Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-07-04
Reconstruction Of the Old
Democratic Party.
The Democratic members off Cong

The Democratic members of Congress
have issued an address 'tto the Democ-
racy of the United, States," urging the
reorganization of tie Democratic party
and opposing the union Of the people,
and the sinking Of party divisions, for
the support of the Government in estab
fishing the authority of the Constitu-
tion and laws. While over six hundred
thousand Northern soldiers are offering
their lives in the field to suppress this
most formidable rebellion against con-
stitutional government, and hundreds of
them are falling daily in battle, and from
the diseases of camp and of climate, the
Democratic members of Congress- issue
their circdlar, trying q patty ofganiza-
tion to cripple the Government in the
war, and to make terms with the enemy.
There is in this address no word of
condemnation for rebels who have COW
cred the land with slaug liter, 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 Dem
ocratic party, are nothing less than to
crush, under the name Of Abolitionism,
the sentiments of the entire people who
do not regard slavery as moral and re-
ligious right, and are not willing to sub
NIT to it as a supreme political power in
this Government, and to make terms
with the Southern rebels so as to restore
to them the control of this nation.
In this specification, the cloven foot
of separation, aud then detaching the
north west and taking it into the South
erh Confederacy, so as to establish the
supremacy of the Cotton States by a
Confederacy which shall leave New Eng
land out, is still apparent. Even witk
all the ghtteting generalities of restor
ing the Democratic party under the name
Of restoring the Union, this address can
not omit that feature of the original
conspiracy 1t need not have made it's
relationship with the original Secession
plot any palmer. 1t says: "Armies
may break down the power of the Con-
federate Government in the South, but
the work of restoration can only be car
ried on through political organization
and the ballot in the North and West. u
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
and West which will restore the rebels
to political power. But why not as well
by political organization and the ballot
in the East, where this reorganization
has quite as good chances as IN the
North and West? Simply because, even
if this Democratic regeneration of all
the Free States could be effected, it
would not carry out the original plot,
nor satisfy the Southern demand. 1t
must be Confederacy with a majority
of Slave States. This condition was de-
clared by Mr.. Pugh in his speech at the
Washington birthday banquet at the
Burnet- House in 1861. He declared
that the equal power Of the South in
the United States Senate must be re-
stored. But his premises 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 SEN
ate was one Of the compromises of the
Constitution, which had been violated
by the modern preponderauce Of Free
States In the Senate. Therefore his
premises would require large prepon-
derance of Slave States, in order to re-
store the Union. 1t is supposed that
Confederaey, leaving out New England,
will make this prepondcrance, and when
once made, the South will seq that it is
maintained.
That this plot is still ea eatertained by
those who adhere to the Democratic or
ganizatien, any one can see by the per-
sistent attempts of their organs to excite
sectional hostility between the West and
East, and this condition Of restoration
laid down in this address, is the un
mistakable ear mark of the original con-
spiraey.
The address predicates the necessity
of the restoration of the Democratic
party upon its past history; therefore its
past history is the lesson of its future
expectations and purposes. The resto-
ration of the Democratic party is the
restoration Of the rebels to power, for
every rebel leader was leader in the
Democratic party. 1t is the resurrec-
ton of a party which died of treason in
Bactanan's Administration, when Cab
met officers were transferring the Gov
erntnent arms and property to eonspira-
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 distant seas
that it might be utterly defenseless, de-
livering up its navy yards and arsenals
to rebels, and bullying an imbecile
President into driyelihg submission to
the seizure of forts, arsshals, custom
houses, postofices and publ, vessels.
The President of the Confederates
was Democratic Secretary of War, ap-
pointed and sustained by the Democratic
party when his Secession sentiments
were as well known as they are now,
Their. Vice President was Democratic
leader in the House of Representatives,
in Congress. Their Cabinet officers
were leading members of "the old Dem
ocratic party" Their Generals have
nearly all been accustomed to command
in the Democratic party. Their foreign
agents are all old Democrats. Their
Congress is ancient Democratic. Their
principles are the same they held in the
old Democratic party. The old Demo
cratic Cabinet officers, foreign Minis
ters, Senators, Representatives and party
leaders are, with very few exceptions,
among the Confederate rebels, where
they hold similar positions. But rem