Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-06-01
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From the last issue OF the copper
head paper of this county, we take this
remarkable paragraph:
The great distinguishing characteristic
ofthe Democratic party from its first or.
ganisation TO the present day has been its
answering devotion to, and maintenance
Of the Union oftte States as established by
the Constitution of the United States.
With that Union and Consultation the De
ntocrdcy efthe country hare erer been salts
fed, and are no,o satisfied. They have ever
been the uncompromising foes of those who
disregard the sacred provisions of the one,
and through deceit, craft, fraud, falsehood,
perfdy and perjury, disturb the repose snd
quiet of the other. And what the Demo
cratic party now desire above all earthly
things is to see the Union restored as IL ,cas,
aud the Constitution maintained as IL is,
and both transmitted unimpaired to the
latest posterity." i
For cool, unblushing impudence,
base perversion of history, unscrupu-
lous Misrepresentation of facts and
blind presumption upon the ignorance
of the people as to the history Of the
past, this exceeds anything we have
ever seen, even in the columns of that
reckless sheet.
There is scarcely school boy in
this whole country who does not thor
oughly understand this question, and
know, that the present Dem ocratic
Party, from the commencement of the
struggle for the preservation of the
Union, has been arrayed, with all its
power and influence, on the side of the
party to the contest that sought the
overthrow of the Constitution and the
disruption of the Union. So thorough
ly has that party been identified, in
feeling and sympathy with the over
throw of the Union that its leaders have
not attempted to disguise the fact that
they preferred the success of the re-
bellion to the success Of the Govern
ment, and thought more of JEFF. DAVIS
than they did of ABRAHAM LINCOLN;
and where they have not had the cOur-
age to boldly proclaim themselves the
friends of what they were pleased to
term Estate Rights movement, their
children were taught to cheer for JEFF
DAVIS, the leader of the disunion party.
The Democratic Party in favor of
the Union
Why, it was by the secession of the
Democratic States, after the defeat of
the Democratic Party in 1860, that the
great disunion movement was inaugu-
rated
The Democratic Party in favor of
the Union The Columbus Crisis in
the beginning of the disunion move
ment, before the Inauguration of ABR y
uAM LINCOLN as President of the Uni,
ted States, had an editorial that was
copied into and approved, by nearly
every Democratic paper in the North,
including the paper from which we take
the above extract, of which the fol-
lowing is paragraph:
"Whenover the Southern States arrange
their Government and Constitution exactly
to suit themselves, it will doubtless suit
every. Democrat ana liberal minded man of
the North. We care not in what manner
they shield their rights to property in ne
sroes---care not what may be their views of
the. African race, or what they engraft in
their present Constitution to protect them
selves in full and undisturbed possession of
this class of property. When this is com
pleted, and the South is satisfied with it,
then we shall advocate this and other North
ern States joining the Southern Conied
eracy."
In favor of the UnionP The last
national platform Of that party con-
tains, as the doctrine of that party, the
theory that the States have right to
determine the measure of their allie
glance to the General Government, and
when they should resist its authority
In favor Of the Constitution as it is
Why Chat party, in the Congress of the
United States proposed to 80 amend
the Constitution of the United States
as to make it responsible for the exis-
tence and extension of human bondage,
and denounced and abused every man,
in and out of Congress who opposed
their efforts to thus desecrats that
charter of our liberties.
That party is in favor Of "the Con-
stitution as it is," when it Is construed
to be the author and supporter of Sla-
very, and in favor of "the Union as it
was," when that implies restoration
of the Democratic party to power, but
is not in favor of the Constitution and
the Union under any other circum-
stances.
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