The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-09-02

our midst, many of which are in Sc
cret league with the rebellion, whick
cal itself ostensibly, the Democratic
party, aud which seeks 10 stop the
war for the Union by elccting aPres-
ident opposed TO its further prosecu-
tion, aud Ivy electtng a Congress op.
posed to coercion, and pledged, in the
words Of the resolutions adopted in
the Democratic Convention of Bel
mont county, on the goth of July last,
''to the vigorous prosecution Of peace
Iand TO demand OF Abraham Liucoln
Ihostilities cease, and that an armis.
ticc be proclaimed, and q convention
'ol all the States he called, when all
our differences can he constitutionally
adjusted" That is the issue tender.
ed to-day by Joseph w. Write and
his pretended Democratic party, to
the people of the 10Th Congressional
District.
IL is the same party which was tru.
ly represented by James Buchanan
when he declared in his message of
December 4th, 1860, that it was un-
constitutional to coerce traitors in
arms. This party does to-day what
il did then; it declares in favor of
armed treason, and revolt, and against
the country. Surely this is not the
Democracy of the dead Jackson or
Douglas-nor the Democracy of the
living lion-hearted Andrew johnson
of Tennessee. The representative
man in the 10TH Congressional Dis
trict, of this spurious Democracy,
which declares in its resolution to day
l"for vigorous prosecution OF peace
and "demands of Abraham Lincoln
that hostilities on the part of the
Government cease" is the same Jo-
seph W. White who. two years ago,
told the people "thnt he was for
vigorous prosecution OF the war, and
would, if elected, vote in Congress
for tie men and means so to prose-
cute it. lie was elected on his pledge
and he broke it by voting against, or
withholding his vote from all bills
for the prosecution Of the war.
To-day Mr.. White and his party
have the audacity TO say, in their pub
lished resolutions. 10 the people whom
he thus betrayed, "we are for vigor-
Gus prosecution Of peace and de-
mand Of Abraham Lincoln ''that hos
Utilities, on the part of the Govern
mcnt, cease" He has violated, say
these conspirators, the rights Of
States by prosecuting this war against
these armed traitors, This is only
another way of saying that traitors
lin arms against this Government, and
without colorado excuse for their
treason, are to he protected in their
crime against the nations laws, and
! in the cruel and hcartlcss tyranny
with which day by day they oppress
and crush every faithful citizen who
falls within their grasp. The consti.
tutional rights of traitors--thc con-
stiCutional sanction of their internal
tyranny Shade of Jefferson cover
with eternal infamy this spurious De-
mocracy which rejects your immortal
utterancc, 81 have sworn, on the alt
ar OF nv God, eternal hostility to
tyranny, in every form, over the mind
and body Of man" A sublime De-
mocracy, that, which solemnly AYERS
II TO be the sacred right of traitors
in arms to hold their slaves as an cl.
cmcnt of strength whilst they assail,
with the red hand Of treason, the very
Constitution which shelters them.
Representatives of the pcoplo--say
A n1 Ia a
shnm Democracy in 1862, and il in.
iamously betrayed you you elected
, its candidates to the 3Sth Congress,
because you believed their then false
professions Of patriotism, that they
were for vigorous prosecution of
= the war, and that their candidates,
thus elected to Congress upon false
> prctenscs, used your power in resist.
ing eve " war measure Of the Govern
e mcnt, thereby giving aid and com.
: fort to the enemy; and to-day, in
your presence, declare that they are
for vigorous prosecution of peace
), that they demand Of Abraham Lin
u coin that hostilitics against thei
allies in revolt shall cease, and tha
, an armistce he proclaimed. Make
it known to the loyal people of th'
!, District that their representative in
Congress, Joseph w. White, though
dumb in the House of Representatives
is out-spokcn amid his partsans IL
\ the Democratic Convention at st
Clairsville, in demanding, that hos
tilities cease on the part OF Abraham
Lincoln. and in declaring for "a Wig
/ orous prosecution of peace, by cow
II ardly surrender of this last expert
y ,mcnt of free representative Govern
mcnt to traitors. s...
To tho defiant treason Of JEFF Da
:, Wis, the Democratic Convention D
Il Belmont and Joseph w. White res
{ pond, the war on the part of thu
9 Government, can never restore tn,
I .Union-wc are for vigorous prose
!, cution OF fpeacc, and therefore demand
! of Abraham Lincoln that hostilities
I, cease and an armisticc be proclaimed
Il Consider this profound proposition
i lIostilities are to cease by the act o
I Abraham Lincoln. BY what act p
) The withdrawal Of the armies of th'
r Union from Vickshurg, and New Or
!, leans. from Richmond aud Atlanta
e from Texas and the Carolinas, from
u Missouri and ArkanS Sas. Inbccility
itself would not demand of Abraham