Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-08-16
TIE NEW PARTY.

thunder storm, the rage of the most
fcrocious beast is so far softened that
it will burrow or kennel with the
tamest and most docile, without offer
ing them the least harm: that, when
under the influence of fear, the tiger
and the sheep will mingle in amity to-
gether. However this may be, the
Philadelphia Convention has demon
strated, that, wiM politicians, the desire
for office is sufficiently potent to recon
cile the most radical differences Of
opinion, and harmonize the bitterest
feelings of hatred. In that Conven.
tion, the Copperheads of the North
who in 1864 proclaimed Andrew John
son "boorish tailor" and the rebels
of the South who denounced him dur
ing the as "traitor TO the South"
met together, and, although Andrew
Johnson, on the 2lst day of April,
1865, after he had been made President
by Democratic assassin, denounced
the Copperheads ofthe North as "great
er traitors" than the Rebels of the
South, and of the Rebels of the South
he said:
1T is not promulging anything that l
| have not heretofore said to say that traitors
must DE made odious, that treason must be
made odious, that traitors must be punish
ed and impoverished.
'They must not only be punished, but
their social power must be destroyed. If
not, they will still maintain an ascendency
and may again become numerous and pow
eriul."
All these same Copperheads and
Rebels now cheerfully lick the hand
that smotc them, and for the sake of q
few Post Offices unite in.singing peans
Of praise to the "boorish tailor"
These Copperheads and Rebels have
not only turned sycophants for the
sake of power, but they cheerfully sac
rilice their leaders, abandon their party,
stultify themselves, and ignore their
own record in their zeal for the New
Party" of the President. Their lead
ers-Vallandigham of Ohio, Fernando
Wood of New York, and Henry Clay
Dean Of Iowa--are ruthlessly kicked
out of this Convention by the action of
their own party friends, and they then
proceed with commendabIe alacrity to
declare that, "fho war just closed has
maintained the authority of the Con-
| stitution" and preserved the Union,"
although in '6l they declared the war
unconstitutional, and in ga at Chicago,
they declared ita "failure," in disregard
of every part of the Constitution, and
as calculated to prevent restoration
of the Union"
War, they said then, was "eternal
separation" War, they say now, has
preserved tho Union and maintained
the authority of the Constitution. The
safety of the country. they said then,
required the success of the Democratic
Party. The safety of the country, they
say now, demands the abandonment of
the Democratic Party; and they 60 to
work to organize new party, to be
styled the "National Union Party"
In the platform ofprinciples adopted
they declare the war for the Union a
succoss--that "slavery is abolished and
forever prohibited'-that "the en-
Jraehissd SLAVES in all the States of the
Union should receive, in common with
all their inhabitants, equal protection in
every right of person and property
that the Rebel debt is 'utterly invalid
and never to be assumed"--th debt of
the nation is to be sacred and inviolable,
and the claims of the Federal soldiers
and sailors must be promptly and fully
met, and their widows and orphans
generously cared for.
If these Coppcrheads are honest in
the expression of these principles, we
would ask every candid man among
them, Where is there any necessity for
the organization of new party The
Union Party sustained and carried on
the war, abolished slavery, passed the
bill giving civil rights to the enfran-
chised slaves, and now proposes to
amend the Constitution so as to make
the National Debt forever obligatory,
repudiate the Rebel Debt, secure the
same rights and privileges to the SEN
franchised slaves" that are enjoyed by
other citizens, equalize representation,
and disfranchise perjured Rebels, But
that they are not honest in the Inference
of these principles, and only proclaim
them for the purpose of deceiving the
true Union men OF the country is evil
dent, not only from the character Of
the men who composed the Convention,
but from the language of their address,