The mountain Democrat., 1863-03-28
y From the Columbus tohiO) Statesman.
Judge Bartley's Indictment Against
the Republican Party.

Eighth of January Festival, at the "Amer'
ican" in this city:
THE FRUITS OF INTRUsTING THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF TIE
GOVERNMENT.
/. The dissolution OF the Union Of the
States.
2. A bloody, desolating, ruinous civil
war.
8. More than three hundred thousand
men already sacrificed, and sent prema-
turely to their final account.
4. Suffering, mourning, death and
desolation carried into families in every
neighborhood throughout the broad ex-
panse of the country.
5. More than three millions of men
taken from the industrial pursuits Of life,
North and South, for deadly conflict.
6. A national debt, including circulat-
ing bills of credit, of over two thousand
MILLIONS of dollars already created, with
nothing beneficial to show for it.
7. More than five thousand millions OF
dollars worth Of property already de-
stroyed by means Of the war, and yet the
prospect of restoration Of the Union
far darker than when the war COM
menced.
8. The annual expenses of the Govern
ment increased already from about $780,
0,00O to 81, 900, 600, 900, and the burden
still more rapidly increasing.
9. A grinding, oppressive, endless bur
den of taxation to support the Federal
Government.
TO- Millions of dollars expended to
feed, clothe, support and educate the me-
gro slaves, and to purchase their freedom,
and proposition pending for an expen-
diture for the purchase of negro slaves,
sufficient to bankrupt the Federal Gov
ernment for fifty or hundred years to
come.
II. Frauds upon the treasury and
swindling in Government contracts to an
extent unheard of in any other age or
country and to cut loose from all moral
and legal restraint the most prominent Of
fender, Simon Cameron. after his dismis-
sal from Office, not only sheltered, but
highly honored, and the operation Of the
Jaw for the punishment of frauds upon
the treasury actually suspended by an act
of Congress.
70. The constitutional currency Of the
country virtually suppressed, and rags,
shinpasters, pasteboard and postage
stamps substituted; and an uncertain,
variable standard ofvalue created, which
must inevitably eventuate in widespread
disaster and ruin to the great industrial
interest of the people.
13. The abolition of negro slavery i'll
the District Of Columbia, wholly unne-
cesSary, and, to say the least Of it, a pal
pable breach of good faith, simply to ap-
pease the rapacity Of Northern fanaticisn
at the expense of driving off hundreds OF
thousands Of Union men in the slave
States into the Southern States.
IA. The unceasing negro slavery agita-
ton the contiscation and emancipation
measures atsthe late session of Congress,
and the proclamations Of emancipation by
the generals in the field and by the Pres
idcnt of the United States, confirm the
predictions of the Southern disunionists
as to the supremacy and rapacity ol
Northern Aboltienism, and by these
means crushing the Union men Of the
slave States, and thereby procuring unan'
unity in the South in the caUse Of the
rebellion.
Is. The prosecution of the war, not in
that redeeming spirit and conciliatory
disposition required by the nature of the
Federal compact, but with menaces of
subjugation and determination, besides
aiding and facilitating the escape Of fugi-
tive slaves and encouraging servile insur-
rection.
16. The attempted emancipation oi
from three to four millions Of slaves
slaves of loyal Union men as we'll as Of
those of the rebels-by the simple edicI
of the President.
II. An attempt to turn loose hordes ot
negro slaves upon the free States to COM
pete with the white laborer, and to wran.
gle for social and political equality with
the white race.
18. Thousands of good and loyal citi'
zens arrested without legal warrant, drag
ged from their homes, taken beyond the
limits of their States, and confined in po
itcal basties, without the opportunity
of trial, and even without being per
mitted to know the name of the accuser
or what charge, if any, has been preferred
against them.
10. Loyal and patriotic citizens, who
are ready and willing to sacrifice all they
hold most dear to maintain "the Consti
tuition as it is, and restore the Union as i
was,' denounced as traitors and disloya
persons by political party whose motto
is, "a Union without slavery or nj
Union at ALL"
90. The freedom and sovereignty o
the States grossly encroached upon, anC
their total subversion boldly threatened.
81. The freedom Of speech and free
dom of press. two Of the essential bul
warks of civil liberty, inestimable t.
freemen and formidable to tyrants only,
tramped down and crushed to the earth
%. The writ of habeas corpus and tn
right of trial by jury, two great essentia
safeguards Of freedom, and which hav
cost mankind so many centuries OF toll
bioodshed and treasure, suspended 0
abolished by the mere edict OF the Presi
dent.
%. The edicts and DEGREES of arbitra
ry power substituted for the Constitution
and laws of the land: and the creation @
a new code by an Executive proclamn
tion.
"a. Martial law declared Throughout
the United States; not limited to tn
sphere of the operations of the armies j
the field, but extending all over the loya
States, where the civil tribunals are i
the unquestioned loyal execution of the
powers.
%. A new and extensive departmer
of the Government. consisting of a Pro
vost Marshal General, and special or sui
ordinate Provost Marshsls ard Militar
Committees in all the cities and countie
throughout tho several States: with dr