The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-07-24
The sentiment. Of nm IIOuest Democrat,
A PROTEST AGAINST rvALLANDtC.
HAMS NOMINATION.
LgT LvERY peMooRAr nEAp.
Prom % s.enbeavale Uaion, Democrats,

p
at all strange that men OF all parties
should think alike in regard TO its
cause, and the best means of subdu-
ing the rebellion.
AS the editor Off Democratic Jour.
nal, we have always stood on the cut.
or verge of Democratic principles,
having as little affinity with Abolition
Ism aud Black Republicanism rs any
Democrat living. We have no natu-
rel or acquired tastes for the party
which placed the present adminstra.
ton In power. When we remember
its long'contest with the old Wing
party which it fought to utter annihi-
]ation, end its more recent and terri
lie contest with the Black Repnbli.
Gao party, which nothing but the re.
bellion saved from being overwbelm-
ed with like. e.destruction, our heart
clings with renewed affection to those
time-honored principles, which ren.
dsred our party terror to all fac
tione and fanatical organizations. op
posed to the Government, originating
North or South. Now, in the midst
OF tho rebellion aud when the Demo
cratic party has taken q new track in
regard to it, we for. one will place our
self and the journal we control, upon
those eternal principles of Democra-
cy handed down to US by Jefferson
and Jackson, and oil the great lights
Of the party.
We have watched with intense in
teiest tho movement Of DemocratsI
who called the State Convention. We.
haze been gricUowsly disoppointcd in.
Gle results of the State Convention. -,
We believe that no party can survive
except by full and explicit decara-
ton Of principles on the great ques-'
tions before the people. Has the.
Democratic Convention done SOP
Have we derivsd no wisdom from
the teachings of Jefferson and Jack
son? Has the Democratic party for
cotton those maNims and measures
Of the Democratic creed, which plac.
cd the preservation of the Union par !
amount to all other political or per
sonal considerations? We hope and
pray not.
The recent Democratic State Con
vcntion presents platform to the
Democracy of Ohio, with nothing
but "glittering eeneralties" and com.
pletely ignores the preservation of
the Union. With half million of
rebels in arms against the Union, is
it possible that the greet Democratic
party in the State Of Ohio will assem-
bic in Convention and utter NOT A
SINGLE WORD TO EXPRESS Alb. !
HORRENCE OF THIS STUPEN- !
DOUS CRIME? Could the party
invoke the memories of its mighty
dead, General Jackson would de /
clare; "1he Union shoH be p-fs,rued." =" |
Worse than all this, can this Conven-
ton invoke the sacred name OF De
mocracy against the Government
not the Administration--in its efforts
10 plsce an army in the field sufficient
to crush out the rebellion and save
the Union. If this Convention be-,
licved treason crime, why not cali
it soY Why, in the name of God,
this e1uiyocation or evasion. of the
one only great question in the minds
Of every person-the preservation of
the Union, or the success of the re
bellion2
AS the editor Of Democratic pa
per which has always advocated Dem
ocratic principles, we enter our sol
emn protest against the Democratic
State Convention, which has left the
friends aud enemies Of the Union in
doubt whether il desires the prlser-
cation OF the Union or the success of.
the rebellion.
We protest against this Convention
because 1t does not denounce the re-
bellion.
Weprotert against this Convention
because it employed all its rhetoric
in proc'aiming these undisputed
truths respecting rights of the peo
pie, the freedom of speech, the free
dom Of the press, the freedom of the
person from unlawful arrests, and
could find no words in all its politi-
cal vocabulary to denounce treason
and armed rebellion to the Govern
ment
And finally, we solemly protest
againt this Convention for placing in
nomination c, L. Vallondighan, who
in Congress believed ia the right ol
the States in rebellion to dissolve the
Union--who has proposed hut ont
way Of putting down the rebellion
viz not by opposing force with force
but by toithdTatoing cur QylaieS, CoA
uentioD, and an am Siice We ad
nit this like o very easy solution o
the difficulty, bat we cannot colnpre
hend any good results from such
course, unless the rebels ask for som,
one Of these three things, which TIE,
have always gnee.el NJ
\
We should hesitate 10 take coars
rot approved by a Convention O
Democrats did not onr consoieno
and judgment tell. us we were right
We have 20 other interest in th
world than 70 cling to the Democrat
ic party, and we intend to adhere {
1t in spite OF the "world. the fes
and the devil" We are not Of thu
class OF politicians who have eve
sought fame al the sacrifice of couu
try, OF to be baiIied in what wa i
our humble opinion think right, b
fear. Wc are for the Union as on