The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-08-18
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SINCE THE WAR BE0AN--THE
LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRACY
VENTILATED &C
The war don I rage in the Demo.
cratic party like it did. When Sum.
ter was fired upon by the rebels, the
Hon. W. Z. Finck was for war. The
first war meeting held in his native
town, was graced by his presence and
animated by his eloquence. He was
angry with the rebels. The blood
rushed to his throbbing temples, and
his fiery Indignation became unspeak.
able. The voice of Douglas led him
to cry for bloody vengeance upon the
pejured wrctchcs who assailed the
Union ofour fathers. He was for war
vigorous and bloody war; and to
this end, invoked the united efforts
OF both parties. Parties in time of
war were dangerous, and patriotism
required their oblitcration for could
not all unite for the Union! How
changed now is VIM. z. Finck? His
voice is now for peace. The CAIN
paigns have all been failures. The
rebellion is too strong. No more men,
no more money, only for the men that
cant help being in the army, is now
the motto of this early champion
OF the war. Elected as war man,
he seeks reelection as a peace man.
He is subjugatcd. The rebels arc too
much for US. lie surrenders, and
bcgs TOR terms. Poor Billy!
He is not the man for these times,
which try mems souls. With him the
war fever has subsided. The peace
men may trust him.
VIM, Allen was for war, but not
until 1862. Then this lion Of Democ-
racy roared out in favor of "guns in
the hands of Democrats" He was
for the war-Lincoln's war, or any
bodys' war-but Tor war at all haz-
ards against rebels. His support of a
peace candidate last fall, for Governor,
proves him to be subjugated also, but
he is too proud to acknowledge the
plain truth.
But who supposes now that Edison
B. Olds, the great Douglas champion
Of his state-the man incarcerated in
Fort Lafayette--in a Lincoln bastile,
for discouraging enlistments, was ev.
er a war man; yet such is the fact.
AS long as Douglas lived, and gave
promise of ability to dispense the
spoils of Office, no man ever hear Ed
son B. oppose the war policy of Doug
las. He even advised enlistments in
to the army, and bid on contracts to
subsist the three months men rendez-
vousing at Lancaster He sought to
link himself with the Lincoln Com
missariat, in aid of the "Abolition-
ists," to "crush the rebellion" But
Douglas died it may be the contract
failed, and the Democratic party, like
negro chattles, passed into the hands
Of the Breckenridge Vallandigham
purchasers. Edison deserted the war
party, and became a martyr under
his Breckenridge masters, to prove his
sincerity in the service of new leaders.
Edison, too, is now one Of tho subjuga-
ted Democracy.
But there is Buchanan's pet, the
Hon. Billy Medill, fresh from Wash
ington and the councils of Buck, who
Matched out the brilliant idea, after
preserving incubation, that "a state
has no right to scccdc, but if it does
secede, there is no constitutional pow
er to coerce it," Who would believe
that Medill ever became, according to
southern parlance, particepS crimiiAS to
the sin of favoring war against his
Southern Brethren" yet such is the
fact. lie counseled the appointment
of the best officers for several regi-
ments, that the war might be wagcd
to tho best advantage. He regretted
that he was not in better health, so he
might Ego in" himself; but he was
told he need not pretend to be an in
valid, for such dodge, TO avoid the
draft, would not win. Thus from op-
posing coercion of states, ho became
the counselor of tho best means to
coerce them, and now is himself not
only coerced, but by his acts confesscs
to subjugation and pleads for peace.
The Hon. G.. d. Martin, whose
youthful genius gave hopeful signs Of
high renown, so yielded to popular
passion as to fall into the war current,
and so far mastered his inclination to
''go with the South" as to appeal to
other men to enlist in Lincoln's raid
upon Southern rights. Ho even would
have accepted coloncl's commission,
in Lincoln's army, but not obtaining
it, he began to look at tho rebellion
through Vallandigham goggles, and
now imagines the whole North the
worst whipped and most completely
subjugated people of which history
keeps the record. This sustains the
southern idea, too, that "one southern
er is equal to FIVE northerners in a
fight" The Hon. Charles is now
among the suppliants at the feet Of his
southern master. ,..
There is still another burning and
shining light of the Democracy, who
happened TO be in the Senate of Ohio,
when the "war broke out" on him
like small pox, the Hon. n. Schleich,
of tho 18th District of Ohio. His
voice was so strong for war, that he
was made d "Gigadier Brindel" in
the three months service; during
which time he condescended to offer
Rosecrahs ard McCleland place upon