The mountain Democrat., 1864-04-16
il Hi'ss salJ faSs.

N"SN ~ ANP'VS~PuE@py COhItFDeuNY W
misca gessnG- and ealunniats the Demo
cratic party, are in the habit of calling
Democrats disqniOpists and traitors, the
better to cOvss 6pE tbslrOws inAmy and
EAAssasear eoa-te1iVsPt aAAsHtie~ ro@AAs
viHainy Of thsiF employers. This comes
With good grace frOm spsEty which has
sealOusly labOrsd for years 10 dissolve the
Upion-fom 9 party whose record Is
black Nth treason and eowArdics-a par
ty which uullffBsd laWs Of Congress-
party which called and exulted in the
Hartford Convention and which urged the
Msxicans to welcome with bloody hands
to hOspitable graves" the American sol.
diers fighting for their eountry-a party
which rallied under a sectional Gag in the
Presidential contest Of SO and adopted q
sectional Platform in '6O--a party which
encouraged John Brown in his treason
and has deifled the traitors party whose
chief opposed the Government" when it
Was at war with Mexico. For such trail
tors to talk about the "treason of Demo.
Gratis to the Government" is incarnated
insolence. Twenty years ago portion Of
the people Of Massachusetts-"loyal Mas
sachusetts"-petitioned Congress for a
dissolution Of the Union, which petition
was presented by John Quincy Adams.-
During the same session a petition for
the same purpose was presented by JOSH
ua r. Giddings, one Of Mr.. Lincoln's ap-
pointees. In 1850, several petitions, Of a
like character, were presented to the Uni
ted States Senate by John P. Hale, Of
New Hampshire, and received the sup
port Of Hale, Seward and Chase, ell lead
ers Of the Administration party. Seward
and Chase are members Of Mr.. Lincoln's
Cabinet, and prate loudly of their love for
the Union. No petition for dissolution
of the Union was ever signed or presented
to Congress by Democrat These are
historical facts and cannot be refuted. -
The Democratic party promptly and in
dignantly and unanimously denounced
the petitions and petitioners, and its rep.
resentatives in Congress voted against the
reception Of the petitions. And to-day
the Democratic party stands precisely
where it stood then-inhexibly opposed
to dissolution Of the Union and inhexi.
bly, opposed to Abolitionism.
All the good and great statesmen Of our
country frequently admonished the peo-
pie, if they wished to avert fratricidal
war and prevent q dissolution of the
Union, to beware Of the Abolition faction.
They knew it was fanatical, sectional
and reasonable faction, and predicted that
its triumph would destroy the Union
The great Webster, in language at once
prophetic and forcible, said: "If the in
fernal Abolitionists ever get power in their
hands, they will override the Constitution,
set the Supreme Court at defiance, change
and make laws to suit themselves, lay vi
olent hands on those who differ with them
in opinion; and finally thsy will bankrupt
the country, and deluge it with blood. ~
Henry Clay was equally emphatic in de-
nouEcing them, and no man Of any repu.
tation justified their course or advocated
their doctrines, On this point there was
no difference Of opinion between North
ern. Southern, and Western statesmen.-
Differing widely on other questions and
belonging to different party organizations,
with singular unani,nity they agreed and
united in opposition to Aboliiionism. 1t
is the same vicious and detestable ism
now it was then; its creed and its leaders
and its aims are the same and yet, by
some unaccountable infatuation, the peo-
pie, after experiencing its evils. seeing its
corruption and suffering from its intole.
rance and tyranny, sustain it. That some
are Influenced by fear to support it, is pa
tent to the dullest that vast number of
its adherents embraced and sustain it
from mercenary motives, none will have
the audAcity to gainsay. One of its or.
gans in this State, with q frankness and
sincerity foreign to it's nature, artlessly
confesses that it "pays" to be a member
Of the Administration party and this art.
less confession discloses the secret Of the
apparent popularity Of Abolitionism.-
The venal, servile and ambitious hocked
to its ranks and made contemplate fac
ton formidable party; the venal for
pay, the servile through fear, and the am.
bilious Cor power and this deIectable or
ganization of Hessians, cravens, swindlers
and demagogues, "hcld together by the
cohesive power Of public plunder," now
govern, and unless defeated next Novem.
Der. will bankrupt the country and de.
luge it with blood"
The Congressional record, the testimo'
ny of Webster, Clay, and other eminent
and patriotic statesmen, and the avowalS,
votes and policy Of the leaders of the Alb.
Olition party, prove it disunion party !;
and when its subsidized organs and de.
Chalmers call Democrats disnnionists and
traitors, let them silence the slanderers
by proving from history, AS we have done,
that the accuSers and not the accused are
traitors themselves or the tools of traitors.
A LONG WAR.-The leaders of the Ad.
ministratiOn party, shoddy contractors