The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1861-10-02


would seek to convince them that they are |
in error. I would give them evidence
that the representations made to them by |
which they were "misled and blinded, /"
were false. / would undeceive them.
would labor to do all this as Q matter of
duty-as matter of safety.
What circumstances and events have
brought about the present alarming and
unhappy condition of our national affairsl'
Col. Tod says: "These must now be ap
parent to ALL" Judging from his past
political history no one can be at loss to
discover the causes to which he attributes
our present difficulties. Whether or not
those of the South who are disunionists
perse have availed themselves of certain
class of legislation in the Northern States
to excite the people of the South and
array them against the North, or have
taken the resolutions of Conventions and
the acts and speeches of prominent men
VINO have been promoted by some one of
the North. and have gone before their
people and convinced them that the North
was united in sentiment. hostile to their
interests and gradually approaching the
point when, having the power, they would
deprive them of their Just and constitu-
tional rights in the Union. and thus per-
suade them that their only safety was in
going out of it. or whether the present
alarming state of affairs in our country is
to be attributed to other causes to which
I have not alluded. I have expressed q
preference not to consider or discuss.
When we come to devise policy for
the future it will then be we'll to look to
the past aud as far as possible to provide
; against the causes, whateve. they may be,
which may then as now be apparent to all.
At present the great duty devolving upon
us, is to meet the emergency as we 6nd it.
to submit to small evils, to great evils,
that the greatest of all may be avoided
the dissolution of the Union.
} If the line of policy I have indicated
! should be adopted, think we might look
forward to speedy termination of the
war, and happy, prosperous future to our
people and our Union. If the contrary
policy be adopted the end is far away in
, the future, but trust when it shall come
, it will not be SO humiliating as that con.
: templated by Colonel Tod. My humble
; prayer shall always be that at no time
under no circumstances, will the people o.
these United States SO far forget the his
tory of the past or become so lost to the
8 memories which cluster around the names
and deeds of our fathers, as to ''conseu,
: to be taken under the protection of ou'
a once SO. called mother country or Of any
t other power capable of maintaining for III
1 the respect of the nations of the globe.'
. That such suggestion is made by one
: who is candidate for the Executive
e Chair OF this the third State in the Onion
. without receiving single rebuke at The
: hands of those who are enlisted in hi.
y support, is to me as astounding as it il
4 alarming; and of that unparalleled major
ity of which Colonel Tod boasts await,
him, can but regard it as much NOR,
unfavorable symptom than any which ha,
d yet made its appearance.
3 The South united, can prolong the wa
! to an indefinite period; the South divided
it can be brought to speedy termination
:, They are united. because the great mas
9 are the vict ms of "artful cunning an(
: ), gross misrepresentation" Expose thi
: cunning and these misrepresentation, ant
the South is divided. Here is worl
# accomplished without the cost of dolla
II or the loss of life, and by it we err
y brought nearer TO the end than fifty vic
: tories in the field would bring Us. VIII,
y not do it? Would any man or communit,
of men in private or domestic relations
: hesitate moment upon the subject? Ger
a tainly not.
), The great body of the Southern army
5 the majority of those who remain at home
p supplying it with the means of supper
l. aud Of subsistence. love the Union-lov
j its history, its glorious memories-an,
/ would gladly hail us as brethren if W
;f would but undo that which the evil.dis
y posed and designing have done, and whicl
g we admit to ourselves was wrong, and b.
= which they were deceived. But am toll,
: in answer to this, that it would be humil
n iating to the Government to explain t.
d any portion of its people. that they nigh
d be satisfied with it. the terms aud condi
10 .ons upon which it is to be administered
If To do right is never humiliating to eithe
,e q government or a people-it is elevatin
rs to both. But imagine that the hostili
h ty Of the people of the South is not 5
- much against the Government, or thos
who are in charge Of it, as it is against th
IT people of the North, who they have bee
r. induced to believe iutend 10 use the Gov
n ernment to oppose them. aid to depriv
f them of their rights, and therefore l sa
!, that the people of the North, not in humi
4. iation, but in that spirit of maguaLimit
d: which always marks the course of the jus
!, and honest and truly patriotic, should Civ
pf to eloyal masses OF the South such az
ID thoritative as urances of their purpose
" toward them as would forever dispel fro,
d their minds The delusions that have enve
4 oped them. -aa r5