The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-06-05
To the Democratic Readers Of our
Paper.

We very respectfully and ear.
nestly beg to call your calm ard
r~esolute attention to an Address,
forwarded to US for insertion in our
paper. We give it below, and re-
commend it to your serious and
grave consideration, as document
well written, full of truth, and
adapted to add l~ustrc, force, and
power, to the means now employed
by the Northern Democracy, to
save America from impending de-
struction.
Democrats of Preble, we tell you,
that your great, and once united,
prosperous, and happy country, is
now in imminent danger Of being
turned upside down, and your Uni
on as it once was, and your legal
and moral Constitution as it is, are
both alike in danger of being swept
away from the American continent.
Let this be done, and then where
will you find yourselves, your lib
critics, your free manhood, your
homes, and your daily bread :?
You have one, and only one meats
left you to be employed successfully,
legally, and morally, to save the
once great American Union from
total humiliation, and that is the
ballot boz. At the forthcoming au-
tumnal election, you must present
yourselves at the ballot-box, and
send such men to Congress as the
Hon. G, L. Vallandigham, and then
the civilized world will look on,
applaud, and admire you; and free
England, and the despots of Eu-
rope, will see, feel, and believe, that
man is capable of self-government,
and can take care of himself. Some
men cry for blood; we sigh for
peace. Some would even 60 SO far
as to drown the American States
|, in blood, to free the negro, by fire,
sword, and death. We are the
advocate of milder measures, and
of more Christian moderation, and
, would like to use means to bring
back our erring brethren in the
South, by methods of Cancellation,
rather than by a continued cry for
their blood. The Democratic party
are not at war to ruin the South,
but to bring them back into thu
Union; but there is a party-a
fierce and very unchristian party
at work in Washington, and
throughout the country, who have
resolved to destroy the white race
in America, rather than that the
: black race should remain any long
er in a state of slavery. To such Q
+ class, we are thankful to say we dc
not belong. Democrats, read what
follows, and act like men.
FELLOW DEMOCRATS: You, who
} originated, founded, and erect
!, ed the glorious Republic of the
United States of America, and who
for more than three-fourths of {
century, continued wisely to ad
) minister the government thereof
without the assumption of uncoa'
!, stitutional power, without a Bas'
tile, without sectional strife Oh
your part, without an army of si1
hundred thousand soldiers, ant
without that superlative bless
ing, @ a huge and earth-grindinI
national debt, and brought on
nation to a pinnacle of grandeu
and prosperity first in the ranks o
the nations of the world : you ar
again called upon by the voice o
our common country, in this he
greatest and most disastrous hou
of peril, to place your sturdy shoul
u Gers to the wheel of state, and sta
G the maddening influences of be
n men and bad measures, that for tn
last sixteen months have ovel
g whelmed our native land in gloon
misery, desolation and death. A
long as any of you can remembt
'r back into the past, and longer to-
h there were and still are a certai
it class of politicians and others I
mong us, whom no form of frt
government would please-the pc
'e icy pursued by our general Go