The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-03-25
WooDsFIElD MONROE COUNTY OHIO, MARCH 25 1868

/ Mr.. O'Connor-I believe they did.
They knew full we'll that without con-
1 siderable vote from the Democratic party
they could not elect single man in Octo-
ber; hence this specious proposition. And
nv friend from Warren and other Demo
Gratis who had failed in getting office in
their own party, whose palms were itching
for the spoils, and who even then in their
hearts were whoring after strange gods, left
the Democratic party and went over to
the Republicans. Inthe language of one
of old, "they went out from among us
because they were not of us, for if they
had been of us, they would not have went
out from among u.s." Is the gentleman
from Warren answered? IF so, I will re-
turn to Mr.. Phillips:
. II haze labored nineteen gears to take
nineteen St,rtes out of the Union, and If
haoe spent nineteen gears to the satisfaction
iof ny Puritan conscience, 1t aoas those
nineteen years.
"The child Of six generations of Puri
tans, was taught at mothers knee to
love purity before peace. And when Dan
iel Webster taught me that the Union
meant making white men hypocrites and
black men slaves; that it meant lynch law
in the Carolinas and mob law in Massa-
chusetts; that it meant lies in the pulpit
land gags in the Senate; when l was told
that the cementing of the Union was re-
/ turning slaves to their masters, in the
name of the God I loved>and had been
taught to honor, cursed the Constitu-
ton and the Union, and endeuuored to break
1t, aud, thank God, 1t is broke. .
Dir. Gunckel (Rep. )-If the Senator
from Monroe will permit me, | will say
that Wendell Phillips was never member
eff the Republican party, and that we never
indorsed him.
Mr.. O'Connor = IF the Senator from
Montgomery will permit me [ will say
that if there is any truth in the newspa-
per reporter who reported the above sem
timent of Wendell Phlllips-that his Sec
tional Vice President, MIR. Hamlin, scas
present and appiauded the trditorous sem
tin,cnt-I shall show the gentleman from
Montgomery, if / do not fail in my object,
that he aud his party, from the President
down to the members upon this floor, are
Following in the leading strings
walking in the very footprints of these
men who he would fain make us believe
are radicals for whom they are not respon-
sible.
Again, I desire to quote from speech
delivered in Albany in 1862, by Parker
1 Pillsbury:
4 . 1 do not wish to see this Government
prolonged another day in. lis present form.
1 On the contrary have been for twenty
years attempting to overthrow the present
i dynasty. x = 4 x If do not mis-
! Judge the Constitution, whateyermay have
been its real character, it was never SC
much an engine of cruelty and crime as
4 it is atthe present hour.
g 1t seems to me the present AdmiHis-
tration is on the one hand the ,oeakest, and
on the other the acickedcst, we have evel
had. Mr.. Buchanan's Administration ii
under infinite obligations to it for casting
its wickedness and imbecility SO far in the
; shade.
r sss cannot join in the congratulation
that so often hear as to the hopefulnes
J of the signs of the times-I do not wan
to see hopefulness-I am not rsoiced a
= the tidinys of victory Of Northern arms
!. L sroald far rather see defeatD
II rejoice IN defeat and disaster rathe
than rictory, because do not believe tn
North is in any condition TO improve an,
great success which may attend its arm.
: I think the Abolitionists fail suf6cientl
= to recognize one great fact, and that is tn
! ! persistent, determined, God -defying, heay
: en-provoking impatience of the Nortf
* x 4 Holding these opinions I d
:. not desire the success of Northern arm
: X X I say let us have war; let U
have all its disasters and defeats, if tn
condition of the slave is not changed
: will not, Mr.. President so far d,
: grade myself as to read the balance I
= this infamous and traitorous speech .
= Parker Pillsbury, in which he blasph,
- . mously travesties the words of Inspir;
y tion by describing the execution of Il
= notorious John Brown in the touchir
" language that records the death of IL
:. Son Of God. But I will link this ma
= Pillsbury and his sentiments to Repu'
s llican United States Senator high in IL
. confidence of my friend from Montgomcr
: and of his party:
EOm6 CWO OT slHIcc tuOnthS OOtidS
:. Trumbull, Of Illinois, made speech,
a :. which occurred the following declaratio
to az thank God that the Federal arr
were defeated at Bull Run and on {
he Peninsula, and under Pope, for, witho
er such defeats, we should not have had t
re Emancipation proclamation. Had we W
= at Bull Run, or taken Richmond, t
n. backbone of the erebellionwould have be
nd broken and the Union would have be
;s- restored with slavery remaining in it. y
- This man Trumbqll had the audac
N to rebuke his colleague Richardson !
M Gently, in the Senate, for making what
called partisan speech! A,man W
thanks God that our soldiers are defeat
y, =, because it is Of advantage to the negro
Oh held up as representative patriotl :
8t Is not the link complete? are not
- sentiments of Pillsbury and of Sena
be- Trumbull precisely the same? is there
sufficient identity Of language and fo
of expression to convince the most sup
~ l6c;oI observer that these men have