The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-10-07
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seg s Nv most coriialo svrapatfies are Wholly
with her. And the President sent his body
to look up his sympathies
Mr.. Riddle then read from Mr. Vallandig-
hams speech of the 9TH OF February, 1861,
Ito show what tssad ofsa United States man"
he (Mr. yaltandigham) was. Page 89-Mr.
/ VallapdIgham's, proposed amendment to the
I Constitution, Article XIII, section l. aThe
/ United States are divided into four sections
ias Gollows.''s Then follows the groups of
States-allvthei islaveholdinga in the southarn
seetien-and each armed with power to annul
the viii of all the other three together ?---s
There is Union for you
"A devoted wife faneies she is ilI-used By 4
her spotise-is unhappy wants the " Union
teeiueiited," and all that, aud she applies to-
Squire Vallandigham for dose val, who
is also a legal aeuss, sits down and draws up a
/ soleIhnarticle, beginning as follows "Know
hall men, that this husband and wife are here
/ By divided into four sections p What do
you think of that, ladies a pressing,
ksqueezing Union, amt it |? especially when
each is empowered to oppose the other
p Mr. Riddle read from page 81 the extract
from Mr.. Vallandigham's I'd of November
.speech, ,io186o, where he declared he would
/ not vote a dollar to re subject Seeded State
j to the constitution. This Mr. Riddle claimed
was direct bid for a rebelion-a provision
/ offered with the promise of impunitv 10 the
I rebels, and made before Presidential election,
and before a State had seeded. .aala.4 sa'AS1 2
Mr.. Riddle continued The relics are, as
| we now learn, transferred to Windsor, from
which point, ] am told descent is planned
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as that did, and at the same point There
will be another melancholy suspension of the
ha6eas corpus, or faayhap assusPension of the
corpus alone.
4eaEi9sS o asEnG THE PLATFORM. "
But many of these gentlemen IN the ooun- CO m.
try admit they don't like Vaflandighnm--
they, even loath and detest him, but the plat,
form redeems him. He places himself on the
platform, and its excellence makes even him
tolerate. Have they read it p Have Won
readi it? Let us glance at its two columns,
and twenty three propositions It is of the
i cold bleoded, Shiny reptile brood 1t writhes-
Il and crawes, with more legs than centipede,
and twice as poisonous. Whoever bites into
it. dies. afi,,
You are to remember when it was produc-
ed in the opening of that gloomy june, The
7 sadest OF the year, after cur defeat on-the
aRappahannock, when Grants blue regiments
had been rolled back in red waves, and bro
!, ken wrecks from the crimsoned crestss Of
Vicksburg and Banks was hurling his,forlorn
hopes, hopelessly against Port Hudson, and
Rosecrans lay apparently torpid in, front 4sof
Bragg When the national heart was sink
fiug and the pulse Eaintly throbed. When
nj whispers of doubt and hopelesshess were
, moving on the breeze, andzthe heavens dark
, ened without hope, and the earth withered
without promise. Then the Ohio Denoefa@
cy assembled in grave council at the capital
, And for what? What should men assem-
BILE at such time for? For what. purpose
: dare they assemble, Was, it to fire. anew
! the nations heard, brace up its nerveless arm,
: uttera trumretscfv that should shiver along
>, the nerves. and5strike electric heroism from
the eyes of our struggling soldiers {? q Did they
in this dark hour, raise anew the old Demo-
/. Z cratic battle cry-.iour country right or
wrong aWeswilf q conquer a peace.n Oh,
!, not a word of that But they stood in the
: countries way-nleeked-y and joered, and re-
i viled our leaders. Uttered words of con-
: tumely, and derision, and .discouragement-
threw Themselves upon the national arm,
: cling about and clogged it's feetsand gave
: cheer and hope only to its foesa Il fs3
: Mark the pulling whining unn.anly words
: of the preamble !" The Democratic party
!, ehase ever been. and yet is a law abiding party.
: tasks nothing butitsrights. 50 =
: It has Alright to all the guarantees of public
: and private liberty" &C., and so on interrnin-
;, ably. Was that a time to whine and grum-
BILE of party grief? What is the Democraey
that itshould claim exemption from the COM
mon calamity !? What great good had /,
achieved to purchase that |? What business
) had it to seize that hour to bring forward its
!, aecount2 Ay, what right had it to be alive
= = at all.2 Who had abused it? Who had in
!, jured Democrats. Did they not furnish all
!, the traitors, and foment and arm the rebellion
= = and give it place and opportunity ?? Haven't
: we tried to hire them to be leyal; and paid
I'll them in places and honors for their patriot
! ism Haven't we thrust byTou own noble
!. and unsoiled ones to make place for. them
: Was not the brave and sagacious and true
: man. but aeMs on this stand, Governor Dem
. . nison) rudely pushed from the Executive
= Chair, that Scared political foe might have
: the place, merely because he was better than
Il his party ?? And he too is now put by, at the
= demand of Democrats, and stil tilleapotheris to
: be elevated Remember this: aud remembei
. too that in the coming peace. time, when
II America makes up her jewels, she will poin
!, to the Republicans and say, - not one of then
II was found untrue to me" Then, why shoult
\ this new Democracy put up this unmanly dis
y :, loyal howl, as=ofs injured innocence at thi
:. ; time. sEs 4ss ss-Ssas
And the platform then opens, with foul
: mortal resolutions upon the rights of tn,
= subject, freedom of speech, &c ; and not /:
word as to the rights of the nation to it's life
y y and its right to hold and exercise the power o
y = protecting the subject in his rights. Is ther,
: an Intelligent man in America who believes
y or can, that the rights of the subject are il
: peril ? And what loyal man but what vii
gladly say that if the public security demands
:, it, the rights of persons should be temporari
i ly suspended, that they might be hereafte
= ~ perpetnally secure. OF what avail is tn
. freedom of speech, trial by jury, andthe wri
"a of ha5eas corpus, if the greal power which car
+ only protect, perpetuate and enforce them
- perishes?a These men speak and act as if W,
of were in the old peace time, with nothing t,
:. do but balance and adjust the nice scale o
= discriminating Justice ~ s. 9Sszk
r f8 What occasion for this clamor !? Wha
honest man has suffered ? What loyal MAJ
j is threatened? The freedom of speech !
Amt these blatant miscreants eyerywher
III now offending the day, and poluting the eartl
If with the drule and spume of their abuse, up
g. OH all that is good and true an loyal--hunt
ing down and hanging upon the fariks Q
l. those throughzswhom aleRe our safety cal
ne como ? And who interferes with them P
he Don'tthey revilc and traduce every body am
n thing connected with the Government An,
w for that, what one has suffered rsa -
I'd When they have approached the militar
ne power, and denounced and defed it, an
lpf preached nutiny. desertion and insurrectior