The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-10-15
DEMOCRACY RUNNING TO SEED.

L remember / liberalism IN Its palmV
condition, redolent Of material and
intellectual acquisitions-its statesmen,
jurists and lawyers towering up head
and shoulders above their fellows
And ] remember this party when its
leaders, in sympathy with the enemies
oftheir country, began to drag it un-
DER when, in Congress, in the Legisla-
ture, in its journals, and finally in the
Hartford Convention, language iden-
tical with the utteranccs of Disloyal
Democrats now, turned the people
against them
Here, in the letter of Mr.. Bradbury,
accepting the Democratic nomination
for Governor of Maine, is an illustra-
ton: Q
Are the people ofMnne ready to concede the claim
set up by the National Administration to that dcspot-
ic power which could deprive them of their dearest
rights and most sacred prvileges-of all those noble
guarantees affecting life liberty, and property which
are secured them by the grand old Constitution esab
lishedby their fathers?
This is New England Federalism,
rank and raw. This precise language
is stereo'yped in the Archives OF FEEDER
alism They preached it until the pat
riotic masses loathed Federalism, and
"spewed it out"
There is reason to fear that modern
Democracy will share the fate of an
cicnt federalism. The proclivity Of its
leaders is in that direction. The sym
pathy expressed for Vallandigham, of
whose dislOyalty no man entertains a
doubt is besotted. The arrest of Val
landigham was blunder, but that is
forgotten in the stupid effort Of the De-
mocracy to make a martyr of him.
Here is another Demonstration of
sympathy for rebellion-nay, worse,
tor robbers and horse thieves:
GEN BuRNsIpE sIGNAuzEp oxcE MoHE-The West
ern journals are dwelling upon the honors General
Burnside re-wins in his department, BY having Gen
Morgan and his raid party shaved and imprisoned in
the Pcnitentary. The pretense the public will re-
member is retaliation for Col Straight, who is in the
Libby Prison.
This is from the New York Express,
one of whose editors is a Democrat
ic member of Congress. And this is
the spirit which rules that Journal
These things, say, will run the Dem
ocratic party under; for no party, be
its antecedents what they may, can be
unfaithful TO the country during a Udr.
The people, unvaryingly and mcrring-
ly, will find ont and take the patriotic
side. No matter if the administration
errs, falls short Of its duty, or even eX-
cceds its authority, the people will
stand by their Government.
During the war of 1912, the FEEDER
alists abused and ridiculed Jimmy
Madison" more maliciously than Pres
ident Lincoln is abused now But they
were against their country in its day
of trial, and they were driven from
power into popular contempt, and
compelled to disband, seeking shelter
from public Indignation within other
political organizations.
Such will be the fate of Democracy,
if it benot warned; ifi continues to
take counsel of men whose prejudices
blind, or whose secession sympathies
mislead
The President erred, in my judg-
ment, before the rebellion broke out,
in failing to perceive that the question
which he would have to deal with was
whether the Government and the
Union, instead of the Republican par
ty and the Chicago platform, should
be preserved. And now that we are
involved in that terrific struggle, the
Democracy will err even more fatally,
by falling into the pit where the re-
mains of Federalism repose.
Com. Decaturs glorious sentiment,
boldly avowed to the Federalists of
Philadelphia, in 1913, is the only one
to which patriotism will fasten and
cling. A distinguished Federalist gave
as toast-OW COuntry-in its wars,
may it always be right" Com. Deca-
tur instantly gave-"OUR COUNTRY.
RIGHT OR WRONG
This is the true test, and eminently
so now. Let the rebellion be subdued;
let the insurgent States return to their
allegiance, and then we will adjust
diferenccs.-AlJany Journal.
nG~Itis said the pig ran away from
the butcher because he had heard that