Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-23
N, TRUMBUlL COUNTY OHIO WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER %, 1864

ham Lincoln N 1850, because he was ontj
the available candidate OF what seemed
still more unavailable party; but the fooC
o. insurreetion in 1864, has swept him up
on the ArSrst of the argument. and tn,
Chicago party have made his election TIA,
only test of true citizenship. Applause.
You cannot inAict upon the Southern
crime so severe q Presidential punishment
as the re election Of Abraham Lincoln
Whatever that guilty community hav,
suffered, of desolstion or slaughter, o.
weeping homes or broken hearts, has fall
en- upon them In streams of national ret
ribution, poured from the chasiened hand
of Abraham Lincoln. When you re-eleci
him you re-elect the unbroken and un-
compromising march of the sovereign su-
premacy. Few men, if any man, could
have carried this Government Though
such eonjuncture without committing
errors enough to insure the success Of any
opposition. candidly and patriotically
msrshaled. Unfortunately for US. uRwise-
ly for them, the Democratic leaders have
so shaped the canvass that We dare not
change our rulers for fesr Of changing
our institutions. Yitisted by long habits
of political intrigue, they judged the pop
ular intelligence from their own degener-
ate stand point. Because the people asked
for reform, they thought they would bear
revolution. because some were willing 10
accept an Improvement on Abraham Lin
coin, they imagined it a good time to ad
minister q weak dero on Of Vallandig-
ham, JEFF, Davis and Benedict Arnold
The American people are people Of sen
tinleut. Tney are CASING down into the
profoundest depth of this question As
surely as the springs Of the earth are
gushing pure and sweet beneath the blood
Of battle, Just 20 sure, under the horrors
of war, do We behold the refreshing
streams of future order. stability and
peace. The American, people are also .
business people. They estimated the
profits and losses of this war; they
have diopped In one scale the tears,
the graves, the taxes, the crippled limbs
and ruined homes, and In the other scale
they have placed the unity; the progress
and the prosperity of America; and they
know how such profits outweigh all its
losses. They see rising from the crimson
mist frmer, securer nationality, no l51-
ger st the mercy of the sophist or the
conspirstor, just as restricted, but more
respected of all States and nations. We
see, too. the States-always inviolate with
in their just sphere-no longer, with an
arrogant Intrusiveness. aspiring to unsettls
the guardianship of the nation. If Abra-
ham Lincoln is the tyrsnt and imbecils
they call him, the Democratic party had
great card in their hands, and the peo
Ide will hold them responsible for trifing
with the crisis and throwing away the
game. If the President il weak, better 9
weak man with q strong cause, than an
Indifferent man with no cause at all. Pro-
Tossing to be horrifed at the usuYpations
of the Administration, the Chicago party
have left the people no alternative but
to hold on to Mr.. Lincoln or give up the
country. What kind of q country is 10
that elects the hicsgo ticket A major
ity of the people will then have decided |
that the principle of obediencs to the |
will of the majority can lsnger be main
tanned; that il fSiled by peace in 1850; |
that it has failed by war in 1854. Elect |
that ticket, and you elect q laugh st our
own arrogance, imbecility and coWardice;
you elect an acknowledgement that eight
millions of people, armed with an inn
practicable sophistry are too much for |
twenty millions backed by the eternal
truths of republican faith and national |
Oh but 1NcClellan's letter
is sound on the war. When was the
Democratic machine ever stopped by q
letter Franklin Pisrce's inaugural de-
clared that the slavery question should
never be revived during his administra-
ton, and in one year the land was wild
with the repeal of the Missouri Comprom-
ise. James Buchanan made similar dec |
iaration, and the blast from Kansas al
most blew out the light Of the republic.
A scratch Of the pen does not prove a
man. A campaign letter is not = candi-
date character. II you want to know
Mcclellan, you. must find out his habit.
though and feeling. Who are his friends!
What are all his ass Citations and sur
reudings7 They make the man. not the
slectioneering words. The very virtues
of the person would be the vice of the
Administration. The men who made him
are heart and soul with the South. If he
is grateful. he will be true to them, and
so, false to the country. Eieot the Chi
ca 20 ticket, and the Democratic party |
will tell you that the people had decided
in favor OF negotiation. You knew, and
| know, and all the world knows, that
success in nsgotistion depends on success
in war The South will say to your Com
missioners, we went to war for independ-
ence; you went to war to PREVENT it. You
have been throwing shot and shell upon
US for three wears and half without cry
ing enough. IL your war is failure ours
is q suct es., and We demand the fruits of
1.-THE Acknowledgement of our indepen-
dsnce. What other guarantees could
you give them! Ths Republican Con-
gress Of 1851 unanimously guaranteed
slavery in the States, and refused to dis
turb it in orgsnixing new territories. If
the South wanted more at the commence
ment of the war, in Gods name, what
will they demand when you have pro
that war failurei Applsuse.I
Lincoln offered them through the first
them back their negroes, he guaranteed
them every right under the Constitution,
and what was thu snswerf Mors armies
to invade Us. more pirates to buFn orr
helpless merchantmen, more lmportu-
mites for foreign aid to CO operats against
US; and if these fail, the last ditch more
welcome than the tsmpls OF Washing
ton. t. |
General AcEle Han, In repeating Mr..
Lincoln'i past, is only walking through |
thescanyass in that gsntlenas'sold boots.
If elected, backing his car On the worn
ont rails of 1861 and 1862, to end whore
the colonies began, amid the confusion
and anarchy of aboriginal conflicts. John
Van Buren, in . speech At Hudson, told
the people shat Lincoln had perverted
the objects of the war. More than ayesr
ago, on Madison Square, he declared that
slavery deserved its doom. Before the
war, that prophetic politician informed
the North if secession took place it would /
be but holiday task for US to 30 South
and re-annex them without slavery
Where are ws to placs ticket With such
somersault supportsrsi Here is ono of
the original founders of the latter anti
slavery party going about the country
denouncing his own. ofspring. Depend
upon IL, people who could drop two