The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-09-18
DEMOCRACY OF Isaa.

II -N--~e "AAesS e0AaA kf1oSAoH ahu AcliON 1ccllill
for the oppressed which invited all VIII
were seeking liberty to this Western Re
public of ours; but, which now, prostitutes
| by its restless yoke-fellow, expepds itsel
on " our brothers" who are fighting us ii
| the Southern States, or "my friends" rev
cling in the Injuries of New York mob
or the "sacred institutions" of negro slave
| ~, or that great king the cotton bale
That party which once regulated its move
ments with principle for its guidance, and
the wants Of the people as its object, now
exerts itself only to crafty the demands Of
rebellious and insolent shareholders, or /,
procure the "diyine rights" of the treason
able South Its nationality is broken, it.
patriotism suspected. Its only boast, the
exploits of the past; its only hope, the un
certainties of the future. Its origin was
crowned with the wreath of liberty and
principles end saddened by apostacy
debauched by its espousal of slavery and
cursed with an infatuated sympathy for
Secession. Its leaders who once dwelt in
raptures over the magnificent proportions
Of the American Nation, are now under
the insidious cry of "peace, peace" adyo-
eating its dismemberment; they who once
believed only in the unity of the Republic,
are now with strange inconsistency, advo-
eating the duality of American freedom
while they who inaugurated the Mexican
war on the expansive policy of charging
our Southern border, are now in favor of
diminishing our territory by letting the
South go in peace,a Is it not remarkable
that the Democracy have always in the
past been the war party of the country,
when we were fighting foreign powers, but
when civil war arises the aYowed object
Of which is to sever US in twain, they are
then opposed to war and clamor for peace
with those who are fighting us, in order to
dismember the Union. How is it that
Democracy once fought to acquire Texas,
but now is unwilling to fight for its reten-
ton,
Democracy and Republicanism the one
has been polluted with the crimes of the
South, the other misled by the extraYagan-
cies Of the North-the one has aaRmitted
felony, the other become too enthusiastic
while the one has Redeemed its hands in
the blood Of rebellion, the other has in
the extravaganza of its zeal, rushed into
the temple of liberty and thrown wide open
all its doors-the one has advocated slave
ry and plotted treason, the other has he
come enthusiastic in the cause offreedom-
the one has grown sullen over its defeats.
the other iubilant over Its yictories-the
crime Of the one can 1seuer be effaced, the
excess of the other can be corrected.
If you but notice the influential men in
the Democratic party, you cannot fail to
notice the spirit of desperation that has
seized upon them, and be amazed at their
bold and bitter denunciations hurled with
incessant fury, against an administra-
ton, whose crime is that the men who are
shaping its policies are not of their party.
The Democratic politician holds position
in his political synagogue to-day, according
to the bitterness of his declarations against
the government and the intensity of his
admiration for Southern traitors. You can
soc them around you, vainly struggling to
hide their deep satisfaction when our troops
are defeated-while you behold the same
men wearing long faces and sorrowful
countenances when our good old flag has
triumphed in battle. They sheer at every
act of the Government, and conceal their
luminosity to the Union, under deep and
sounding curses against abolitionism. The
victories of Grant, Meade, Banks, Rose
Grams and others, are spoken of by them as
black-republican exaggerations, or groaned
over as inhuman butcheries of the chival-
rous southerners. Every act of their GOV
eminent is condemned as an oblation to
the "nigger;" yet, without blush, they
will effervesce in rhapsodies over the no.
BILE heroism of the Southern chivalry.-
What strange inconsistency Men pro-
Tossing to be Democrats and who are citi-
zens of a free country, wishing success to
rebellion which is seeking to establish
government, having for its corner stone
human slavery, and for its ornaments the
un-American titles of an insolent and DOM
ineering aristocracy.
To the unbiased and thinking voter, let
these self-evident indications of Democracy
appeal; they viii show him to what steps
mere partizanship will lead him, and how
gradually that party would allure him from
the path Of duty. He will soon see that
from an opposition to the administration,
they will array him against his govern
ment; that while he is at first taught to
whisper id the secret mysteries of the
Golden Circle, " emboldened by their own
audacitv thav no vt demand Of hin, 10 el o,,t