The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-07-09
ADDRESS 10 THE INDIANA DEnIOc.
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ADDRESS 10 THE INDIANA DEnIOc-
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The War Mmocrats dcnOunce the
peace movement of Nallandigham,
Wood & Co. and refuse 10 act with
them. They have issued the following
Address and call for meeting to be
held at InaixHaPolis, on the 18th Of
August: t-
FELLOW DEMOCRATS; Civil was is
upon us, striking down the lives Of
our citizens, desolatiug tic slesds and
dwellings, of large portion, and de-
stroYing the epeace, prosperity an9hap-
piness of our whole republic. .....
We have heretofore lTospcrcd um-
der the blessings of self-government
more than the chosen people Of Israel.
From three millions in disunited celo-
MICS, with scarce aggregate revenue to
support our own State, we have risen
tothirty millions, in States united i'll n
common republic, able 50 bear as this
war has shown, the revenues of half
the world beside. From a line Of thir-
teen mcagcr States ON the Atlantic, we
have absorbed the great valley of the
Mississippi, circled half the gulf of
Mexico by peaceful purchase, and
mainly by treaties havcsprcad overthe
Rocky Mountains an empire on the
borders of the Pacific Ocean. q.
The pgis of civil liberty has borne
us forward. Our fathers proclaimed
the principles of self-govcrnment and
democratic liberty, bound MS together
as ono people, preserving the individu-
s,lity and autonomy of States for our
domestic soyereigaitics, and the Union
in. one common rcpublic and common
slestiAy of the United States Of Amer
ica. Our great ccmmonwcalth had be-
come tllc envy Of nations and the ad-
lniration of the world Now, by the
ffatricidal hands of our fellow citizens,
tits sought to be str1tken down in its
own sanctuary, and loft a wide spread
ing ruin for the scotf Of mankind, an
enduring monument Of man S lncapac-
ity for self-govelnment, q whitcd sep
,ustLer Of the hopes Of human free
dom. eT L.'F u......
Wc retrace the undcniable facts OF
this rebellion. The Administration Of
the national government was about to
pass by the results of the election OF
1860, INTO the hands of Il party dis
tasteful to the slavc-holding States, and
they. with three honorable exceptions
ribeTlea. This high treason against
Democratic institutions was not the
W rk nor the crime Of the people rising
against the commonwealth, but tho con
spiracy of leaders and an oligarchy OF
% Jlitieians. f,acred and strengthened
by Federal Office and patronage, and
cherishing the pride and powered slave
holding to crash out Dcmocratv re-
public by an aristocracy in which they
could thrive and dominate.
Civil liberty and self-governmcnt
cannot bo sustained butupon the Dem
ocratic basis that the majority at the
ballot box shall rule. by the compact
Of our fathers, who sanctificd civil lib
erty through the baptism of the rcvo-
luton, that majority was declared by
the majority of the electors chosen in
the mode prescribed by the several
States Of the common Republic: For
three -foaytils of Il century unqualified
assent had been given to the voice OF
the majority Of the electoral colleges
as expressive of the popular will. BY
the bond of our fathers in the Federal
Constitution and out own approval, nc
appeal could be had from this expires
sion of the rule and law of the major.
ity
Admitting, absurd as it is in fact, the
extreme doctrine of StatcsRights claim
ed in the day qualification, and trod-
den under foot by General Jackson
that State could determine at her
own will and pleasure when her griev'
ance, real or imaginary authorized null
liiication or Secession, such grievances
must exist in overt acts, and not in the
declaration at the ballot-box for Presi-
dent OF Vice President. Otherwise
civil liberty, resting on the elective
franchise declared in the Constitution
could not exist. '...
No actual grievance could exist by
the election of one man over another
Pride might be mortified and humbled
and patronage stopped, but the antici'
patton of future acts, wrongs or griev.
anccs, was but the anticipation that
other departments would also violate
duty, and that the Government of O
Democratic Republic would prove un,
worthy of high trust and untrue tc
the people who made it and who could
unmake it, Such anticipations were
had by the enemies of republics from
the dawn of our revolution.
Former experience had shown such
anticipations sconcerning the institution
of Slavery unauthorized. The former
position of President Van Buren, on
the Missouri Compromise, and his sup
port of negro suffrage, did not pre-
vent such earnest care of Southern