Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-08-29
The Democratic platforms.

The issue to which the followers OF Val
landigham have committed themselves on
the war, is laid down in his letter OF arcept'
ance. IL Is vain for the erratic Pugh, or
the mild Pendle;oD, or the tunefnl Cox, to
exhibit their thimbIe rigging game about
the State, talking. as they do in some
places, that they will not stop to consider
he question Of prosecuting the war until
they have recovered the liberty Of Vsllan.
digham to aid the enemy; or as they do in
other places, in favor OF q vigorous prose.
cution Of the war for constitutional ends
and by constitutional means This serpen.
tine sqnirming will not relieve them from
the rock that Vallandigham has thrown on
them.
They chose q representative man for
their s'andsrd bearer, whose distinction Is
in the Infamous boast that he never voted
man nor dollar to support the Govern.
ment in the war against rebellion. BY bis
record the party must abide Their plat.
form on the war is laid down 10 his char.
scier and letter Of acceptance. 1t is to
refuse the Government a man or dollar
for its defense, to withdraw our invading
armies, as he calls them, to recognize the
separation and independence OF the Con.
federacy, to give up to it every State in
which Slavery has any existence, however
faint, divide the territory with II o, the
line of $3.50, permit the Confederates TO
form alliance with foreign powers, oil insti.
gated with a spirit of hostility to the
North, abandon the loyal men Of the South
to Confederate execution, coufscaton aud
eonscription, and meanwhile to completely
disstm ourselves
All this is laid down in the Vallandig.
ham programme as preliminary to the re.
construction Of the Union; and all thi.
must be doue heartily, generously, and with
entire submission; for upon that will de
pend their grace to us. And when all this
is done. and We have set up the Confederacy
and given it a power that it would never
have thought of gaining by fighting, and
we have humbled and disarmed ourselves,
like the Submissive Carthagenians to the
Roman General, tl.en Mr. Vallandigham
says the Confederates will be willing to
consider any terms of reconstruction that
we may offer.
This is the Democratic war platform,
and they must be held to il. Even Mr..
Pugh, who, like, Orator Puff had two
tones to his voice, one q shaky masculine
for war, the other shrieking falsetto
which will not talk Of war, must feel
slight tinge in his complexion when he is on
his base note, talking of Constitutional
prosecution Of the war, without man or q
dollar, to procure an honorable peace by
Withdrawing and dishanding unpaid our
invading armies.' and trying to buy the
alliance Of the Confederates by giving them
everything they demand now, and ruiring
the nation to set them up In arrogant
power.
These seasoned party manipulators know
that they might az well expect to swim
around Cape Horn with milestone about
thei- several necks, as to carry the State
of Ohio with ValIandigham's infamy and
his letter on their shoulders. Therefore
they are squirming under it. and trying to
dodge it. Therefore Mr.. Pugh alternates
from base falsetto, according to locality, so
that the seems to be two Pughs. as in the
case of the other Orator Puff whose
voice when he cried for help from the pit
into which he had fallen iu the dark, gave
such double tones that gruff pssser re-
piled, There's two Of you there; can't you
help one ano.her?'-Ciaeinnati Ga5etis.