M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-12-28

and "Fry" mean TO impeach the
moral integrity Of this majority, in
its aggregate of one thousand one
hundred and siXty-eight voters, or
to so much as inpeach ONE of the
116S, as "sympathisers with trea-
SOM" Have they. on sober, re-
Election, the hardihood to declare
that this body OF 11oo lawful men,
or that single elector, even, who
assisted to make up that figure, Is
UPON THAT ACCOUNT unfit for any
reasonable, post!" VIII they i'm
peach EX-Auditor Richmond, +.
\. Bratton, or Andrew j. Swain as
holding sympathy with treason
and ''unlit for any reasonable postl'
We purposcly choose out these
three names, because they have
had the distinction Of being sup
ported for responsible places by
the "company" which Orrin Good
rich is ''known" to "keep" to wit
the democratic party Of Ninton.
Now, we put it s1uarely-nO
lodging, no s1uirming, Messrs.
'Pooler' and "Fry"-do YoU intend
to say that these persons. or the
electors who cast their ballots for
them, are "notoriouSly disloyal p
Do they 90 abouN apnarcntlv
glorying in their shame" Al
[thcirl professions of loyalty are
mere mind" ell ! Doyou seriously
purpose such abominable and
wholesale SANDER as we have here,
or what do you mean! And is
your ''loy-al-ty,' brother "Pooler7
or is yours, brother "Fry" so
immaculate, so devine thing as
10 uc, like female virtuc-aboye
auspicion!'
On what meat do YOU feell
RaillerY aside-Sirs, you dare
not. no odds how tippantly and
rccklessiy You gcncralize about
thin~s--vou dare not impeach a
single citizen Of Vinton county as
a traitor, Or as a "Sympash,scr with
treason" merely because he voted
for George W. Morgan, nor vet be-
cause he steadily votes the demo-
cratic ticket, and sides with the
democratic party. We challenge
YOU to Go it. Name your men, the
parties You deem to be guilty per-
sons, or else shut up your lying
mouths. One of two things must
be true-the democratic party
which you stigmatizc in your COM
'munication are traitors. or YOU are
sIandcrers. This is the issue. You
can not meet it, as We well know.
Neither yourselves nor your party
have the resources Of truth or hon
esty to make out such charges.
You attempt to criticiSe the term
"pcstiIent faction" applied by TIE
TINES to the abolition party. In
doing so, YOU should have known
what you were about. At no time
has the abolition party comprised
a majority Of the citizens of the
| United States. In 1860, Mr.. Lin
coin was in a MINORITY Of nearly a
million Of votes, though chosen in
the electoral colleges. At the last
Presidential election, the "con-
lederate democracy." as YOU slam
dcrously call the party which sup
ported General Mcclellan, polled
about 1,7j0,000 votes, lacking but
100000 of a majority-dtspite an
array of power, patronage, and
corruption against them such as no
crowned head in Europe is this day
able to employ. Now, if "all trait
ors at the South be Of the same
political faith, and you say so,-
then the two wings Of the "conGed-
crates" together make Il popular
majority larger than that of Gen
eral Jackson in 1S92-a majority
which, like ~ great ershadowino
host" would complete the annihi-
lation Of the pestilent faction Of
abolitionism. Ii follows as a mat
ter Of course that the aSccndency
Of the abolition crew is iactitiouS.
the result of an accidental combi-
nation Of abnormal elements. and
that its sway is opposed to the
sense and feel'Ha of the PEOPLE Of
the United States in their collcc-
tive capacity. You know this as
we'll as We; your leaders. like Sum
ner in the Senate, and Thad. Stev-
ems in the House, know il: and,
hence it is. that such diSunionists
as you and theyNre throwing every
obstacle in the path ofa restoration
of the Federal Union as our fathers
made it. Once brought back to its