The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-05-17

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until they had maintained their position from .
o'clock, Q. M, until after p. m. that they
were overpowered and captured. Jim I
Reconstruction Of the Old Demoerasie
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The Democratic members of Congress have
issued an address ITO the Democracy Of the
United States" urging the reorganization of the
Democratic party, and opposing the union of the
people, and the sinking Of party divisions, for
the support of the Government in establishing
the authority Of the Constitution and laws
While over six hundred thousand Northern sol.
diers are offering their lives in the field to sup
press this most formidable rebelion against con.
stitutional government, and hundreds of them
are falling daily in battle, ard from the diseases
| of camp and of climate, the Democratic members
of Congress issue their circular, urging party
organisation to cripple the Government in the
war, and to make terms with the enemy. /
There 10 in this address no word of condem-
| nation for rebels who have covered the land with
slaughter, and brought the nation to the brink
of destruction; but it charges that the people
who voted the traitors out of the Government
which they had broken down by treason, were
the cause Of the rebellion. The means which it
proposes for restoring the Democratic party, are
nothing less than to crush, under the name of
Abolitionism, the sentiments Of the entire peo.
Pile who do not regard Slavery as moral and
religious right, and are not willing to submit TO
it as q supreme political power in this Govern
ment, and to make terms with the Southern reb-
els, so as to restore to them the control Of this
nation. f.s..ls sf. ,
In this specification, the cloven foot of sepa-
ration, and then detaching the Northwest and
taking it into the Southern Confederacy. SO as to
establish the supremacy Of the Cotton States BY
. Confederacy which shall leave New England
out, is still apparent. Even with all the glitter.
| ing generalities of restoring the Democratic
party under the name of restoring the Union,
this address cannot omit that feature Of the ori.
ginal conspiracy. 1t need not have made its
relationship with the original Secession plot any
! palmer It says: "Armes may break down
the power of the Confederate Government in the
South, but the work of restoration can only be
carried on through political organization and the
ballot in the North and West"
The meaning of this is, armies may defeat the
Confederates in the field, but the Union cannot
be restored except by putting party in power
| in the North asd West which will restore the
rebels to political power. But why not as we'll
by political organization and the ballot In the
| East, where this reorganization has quite as
good chances % in the North and West? Sim
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tion of all the Free States could be effected, it
would not carry out the original plot, nor salts
| fy the Southern demand. II must be Con.
federacy with majority of Slave States. This
condition was declared by Mr.. Pugh in his
| speech at the Washington birth day banquet
at the Burnet House in 1861 he declared that
the equal power of the South in the United
States Senate must be restored, otherwise the
Union would never be restored. But his pre-
misses went even further than this: he declared
that when the Union was formed nearly all were
Slave States, and he assumed that this status
Of slave representation in the Senate was one
of the compromises of the Constitution, which
had been violated by the modern prepouder-
his premises would require large preponier-
ance of Slave States, in order to restore the
Union. It is supposed that Confederacy,
leaving out New England, will make this pre-
ponderaRce, and when once made, the South
will see that it is maintained.
That this plot is still entertained by those
who adhere to the Democratic organisation,
any one can see by the persistent attempts Of
their organs to excite sectional hostility be.
tween the West and East; and this condition
OF restoration laid down in this address, is the
unmistakable ear.mark of the original conspir.
acy. lE- ts lT t.,sqI
restoration of the Democratic party upon its
past history; therefore its past history is tie
the lesson of its future expectations and pur-
pOses The restoration of the Democratic party
is the restoration Of the rebels to power, for
every rebel leader was leader in the Demo
cratic party. It is the resurrection of party
which died of treason in Buchanan's Admiais-
tration, when Cabinet officers were transferring
the Government arms aud property to conspira.
tors, disabling its forts so that they might be
seized by traitors, robbing its treasury and even
its sacred trust funds sending its vessels to dis.
tant seas that it might be utterly defenseless,
delivering up its navy yards and arsenals 10 re-
bells. and bullying an imbecile President into
driveling submission to the seizure of forts, ar.
senals, custom houses, post Offices and public
vessels. 5a ,5s q
The President Of the Confederstes was Dem.
ooratic Secretary Of War, appointed and sus-
tanned by the Democratic party when his seces.
sion sentiments we're as we'll known as they are
now. Their Vice President was Democratic
leader in the House of Representatives, in Con.
gress. Their Cabinet officers we're leading mem
bers of "the old Democratic party" Their gen.
erals have nearly all been accustomed to com.
mand in the Democratic party. Their foreign
agents are all Democrats Their Congress is
ancient Democratic. Their principles are the
same they held in the old Democratic party
The old Democratic Cabinet officers, foreign
Ministers, Senators, Representatives and party
leaders are, with few exceptions, among the
Confederate rebels, where they hold similar DO.
sitions But remnant is left. There 10 where
the old Democratic party has gone, and nothing
less than . restoration of them to power will be
the restoration Of the old Democratic party.
The cold Democratic party" 10 now the re.
bel Confederacy, having carried into operation
At~v IL AocsH --p
that the Democratic party can be restored, is
for the Government and the people to submit to
the government of JEFF Davis. That 10 the feast
to which the people are invited by this address
Of the remnant of bereaved Democratic sympa-
thizers In C0ngress-this tag end Of treason
which astounded the world, and disgnced Re
publican institutions in the eyes of ill mankind
The Government almost throttled with tres.
son, bound hand and foot and delivered M 70
| traitors; the nation exposed to the insolence Of
foreign powers, because weakened BY ipsurrec.
tion; the land covered with blood and devasta.
tion; thousands of Northern sons slaughtered
on southern soil the country shorudsd In mour-
ming; the loyal people of the South suffering
barbsrities which have hardly been paralleled in
history, which infict remorseless destruction on
| the property of every man suspected of Rdeli.
| y, and spare no provision for helpless women
| or tender infancy; the mass of the people of
| the South, melted to iendish .fanaticism that
revels in the most horrible atrocities, both ON
living and dead, and which, IL they could reach
the North. would delight in the indiscriminats
massacre Of the people, and the general devss.
tation Of their property 6srce sectional hate
which may outlast generations; oil the demor.
alisation of war; millions Of Northern property
| robbed In the South; burdensome taxation, and
thousand millions Of debt-these are the as
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