The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1863-01-01
The Past and the Present.
A Review or Apbn1SAg FIlsIoskFE
nuRlNG THE YEARS 1861-1862.

A Review OF AMbR1eAS TElsIokEE
DURING THE YEARS 1S61-1862.
Events make History; aud Hist
DRY is philosophy teaching BY ex-
ample. Let US then briefly review
the events Of the past two years,
Ithe mcst momentous crisis in the
existence of the American nation,
and see what lessons the past can
teach for the guidance of the flu
Iturc. Just two years have elapsed
since a Northern sectional party e.
lected, by q little more thar one
third of the whole votes cast, aPre-
sident, who pronounced "the Chi
cago platform a law unto him."
In consequence of this election,
a formidable revolutionary move
ment was inaugurated in the South,
threatening a secession at the Cot
ton, and perhaps the Border States.
At this juncture the Hon. John
J. Crittenden offered a resolution,
the adoption of which would have
preserved The Union, and main
tanned peace between the contend
ing parties. The Democrats of the
North, led by the immortal Doug
las, fastened to offer the Compro-
mise, and after some demur, the
Secessionists, led by Davis, Toombs
and others, consented to accept it.
Only the Republican Senator's then in
Congress, refused to accept the Com
lpromiSe. This is the eternal truth
of history. See Mr.. Douglas speech
lin the Senate on July 3rd, 1861.
I Rejecting a compromise, they
proposed to save the Union by de-
stroying the people who composed
it, and to lash the South into sub.
mission by Il blockade of the sea
coast, and a 80 days campaign with
$4,000 men. Such was the state of
the nation, when Mr.. Lincoln on
the 4th of March 1861, was inaug-
urated the President of the United
States of America, and took a sol,
omn oath to "maintain the Ccnsti
tuition, and execute the laws" Has
he do ie this? We pause for a reply.
We pass on now to review the le-
gislation and craftsmanship of this
sectional party since their advent
to power, and as an impartial hist
orian, chronicle the results.
Aboltionism, the very corypheus
ofall evil, has been the ruling spir-
it of all their Legislative enactments
Bound by their oath to uphold the
Constitution-they have violated e.
very provision OF it: elected serv'
ants of a sovereign people-they
have constituted themselves tyrant'
, over a ruined nation: prohibited BY
, their oath from receiving pecunia
!, ny considerations or bribes--they
have revealed in the spells of a dis
rupted Onion, till their venality ha'
I caused them to stink in the Rostrils
! of the whole civilized world: elect
} ed to legislate for white men-they
, have "babbled of the negro" and
| epdeavored by legalized theft, ant
, murder to place him where nesthe
God nor nature intenden him to b,
5 ON an equality with the whiN
race: traitors to the Constitution
of orr Fathers, and every principl'
9 of justice and equity-they how
"treason-treasou" against patriots
in whose very, footsteps they arr
8 not worthy to tread Emancipation
elevation and alteration of the ne
g gro-war, c~onfiscation, high tariff
= and taxation for the white man
n make up the record of abolition le
y;slation for the past two years.
n What are the results? "a Unio'
S Of thirty'three sovereign State