The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-09-15

course has been truly Democratic,
/ just and patriotic, and most cordially
recommend it to the liberal patronage
of our friends throughout the coun-
try"
"Our motto is, millions for defense,
but not one cent for the coercion of
sovereign States"
On the 17th of April, 1861, in re
sponse to the Presidents call for 49,
900 men, to protect the Capital, and
put down the insurrection, the Ash
land Union said:
"Fight your own battlesl We have
only to say to you, gentlemen, this
is not our fight; you have followed
your own councils; you mus do your
own fighting"
Again:
'.The Administration leaders have
succeeded in their unhallowed work
of destroying the Government and
Union. They have robbed us OF our
National Union-and shall we 1.-THE
Democracy give our blood to their
service to consecrate this crime?
"Let the gallant Democracy then
stop the desolation that has already
been inaugurated, and when the Alb
olitior thieves and traitors start upon
their treason raids to Southern soil,
meet them upon the Threshold; if
need be, welcome them with bloody
hands to hospitable graves"
OF the President, the Union said:
ale commands them (the soldiers)
like hired Hcssians, to go the South
ern cline and butcheT butcher by
wholesale!
"The Democratic newspapers of
the country to- day, refusing longer,
in any manner, to pander to the in
terests of the abolition traitors of the
North, will raise in their might and
beat back the tide Of desolation that
threatenens the land"
1t said of its Southern brethren, in
justification of their war upon the
Government and Constitution, that
they "have attempted peaceably to
escape oppression"
Subsequently the Union denounced
soldiers who enlisted to fight rebel
lion, as follows:
Hired Hessians,' going to the
Sunny Southern soil, to butcher, by
wholesale, not foreigners, but good
men, as exemplary Christians as any
OF our men, who believe that they are
lighting for God-given rights"
Again, the Union said:
This is a damned Abolition war
We beI'aye Abe Lincoln is as much
OF traitor os jeff. Davis.
These traitorO~s declarations hav-
ing been denounced ny Union Jour
mails, soldiers snd patriotic citizens,
the Ashland Dem ocracy in its County
Convention, assumed the vindication
of the wickedness Of the rnior, and
passed the following:
"Resolved, That the late attacks
upon the Ashland Union by the Alb
olitionists, the old enemies of the
Constitution and the Union, are evi-
dence that that paper is on the right
side, and worthy the support of the
Democracy of Ashland county"
Soon after the rebels opened the
war, and while the National Gov
ernment was organizing troops in the
Spring Of 1861, the Coshocton Dem
ocrat said;
"The North is in direct rebellion
against the Constitution and laws of
the United States The South is
contending tor rights guaranteed to
them by the Constitution, but denied
them by the North, and, to secure
those rights, have rebelled against
Lincoln's administration.
In July, 1861, speaking OF the bat
tie of Bull Run, and of the rebel at
tempts to take possession Of the Cap.
ital of the nation, the Coshocton Dem.
ocrat avowed its rebel sympathies by
declaring;
"We do not believe Southern Gen
erals ever had any idea OF attacking
Washington-they desire only to
protect their own rights, liberty and
property. If they cannot do it with
out dispensing the scoundrelly usur
pers in that city, they may attempt to
take it,"
The Dayton Empire, the Hamilton
True Telegraph, the Logan Gazette,
the Circleville Watchman, the Craw-
ford Forum, the Holmes County
Farmer, the Mount Vernon Banner,
the Chillicothe Advertiser, the Stark
County Democrat and other expo
nents OF Democratic opinion, pub
lished articles as violently disloyal as
those above quoted.
Ohio Democracy, in 1861, opposed
the call for $4,000 three months
troops-opposed the requisition for
100000 three years troops--encour-
aged the men in Congress who re-
fused to vote men and means to pros
ecute the war-discouraged enlist
ments, and finally, in State Conven-
tion assembled, on the 9TH day of
August, 1861, a..-. .......- 80.
"Resolved, That the civil war by
which our country is at present dis
tracted is the natural offspring of
misguided sectionalism, engendered
by fanatical agitators North as well
as South; and that the Democratic
party, having equally opposed the
extremists Of both sections, and hav-
ing at all times zealously contended
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