Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-07-16
Democratic see oonEention.

Columbus, on the 18th inst;
LIST. Rtsolred. That we are, as We evei
have been. the devoted friends of the Con
stitution and the Union, and have NJ
sympathy with the enemies of either.
THE fact that the leading and control
ing spirit of the Convention was Nallan'
digham. a man who only in February last
offered j bill proposing TO cut the Union
into four quarters, gives the lie TO then
Union pretentions.
ID. That every dictate of patriotism
requires that, in the terrible struggle Ill
which We are engaged for the preserva-
ton of the Government, the loyal people
of the Union should present an unbroken
front. and therefore all efforts 20 obtain
party ascendancy, by forming party issues
upon them, that necessarily tend to di-
vide and distract them, as the Abolition
lists are constantly doing, are hostile to
the best interests of the country.
THAT resolution is only remarkable for
its insolent audacity and positive lying
Who are more anxious to obtain party as
cendancy than the very men who voted
for this resolution? Who but they have
%stuGbornly refused to drop party differ
cnces? They are the men who aim to di-
vide and distract.
Sd. That the abolition party. by their
denunciation of the President whenever
he has manifested conservative spirit, by
their atrociouS defamation of our Generals
who were exposing their lives for their
country. and who needed and merited its
tender and hearty support, by Their acts
and declarations to promote inSubordlna-
ton in our armies and a wan of conf
dence in our commanders, and by the
persistent representation of all conserya-
tive men in the loyal States as Sympathiz-
ers with the rebels, have given immense
aid and comfort to the rebel cause, and
encouraged them 10 hope for ultimate
success.
1.-THE arrant demagogues who framed
this resolution, and the stupid rank and
file who swallow it with blind greediness,
are they who are fierce in their denuncia-
ton of the Presidents conservative and
wholesome suggestions TO the border
States, who denounce him as a v~iolator of
the Constitution. Who but they have
been guilty of 'atrocious defamation" OF
Generals Fremont and Hunter, and
~endeavored to discourage enlistments by
p~renouncing the war to be only an Abo-
lition raid on Slavery IL
4th. That we have seer with indigna-
ton the intimation of the Governor OF
Massachusetts,, that that State will be
slow in furnishing her quota of troops un
less the war be carried ON for the purposes
of emancipation. When the nation is
straining every nerve and pouring out its
blood and treasure like water to preserve
its existence, it is monstrous that a condi-
tional Unionism that places A~bolitionism
above the Constitution, and the success OF
a party above the integrity of the Repub-
lie, should thus rear its head in high
places. and seek to dictate the conduct OF
the war.
/ IOf course a half-breed seceSsionist feels
indignant when a loyal governor protests
against Union soldiers being converted in
to a mere police force to recapture fugitive
slaves and stand guard around the houses
and over the property of rebels in arms 4!
Indignation, in that case, is but another
name for sympathy with the rebels.
5th. That while we would meet out
merited and legal punishment to the plot
tiers of and leaders in the rebellion, we
are opposed to the contemplated sweep
ing and indiscriminate acts of confiscatiOn
and emancipation by Congressional legis-
lation or executive proclamation, because
list. We do not believe that such acts
would be Constitutional. I'd. We believe
that by driving therebels to desperation,
and converting Union men at the South
into rebels, they would have the effect to
indefinitely prolong the war, and afford a
pretext for foreign Intervention, and rem
der the restoration of the Union next to.
or quite, impossible. Sd. Because if prac-
ticable and carried out, they would en-
gender a feeling of bitterness between the
different sections of the Union, that
would not be allayed for generations to
come, and that would be an ever present
cause of danger and disturbance to the
public peace /; a source of perpetual weak
ness in the Government, and ever pres
ent incentive to foreign powers to inter.
fere in our domestic concerns, and to pro-
mote a disruption and overthrow of the re-
public. 4th. Because they would destroy
in a great degree, if no entirely for many
years TO come, the industrial interests OF
a large section of country and most iniur-
iously affect the interests of the whole peo-
pie. 5th. Because the immediate and in
discriminate emancipation of slaves would
he an act of inhumanity to them. 9th
Because such an emancipation would
throw upon the border free States, and es-
pecially upon Ohio, an immense number
of negroes, 10 compete with and under
work the white laborers of the State, and
to constitute, IL various ways, an almost
or quite universal nuisance, if suffered to
remain among us, and we would deem it
m ost unjust to our gallant soldiers to see
them compelled to free the negroes of the
South and thereby fill Ohio with a degrad,
ed population, to compete with these
same soldiers upon their return to the
peacable a%vocations of life.
THE truth is the pro-slavery Democra-
cy are not only opposed to the contem-
plated confscation acts, but any such
measure whatever. They would exempt
the rebels property, but tax the Union
list to pay the expenses of the war. In
the second place, they are very much
afraid of driving the rebels to desperation
We believe they are more opposed to
driving them to destruction. The rebels
are doing their worst now. They cannot
be conciliated by any kid glove policy,
more than patting a mad dog will cure
him of the rabies.
In truth the whole tenor of the 9Th res,
olution shows that hostility to any distur-