Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-09-28
Indictment Of the Democratic
Party.
FROM the Guernsey Times.l

The Democratic party is sgain on trial. :
Ii stands at the bar Of public opinion indict
ed for treason and sffiliation with traitors
tor aiding and encouraging armed tIaitori
in their efforts to subvert the Government
bequeathed us by Washington and main
tained by Jackson.
Some of the principal counts in the in
dlctment are: ....
We, the sovereign people Of the United
States, arraign the so-called Democratic
party for conspiring with Jefferson Davis
Robt Il. Toombs, Judah =. Benjamin, Fer
nando Wood, Geo. Z. Pugh, Clement L.
Vallandigham end divers other well known
persons, to overthrow the Constitution oI
the United States and place in lieu Thereof
an instrument framed at Montgomery, Ala
bama. and known as the Constitution o
the Confederate States of America"
We arraign them for conspiring with the
above named persons and others, for treason
ably seizing, holding and confscatiug fol
their own reasonable purposes, forts, arse
mails, navy-yards, mints, money, arms, am.
munition and other property Of the United
States, and for reasonably and rebelliously
using the same against the just and lawfully
constituted Government of the United
States, whereby multitude Of our fathers,
husbands, soDs and brothers, say 600, 900
have been killed, wounded, manned and
starved.
We arraign the Northern portion Of the
Democratic party, more particularly, for
traitoIously opposing every effort to main
tain the Government of the United States,
by force, against the forces Of their South
ern allies brought against it.
For traitorously denominating the war
"an unholy invasion Of sister States"
For reasonably demanding the re call Of
our armies from the forts, cities and State.
they had won from their alies-the rebels
of the South.
For traitorously denouncng and censur.
ing the Government for removing such in
competent Generals as Mcclellan from com.
mand.
For traitorously attempting to destroy
public confidence in our Generals-during q
time of great public danger, reasonably de.
nouncing Grant as butcher" and Sher'
man as "vandal."
For traitorously discouraging enlistment1
and using every effort to embarrass and pre-
vent the reinforcement Of our armies.
For traitoreusly causing the death of ev'
cry Union soldier and all the war expenses
incurred by the Government since the fall
Of Vicksburg and the battle of Gettysburg
the war having been prolonged since that
time by their efforts.
For traitorously endeavoring to depreci
ate the National currency greenbacks
and preventing the taking of United States
loans. And lastly
| For its traitorous efforts to strike hand:
with its whipped co.conspiraters Of tht
South, to repudiate both principal and in
terest of the peoples loan to the Govern
ment --
To this the Democracy as yet have enter
ed no plea but troubled silence and d'sAof
grun, about being opposed to negro lsui
frage."
The trial closes on the 10Th day Of Octo
ber next, and let every voter who, on tina
day, casts Democratic ballot recollect tha
he does not vote against negro suffrage, bu
gives in his adhesion to, and justities anC
endorses SO far as he can, the late conspira
racy against the Government, the stealing
and con6scatine of Government property
the Staying OF Union soldiers on the battle
field, their starving in prison pens, and ev
cry act of the rebels except their being de
feated by and surlendering to the gallan
Union boys in blue.