The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-05-23
The Address Of the Democratic Mern-
bers Of Congress.

bic tool Of JEFF. Davis, Clement L. Vsllsn.
disham, end signed by that emiuent traito
and some tAirteeu other treason. monsers
who now unfottunstdy occupy seats In
Congress.
The document opens with an argument
for The necessity Of an opposition TO the Adj
mini,ualion. in the course Of which the fol.
lowing occurs:
"Tbe present A Administration was chosen
by a psrly, and in all civil acts snd appoint-
m.nis has recognizei, and still does, It's To-
atty nNd obligations 70 that party"
The 6Ht eight words OF this extract are
truth; the balance is falsebood Of the bald
est kind. The present Administration, SO
far from recognizing its feal;y 10 the party
that placed il in power. has. It strikes us. q
considerable mixture Of other parties for
instance, The secretary OF war lisa Democrat:
Hailect, Buell., Grant, Mcclellan. and a
host OF military appointees Of the highest
grsle are Democrats. In Ohio the Ad
ministraiion party gave half Of their State
ticket to the Democracy, even going 10 the
extreme OF generosity OF giving them the
highest Offices in the State, and the same
was the case in every Republican State that
held elections last year. And nlI this, 100.
when IL they had so chosen, they could
have elected the stroight party tickets just
as easily as they did the mixed ones. Fol.
lowing this lie the ''anoient prime pies,' OF
the Democratic party are potaded as rea.
son why the party should not be disba anded.
We call the attention Of the people to one
fact. that ynliandigham was obliged to 60
back TO the "ancienp' days Of Jefferson to
find anything good in the party. Anything
that the organization has done that has the
slightest color Of good NAV safely be dubbed
"snciepi." IT quotes largely from Jeffer-
sons FIRST inaugural:
"The support Of the Siate Governments in
all their rights rs the most competent al.
minisirations OF our domestic concerns md
the surest bulwarks against anti-republicsn
tendencles.'
Modern Democracy constfue this 10 justify
secession. In fact this very quotation is in
every speech made in the south in support o
the doctrine OF secession. Singular coinci.
dence.
'"The preservation Of the General Govern
ment in its whole constitutional vigor as the
sheet anchor for our peace at home and
safety abJoad.'
II requires the impudence OF q Vallandig.
ham 10 insist'on "preserving' the General
~ M t.u bn tir a
time when the only Democratic States in
the Union have an army Of six hundred
thousand men IN the field TO destroy il!
an jealous care for the right OF election
bv the people,"
Witness the manner in which the "p,o.
pie" OF Kansas were allowed the fright OF
rlectlon,' and the Jealous care" taken to
hang The lew that proposed to vote for Lin
colo in the Democratic slave States.
"Tie supremacy Of the civil over the
military authority
Which az interpreted by vallandi ham,
means to take all power Of suppressing the
rebellion from the hands Of the Executive.
II That Executive lie anti. Democratic and
the rehels Democratic.
ECONOMY in the public expense, that la.
Dor may be lightly burdened.'
The idea that economy is a Democratic
virtue is too good. Buchanan's Admins
thtioa drained the public treasury and lef.
a debt Of Si5o, 900 900 for its successors TO
pay. in four years OF profound peace.
sfrha hnuaet noun,.nt 81 o.. t.l,.
sacred preservation OF the public faith"
Witness the "rpudintion" by the Demo.
cratic States OF Mississippi and Florida.
"Freedom Of Religion. freedom Of the
Press. mod lIeedom OF person under protect
ion Of the habeas corpus. aud trial by jures
impsTtially selected"
We believe any man may in every Demo.
erat'o State worship God as he pleases, pro.
Vidrd he omits all mention in his praye rs
Of "those in bonds" We believe in some
localities the Press was free if it suppor ted
n'gro slavery - not otherwise. The mob.
blng and murder OF Loveioy. the mobbinc OF
DR.. Bailey. the hanging OF some thousands
IN the Democratic States, who, believ ing in
the above. veniurei TO express opinions al
verse TO negro slavery, is sufficient TO show
that for the last thirty years Democracy has
not kept within hailing distance of its land.
marks.
One OF the choices, paragraphs in the ad.
dress reads TINS:
"For sixty years from the Inauguration of
Jefferson on the 4 h or March, 1901. the
Democratic party, with short intervals, ron-
trolled the power and tho policy Of the Fed +.
eral Government, For forty eight years out
of these sixty, Democratic men ruled the
country; for flty.four years and eight
months the Democratic policy prevailed.--
Daring this period Louisiana, Florida, Tex
as, New Mexico, and California were sue
cessirely annexed 10 onr territory, with an
nrea mare than twice as lnrge as all the ori i.
glnal thirteen States together. Eight new
States were admitted under strictly Demo.
cratic hdminlstrniions--One under the hd- =
minlStration Of Fillmore. From FIVE mil
lions the population increased to ,hrty-one
N l'iOns. The Revolutionary debt was es.
nnaniShed. Two foreign wars were sue
reSsiully prosecuted. with a moderate out
lay aud small army and navy"
The trick Of attributing all the prosperity
out country has enjoyed, to the benign in
Huences Of the Democratic party, is not
rev with yallandigham, We have pros
pered beyond all other nations, in spite OF,
not in consequence OF Democratic rule
True, eight new States were admitted.
Would they not have been settled and ad-
mitied Just the same under FEDERAL or Whig
Administration Our population did in.
crease. Bo the VallandiehameD imagine
that under Whig rule thsre would have
been any the less births or any the less imi.