Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-09-22
pn1InInAI. pRnsPECTs.

How shall We vote in the autumn e1ecllOhsi
Every honest man viii ask himself this qGes-
tion, snd he will answer it by determining TO
which party, in SO important national erlsls as
this, political power ought to be intrusted. FOR
although no issue is as yet distinctly made, a
very grave issue soon will be, that of Teorgani-
be must look to the sutecedents
aud composition of parties to infer what their
probable action will be.
The Uaion party comprises the great body Of
enlightened American citizens who have always
faithfully striven for greater justice, for univers
al liberty regulated by Jaw, and for freedom OF
speech and the press every where in the cOun-
Try. They have unfalteringly asserted the
rights of the whole people against privilege and
aristocrscy in every form, and have claimed
fair play for all men, rich or poor, foreigner or
native, whatever their complexion and coDdi-
tion, and to that end have been constantly zeal
Gus for popular education and every method of
enlightenment. They hold that the COnslitu-
ton is not compact between sovereign gov
ernments, but is fundamental national law es-
tablished by the people Of the United States;
and that the Union Is not copfederscy but a
nation. They believe that this National Gov
eminent is supreme, that the States are proper
ly subordinated to it, and that StateCrigbts are
purely local and secondary. Therefore they
have been steadily faithful in the great and sue
cessful struggle They have never tampered
with rebellion. They have never justified tres-
son nor excused traitors; and in the death CRAP
pie with rebellion they have wisely used every
power of the Government conscious that all ex-
traordinary powers were exercised BY magis-
trates under the immediate supervision Of the
people and whose acts merely recorded the pop
ular will, as the election of 1864 triumphantly
proved. This is the faith, and these sre the
men who compose the great Union party. Have
they forfeited the confidence 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 prin-
ciple of equal rights; who persis;ently counived
at the extension and perpetuity of that irius-
iice which has soaked he land in blood and
necessitated the debt. They have been the as
sailants of free speech and free press, and have
justified the murder and maltreatnsnt of citi-
zeus who claimed to exercise those rights in the
Southern States. Their influence has been ad-
verse to general education and wise progress
and reform; and their predominance has been
and is always most marked among the most
debased part of the population, and in the least
intelligent portions OF the country. Even row
in their Conventions, vaguely as in Name, dis
tinctly and openly as in Ohio, reafirm the prin-
ciples Of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
4 50, which are and always have been pleaded
by the ebels as their justification, as thev were
By South Carolina for notification in 1882, and
which will always afford an ambush for treason
until they are utterly and expressly OvertbTown:
r as in Pennsylvania, their Conventions de-
liberstely declare that the practical recognition
4 the truths Of the Declaration Of Iadepend-
ence is high crime against the Constitution Of
the United States. They are those from whose
ranks came the chiefs of the rebellion; who de-
bounced the people Of the loyal States as really
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ed The Government in its efforts to subdue il:
who melted riots and directed mobs; fer whose
success at the polls the rebel chiefs and editors
openly prayed in the midst of the war; who So
iicited through foreign Minister foreign inter-
ference in our contest; who year ago, in their
National Convention, declared the soldiers con-
Guered and the war failure, and who sneered
It President Lincoln as helplessly weak, or de-
bounced him as murderer, tyrant and haTle-
| quin.
| These are they who compose the Democrats
party. They are now busily engaged in prsis-
| ing the soldiers, whom last year they slaudered.
nd in celebrating the re-estsblishuIent 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 a chief orator, 10 whose
| Pennsylvania Convention Judge Black was an
| spplauded teseher, who said, as Buchanan At
| .orney General that the war would Jegalize Sc
cession and dissolve the UniOn-what hiss this
Party done to be intrusted with power by the
American people who condemned Il so over
| Thelmingly last Novsmber7 We speak Of q
| party, not Of individuals. We do not forget
with what absolute sacrifice, with wbst blood
and money, many Democrats stood by the
country. But neither do we forget that az
party the Democrats voted against emsncipa-
Cion, and that in the States which they control
led 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 permanently
avoiding the war; and we remember, nor viii
the American people soon forget, that in 1864
they solemnly proposed scquiesceneei in nation.
al disgrace and ruin.
These are the two parties who now solicit our
votes Let every man who loves Union un-
obscured by "the resolutions of '9S," who loves
his country and believes that equal rights for
all men before the law are essential to her per-
rnanent peace and prosperity, ask himself which
ofthese parties ought to have his vote.-Hdr-
Pers Weekly.