The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-10-05

A WORD TO THE SOLDIERS.

IN view OF tnc iSct lnat SoiiiS iCtuhiiC0
soldiers have permitted their names 10
be used As candidates for e
so-called Democratic party, the presump-
ton Is that these soldiers have forgotten
the treasonsble record of that party with
reference 10 tie late infamous rebel
lion
An i'm artial reyiew Of the events Of
the past fve years Establishes the follow
ing PROPOSITIONS as facts beyond dispute
in the n5u3 8t every man of ordinary in
telligeHce:
That the leaders and controllers ot
that party, North and South, laborea
constantly and earnestly fol years to fire
the Southern heart, for rebellion and
war
That they published the threat through
out the land that the South would not
remain in the Union if Mr. Lincoln were
elected.
That they declared through political
papers and conventions in all sections OF
the country, that the General. Govern
ment could not and should not 'coerce' a
State to obedience if it saw fit to break
up the Union; thus inviting the South to
light the torch of civil war.
That under the administration of the
old traitor. Buchanan, they permitted no
less than six States to withdraw from the
Union, and set up and organize new
Government under the name of Con
federate States of America with that
infamous villain. jeff Davis, for Presi
dent.
That in this manner they brought about
those acts of war upon the Government
which resulted in that dreadful struggle
which. for more than four years, delug
ed our land in the blood of its best cit
izens.
That during this dark and bloody pc
riod In our nations history, whatever in
fuence they possessed as party was
in favor of Treason and against h
Union
They denounced, opposed the first call
for troops as w ong and .unconstitu
tional
In Baltimore they attacked the first
troops that moved forward 20 defend our
Capital
They obstructed the operations of our
forces against the rebels whenever and
wherever they possibly could.
They encouraged the rebels to perse-
we're by constantly declaring that we
could never conquer the South.
They spoke and wrote of the rebels as
our erring Southern brethren and Of
the soldiers of the Union as 'Lincoln's 5
hlrelings
They discouraged volunteering, thus
rendering drafts necessary to ill the
RANKS s.g o' II the EARN army. ay.... "a.
draft, and raised armed mops wnico aas- .sss
troyed property and human life with
fcndish barbarity.
They encouraged and aided thousands
to desert from the Union armies, and
when the Union officers and soldiers at
tempted to arrest deserters, they were
resisted by armed men-members of the
50 called Democratic party
Tho ambuscaded and murdered Uni
ted S-ofe- Officers and soldiers in various
pas Ji & Northern States
The raised bodies Of armed men in
Ohio l. iia9a, | inos end other States
10 resist the authority Of the United
States
They openly advocated The formation
Of a Northwestern Confederaacy, to
weaken and destroy the Union.
They instituted secret reasonable SO
cieties, with military organizations. and
stealthily procured arms and munitions
of war for their members.
They were slow to believe reports Of
Union successes. but readily believed
rebel reports of Union disasters.
They based all their hopes of political
success on their confident belief that the
rebellion would triumph
They denounced our Generals-G rant,
Sherman, Butler and others-as butch
ers, 'brutes' and beasts but spoke and
wrote Of jeff Davis, Lee, Johnston, and
their co traitors, as the highest types of
Christian gent Pluea
They invariably denied the right of
soldiers to vote in the field, and frequent
" adopted rs their motto. Not another
man nor another dollar for this internal
war
Finally, they met in their National
Convention at Chicago in August, 1864,
and IN the most solemn manner declared
that the war was a failure on our part
and Of course a success on the part of
the rebels
The assassination of President Lincoln
by 4 Northern Democrat, was the natu
raj result of the secret and public teach
ings of the SO called Democratic par
ty.
That every intelligent American must
ever hold the so-called Democratic par
ty, North and South, responsible for tie
bloody war which has desolated our
countrv-for the widows and orphans
that fill the land with mourning the
MANNED and disabled heroes we see
around us-for the load of debt brought
upon the nation-for the deaths of thou
sands of patriots whe fell in the struggle.
by battle, by disease, or by starvation at
the hands Of Southern Democrats. In
loathsome prisons-for all the evils grow
ing out of the war-for prolonging and
the struggle-for, IN fact,
doubling its duration and horrors. by
aiding, encouring. synpathizing with
and sustaining the late rebellion.
From these propositions we deduct the .
That the soldier who accepts the po-
Iitieal caress of the so called Democratic
party, must be either totally lost to eve
ry sentiment of honest patriotism or To-