Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-09-26

England has sunk one-eighth of her popu-
lation in the poor-houses, all in vain-it we
de not learn the lesson her debt teaches,
that war brings debt, that debt represents
poverty, and that poverty breeds crime,
and that crime disorganizes society. We
glide along on summer sea of prosperity.
wealth at the prov and war at the oar; but
the vision will soon vanish, leaving the skel-
eton of our hopes, as the answer to the in.
sane cry of the last man and the last dollar!
What, then, is the remedyp III the
American people desire peace with Union,
and Union which is strOngin its members
"a Union permanent because the States are
assured of their dignity end equality, they
must defeat lincoln and his party, and
elect Mcclellan and prefer the Democracy
and their principles.
| To this end the Democracy, in their plat
| form, propose, by all peaeeahle means, to
| negotiate. An armistice is not necessary
TO open negotiations. Let commissioners
| be appointed; let the Democratic President
proclaim the illegal proclamations of his
predecessor null and void; let the sovereign
people of each sovereign State send its
wisest men to grand national council, and
| there take steps toward the rebuilding of
the shattered system; and three months will
not elapse before the hoZannahs ofa generous
and Union-loving people will hail the adj
vent of peace as if it were the second coming
of a new salvation to our world! Well may
Southern papers, in anticipation of such
time, prophesy that the accession Of a
conservative Democrat, like Mcclellan, who
would repeal the proclamation and make
oyertures to the South to return, with
guarantee of constitutional rights, would
be the paralysis of the South and the ele
vation of party to power, invincible for
the Union! The Democracy can establish
peace with Union. That they will never
consent to peace based on separation,
is as true as that they never will use their
power for war of subjugation. Anxious
for peace, and ready to hail it as perma-
nent condition; and, finding only its per-
manence in Union, they will never consent
to lose its blessings by conducting a war
which makes union impossible, or a peace
which ends in the same disaster. Peace
and Union, Democracy and Fraternity.
If the Democratic party can not accom-
plish this splendid achievement, who can?
BY the party in power came disunion. Can
Belzebub cast out devils? Can the Repub-
lican party, without dying, unsectionalize
itself? Can Lincoln and his partisans yield
their moral convictions to political wis
dom? No. There is but one hope. 1t does
not lie in Abraham's bosom, but in the bos-
ON of the people, in national convention,
marSnaled IN their OLD array unuer tne
Democratic banner.
Such a result, as the Union restored,
would add new vigor to our Republic, and
new grandeur to our age! Over such a re-
suit the fathers of the Democratic party
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson-whose policy,
when followed, gave such splendor to our
nation, and such strength to our States,
would smile in approval, and their very
| spirits dilate at the prospect OF redeemed
land through the manifestations of these
attributes OF mutual charity upon which
they built and hoped forever to have our
Government sustained! While such influ-
encos still remain with U.S. Will not des-
pair of the people. 1t is the people who
suffer, and it is they who must save them
selves. In vain-in vain we invoke ouI
God to help us: unless we help ourselves
l believe the people will at last arise in
their majestic might and do it! This is my
hope and prayer.