Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-09-03
The Democratic Prosramme.

How to make defeated rebellion trium-
phant, is now tho question with the treason.
able Democratic organization. How to sub
ject the nation to the insolent terms Of the
rebel leaders, after all the cost Of subduing
them. How to subject the Constitution to
the desecrstion Of insurgents against Con-
stitution and popular government How
to throw away the triumph Of OUR brave sol.
diers, and oil the blood which has been shed
in this war, and make the defeated enemy
the ihsolent dictator Of terms to their cou-
querofs.
This is the work which political party in
the North has entered upou, doing the
work Of the rebel leaders ss faithfully as
their disciplined Sonscripts, and carrying
out their orders % submissively. The lead.
er whom they have chosen to make infs'
nous the Office of Governor Of Ohio, has
fully laid down the terms by which this sub
jugation of the nation is to be carried out.
Our armies DIRE I'd be Withdrawn from the
South and disbanded. Every dollar Of their
pay and Of the cost of the national defense
is to be repudiated Every foot ofterritory
on which Slavery maintains shadow Of ex
istence is to be given up. Missouri, Ken
tucky and Maryland are claimed by what he
recognizes as the Confederate States, and
Of course our Invading srmies," as the
traitors call them, must be withdrawn from
them. The Mississippi, which was first
bought with the national money, and has
now been recovered BY the blood Of many
thousands of our soldiers, must be surren-
dered. In short their demands arc to be
the measure of our submission, for We are
to conciliate them by submission; and where
will the arrogance of q malignant foe stop,
which after defsa. is permitted to dictate
terms to abject submission?
And then, after this surrender Of the
Government in insurrsction, of the viotori-
GUS armies of the nation to conquered reb-
els; after mourning the cost ofnational pres
ervation, and then surrendering to national
destruction; after recognising the triumph
and independence Of the Confederates, and
disarming ourselves before their military
despotism; after permitting their recogni-
ton BY foreign powers, and the formation
Of commercial treaties and political alliances
between foreign Governments and Con-
federacy made out portion Of this Union,
al instieated by hostility to us-after thus
cotisenting to our own national destruction,
Vie are to try to induce the South to admit
US to some kind of an alliance, not Is an in
dependent nation, entitled to the same terms
as the most favored nation, but as subject
people, who arc willing to purchase, by
humble concessions. what other nations
claim as right.
But even this slavish proposition is not
the worst of this programme Of the Demo-
cratic party Of Ohio. For lest even when
the Union is divided and disarmed, the
North might have the power to assert and
defend national independence, it is to be
divided that it may be subjugated in detail.
This candidate Of the Democratic party de-
clares to his adhcrents that the only way to
peace is by disbanding our armies and per-
mittins and recognising the separation Of
the Confederate States. With the same
foul breath be declares the separation ofthe
South from the North is the Inauguration
of the disintegration ofthe Northern States.
Thus ho declares that the permission Of Sc
cession is not for peace, but for national
destruction first and then the separation
and subjugstioh ofth Northern States.
What would be the first demand of Confsd.
crate arrogance after We had given them q
trilmp ph upon our national ruinf The pay,
meut Of their war debt, and of oil the devas
tatiou they have inflicted and brought upof
themselves BY tie war Of rebellion. Would
the Democratic party refuse thisP How are
they to obtaih somo kind of an alliance with
tho Cohfederates by concilistion unless they
concede the Confederate demsndsf Rnd
does any Democrat suppose that the Con
fsderates would dot demand this Of peopl.
who made Confederate demands the meas
urs Of their own submiaon?
Already this payment Of the rebel wa
debt Has been broached by On Eastern Dem
}, ocratic journal, as one Of the 6Yst Of DUR Ia
bors of conciliation. The Democratic party
which complains Of the cost Of rational pres
ervation, honor, courage and manhood, h
ytopoMng that We shall submit to dsstfuc
tibn and dishonor, and then add three fox
to our war debt, by making genuine snsi 10
gal the worthless pspsf issues Of the rebels
issued At the rate Of twelve for one Bit Il
be redeemed iu hard cash.
These arc the issues the candidate Of til
Democratic party presents to the people o
!, Ohio in the coming election. Had Benz
DICT Arnold appealed 70 popular election
on his negotiations with the British army Il
, betray his country to il, it would hive beer
no greater Insult to- the people than thi
proposition is 10 tho voters Of Ohio. --ICin
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