The mountain Democrat., 1863-04-04
But Two Parties.

There can bo but two parties in the
coming election-the Democratic and the
Abolition and men must take sides with
one or the other. ARMED neutrality
will not do at this momentouS crisis oi
our country's history no true American
can be an indifferent spectator OF the
contcst--a contest in which is involved
not only the integrity of the Union but
the liberties Of the white race. The
\ 2 - A. 4t4atty stands pledged to the
Constitution as it is and the Union as
it was" the Abolition party has viclated
the one and seeks to destroy the other.
The Democratic party holds that this
| Government was made on the white ba-
sis by white men, for the benefit OF
white men and their pOsteri:y forever )"
the Abolition party holds that negroes
are as good as white men, and are enti-
tied to all the rights, privileges and bene-
nus oT white men. The DsWe-- .->4 ,fArty
ihT0rs the elevation of The white race ;
the Abolition party is trying to degrade
it and elevate the black. The Abolition
lists in Congress and in our State Legisla-
ture have legislated almost exclusively
70 the negroes-the Democrats for the
whites. The proceedings Of the late Con-
gress and our present Legislature prove
this. Bills for the relief and for the ben
eft Of white men were introduced into
Congress by Democrats and indefinitely
postponed by the Abolitionists and the
Abolitionists of our Legislature, under
the lead of Warwick, Fitch, Smith Gas
kell, Perkins and SanderSon, are follow
ing the bright example of their Con-
gresSional superiors. Sanderson, in his
blind devotion to Abolitionism, has al
lowed his prcjudices to overcome his
Judgment, and has introduced and sup
ported bills which he knows to be clearly
unconstitutional and supremely ridicu
lous and wholly partisan. He seems to
take malignant pleasure in getting up
bills to perSecute his former supporters,
and, in doing so, sinks the lawyer in the
fanatic.
With which party will loyal men
unite? With the party that "carrles
the flag and keeps step to the music of
the Union"-thc Union which our IA
thers formed? With the party that
holds that the interests of the white are
superior to the black race? With the
party that objects to taxing the people to
purchase, feed and clothe the slaves Of the
South? With the party that opposes the
proclamation, negro testi
mony bills and arbitrary arrests? With
the party that has always obcyed the
laws, respected the Constitution and
made our country the glory Of the world ?
Or with the miserable Abolition traitors
who have, at first covertly, then openly,
always persistently, labored to destroy
the Union? There is no middle ground.
Men are either Democrats or Abolitionists
either opponents or supporters of the
Federal Administration-an Administra-
ton known to be under the control of
the worst Abolitionists of the country
Aboitionists who have publicly declared
that they "preferred the Chicago Plat
form to fifty Unions;" that the old
Union was the incarnation of injustice"
covenant with death and league
with hell; J" and that they are not for the
Union as it was, but Union as it
ought to bel"-a Union in which the ne
grOes shall be on an equality with white
men. The Union that Washington,
Hamilton, Adams, Jeffer son and Madison
formed; the Union that jackson, Clay,
W Webster and Wright respected and loved,
is good enough for Democrats. They
want no better, desire "no change, least
Of all such change as" Abolitionists wish
to introduce.