Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-08-15
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very fond of boasting of its loyalty, affect
ing to be filed with great anxiety to
have the "Union restored" and charg-
ing the Republicans with all kinds of
disunion projects because we demanded
guarantees for the future from the rebels.
Who are these glib fellows who thus
charged the party who saved the nation
with being disunionists The Detroit
Post answers.
They are the men who declared that
secession was not treason.
They are the men who declared that
coercion of armed rebellion was uncon.
stitutional. -
They are the men who styled Union
soldiers hounds, ""bulldogs, !" 'hirelings,
''hessians," ''minions" and "thieVes."
They are the men who threatened ga
fire in the rear" of our gallant Union
armies.
These men opposed the raising of ar.
mics by volunteering.
These men opposed the raising of ar
mics by conscription. -.
They opposed and denounced every
measure by and through which the I'm
ion was restored. .-
They declared that the Union cause
should not have a man or a dollar, il
they could prevent it.
They denounced Abraham Lincoln as
"tyrant,p "usurper," "ape," 'fooP'
and ''assassin."
They opposed allowing our soldiers to
vote; and declared that when they did
vote their votes were dishonesty cast.
Every rebel in the North belonged 10
THAR Marty and does vet
They concocted conspiracies in the in
terest of the rebels.
They did organize reasonable soci-
cites.
Their followers murdered draft officers
and mobbed draft officers.
Their "friends" in New York got up a
most disgraceful riot known in American
history.
from the worst enemies of the North.
Every one of the rebel leaders was a
member of the party.
They declared the war failure,
and that it ought to cease, and went in
to Presidential contest with a played
out failure for candidate upon that
platform.
Their allies and agents maintained
reasonable correspondence with armed
rebels.
They rejoiced over rebel and mourned
over Union victories.
They opposed the establishment of
national currency and declared it worth
less.
By every act and article that unarmed
treason is capable, they injured the ma
tional credit abroad and tarnished the
national honor at home.
Their party was and is the recspticle
of every disgraced officer dismissed from
the Union service or compelled to resign
on account of coWardice or incapacity.
To the crime of sneaking treachery
they added the infamy of black ingrati-
tude to those whose patriotism and
bravery saved them and their sons from
conscription.
Their newspaper officers, and none but
theirs refused to hoist the flag of the Un-
ion until compelled to do so.
Their last Vice President was rebel
leader; their last President a conceited
and traitorous coward; and his predeces-
sor was the author of letter to the rebel
leader encouraging secession, and pledg-
ing the Northern Democracy to sustain
with arms in case of resistance
to secession.
And this is the party, these the papers
and the men who now have the unblush-
ing effrontery to charge the party whose
exertions and policy saved the Republic
from death with disunionism.
Do they imagine that the people have
forgotten their misdeeds so soon; or that
they received political amnesty with
their reconstructed" brethren7