Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-14
The Democrncy and the Union.

The Democracy nnd the Union.
1t has been said on the floor of Congress
and elsewhere, that If the Democratic party
were to come into power, at this crisis Ii
our National affairs, it could not restore
the Union. This is a sentiment which the
administration leaders desire to fasten upon
tie minds Of the people. They do not de-
sire and win not attempt restoration of
the Union, and, therefore, seek to impress
the popular mind with the belief that the
Democratic party cannot do it. But it is
obvious that if the Democrats, by coming
into power, cannot give us back the old
Union of 'S9, no other party will or can
ever restore it. We are, then, reduced to
this dilemma-either the Democracy must
re-instate the old Union, or it must be re-
garded as having perished forever
We submit, as our thorough conviction,
and we believe it is the conviction of re-
fecting men both at home and abroad, that
the only hope for the preservation of our
system Of Federal and State Governments,
rests with the Democratic party. That
party controlled the destinies of the country
for some sixty years from the adoption of
the Federal Constitution, and if its admin
istration of the Government was distin-
guished for any one thing it was for its
zeal and sacrifices in maintaining unbroken
the integrity of the Union. The Union
under Democratic administrations was fire.
cuently in imminent peril; but the ship of
state under Democratic pilotage always
safely outrode the storm. Not to refer to
minor instances, the threatened formidable
insurrection in New England during MADI-
sons Administration, and in South Caro-
lima during JAcKsoN's Presidency, are
familiar to all. The country was saved
IRON civil war, and the Republic from di-
vision by the sagacity, wisdom, energy and
patriotism of the Democratic statesmen
then at the helm.
The truth is, and our past history
proves it, that our Union was maintained
and harmony preserved between the gen.
eral government and the States, solely by
the prevalence of Democratic ideas and
policy in the councils Of the nation. The
enemies of our Union and of our peace
felt all this, and vented their spleen
against Democrats and Conservatives who
co-operated with them, by calling them
"Doughfaces,r "Union-savers," and other
opprobrious epithets. Inheriting the same
feeling, the present Administration party
is bitterly hostile to the Democracy from /
the same se-its leaders hate and perse-
cute Democrats, because the latter would
save the Union as Of old at any price-be-
cause they would preserve the Union un-
conditionaily, with all the rights of the
States unimpaired, whether slavery die, or
whether it survive.
Though the Abolition leaders would per- /,
suade the people that Democrats, by coming
into power, cannot restore the Union, it is /.
the thing they most dread. They fear that
Democrats may again have the Federal
Government in their hands, and that they
will revive and resuscitate the old Union.
1t is this that makes them more fierce
against, and more determined to put down
Democrats than rebels. The Administra-
tion partisans would sooner see the I'm
ion dissolved, and the independence of
the Southern Confedcracy acknowledged,
than see the Democrats again in power.
Why is thisp Simply, because they hate
the Union formed in 's9 more than they
do the Southern Confederacy formed in
81. The accession of the Democrats to
poWer thew fear. would reestahl;eb tba