolutions
Q committee reported spsaksrs--Trump. Old
i. Boers,ler, and MsdiIl. This unusual pr
ceedug was well understood. II was d
~ signed to prescribe war Democrats,
!. paddock free discussion and throttle fr
/, debate. Such "contempliblo abolition
!, ists" as Martin, Whitman. Daugherty al
Ia McVeigh, were not wanted in the Co
"a vention. 1t was by no means the pu
}. pose Of the "Olique" that they should
:. heard from. They "wers outside the o
!. gauiEation." "If they came into the Go
"a vention and attempted to poke their bla,
republican noses into its business, or o
"a truds their opinions upon the domocra
IA they should be cried down" "They h
no business there" Such was the pr
scriplion-such the intolerance with viii
10 the convention opened. ItproCesded wi
v efforts to drive Whitman from the sta
J. and ended in groanS, Misses and row.
Ia Re VAN THUMf MO ofEhCH.
J. The friends of Col. Van Trump will
70 as,onished 10 learn that he was not on
d the leading speaker but the leading spi
n Of the Convention. They will be surpri
j. ed to learn Of his sudden abandonment
o all his old principles, and rapid Sdopti
> Of those measures he had always oppose
B. His Transformation was as rapid as una
10 countable. From bitter and uncompr
n miSing American. he slid into the Dem
= cratic NAV, with as much ease and rapiC
4. ity as scared weasel slides into agreas
10 hole. Born aud educated Whig, bitt
b tenacious. and radical. adhering, on +
W day, 10 all the principles Of the old WI
k party. he abandoned them on SaturdI
sh oiued tho camp Of the enemy and "
- welcomed into the Democratic fo.d."
es Bell man six mouths ago--his plaltor
,Is "Tho Union, the Constitution and the
&c. foroement Of tho law, no is now In
IN, fellowship with those whom. all his
err he has contemptuOusly denounced as ~
Of Oo!ocos;" and his platform is dsunion,
all overthrow Of the Constitution and null
pie cation Of all law. Those who know
ing Van Trump best, viii be most surpris
IN. No man thought him capable of such
The aOt. Ten dayS ago his friends would h
III. resented its iutimation as an insult.