Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-29
Peace and War Democrats.

| win divide their votes at the coming elec'
tion. Their efforts in this behalf are o mos1
senseless waste of time and labor. All the
honest, good people of the country, irre'
spective of party, are for peace upon hon
orable terms, and upon no other. The only
difference of opinion is as to the best mode
of securing an honorable peace. The dis
honest, regardless of consequences, portion
of those who are making money out of this
war, are really opposed to peace on any
terms. True, they pretend to be willing tt
have peace, but they always insist upor
terms which they well know make the at
tainment of peace impossible. For shame
sake they by the meanest kind of decep-
ton hide their real desire by pretending tc
desire peace, but demand it upon impossi-
BILE terms, while the honest people de-
mand peace upon the best possible terms on
which it is attainable without sacrificing
true honor. None but fools will expect
peace exactly upon the terms and condi-
tions on which they would wish it. II
thousand hinderances were out OF the
way. Men of sense desire an honorable
peace, such as Is attainable under all the
most unfortunate circumstances in which
we are involved. The Abolition leaders
and those who would make money out of
the war at the sacrifice of human beingsby
the millions, will learn i'm November next,
that the people have not forgotten the cleo
ton of 1860; that this war could and should
have been avoided; that over two millions
of our friends have already been offered up
as a sacrifice to enable the men in power to
experiment upon their new and untried dog
mas of Abolitionism; that half million
more are now demanded for the same object;
that by the end of Mr.. LINcoLN's first term
one white person for every slave in the
South, will have gone to an untimely grave
as the result of his election; that the coun-
try is full of widows and orphans; that
from being the happiest and most prosper
GUS people on earth, in three years we are
made one common country of mourning
and ruin; that the enormous expenditures
and public debt, will pecuniarily enslave
the laboring people for three genera
tions to come; that the advance Of
prices on nearly all that labor
must buy to eat and wear to nearly
four times former prices must result in
making the rich richer and the poor poorer,
until there is established here like in Eng
land a moneyed Aristocracy, with its heel
on the neck of labor. In word, these men
in power, in the language of Gen. SHEER
MAN, are leading the people of this country
$ right straight to anarchy and the devil,
if somebody don't arrest our downward
..l
The people well know that, in the very
nature of things, it is impossible to do worse
than to re-elect Mr.. LINCOLN.
The honest people will not divide, and
fritter away their power by foolish
on collateral points of minor i'm
portance. Ruin-endless ruin-is staring
Us in the face, and nothing but change in
the administration can save us. 40 lr5i .
The men in power have shown them
selves too wicked to avoid war-too i'm
beetle to successfully prosecute the war
md totally incompetent to conclude an
honorable peace. The people in 1860 were
disposed to try new party, and they have
paid the full price of a dangerous expert
nent 1t has been the dearest school they
have ever been in, and they will never for
ret the lesson. The recollection of the
election of 1860 makes human
ty shudder. When Mr.. LINCOLN will leave
he White House in 1866, although he will
hen know that the slaves are not all free, |
le will know that for each slave one white |
,erson fills an untimely grave. While he
will not be able to claim comparison of
lis administration with any former one, he
an claim four years in history unparallel-
d in human slaughter, suffering, devasta-
ion and ruin. While he may not point to |
full treasury, he may claim the greatest
,ur years of financial destruction the
World ever saw.
The good people of this country have this
onsolation and encouragementin the COM
ig contest: that there is only one political
arty that has any party claims upon its
lembers, and that is the tried, constitution
!, Union Democratic party. The Republic
an party is no more and its members are
zee to vote as judgment may direct. The
lort lived "Union" party is dead. The
Unionn and "Loyal" Leaguers, are on their
eath-beds; and the people are free. Herein
the hone of our c0nntrY.