The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-10-16
Ohio and Pennsylvania.


.You arc right, this treason
Assumes n fearful aspect. bat, once crushed,
Its very ashes shall manure tho soil
or power and ripen such full sheayss OF greatness
That all tho summer OF my fato shall seem
frultless beside the autumn"
II will DO seen in another column that
Ohio has rcpudiated the copperheads by the
significant majority of 100000, and the
noble Keystone State has done tho same thing
by $4,000 majority. Tho states which have
held their election with their approximate
Union majorities arc as follows: Kentucky,
$4,000; Vermont, 10000; Maine, $4,000;
California, 10000; Ohio, l00, 900; Penn
sylvania, $4,000, and Nevada has elected
tho Union candidates by two to one.
Since there were two parties first started
on the face of tho earth no considerable body
of men ever occupied such broken crushed,
and supremely mean position, as do the cop.
perheads to-day. Afraid, lest if they sup
ported the war and opposed the rebels that
by some means, when we all shall rejoice
again over an undivided country, and chant
the pcan OF a glorious peace, they should
not be as powerful as they always had been,
demagogucs in the democratic party seized
hold of the party organization, and planting
themselves squarcly upon tho platform oil
opposition to their country, harping about
every measure of the Government put forth
to preserve the very constitution they were
in favor of rendering a nullity, taking such
n position that when their country's cause
looked brightest, their party success looked
darkest, they have Individually and collect
lively written histories Of themselves, future
generations will blush to read, and drag
gcd down the ignorant and bad portion OF
the democratic party to the base level OF their
position; and be it remembered that those
masses followed with no unwilling footsteps.
To-day tho democratic party as an organi-
zation of power has no existence in fact. Its
decline. thong IN not rapid at first, il we date
its commencement from 1915, has been ac-
CELEBRATED within tho last decade, until, dis
intcrgrated and wrecked, it lies upon that
shore that must receive the wrecks OF all
bad and degenerate organizations.
Fright forever ON tho scafl6ld,
Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffOld sways tho futurci
AMI behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow.
Keeping watch DER all his own"
It's success as party could only have taken
place with the success Of armed foes OF the
Republic, for their interests, in measure,
were identical. With tho downfall Of the
rebellion, slavery, that twin re,ict Of barbar-
ism, falls. and with i. the democratic party,
its only support in America. God DO thank
cd, and lot them go- May they not stand
upon the order of their going, but so at
once
There is only ono body Of men and ono set of
principles in this nation which to-day has u
broad future opening upon them, and those
arc the men who, supporting tho present
Administration, love their country and raj
ly to its defence whether assailed from with
out or within. and those glorious principles
of exact justice to all men, which, contend
Ing for the great tenets of rcpublicanism
and democracy and for freedom and progress
against ignorance and slavery, undcrlic the
structure of every great and good Common
wealth.