M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-11-19

the inert selhshness ol party organic
alton held them at bay for some years,
"love.of liberty and earnestness Of
purpose finally won the day, aud the
"anti-slavery" party, with Mr. Lh
coin as it's embodiment, carried every
northern Stats in 1850.
Such is the view ard such virtually
the language Of the party that trium'
| pied with Mr.. Lincoln, and while as
abstrac:ious, or, asapplied to our own
white citizenship. their principles"
are true, Jet as they apply them IN
common to white men and negroes,
their "principles" are not merely lies,
out lies the most hideous, impious
and lunatic that ever cursed mankind
or naddened the world. In the North
such a construction OF the Federal
| Constitution and such an application
koi Democratic principles to the hand
Efull Of negroes, would not involve any
serious consequences, were these
States separated from the South but
to the latter. il were better that the
earth opened its bosom and engnlfed
its entire citizenship, from the Poto.
mac to the Cuff, than be doomed to
such destiny. Few, perhaps, could
explain 1t even to themselves; but
save occasionally some perverted
mind, educated" abroad, every man,
woman and child kneoo that submis.
eion to the principles" embodied by
Mr.. Lincoln involved their social
destruction, and they had better per-
! ish at once by the sword than that
Q their posterity should rot out through
the blood o! the sooty and woody.
headed African. This is hard to
understand at the North, but it is
5 terribly simple and eaStly understood
:. at the South.
!, The South, therefore, declared the
!, Constitution overthrown, aud form
ally withdrew from the Union. Now,
the question is, did the men who
l. made the Constitution design to ex.
NJ cIude negroes from tie Federative
system Z IL they did, then Mr.. Lin.
colns election was revolution, the
most stupendoas and deplorable ever
o recorded in tiSo aERals Of mankind,
Ie for, carried into practice, It trans.
g iorms the Republic Of Washington
ID and Buchanan into mongrel concern,
~ where whites, negroes and mongrels,
=, Of every shsde, are to be included in
y the political system. Unfortunately,
small, vain and conesited party in
the South fancied that "cotton was
= king" and the whole world at their
| mercy, and therefore, taking advan.
If tage of ttse Temporary overthrow Of
Of the Constitution BY the North they
4 would set up an Infant Qontederacy,"
d certain, sooner or later, to become
't the wonder Of the world. This fataI
q vanity enabled the "aEti-slaveyy'
,t party at the North to present a false
- issue to the people, and thus an awful
y and bloody var has gone on for three
y years, nominally to pa: down the
b "Southern COnfedecaey," but in fact
d to carry oat their principles and mon
d grelize The Repablic. Neither OF
:, these things can succesd. A "South
ern Confederacy," recognized by the
! whole world tomorrow, would not
u bring the South to a solution Of the
n question; while Mr.. Lincoln must
10 absolutely exterminate eight millions
Of our race before he can have mon
grel Republic, CT the "Union as it
y ought to be-" with four millions Of
. negroes. There is therefore no hope
VI Of permanent peace or means OF safety
B but to come back to the Constitution
and the Union under it. The Union
>, 10 the creature of the Constitution,
and can no more exist without it than
the material body without the princi.
pie Of life. Its provisions have gen.
Il orally been ignored by Mr.. Lincoln !;
!. bat this is as drop to the ocean
|, compared with the revolutionary con &.
y Struction Of this party. lf We can
. rally great party around the Consti.
% % tuition, as construed by Chiei Justice
" Taney and al! administrations prior
'r to Mr.. Lincoln's, and elect a President
Q and Congress, then we can have peace
4 and restoration Of the Union, for the
h extreme party in the South will have
), no ground to stand on. II we fail ir
# this, then the war will become uni.
versal-the revolutionary party Of the
!. North, seeking the allegiance OF negro.
q es in the South. will drive the south
y ern leaders back into their old alliance
n with the producing classes of the
r North, and unless we are all ruined
q together, after years ofbloody horrors,
we will all come back 10 tho Consti
4 tuition and a white Republic, just "a
it was before the impartial freedom"
. revolutionists ovel threw it in the
}. election Of 1860. Why net save our.
selves from all these calamities by
!. coming back to the (white) Constitu-
a ton at once 7