The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-08-09

policy developed, which is that all the
States shall at once be restored TO their
practical relations TO the Union by the
immediate admission OF their Senators
and Representatives into Congress-
Every Senator and Representative elect
ed in nine out of eleven rebel States Is,
am informed, rebel, and wholly un
able to take the test oath. Many OF
them were leading rebels, and bore q
large part in precipitating the South
into rebellion. Aud Democratic Con-
eressmen demanded their immediate and
unconditional restoration to power, and
proclaim that the failure to admit them
for seven months is a gross infraction OF
their rights, and wanton violation OF
the Constitutions, although these rebel
Representatives had for the preceding
five wears staid out on their own ac-
count, and during four years Of the time
waged most bloody war for the des-
/ truction of the Government, And here
/ Democratic members of Congress have
/ in one respect overreached themselves.
They have prescribed in advance the
terms upon which this convention must
meet, and these constitute the exact basis
and platform of the present Copper
/ head" Democracy. So that every man
who goes into that convention is advised
in advance, that whatever change of
name he may undergo he must subscrib
Internationally to the old ''Copperhead'
creed
This ''calI is addressed to rebels as
| well as Union men; the loyal men who
sustained the country are not specified,
and Confederate officers and soldiers are
invited to take their seats in convention
in Philadelphia for the purpose of settl-
ing the questions ana consequences
growing out of the rebellion in which
they have just been defeated.
This new party is 70 be dubbed the
National Union party.
But according to the doctrines enter
tanned by the men who propose to form
it, there is no nation, there is no united,
indivisible American people. They and
their predecessors for forty years have
advocated the dogma that our Govern
ment is a mere compact, mere confede-
racy Of States, of sovereign and inde
pendent States, each of which, according
to the Kentucky and Virgi inia resolutions,
which have long formed the corner stone
of the Democratic creed, had right to
Judge of the intraction of the Constitd-
ton as well as the remedy, aud TO remain
in or withdraw from the confederation
according to the determination of Its
own will. They held that we were not
one nation, but as many nations as States,
bound together in co-partnership by
articles called a Constitution and which
might be dissolved at pleasure.
As to the Union, there would be none
if the Democratic party of the North
had not been defeated at the polls, and
the Democratic party of the South had
not been defeated upon the field of battle;
and it will be a curious sight to see
Confederate officers and soldiers, mem
Northern Democrats and Sons of Lib
erty" sit down together in council in
Philadelphia and resolve that they con-
stitute the National Union party"
devise measures for future protection,
and make plasters for the wounds iniiict-
ed by the rebellion.
History records that lawless army
once resolved ..that the earth and the
fullness thereof belonged to the saints,
and then resolved that they were the
saints"
HIGH TAXES.
Every Democratic orator and newspa-
per agonizes upon the subject of high
taxes. They dwell pathetically upon
the oppression of the people, and pre-
tend to thank God that the Democratic
party has no responsibility in the matter.
But. how stands the great fact? These
I high taxes, one and all, were levied by
/ the Democratic party. That party is the
author and creator, absolutely, of the
great debt which now rests upon the
country, not indeed by direct legisla-
ton. but by bringing upon the country
the terrible necessities out of which it
has grown. Had it not been for the
assurances given by the Democratic
party of the North, to the people of the
South, that no resistance would be offer
ed to secession, and that the Govern
ment and the people of the North would
be held still while the work of establish
ing Southern Confederacy should be
perfected, the rebellion never would
have been undertaken. This is an his
torical truth that is as well established
as the fact that Washington lived, or
that Columbus discovered America. The
blood. the wasted treasure, the hanni-