Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-06-05
The Democratic Address.

The Democratic Address.
After months labor, Vallandig.
ham (whose name is blessed, they tell
us, south of the Potomac) persuaded
thirteen other members of Congress to
join him in his Sysphean labor of roll
ing the Democratic stone to the
top of the hill. He succeeded in get
ting the National Intelligenccr to pub
lish two columns of antiquated politi-
cal gabblc which Inc calls Demo.
cratic address," Three Representa-
tives from Illinois, five from Ohio, two
from Indiana and two from Pennsylva-
MIA, assist in the ungracious service,
but strange to say, Powell Of Ken
lucky whomhis colleagues recently tri-
edlto expel from the Senate for treason,
Starkc of Oregon who is about to be
expelled for the same reason, and Wood
Of New York, whose newspaper was
stopped because its chief supporters
had enlisted in the secession ranks,
though all good Democrats" do not
sign the document. Their names are
perhaps reserved, from motives of pru-
dence, ITO be annexed to the PAM
phlct," or private edition of the ad-
dress which isannounccd.
Not word is said in dcnunciation
Of the hideous rebellion of which they
are masters and leaders. A stranger
to public affairs, on reading it, would
learn that the republic was in the
midst of gigantic effort to save it's
own life from destruction by parrici
DIAL hands, only by rebnkes admins
tered to the Government which is ma
king the effort. The plot to over
throw the republic is nothing; but
the energy which strives to defeat the
plot is tyranny and wrong. An infa-
nous revolt against the established
order, which arrests the prosperity of
thirty millions of people, which plunS
es them into an abyss Of bankruptcy
and ruin, which has robbed the nation
of the flower of its youth, and desola-
ted thousands of once happy homes,
does not provoke single phrase of
reprobation +; but the few acts of a
loyal administration which may have
lcaped the doubtful boundaries Of the
law in a strenuous endcavor to rescue
the nation, are branded as despotism.
They can indulge without stint in
laudations Of humdrum political par
ties at home; dwell with bcaming
complacency on the tap-rooms won
and the polls carried by assault ex-
haust the vocabulary Of rhetoric in re-
counting the sixty years of Democrat
ic electioDeering triumphs but for
glorious deeds of the rebel Democrats
of the land-at Mill Spring, Carthage,
Henry, Donelson, Pea Ridge, Hilton
Head, Pulaski, Roanoke, .Newberne,
New Orleans, Shiloh and Williams
burg-they find no tongue Ellsworth
and Baker, Winthrop and Lyon, Wal
lace and Peabody, and a hundred 9th
ers, might dwindle into utter forget
fulncss for all that they say, and the
armies of Mcclellan, Halleck, Banks
Hunter, Curtis, Fremont, Butler and
Mcdowell. now drawing the last folds
over the face Of dying Rebellion,
might perish where they stand, with
out a voice of sympathy or cheer
from these model representatives of
Democracy.
The sum and substance of their ad-
dress is, without any disguise, that
slavery shall forever rule the Repub-
lie. All their babblc Of constitutional
obligation and State Rights has this
meaning and no more /; unwarned by
the events Of the war, they fondly
imagine that the people will so back
to the times and issues which prece-
ded the war; they dream that our stu
pendous civil struggle has no signti-
cance that our losses, our expendi-
lures. our trials and our sorrows have
taught US nothing and that slarery
uhich has been The cause Of them all, may
yet 60 forth conquering and to con-
quer, just as it did before six hundred
thousand patriots took mp arms to re-
pei and punish its insolent preten-