M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-04-21

Cu'i'o iu Out NsJ uOSa tHS nanu--Vttl
morse, without law. Nutwithsland-
ing what have said about tho mob
bing Of AbolItlopists that was sim
ply popular violence-the "Goyern-
ment," under Democratic auspices,
never committed any such outrages.
Tho establishment OF despoiislu o7eI
speech and press, under official sane
tion and support, can only be charged
upon the Federal party in the days
OF Jefferson, and the same party nOv
uaineless IN our own day. On this
Subject, therefore, and on this occasi-
on, denounee that psr.y--tho anci-
ent and implacabls ensm. OF Damo-
cracy--and that party only. OF the
Abolitiohiss | am fres to cay thus
much: that ii in their mad rnco they
trod freCmen down, hey did it in
haste to lit the jona- man up, But
the Republican party tr1d FREQ insli
tntionS down, only 10 lit despotisnl
up. Oar combat with the A Abolition,
ists Is tho battle of Greek with Greek
the one being anxious above all for
tho freedom OF tho white man, the
other thinking chiefly ot the black
The struggle between Democracy and
the Federal Fenl which dominates
ns, has been the struggle between
man in Paradise aud the serpent
which rainOd him; and the ranks OF
its followers to day arc filed with
honest anc brave hearts, LED there By
its glittc:ing professions OF free
speech" and free press" late so ire
quenl on its tongue even as Eve
was heguiled by the honeyed words
OF the tempter. Tho Paradise is lost.
1t is girded round with fro and
sword so that We lnay not enter.
Tho curse Of oar aposthcy is upon us p.
But in the glinmeriug distance We
watch for the coming of the New
EVangel. We may wait long AMI
YEARLY; we may not know it when
it comes; tho saviour Of this people
may snier martytdom and be despis
ed and rejected bv men; it may bc
that be hae come already; it may be
that Burnside was tho ExecutiOner
and Abraham Lincoln the Pun,ius
Plate who washed his hands Of the
whole matter, yst delivered him up
to the officers. Bs that as ii may ,
the day Of our redemption cometh /;
aud The apostles, from tho few and
the humble, shall become the many
an1 the powerful, aud tho Paradise
lost" Tlall become tho "ParaIse re-
gained y
recogniz, tbs band VI all Almigh-
ty Justice in our Affections. We have
erred and now sulf!r the consequent
COS Ol forgetting tho maxim oICiceru:
"BHacnass can never bo expediOnt." "
Bat aG Jacob wcestIed with the angel
Of tho Lord through the night, and
though h's thigh shrank beueath the
angels touch, etill struggled on until
re obtained the blessing, so shall
American liberty wrcatlo with Gods
juatico till the dawn aud como forth,
weakened, inieed, and Impoverished,
yet triumphant, witt: the blsssing OF
Heaven mantling her brow and her
venomous foe wr:thing in its death
sgonies at her ioe.. The lameuted
Douglas said, from his place 10 the
Senate, "the sole responsibility OF
our Disagreement, and tho only diff
Guilty in the way vi an amicabIe ad-
Jnstment, is with the Republican par
ty," when speaking OF tho troubles in
tue South. And now, say, that tho
500 responsibility OF NIB law and
despotiSm, and the only diEicnlsy in
the way Of having ptacs snd !ibeay
in tue North, rests with that same
party. And this last wrong was the
necessity" resulting from the first
charged against it BY :he great Dtmo
cratic statesmen.
"TL;ngs bad began maintain themselves
by i!l.'
And the Democratic party must
undo both those wrongs, or these
mo5s will become cot only occasional,
bnt frequent; until, at last, the
streets run blood, ard worse than
French Revolution is upon us. The
followers Of jefferson, therefore, in
entering on the contest now so close
upon us sro opening campaign of
exceeding grandeur and importance.
1t is nothing less than another act in
the great drama OF human liberty, in
which we are to choose an2 play our
parts; and be who accepts tho op-
pressor's role cannot dotf it when the
scene is ended hp' wi'l 90 down to
posterity covered with i,s odiuui, aud
leave it as an iniparishable legacy Of
infamy to his children. We are to
engage in no new undertaking, to
vinlicate nc Dew principle; but, on
the contrary, ara surrounded With "a
cloud OF witnesses" who have gona to