Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-23

Inc antl-sfavery vote was not the Increas
: of anti-slavery feeling; but the peopl
, driven into the anti-slayery PARTY. a. th
only means of reaking down deprave'
l statesmanship corrupted by the slav
power. France has been called a mon
archy, modified by songs; Russia despoI
, ism, tempered with assassination; and 1
not the American Republic = Democracy
checked, not Chicsgoed, by ws;chful mi
noritiesf The great distinction betveel
despotism and Democracy is that in th
! first the minority is dominant and sta
tionsry; in the last it Is patient, subor
dinate and fuctusting. The minority o
to-day, fresh from communion with tn
people, may be the majority OF tomorrow
administering their sympathies IN Gov
srnment; snd the minority relieved Of ths
elevation and importance of official life
go back To renew and strengthen thei
affections with the people. Thus Ih'
system harmonizes, power rotates, ant
the Republic is safe. Great benefits are
sometime, in the minority, and gres
evils often in the majority. but with {
little patience they inevitably change
places. No anan in this Union ever ad-
voestes policy or party. that was moi
at some time or another in power. FRS
it is Biddle's Bank, and then Bentoni
hard currency is triumphant Asssachu
sets tariff, and South Carolina's free
trade, anIiliquor, anti REM aud know
Nothing, each oy turn swearing In Iheil
hobby; WilmoI proviso. then Dred Scott
decision, ana last 10 come-Rnd YET Il
last alwRys-emancipation. Poor, wild
eyed, closet-ridden fansticism. CoIsti-
tutionally, peItinsciouslY despisad Abo
| litionism Humanity driven into cor
ner, reduced 10 a seventy years whisper
started 20 its feet by the cannon of Da-
Wis, and hoated By the blood of both Into
the tireside possession of every slayehold
or or hater in this serf banished land
Negotiation means nothing. unless il
means independence, out of the Union.
1t means foreign power, built upon the
ruins of our domestic hearthstones, or the
whole repnblic, with the vital elements
of all republicans gone-obedieace to the
will of the majority; Union. with the
principle of unity dissolved; and whan
that Is gone, who will calm the jsrrins
States? Who will give US dignity and
consideration abroadi Where. then, is
the great republic? What, then do you
mean by an American citiEenE Because
one party favored the African, must all
parties give up this beautiful Angio-Ssxon
America? Because the Constitution re-
served to the States powers not necessary
to the General Government, shall those
which are necessary and which 1t did
delegate to the General Government be
At the mercy and the sophistry or the in
iouity of any State which imagines some
body at some time, intends to injure them
(Applsuse.) What do We mean by State
sovereignty! The States are spontsns-
Gus communities, born OF the accidents OF
migration and settlements. The Union il
the deliberate act OF all the States. The
national power is so much efStste Rights
surrendered to protect the rest. And
the States that strike at the nation
strike at the rights of the States that
make the nation. ..4
A oitisen is born in South Carolina, raises
cotton in Alabama. and dies in Cilitor-
mia. His cradle is rocked under one ju-
risdiction. his pockets filed or emptied
by another, and his coffin buried in 9
third; but he is always in the Union
that more continuous, overshadowing and
souaprehensiye home, into which reach
his loftiest pride of empire, his deepest
dreams of progress. his more varied and
interlacing pursuits of business, ambition
or pleasure. Which Stats did. JET. Ds
Wis risk his neck for? Kentucky bore
him. he studied treason all his life in
Mississippi, commenced to practice it in
Alabama, graduated classic culprit in
Virginia. and is fast advancing into that
state of dependency which is resumlng
the sovereignty over him. bow came
A. n IN fofhar daRI
mating heresyf / confess see nothing
SO attractive in the present position OF
that party to stand by it when Democra-
ey itself is perishing in their hands. Lett
US distinguish between the Democratic
and the Democratic organiza-
ton. The Democratic community are
sincere, patriotic, and credalous. ifthey
vote wrong, they mean right; II they fol-
low knaves and demagoguss, they believe
them champions Of the principles theyi
love and cherish. How well the Demo
cratic organization knew how to play on
these patriotic cards. By vigorous cries
Of TRAITOR" ''turncoat," ''go with your
party" she is a black Republican"
"stand by the Democrasy"-thess are
the magic phrases upon which they pre-
sumo 10 whip into line all who would
rebel against fraud, treachery, imbecility,
and disunion. We know where TO find
the peace party. They are open and
honest. Strong advocates for weak gov
ernments, they banker for ruins as Eng
hshmen do for tainted cheese. (Appiause
and laushter.) Nuddled with Calhoun
about State Sovereignty, in
the winter Of our fortunes, they 90 South |
for their policies. as inyalids do Tor their |
health. The larger and sdroiter wing
have no theories and no principles but
for power They talk war for Northern |
votes, that they make peace for South
srn votes. Lusting for Southern suPporti
they would legalizs Southern treason and |
rob the North of the right to stable gov
eminent, by turning this Union into the
hall door of q tenement house, where |
States may 90 in and out and track their
dirt as they please, while we intend that
il shall be Theoretically sealed jar to |
preserve the fruits of our fathers from 80
destructive an atmosphere | charge the |
Democratic leaders with acting in this |
crisis without dignity, consistency, COM |
mon sense or courage. With increasing, |
through envy and disappointment, the
very evils they themselves helped TO pro- |
duce, charge them with going to the |
Charleston Convention is 1860, and with
their numerical minority as voters, and
their numerical majority as delegates, at
tempting to force on that convention 8
candidate, who. by his part in disturbing
the Missouri compromise, could not sue |
ceed at the north, and because of his
vote ON the Lecompton bill would fail at
the South. Refusing all compromise at
that time, when concession might have
saved the party and the country, and
then denouncing the Republicans because
they would not conciiiare and compro-
mise with violence and treason. when
such concession would have been degra-
ding and useless, charge the Democrat
ic leaders and presses with pretending to
advocate the war, stamping ''the Union
at all hazards" on their Danners, and
then nominating Peace candidates, who
after being smuggled through the ballot
boxes with the War cry. seat themselves
down in Congress to vote, the soldiers In
the nounfrv in ruina / ahaFOa