The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-03-27

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'be new Democracy thrown In; greater
than oil together, and controls them all,
aud dictates its own policy; and woe to the
men or party that will not heed its diCta.
ton. The House thought 1t could control
tho war.and il goOd-naturodly resolved itsolf
into respectable convention, and passed,
with almost unanimity, the Crittenden res.
olution,and it's ge:ters.up said to themselves,
"thatll fix M" and It foated out on the
popular breath like an autumn leaf on the
wind, and was lost in some dell Of forgetful.
ness, no moro to bo named, save here. You
might as we'll at.ompt, with packthreads, to
tic down tho pulses Of the eternal iorces of
nature, and declare the objects and purposes
ofs newborn earthquake, as thus to stay
and control the forces that produced this
| revolution.
These Democrats demand that the war
must be so conducted as ioast to agpravato
tho feelings Of tho robols, and keep tho way
open to recociliatiou. Well, sir, for one
year and half VIC did conduct this war on
precisely these principles, for this same pur-
pose of keeping the way open. Neycr since
the first battle on earth was war go for.
bearingly and tendsrIy carried on ss
this, on our part. When tho rebels
smote us on one check, we turned to
them tho other also, got another blow,
and seemed rather to like it. We guard ded
robel property while the owners we're Oft
numbering our people. The young sons of
Northern motbors have stood, through the
chill, long night, to guard tho dwelling of one
OF these "proud, sensitive brothers," who
stole back in tho cold gray of the coming
dawn, and shot down on his own door stone
the young guardian of his home and hearth
Did not VIC turn our army of noble and cd
ucated youths into siave hunters, and ou
1 officers into baying dogs, bailifFs and jailors
for their drivers: Have we not placed line
OF sentinels around the fields here tho,
drove their cha!tols to toll, and given up h
lashos and doath tho poor wretches who ha,
served US with fidelity? Have we not ais
| guarded the whipping post aud the auction
block? Our bayonets rave forced the vic
tins to beds of lust, and our soldiers wer,
the sentinels at the door Of this hideou
, prostitution. If there is any infamy tha
wo did not commit TO keep "the way open,
, thank God I am ignorant of It. Why, sill
a the venerable gentleman from Kon,uck
!. iarthest from me, [Mr. Wickiihc,l did n,
o complain of this mode Of carrying on ,t
v war; he whose notion Of "the Union as
/, was, and the Constitution As it u.s." seems
). be a restoration of the runaways TO the ps
4 triarchal lash and pious sale of the master
0 And, during all these months, these Demo
, Gratis bave stood holding out their arms an,
beSeeching our brothers to return, offerin,
10 compromise and be compromised in an,
way. to any extent, aud on any terms; and
they still occupy that mendicant position
notwithstanding thoy are spurned with scott.
and scorn by the rebels.
! And what were the results OF thus car.
rying on the war The wandering States
have united and solidified, uuder the gentle
pressure and opportunities of the war, into
the consistency of nation; and, from few
scattered, half organized regiments, they
confront as now with an army greater thar
modern Europe has ever seen; an army tha
would have walled Napoleon out of Russia
and that could have driven tho Russians
French, English, Turks. and all out Of the
Crimea, or cat thom, to their cartridge box
es, in week. And it was through our mode
OF conducting the war only that the rebels
have attained these proportions. In how
much longer time would it have enabled
them to achieve their purposes. pray p
Keep the way open Oh. there are some
fools so sublime that the maxim permitting
thom to profit by experience cannot reach
them Their folly mounts up to that aw.
full crime that has no name, and can have no
forgiveness.
THE ELECTIONS, AND WHAT THEY DECIDED.
But We are told that the scepter is al
ready passing from us, and the country Is
again drifting upon the wreckiDg rocks of
Democracy. We're this SO, it would seem
but the ordinary result of the labors of tho
two parties. The Republicans. as party,
have done no act, spoken no word, to retain
power in their hands. Their whole energy
has been given to the cause of tho country
only, regardless of all possible political con.
sequences to themselves. Never in tho
worlds history did a party so apply the
knifo to its own members, and so unsparing-
ly lay bare the doings OF its weak or wicked.
And no party ever so boldly and defantly
thrust the weapons of assault into the hands
ofits enemies. and pointed out its own Vul-
ncrablo places. And certainly no party ever
so selfshly and wickedly traded 10 the Ca.
ismities OF wretched country, for the sole
purpose of stealing back the power it had
lost, as these leaders of Democracy. And
they every day, on this door. tauDt us with
their already achieved success that We are
already blasted with popular mildew; and
we are caricaturod under the ghostly formi
of corpses walking about the Capitol.
My colleague from the capital distric
(Mr. Coz) carly denounced US as ccntuma
cious. because We did not vacate our seat
and abandon everything to tho hands Of th
recently resurrected Democracy, who cam
with the smell of the oharnel- house and th,
odor of old corruption upon them 90 stron,
that We may well doubt their return to full