The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-11-04
A Final Word.

Less than one week will elapso before
the people OF these United States will be
called upon to decide, at the ballot.box,
The great question which now absorbs
the National mind and heart. The issue
is joined, the argument ended, and, on
tuesday next, the popular verdict will
be rendered, by which the country will,
be saved or lost.
We cannot doubt the result. As sure
ly as next Tuesdays sun shall rise, will
Abraham Lincoln be reelected Presi.
dent of lhe United States. The loyal
millions have so determined, and only
await the day of election 10 give their de-
termination the form and effect of law
1t needs but persistent, organized effort
TO render their triumph SO complete and
overwhelming that future opposition will
be impossible.
This is not an ordinary political cam
paign that is now drawing TO q close, in
which all parties are presumed to be 10y
al, and to differ only in respect to the
details OF Governmental policy; but a
simple contest between Loyalty and Trea-
son, which admits of no neutrality
The leaders oil the mis- called Democratic
party, in their completely with the Slave.
holders Rebellion. have made up the is.
sue. Their platform presents scheme
Tor The solution of the great problem Of
reconstruct on, whose success or failure
would be alike fatal 10 the country. The
people will scornfully, Indignantly re.
Jert IL, and its authors be covered with
imperishable infamy. The country will
live, and fulfill its appointed mission, of
the sublimity and grandeur of which we
have. as yet, no conception. Traitors
and their sympathizers will be silcnced
and confounded, and peace and Union
will be restored on the firm and enduring
basis OF Liberty and Law.
When the result of our Presidential
Election shall be made known at the
South, tie last hope of the Rebellion, al.
ready beaten on land and sea, will per-
ish. Be the faults or virtues of President
Lincoln what they may, he stands to-day
the embodiment OF the loyal sentiment
of the country, and his reelection must
seal the fate Of the Rebellion. 1t cannot
survive the prospect of four more years
Of war, and will speedily come to an end.
In after years, when this mighty srug.
gle, with all its passions and preudces,
shall have passed away, the men of the
present will be remembered with honor
or shame. as, in the light of impartial
history, they shall appear true or false to
their country. Reader, what shall your
record be? Shall it be for Freedom and
United Country, or for Slavery, Disunion
and Treason? Let your ballot on Tues
day next, for Lincoln and Johnson. OF
for Mcclellan and Pendelon, answer.
The elective franchise is a privilege too
precious, and its proper exercise duty too
imperative, TO be lightly regarded at such
time as this. Our free institutions are
on trial before an anxious, doubling
world, to be lost or nobly vindicated.-
Never was such an issue presented TO any
people before. If our brave boys should
be borne down and overwhelmed IN bat
tie, by the weight even OF Rebel hordes,
while deplonng the unavaIing sacrifice,
we would est eem il no dishonor. But,
il, on Tuesday next, we should vote awoy
all that their valor has thus far preserved,
should prostitute the sacred privilege
OF the ballot to ensure The defeat of our
country in its struggle for existence, and
thus voluntarily give TO the Rebellion
what it has failed to win by the sword -.
history has no page SO dark as that which
would record our degenoracy an ruiu as
a people.