The mountain Democrat., 1863-08-29
ThinEs to be Remembered.

Things to be Remembered.
Every voter, when he goes to cast his
ballot, should remember that the party
now 10 power is the same party which
opposed the war Of the Revolution-the
same party which opposed the principles
embodied in the Constitution-the same
party which, during the Administration
Of the elder Adams-like the present Ad-
ministration citizens without
warrant, imprisoned them without charge,
and dismissed them without trial all OF
which acts are in direct violation Of the
safeguards Of the Constitution OF the
United States and the Constitution OF
each State, which guarantees to every
citizen, however humble his origin or
calling, life, liberty and property.
He should remember that the Demo
cratic party, under the leadership of JEFF
ferson, rescued the then infant Govern
ment from tho hands Of its enemies, and
for upwards Of sixty years Of its exist
ence, that great and patriotic party gov
ezNed the country without, in single
instance, jeopardizing the life, restraining
the liberty, or taking or destroying the
property Of the citizen.
He should remember that the Demo
cratic party is the only party which can
govern according to the true intent and
meaning of the principles embodied in
the Constitution, without interfering with
or infringing upon the rights and liberties
of the citizen-the only party that has
ever successfully conducted war, or con-
cluded an honorable peace.
He should remember that this may,
and unless the Democracy succeed, in all
will be, the last vote he will
ever cast or, if permitted to vote, it will
be like the people Of Maryland, Kentucky
and Missouri, by taking the serf's oath,
to blindly support the military despotism
which now domineeTs over the country;
and under the free influences Of drawn
swords and fixed bayonets, he may freely
vote such ticket as the military authori'
ties may prescribe.
lie should remember, in the language
Of Henry Clay, that "war can only de.
stroy," and that the present war is now
according to the boast of lea
dcrs of the Administration party, for the
sole purpose Of destroying mot preserv-
ing or reconstructing) not only the old
Union, but our entire form of Govern
ment, as we'll as the very existence of the
nation itself.
lie should remember that the only way
to end this unnatural and destructive
war, is to vote for and place in power the
nominees Of the Democratic party-that
party which took the Government in its
infancy and, in the short space of seventy
years, made it a first class power, and
which surrendered it into the hands of
the present Administration, boundless in
its resources, mighty in its strength
stainless in its name-the wonder and
the admiration, the terror and the re-
proach of the despotisms Of the old
world.
He should remember that the election
of the Custom House Abolition ticket
must inevitably result in one OF two
military despotism will su
1ercede the civil authorities, or the peo-
pie will be deprived Of their rights and
iberties by the minions of the Admins
ration, both Of which can be avoided by
.feceing the Democi Stic ticket.
He should remember that the war is
low prosecuted, according TO the unchal-
enged statements of the men who shape
he policy Of the Administration, with
he object of emancipating the negroes Of
.hc South and making American citizens
If them-of equalizing them legally, pO-
itically ard socially, and finally amalga-
mating them with the CLOVER order of
he poor white trash," to use their own
insulting language. The working class,
The toiling millions. (who in the old world
produce everything and receive nothing)
are thus to be reduced to level with the
lowest race in the order of creation
thus rendering them utterly incapable Of
or of claiming any rights
which the "lordS Of the loom" would con-
cede to them or respect.