Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-03-13


press facts and utter falsehoods, in order
+ 10 elorify General Mcclellan. shield him
from popular disapProhation, and per
petuate ms command. Democratic policy
al this moment clamors for his restora-
ton, and every man who blames the he
pubicans tor bringing on this var. and
Who declares. as General Mcclellan did
a: is beginning, that the south Is right;
evers man VINO believes IA wearing cut
tie patience of the county by military
failures, 20 that the reoe's may be re
stored % power through some internal
compromise: every man who despisss the
policy which would VII victories, or iol-
los them up Waen NVn; every man VIC
was as much OF a kraitoT - he had tie
coura- Z O. b. in the beginning 81 this
struggle, and has all the time wished the
rebels hearty God-sPeed; every man
Who la, doue his best 90 discourage eu-
li>tment~. eulbarrass the action ot the
Government, aui render the war 0dious
& the people; every man Who raises the
cry of peace, aud talks about new
guarantees 70 paciiy the felOus who have
sought the hatlons's life, every mau who
loves negro slavery better than lie loves
~s country, and would sooner sc the Re
Puehc IN ruins than the saves set free, u
TIE Jealous advocate and uniiinching
champaon OF General Mcclellan.
1ir. Chairman, Democratic policy
proves Itself the ally of treason by
huesing the eanse which produces il. IL
chhes 10 slavery as a dying man clings TO
lie Ii condemns is prohibition in our
Territories. ard its abolition In this Dis
trict. In the midst of terrific struggle
OF the nation for f-preservation, re-
qulrlng the use OF all the weapons known
TO the laws Of war. il demands the repeal
of our eoLfiscation laws, and denounce.
the Presidents proclamation giving free
dom 10 the slaves of rebels. With equal
zeal IL opposes the gradual "abolishment
OF slavery with the consent of loyal
and compensation allowed them.
Democratic policy clamors for peace With
rebels in arms, OH the basis OF the Crit.
tenden compromise, rejected BY them two
years ago, and which, if accepted, would
surrender the Liberties of the
people to the slavehOlding Nandals of the
south. Democratic policy has played in.
10 the hands OF rebels by refusing the
help OF negroes IN our armies, as laborers.
cooks, nurses, scouts. and
soldiers, thus necessarily weakening our
military power, aud sacrificing the lives
)f our men. Democratic policy has
sought the office cfslave-hound for rebels
ever since the beginning of the war, and
: still, occasionally, exercising its func-
ions in defiance of positive prohibitions.
Democratic policy, taking the form of
Order No. 3, under which, for more
han year, loyal colored men were
irlven from our camps, and their prof.
erGd aid and information rejected,
armed the gratitude of every rebel
throughout the Union, and the curses of
very loyal man. Democratic policy
Iespises an aboliti0nist for more heartily
han traitor; the term abOliti0nist, ac-
ording to leading Democratic organ,
ignilying "any man who does not love
lavery for its own sake, as divine insti-
ution; who does not worship il as the
orner-stone of civil liberty; who does
lot adore ii as the only possible social
onditioh on which permanent republi-
an government can be erected; and VIII.
Oes not, in his inmost soul, desire to see
extended and perpetuated over the
hole earth, as a means of human refor-
nation, second in dignity. importance, and
acredness, 10 the religion of Christ"
Democratic policy, by thus perpetually
eferring to slavery as a sacred thing,
nd to SHAREHOLDERS as a superior order of
len. has smothered that feeling of resent.
lent in our armies ahich else would have
cen evoked, and the lack of which, ac.
ording To our commanders. IL one of the
rrious obstacles TO our success. Demo
ratic policy in tie year le6l gave Us "a
of our three great military
apartments, Mcclellan, HallecA. and
ueli, whose military administrations have
} terribly cursed the country: while it
imposed upon our volunteer forces in the
eld, such officers AS Fitz John Porter,
en,ral Nelson, General Stone. and very
any more whose sympathics with tho
'bels were well known through the com
y.
CONCLUDED NENT wEEK.