The mountain Democrat., 1864-07-16
Not InereaaiAr.

abhor them, as the authors OF our great
the men who deliberately
plunged the country into terrible war
to carry out their fanatical doctrines
They seem stronger than heretofore, be-
CAUSE thAu have the machinery of the ma
tional and most of the State governments
to back them, and an army Of Office. hold
ers and shoddy thieves to furnish money
for electioneering purposes. They mean
to perpetuate their power, by force or
fraud, but they will ultimately fail, for
the people are against them; and the
time must come when they will be held
accountable for the treasure and blood
which have been expended in this fratrici
dal war. They sometimes purchase &C.
cessions, but they make no converts, and
men that sell themselves are not reliable,
are governed by no sentiment Of shame
or affection, and are. ever ready to desert or
betray party for consideration. The
mass of the Northern people hate the Alb.
Olitionists as cordially rs the Southern
people; and though some Democrats have
acted in conjunction with them in this
war. enormously believing that the Union
might thereby be saved, yet, let the war
end, and the solIiers who are exposed to
its sufferings and hazards, will be among
the first to denounce the means and the
agents by which the war was occasioned.
They volunteered, not to fight for the de-
struction of slavery, but to preserve the
Union, and they know that the war is now
prosecuted to destroy slavery, not to re-
store the Union and knowing this they
will unto with the Democratic party to
crush out the Abolition traitors.
The full harvest of Abolition calamities
is not yet gathered. The half a million
of1ives it has cost-the three billions Of
debt-the enormous taxeS-the loss of
civil liberty-the fearful decentralization
Of warfare but few of the evils Of a
maturing growth Of horrors, whose full
ripeness will startle and appal the world.
The AbolitoniSts dread peace-dread the
dav Of settlement They have got the
nation drunk, and they mean to keep it
so, because they fear, and not without
reason, the reaction of soberness. But
that will come in due time; and when
the deceived, betrayed, swinded victims
of this horrible fanaticiSm realize the
wrong that has been done to them and
the country, very few will then be found
to confess that they had ever been Abo-
litionists. The fear of being called trai.
tors by the minions of power alone pre-
vents many Of them, even now, from de-
nouncing the Aboltionists.
1t is evident that no single element of
hostility to the Democratic party has so
muchlfprc as the fear that the Democrats
will Stop the war and restore the Union,
if they get into power. The Union re
stored seals the doom of the Abolition
party. 1t will pass into history. scorncd
and execratcd by an outraged and insult
ed people. Fanatics, party leaders and
spectators, numerous, to bsNBure, and
influential, but powerless except so far
and so long as they arc able to deceive
and swinde better men than themselves,
know this, and they are, therefore, max
ing desperate effort to defeat the Dem
ocratic party. They have unlimited means
to purchase the venal and power to in
timidate the weak, and they will use both
unsparingly. Shoddy will bleed freely
for an extension of time in which to plum.
der the Government; office-holders will
contribute literally to retain their lucra-
tive positions; and demagogues will shout
Justify for pay; but, fortunately for the
country, numerous as shoddyites, Office
holders and demagogues are, they are not
sufficiently strong to place the Abolition
party again in power. The people nave
tried it and found it wanting, and they
are again calling upon the Democratic
party to assume ;he rains Of Government.
They know that the Democracy will ad-
ministed the Government justly, wisely
and patriotically, and that under their
rule peace and prosperity will once again
smile upon our now distracted country.
Four years of Abolition rule is enough
for the people. 1t has bankrupted the
country and drenched it with frateTnal
blood" 1t has filed our cities and towns
with informers and spies, and bastiIes
with noble Americans guiltless of otfense.
1t has saddled the country with an over
shadowing debt, ''erected q multitude Of
new Offices" and sent swarms of tax gath
ers to "harass the people and eat out
their substance" 1t has made the "miI-
itary independent Of and superior to, the
civil power" 1t has4rampled upon con-
stitutions and disregarded laws, and un.
der the plea of military necessity" rob-
bed the people of their liberties. Have
the people not cause to complain? Would
they not be unworthy to enjoy the bless.
ings bequeathed to them by the patriots
of the Revolution were they to support
the Abolition partyP
WAR CLAIMS. Solicitor of the
War Department, Mr.. Whiting. in late
letter, estimates the war claims against
the Government to be Hundreds of mill
ions of dollars" Add this to our i'm.