The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-07-20

proofs of their guiIt piled mountain high,
are again struggling for power, and asking
| the people to put into their guilty hands
the government and prosperity Of the State
Some OF these men, who are high iii favor
aud authority in their party, and are lsrgely
entrusted with its management. have here.
toforo occupied Offices OF great trust and
responsibility, in which they proved TO bo
recreant aud corrupt.
They are the men who, in the Legislature
of Indiana. bitterly opposed aud denounced
overy effort to confer the right OF suffrage
upon soldiers in the field who could not
come home to vote.
They are tho men who wrote letters to
soldiers in the army, urging them to desert,
and assuring them of support aud protocI
tion II they did.
They are the men who labored with dew
ilish zeal to destroy tho ability of the Gov
ernment TO carry on the war by dcpreciat.
ing its financial credit. They assured tho
people that "greenbacks' would dio on
their hands, and warned them solemnly
against government bonds, as a wicked
'device to rob them of their mouey.
They are the men who refused to contrib
ute to tho Sanitary Commission for the re-
lief of siok aud wounded soldiers, upon the
| lying and hypocritical pretense that tho
GERS of the army.
They arc the men who excused them
selves from contributing to the relief Of
soldiers families at home by the Infamous
slander that they were living better than
they had ever DONE and by foul imputa~
| tions on the chastity of soldiers wives.
They are the men who declared in
speeches, resolutions, and by their votes in
Congress, that not another man nor another
dollar should be voted TO carry on cruel
war against their Southern brethren.
! They are tho men who in the midst Of
the last great campaign of 1864, at the time
when Sherman was fighting his way, step
by step, from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and
Grant was forcing Lee back into the de-
fouses of Richmond, in desperate and bloody
battles from day TO day; when the fate OF tho
nation hung III the balance, and the world
watched with brcalhcss interest tho gigan.
tic struggle which was to settle the Ques-
ton of republican government, assembled
in convention in Chicago aud resolved that
the war was failure that our cause was
unjust, and that we ought to lay down our
arms and sue for pecae. 1t was throwing u
mountain into the Confederate scale to make
the Union kick the beam. 1t was a bolG
and desperate interference in behalf of the
rebellion, ut the very crisis of the fight. lt
was an insult to the loyal armies of the ma.
ton so vast, malignant aud deadly that
language can convey no adequate idea of
it's wiokedness. Aud in future times tho
historian will record the fact with astonish.
ment that the Government at the most
critical moment of its life, when few hours,
OF few days at the furthest, must deter.
mine whether it should live or die, could
permit large body of its enemies to meet
upon its soil in peace and security, and
publish fragrant manifesto in behalf of
rebellion.
Now, | do not mean to say that all the
Democratic leaders have done all these
things, but what dc say is this, that the
men who have done these things arc com
blned together, aud constitute the real lead
ers OF the Democratic party. Tho few mod
crate men of tho party have been stripped
OF all power and influence, and arc carried
along with ii merely for numbers and poll
cy, while the living and aggressive elc-
Inent which controls ii are the "Suns of
Liberty and those who acted in sympathy
and concert with them
They are the meH who have perverted
the word democracy, from its once honora-
bio meaning, to be shield aud cover for
r+bcll on, and for every crime that attaches
to causeless and atrociuus civil war.
WHO cALLED THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS.
Every unregenerate rebel, lately in arms
against his Government, calls himself a
Democrat.
Every "bounty jumper" every desert
or, every sneak who ran away from
the draft calls himself Democrat. Bowles,
MIlligan, Walker, Dodd, Horsey aud Hum
phreys call themselves Democrats. Every
Son of.Liberty" who conspired to murder,
burn, rob arsenals, and release rebel priso-
ners calls himselfa Democrat. John Morgan,
Sue Mnndy, Champ Ferguson, Wirz Paine
and Booth proclaimed themselves Demo-
Gratis Every man who labored for the re.
belIion III the field, who murdered Union
prisoners by cruelty and starvation, who
conspired to bring about civil war in tho
loyal States, who invented dangerous com.
pounds TO bnrn oteamboats and Northern
cities who contrived helish schemes to
Introduce into Northern cities the wasting
| pestilence Of yellow fever, calls himself d
Democrat. Every dishonest contractor
who has been convicted OF defrauding the
| GoYernrHent-every dishonest paymaster
or dlsbursng officer who has been convicted
OF squandering the public money at the
gambling table or in gold gambling opera
tlons-every officer in the army who was
dismissed for cowardiee or disloyalty, calls
himseta Democrat. Every wolf in sleeps
Clothing, who prelends to preach the Cos
pei but proclaims the righteousness of
Inan-sellng and saverv--one w shoots
down negroes in the streets, burns negro
schooI.houses and meeting houses, and
murders women and children by the light
Ol their own flaming dwellings, calls him.
self Democrat. Every New York rioter
in 1868, who burned up littIo children in
colored asylums-who robbed, ravfshed
and murdered indscriminately in the midst
of blazing city for three days and nights,
called himself Democrat. In short,
the Democratic party may be described az
common sewer and loathesome receptacle,
into which is .emptied every element Of
treason North and South, and every element
of inhumanity and barbarism which has
dishonOred the age.
And this party, composed of the men
and clements have described in defiance Of
truth and decency asserts itself as the spe.
clal champion of the Constitution and the
Union, which but short sixteen months
ago 1t was in arms to destroy and pro-
claims to an astonished world that the only
effect OF vanquishiug armed rebels in the
held, is to return them TO seats in Congress-,
! and to restore them to political power.
Having failed to destroy tho Constitution
by iorcs, they seek 10 do it by cOnstrnc-'
tion, aud assume 10 have made the remark
able discovery that rebels whni fou0bt tnr