The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-12-19

true UNION HleH anu women are 10
bespermittod to hold their slaves
in bondage, or to receive full COM
pelisatio9 f& them.
Eho will pay their full price for
them2 Mott Democrats of
America, although they are the
bulk of the American army-in-
GLIDING privates, officers, and gen
erals-and fighting, as they think,
for the restoration of the Union,
law, and order, but not for the
Abolition Of slavery.
What a horrible, unnatural, un-
reasonable, and unparalleled state
of anarchy, confusion, and mad
ness we have now got into !! Was
there ever such a state of things
in any nation-whether republican,
monarchieal, or despotic govern
ment-before on the face of Gods
earth Never! never! Cities,
towns, villages, houses, farms. fac
tories, railways, bridges, fields.
forests, canals, ships, steamboats,
and other property to an incalcu.
liable amount, in addition to tens Of
thousands Of men, are all to be de.
stroyed, to crafty the Northern
Abolitionists, and the Southern
men who are too ambitious to bC
content with a state of peace, har
mony, righteousness, and Uniol
prosperity. Trade, labor, land
and manufactured and mechanical
productions, are to be sacrificed for
ever, at the damnable shrine o
ungodly, unholy, and unprinciplec
dcmagogues, Of whom the mos
natural and accurate description i
to be found in Romans, 3rd chapter
from the 18th to the 18th verse, in
elusive. Reader, take up you
Bible, and read the verses referred
to.
If the Abolitionists have ignore,
the Word of God-we have not
If they delight in the murder o
white men, women, ard children
by the blacks-we do not. Ii the
have resolved to turn the earth in
to hell ofpowder, ball, birthstone
saltpetre, sulphur, and blood-w'
have not ; and whatever the Dem
ocrats of Preble, or of any othe
county or State in America, ma,
think, say, or do, we have take'
our stand in the gap, and are re
solved to contend for the rights
interests, political privileges, an
freedom of American citizens, i
this dreadful hour of the nation
desperate struggle. Let the Abe
litionists remember, if they vii
that though they may gamble il
human blood, gormandize on hu
man flesh, and qucnch their thirs
in the blood of their brethren, an,
urge on an insane war, to drowr
the land in blood, and darken tn
sun in the smoke of the powde
which may be consumed in the an
initiation Of millions of the Saxo
race in America, an overrulin
Providence will not hold ther
guiltless, or permit them to go III
punished.
Something might yet be don
to save America from the destru(
ton which the Abolitionists in til
North, and the ringleadcrs in tn
South, are trying to bring abou
We think that in every count
and Staten the North, convention
should be held, petitions drawn u
and signed, and forwarded to til
Halls of Legislation, and also t
the President, praying that til
war might be confined to its orig
nal aim, and that peace and tn
preservation of the Union nigh
be sought for through the mediur
Of an honorable compromise. TIL
right Of petition is the birthrigl
Of the American people, and me
who are elected by the people, ca
be made to listen very respectful
to the prayers of the people. L'
loading Democrats rouse, rise, an
pour their petitions into Washing
ton by the hundreds of thousand
signed by millions, and the me
sent to Congress by the peopl