Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1865-09-14

popular will, IS the election Of 1854
triumphantly proved.
This is the faith, and these are the
men who compose the great Union
party. Have they forfeited the con.
fidence Of the country2
On the other hand, the Democratic
party is composed of those who have
always excused the most appalling
crime against human nature, and the
most fatal treason to the American
principle Of equal rights, under the
pretense Of State rights; who perps-
tuated that injustice which has soak
ed the land in blood and necessitated
the debt. They have been the assail-
ants Of free speech and free press,
and have justified the murder and
maltreatment of citiz ems who claim
ed to exercise those rights In the
Southern States. a Their influence
has been adverse 10 general eduea
ton and wise progress and reform;
and their predominance has been and
Is always most marked among the
most deceased part Of the population,
and in the least intelligent portions Of
the country. Even now their Con
ventions, vaguely 40 in Maine, dis
tirctly and openly as in OHIO, reaf-
firm the principles Of the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions of '98,
which are and always have been
pleaded by the rebels as their justifi-
cation, as they were by South Caro-
lima for notification in 1888, and
which will always afford an ambush
for treason until they are utterly
and expressly overthrow: or, rs in
Pennsylvania, their Conventions de
liberately declare that the practical
recognition of the truths Of the Dec
lara ion of Independence is q high
crime against the Constitution OF the
United States. They are those from
whose ranks came che chiefs of the
rebellion; who denounced the people
of the loyal States as really respon-
sible for the war; who necessarily
thwarted the Government in its ef-
forts to subdue it; who incited riots
riots and directed mobs; for whose
success at the polls the rebel chiefs
and editors openly prayed In the
midst of the war; who solicited
through foreign Minister foreign
interference in our contest; who q
year ago, in their National Conven-
ton, declared the soldiers conquered
and the war failure, and who sneer-
ed at President Lincoln as hslplessly
weak, or denounced him as q muir
derer, tyrant, and harlequin.
, These are they who compose the
Democratic party. They are now
busily engaged in praising the SOL
diers, whom last year they SANDER
ed, and in celebrating the re-estab-
lishment of the Union. They are
even engaged in the pleasing process
of eating the Chicago platform. But
what has this party, in whose Ohio
Convention Vallandigham was chief
orator, in whose Pennsylvania Con-
vention Judge Black was an applaud
ed teacher, who said, as Buchanan's
Attorney G eneral, that the war would
legalize secession and dissolve the
Union-what has this party done to
be intrusted with power by the A
merican people who condemned it so
Overwhelmingly last November? We
speak of a party, not of individuals.
We do not forget with what absolute
sacrifice, with what blood and mon
ey, many Democrats stood by the
country. But neither do we forget
that as party the Democrats voted
agains emancipation, and that in the
States which they controlled the
amendment was defeated. We do
not forget that If the Democratic
party had retained power In 1850
they would have compromised the
honor of the country without perna-
nendy avoiding the war; and we re-
member, nor will the American peo-
pie soon forget, that IN 1854 they
solemnly proposed acquiescence In
national disgrace and ruin.
These are thetwo parties who now
solicit our votes. Let every man
who loves a Union unobscured BY
"the resolutions Of 49," who loves
his country and believes that equal
rights for all men before the law are
essential to her permanent peace and
prosperity, ask himself which ofthese
parties ought to have his vote.-Hdr
per's Weekly.