Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-10-13
PEACE PARTY.

PEACE PARTY.
The Abolition stump speakers who
are prowling about the country vend-
ing their libcls, tell the people, among
other things, that the Democratic party
is Peace Party. 1t is true, but not 10
the &C nsc that the viI.ifiers would have
the people take it. TIE Democratic
party wants peace,-is anxious for it,
and is laboring for it every day. 1t
wants peace for the good Of the coun
try, for the preservation Of life, and the
restoration Of agriculture, trade and
commerce.
Ii demands peace, but demands 6rst
that the Union as it was, shall be re-
stored to them. They want that first,
and peace will follow. The Democrat
ic party always was peace party, but
will never consent TO barter away its
birthright for it; it will never give over
the work of its hands to traitors in
arms for the sake Of peace. 1t would
be a disgrace that could not be wiped
out. The mind OF the party has been,
made up from the beginning, that this
Union shall be preserved.
Tell those Abolition hounds wLo are
accusing you OF working for distonor-
able peace that they arc telling false
hoods. Rebuke them at the ballot.box.
Let every Dcmocrat-though there we're
but one in each county in the State,
vote the straight Democratic ticket.
Whereas, The dissolution Of the pres
ent imperfect and ingtorious Unio" be-
,ceen the free and siaUe State aoould re-
suit in tile overthrow of slavery and the
consequent formation of q more perfect
and Curious Union, wtthout the incubus
Of Slavery; therefore
Resolved, WM zoe inpite free cor
responden~e with tie Disunionists Of the
South, IN ortler to deUise tie most suit
able rays and soeaus to secure the con-
sanautioo so de0outiy to be wished.
In 1859 the Abolition convention
convened at the city Of New York,
adopted the above platform. 1t is the
same party, increased in number, that is
warning against the Democratic party
to-day. Democrats, you see the char
! aractcr Of your enemy in tho above pre-
amblc and resolution. Will you no,
nerve yourselves to the strongest efforts
to beat that party? It's aim is not the
glory of the Union, but the abolition Of
slavery, follow what may. The Union
may be crushed, the Government may
be subverted-they caro- not, provided
the niger is set free. All you who love
your country and think more Of its per
petuity than you do of the freedom O.
the negro, 20 and vote the Democratic
ticket.
In further proof that it was the de.
sire Of the Abolitionists and the leading
Republicans also, to have this Unior
separated, we quote from the Chicago
Tribune of December LIST, 1860, the
following:
"Not few Of the Republican journals
Of the interior are working themselves
up to the belief which they are endeav-
oring to impress upon their readers, that
the seeded States, be they few or many
will be whipped back into the Union.
We caution all such that in language Of
that sort they are adding new fuel to
the fame which is already blazing too
fierccly; and that the probabilities now
are that the result will prove them to be
false prohets. No man knows what
public policy may demand OF theincom>
ing administration but the drift OF
opinion seems to be that, if pea ceable
secession is possible, the retiring States
will be assisted to 60, that this needless
and bitter controversy may be brought
to an end. II the Union is to be dis
solved, bloodless separation is by all
means to be coveted. DO not let us
make that impossible"
The language is unmistakable. 1t is
part and PARCEL of the abolition scheme;
dissolution was preferable to Union with
slave States. 1t is so to-day. Rather
than see the Union restored with slave.
~ still entailed upon the Southern
States, the abolition party would rather
not see it restored at all.
Not so with the Democracy. That
party claims that the Union shall be re.
stored whether slavery survives or per-
ishes. The future greatness of this
country depends upon the pcrpetuity of
the Union, and not upon the abolition
or .perpetuity Of slavery. That has
nothing to do with it, one way or tie
other. Let the Union be restored and
if in doing that slavery is destroyed, SO
be it. The greatest good to the great
est number is the policy Of the Demo
cratic party.
IT is now two weeks since the Emen.
cipation Proclamation was issued. vet
We. are still waiting to record the first