The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-03-27
MARCTI27, 1868.
(Conclnded from frat paEe.l

of the Supreme Court, in fronzy, tore the
national ormine from their shoulders, and
hed, howliDg fierce blaspheInies and treason
against the lifo OF tho nation. Whole dele
cations in these two houses left their seats
TO execute tho conspiracy they had con
cocted here, aud rushed forth to lead or
mios hitber. to tramplo out the little vitality
that their strangling hands had loft in the
nations heart. In the Executive Mansion
stih sat feeble old man. amid tho wreck o.
fallen faculties and the debris Of a not ovel
virtuous life, pulling aud driveling in hclp
less imbecility; blind aad weak, unknowinf
aud uneariDg, in tho hands OF the gian
criminals of his Cabinet, who had turned thu
national palace into cave Of couspiratort
and murderers against the national honor
and existence. And, when the time drew
near for the Executive elect 10 assume bis
duties, for the security of his life he wal
obliged to disguise his porson, and steal t.
tho Capital in the night, amid tho joors oil
these same gentlemen.
During all this time, the leading gentlo.
men on your right, who now charge these
iils'upon s,who charge us with daily viO-
lation of the Constitution, and who stand
here to thwart and hinder the President, =,
who alone is clothed with power to crush
this rebelion--these gontlomen occupied
the same seats, we're members of the Same
Democratic party, brothers of tho Same po-
litieaI litter with the consplrators. seeing all
these things, and in daily aud nightly inter-
course with the plottors and doers OF thom,
with the interests of American citizens and
the responsibilities Of American Represent.
Rtives; aud yet, during all that wretched
time, not man of them-not single man
uttered word of dissent, reproof or re.
proach to tho eonspirators, nor whisper of
warning or an admonition to the people -
Through all that fearful tinc, as day by day
che treason was moro clearly developed aud
moro boldly avoWed, and as one miscreant
nftor another Kissed his poisoned philippe
against his country, and derided and defied
Its power to prevent or punish his treason,
these mon sat hero, as mute as Memnon, ia
whom no sun stroke could awake response
From them came not tho slightest effort to
prevent the catastropho--no law to re.
strain, no resolution to stay. So Ear from
seeking to prevent or hinder the rebellion,
they, ore aud all, denied oil power to do
either. So far from attempting to prevent
q dissolution of the Uuion, ono of their load
rrS, with the consent Of their silence, pro-
poposed and advocated Acknowledgement.
Aud yet these minions of tho traitors, whose
proudest achievements were to win some
note of approval, some word of commonda-
tion from thor patrons and masters, charge
us as the authors of these ils, and are uow
the only true patriots alive.
Oh! I know that gentlemen, aftcr two
years, mako swift haste to discla;m all sym
pathy with the Acknowledgement scheme OF
their associate, and ] take them at their
word, as congressionaliy bound to do. But,
Sir, when that project was brought forward
and advocated by its author, on that fearful
day when tho Union was put to the rack,
and its thows and shows were cracking like
the crack of doom undor tho awful strain,
eheso gentlemen sat by, and gave it the as
sent and appreciation of tboir silence. Not
y word of dissent nor token of reproof
escaped from one Of them. They had pre-
dicted dissolution of the Union as result
Of our success in tho last Presidential cleo
ton; and God knows il is not thoir fault
that tho prophecy is not fulfilled.
know, SIR, that when the shock al
came, IL hushed these gentlemen
into silence and seeming patriotism. They
were as much amazed as their old allies
were, at the results North /; united peo,
pie standing with hands outstretched for
weapons, and demanding to be led against
the traitors. You remember the course OF
these gentlemen at the extra session 4
phillip;cs fierce and bitter against the
President and his policy, and not word
or apprehension Of the rebels in arms
And then how sedulously and industrious
ly they set about digging up and galvani-
zng the buried skeleton Of their party
going among the people with snams and
pretences, and returning at
the recent session with more and bt:terer
speeches, and ,hen among tbe people, re-
organizirg their Old party, and lubricaling
and repairing its old machinery. and put.
ting forth its names and cries-and for
what Can any man tell me for what
What need had the country that could be
best served by their party? Their only
purpose is amid these calamities to steal !
back the power they had lost, regardless
OF consequences. The Republican or
ganiEation was abandoned, and it's hosts,
united with all men of all parties for the
one purpose Of sustaining the Govern
ment, became a party Of and for the Gov
ernment. And these gentlemen have
banded together, not to sustain the Gov.
ernment--that would place them with us
but TO oppose and war upon this party
Of the Government to put il down. The
rebels strike at the Government in the
field, and these leaders strike at il here:
and yet they do not oppose the Govern
they. l do not care for words.
When we remember the course of these
gentlemen during the incipient stages of
the rebellion, and when we-now see one
set of the same men at open war with the
anI tI,a o1kn. -