The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-09-21

perhead maiden was startled from her
dream Of repose by the recent report
that more THAI 10000 had, in afew
days, crossed the Ohio. What mobs,
idieness and rape were predicted from
the abolition Of slavery in the District
OF Columbia, and what herculean eff
forts were resorted to to retain slave
pens and auction blocks N the capital
Of the nation, ! need not now recount.
But, worse than all, this boasted peace
party, 20 carry out their purpose TO
aid the rebellion and prolong the war,
formed secret leagues, purchased FIRE
arms and ammunition, subscribed hor-
r,ble oaths, and threatened to resist
tho execution Of the laws; and not
few Of them asserted that ifit were nee
essary to prevent the "hirelings' from
spiriting them away by means Of the
draft, as a last resort, they would "die
in the door yard" Yet, believe, his
tory will not have 10 record a single
case OF door-yard martyrdom.
TIE RECORD OF BUTLER COUNTY.
l do not speak outside the record
Revolutie n was the watchword Of the
party for q number of months, and the
whole eliminated at the great meet
ing held at Hamilton on the 18th Of
August, 1864 at which the True Tel.
egrapb says there were 10000 people
of all parties in attendance. That
meeting made the last Democratic
platform in Butler, and it still stands
unrepeaIed and in full force. That
part Of It wlIiCh treats of revolution
reads thus:
"ResOioed, That the State judiciary
having entirely failed to declare the
conscPiption law unconstitutional, or
even to issne habeds corpus totry the
question. and there being no hope in
that quartcr, nor in our Governor, nor
Legislature, the evils ofthe draft are
50 monstrous that the people are COM
PEELED to interfere, and declare that
they will not submit 10 1t; and we call
ON every county to move in concert
as an offectual peace party, to put an
end to the wholesale destruction of our
institutions and onr families.
"ReSoloed, That in the application
Of these ideas which, 10 our Judgment
are eonstltulionally reasonable, evil
dent and Just to the conflict between
the Union aud the confederate States,
we but perform national ard social
duty in declaring TO all whom it may
concern that no citizen of Ohio, resil
dent Of Butler County, shall be COM
PEELED to join the Federal army to con-
summate lhe avowed designs Of the
enemies Of State rights, even should
it prove necessary TO give etfectto this
decision by force AMI gth arms.
'Res0lced, That the citizens Of this
county who are opposed to a further
prosecution Of the war, should prepare
for such contingency"
This is all the wind work at least of
revolution. Can you look at the rec
ord, Democrat, and not hate yourself p?
That this programme was intended by
many TO be carried out, can not be
doubted. .-
And now / charge upon this party,
that By reason of the matters to which
have referred, that by their opposi-
ton to the Gov ernment and their con
tinued encouragement of and sympa-
thy with the South in their effort to
overthrow free institutions, the war
was greatly prolonged; millions and
hundreds of millions Of money more
were expended than would otherwise
have been necessary; and hundreds of
thousands of our brave men were ad
ded to the number that went down to
death. Can 1t be denied that two
years instead Of four, would have
closed the war, if this party had prov
ed as patriotic as 1t did reasonable ?
| Then let these men account for this
excess OF blood and treasure, and lei
them at least have time TO wash their
hands of the guilt that blackehs them
before they are entrusted with power
The men of Butler County who belong
to the Sons of Liberty, and thus bound
themselves TO break up the Govern
ment, and thus aided and abetteC
traitors in arms, AMI increased the
number Of the slain, are as guilty be
fore God, and in the estimation of al
good men, as the assassinators OF Abra
ham Lincoln. And even this granc
crownihg oct Of ihiamy was, no doub
in a measure superinduced by the cop
ptrhead press of the North, which, BY
It's base appeals, attempted TO excite
} to phrenzy the passions of bad mem
This county has its share, also, OF this
record. read from the True Tele
graph, of August 25, 1864:
"B@sar had his Brutus, Charles |
his Cromwell, and Abraham LincolI
=. Treason cries the Loyal Leagues
treason! Shout the disciples of shoddy
and we, the people recommend Abra
ham Lincoln to profit By their exam
pie"
And Jet, when the very work thu
pointed oit and recommended hac
been done the True Telegraph cam
out shrouded in black-mourning be
cause an "imbecile," d "buffoon,"
"tyfant." "wholesalc murderer" ant
"monster" had met his doom
THE PROGRAMME OF DEMOCRATIC coALI
TIoN NORTH AND SOUTH.
Can a worse record be found 70
any party that ever had existence
than that fragment of the great Dem
, ocratic party which survives at tn
North? 1t is, indeed, difficult to tel
which of the two, that are so soon t
coalhsca 10 in tbn most UNANIMOUSLY de