The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-08-02
"The Union Party"

''The Union Party"
What's in name? somebody once asked
Not much in the name at the head of this
article but humbug Sustain the Union
party and you must necessarily sustain the
Union, is the idea of few simple hearted
individuals whose greenness is very re-
freshing-yery.
There are others who suppose-bless
their unsophisticated souls that the name
Union is derived from the Union princi-
pies and tendencies, aims and objects of the
party. To such people it is impossible
that an Abolitionist should smell as strong
ly with any other name, or that wolf
should be vicious under a sleeps covering,
or that lie should be harmful if you call
cd it truth.
The Union party derives its name from
the fact that it is made up of mion of
all sorts of men, belonging to all sorts of
parties, holding all sorts of opinions. They
agreed to work in harness for q certain
time and certain purpose; adjourned dis
cussion of differences until the war was
over; proposed to sealup Theoretically the
fountains of political thought, and cry to
every man who had an idea, "Stop--hush--
mum is the word-we are too busy now
restoring the Union to have any opinions
or preferences, politically speaking, about
anything . .f
OF course that wouldn't work. A man
mil a . nff aI
grayitation, or suspend the rain drops, in
mid heaven, until he could 90 after his um-
brella, as to attempt to freeze the current
of mind and soul, the active brain and the
throbbing pulse, and the earnest aspirations,
into the ice-clad stiffness and wintry sto-
lidity Of the Union party Men might
cry out as much as they pleased, 'be for
the Union without an if an and or but
lit was not possible.
As was to be expected, therefore, the
Union party turned out to be the means of
reinforcing the Republican policy for the
conduct of war and the general admins
tration of affairs, and so breaking up. for
the time being, the organization of other
parties as to render them helpless to ad-
vance their own ideas and principles, or to
stay the advancing tide of Radcalism.--
The Union party was therefore, sham
and delusion, and its prophets were ly-
i6 oauS' @ mo 80 10 r,ii9CoH1 sr, anu cISuu-
!ous ~ poVPie "'.cI i'iSo i uous' Ing result ol
!. I mSs' .ia. @ =" Wi i"iSe proportloll VI the
peSplc Mele sulleu Llit0 advancing men
% anu measures @ W ootIi VI whicn they hau
Always pee!i, lloll plihclPie, opposed. IL
was not 60 transparent silam, al hrst, OF
course, as IL mas Oecolne; else 50 many IN,
teiSIn., nonest alu PaIrlVtic people woulu
never nave gone INTO IT, At nrsV tile Rad
lcA elelneht kept III the DackSr0und. Ac-
corning 70 programme, no one talKed,Wrote !,
OF appeared 10 tnlnK,anything but 'Union',
"lthout II ana or 'Dut--without how,
Why, or wherefore.
Union, Union, nothing but Union:
Union By night and Union by dan;
Union for sport and Union for toll,
Union Of party and Union Of spoil;
Cn1oh atone and the Union atwdy.
At first, too, the negro was kept in the |
background. The negro was an interdicted
individual. lie wasn't considered de-
batable question. In all the Union party |
IL Vas agreed that the negro should be |
iaiu on tIie taple, ana the war taken from
lne table anu passed Dy two-thlrds vote
let VINO Wouiu say veto; anu tllat then the
negro shoulu De taken from the table and
maue tne special order. The negro had
NOV even 50 much as smeH IN the grand
coli'ocatioll' III Whlch npolltiOnists anu ne
gro owners, Freesoiilsts and Democrats,
evueiallsts' a m' hn1WnotnlnSs anu hepuDl,
I1hs, I1h lootl oiach anu ree,) anu 'old Line
,. ,m.hSs' WY nau ueterIlilieu 10 Try new
nnr, tanS " nSn. ~ ouT ol llau an c9lholnea 10
ioi pi. ant @ oNi- o-N raTty'