The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-10-07
The Time fsr Argument Has
Passed --- Tfe Time f0 Act
Arrivcai---CianH'ge Along ths,
Whole Line,


The tisio has come for every man in the
great State ol' Ohio, who loves human
liberty and the onre glorious old Union
and Constitution. which aur heroic fathers
beque thcd to u. to cease all argument
and all defense as our ease nccds none.
and unite as one m n. and charge home
upon the enemies Of Liberty aad the Un-
ion, with voice Of thunder, until the polls
close on the 18th OF O tnber.
CHARGE UPON THEM
the enemies of the Union their terrible
sins of omission and commission There
is a catalogur of wrongs they have already
committed that would startle the moral
universe from its propriety.
CHARGE UPON THEM
these Abolition leaders Of the North
TINT for twenty years they have lahored
with the nulli6ers Of the South to destroy
the Union!
CHARGE UPON THEM
that they framed the Chiedgo Platform
and elected Lincoln as sectional Aboli-
tion President in violation of the spirit of
the Constitution and the constant warning
of the Democracy. when they knew 1t
would produce civil war and disunion.
CHARGE UPON THEM
that they d liberaselv defeated the Crit
tenden Compromise, which would have
saved our nation from the terrible war
which has well-nigh destroyed us.
CHARGE UPON THEM
that when peace convention was called
by the request of smauy Southern States
as we'll AS Northern, few Abolition
Governors appointed the most radical Alb
clifton delegates to that conveRticn who
would listen to no compromise. but delib-
erately rejected all offers, aud did all they
could to embitser the South and precipi-
tate the cou ,try into the most terrible war
which has deva<ted our nation ever since
CHARGE UPON THEM
that when the war was forced upon the
country, and there was no alternative
Lincoln and the Cabinet and i Republicau
Congress, pledged the nation and the peo.
pie most solemnly, that the war and the ar.
my should on!y.be used for the restcra
ton Of the Union and the constitutions
authority that no aggression should b
made upon the rights of States or indiyid
uals, but that the Union should be re
stored as it was and the Constitution a,
| it ia; but in the face of all these sacre'
pledges, they have destroyed States, over
/ thrown their institutions. trampled th'
Constitution under foet, and violated indi
yidual liberty, with despotic hand.
/ CHARGE UPON THEM
that no sooner had they called million
soldiers into the field. than they change'
the whole policy of the war after all tn
solemn pledges they had made TO a war t.
overthrow slavery.
| CHARGE UPON THEM
that they are now using the army and th
navy, and the government, aud vas
amounts "f the peoples money, for til
mere purpose of liherating negroes.
CHARGE UPON THEM
that they are sacrificing the lives of thou
sands OF our gallant young men for th
mere purpose OF overthrowing slavery
entirely uncailed for in war to restore til
Union.
CHARGE UPON THEM
THAT while they pledged-us to war solel
to restore the authority of the Constitr
tion, that they have made a most bite
and deadly war upon the Constitution.
CHARGE UPON THEM
that while they have pretended to be til
champions of free speech. free press an
free soil, they have traBspled upon ii
freedom of the press, freedom OF spcetl
and all Individual rights with most wicke
and despotic power.
CHARGE UPON THEN
that they destroyed liberty, by ereetir
| DdstiicS dHu Wiiidty piieoho an WV s'
country, by seizinS men without la'
keeping them in dungeons without tris
destroying the health, business and life
many citizens, and impovcrishing the
amiiies.
CHARGE UPON THEM
that they have abolished..the great rig
of the habeas corpus, the only bulwark
human liberty, a right which the An Fl
Saxon race have struggled for more th
l. a thousand years to establish.
,e CHARGE UPON THEM
if that they have overthrown the constit
ID tional right of trial by jury, subjectil
rt men to imprisonment and death bya me
Of mock military tribunal.
,r CHARGE UPON THEM
rs that they have placed the military pow
8. above the civil, thereby destroying
Or right and protection to the citizen, al
ee making the will of one man the law of t