Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-08
The Mendacity of the Abolition
Press.

AS the election approached the Abolition
papers gradually increased the number and
mendacity of their lies and slanders, until
even those journals making pretentions to
respectability have become as reckless and
malicious as the most obscure country
sheets. The Objects to "bewilder the peo-
pie as to the issues of the election and cx-
asperate them by perversions of TRUTH" to
vote against Democracy, and if possible
instigate massacre of Copperheads. -
An article of the character alluded to ap-
peared in The Cincinnati Commercial of yes
terday on the " Copperhead Press" which
may be parodied as follows-the parody
being nearer the truth than the original:
These mendacious Abolition sheets con-
stantly charge upon the Democracy the
sole responsibility of the war, the increase
of taxes, and enforcement of drafts. This
they do in the face of the notorious facts
that the Democracy had nothing to do in
getting up the war, that they labored to
avert it, when Abolitionists prayed for
it, when HORACE GREELEY rendered
the South his assistance and when LINCOLN
justified secession in speech in which he
declared "any people anywhere" had
right to throw off a government that did
not tsuit them; and that as to conscription, the
Democracy have always been opposed to
that anti-American mode of raising troops.
Yet in view of this, that mendacious Abo-
lition sheet, The Commercial, says
"Now the truth is II the Democracy had
given their support in good earnest to the
essential war measures, there would have
been plenty of troops raised without draft
ing"
What The Commercial regards as the ''es-
sential war measures" are the miserable ne
gro proclamations, confiscation laws, the
rotten-borough system, the scatteration
policy and the measure" of sacrificing the
best Generals and the best armies of the
nation for political capital. These are re-
garded as essential war measures" by such
sheets as The Commercial. To the miserable
malice of Abolition politicians, and their
efforts to make political cap
ital, more than any other one thing, may
be attributed the necessity for drafts.
1t is perfectly plain to all who have
spark of intelligence that the alternative
before the people of the United States is
change in the Administration, or four years
more of war and the establishment of the |
rebel Confederacy through the imbecility |
of ABE LINCOLN and the craziness of the
Abolitionists who control him. But this |
proposition the demagogues of the Aboli-
tion press especially never present to their
readers, but studiously conceal all ap-
proaches to it from them.
Editors of such sheets as The Commercial
dare to charge the Democracy of the North
with being allies of the rebels, and assert
that but for the assistance they expected
from the Democracy the South never would
have begun the war. These 'rascally edit
ors' know perfectly well that the Democ-
racy were opposed to disunion, and thatth
South would not have thought of commenc-
ing the war but for the assistance from the
Abolitionists who encouraged their South
ern disunion brethren to believe that If
they wanted to leave the Union they
would be allowed "to go in peace,
and Gods blessing go with them,"
as HORACE GREELEY told them in 1861.
Northern Democrats owe the Secessionists
no good viii, for they struck hands with
the Abolitionists of the North in defeating
DOUGLAS and electing LINCOLN, and thus
broke up the Union. Nobody knows this
better than the editor of The Commercial,
who now charges the Democracy with the
responsibility of the war, and denounces
Democrats as tories because they will not
unite with the Abolitionists and Secession
lists in an attempt to make disunion a fixed
and irrevocable fact.
To conclude, we may paraphrase the Ian
guage of The Commercial as follows: The
way to remedy all the evils Of the war, re-
store all the States their electoral votes,
take from the President the extraordinary
power that he now usurps, torestore soldiers