Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-07-18
The New party movement.

The attempt to reconstruct the Democrat
ic or Copperhead party, and put it on its feet
again, by infusing some politically corrupted
Union blood into its sluggish veins, has been
dealt a blow by the unanimous action of the
Union members of Congress, from which it
will not recover. A few Johnsonised prom
inent members of the Union party conspired
with some of the leading copperheads to at
tempt the organization of a new political par
ty TO sustain the policy of Andrew johnson.
A call for a Convention, to be composed of
delegates from all the States, to meet in
Philadelphia, on the 18th of August, has
been issued. OF course the Copperheads will
go into the movement quite generally, al
though q few of the more crafty of the old
serpents, like the Columbus Crisis, warns
the faithful of its party to beware of the trap
laid TO beguile their innocent feet. The
Warren Constitution recommends the project
and suggests that delegates be appointed
from the 18th District. The Consultation
finds but one exceptionable principle in the
platform of the proposed new party. The
declaration which it refers to is as follows:
'TSlaVery is abolished, and neither can nor
ought TO be r~e-established in any State or
Territory within our jurisdiction"
This dogma, it thinks, will not generally
be swallowed by the pro-slaveryites.
1t is a disgusting exhibition of political
and moral s%ervility to see Northern men, at
this day, claiming that slavery has yet a le-
gal existence, or that it has not been abso-
lutcly and entirely rooted up and banished
from the land. 1t was to be hoped that in
asmuch as the accursed Institution had been
crushed under the iron heel of war, the
Democratic party would aequiesce in the in
exorable decree, and give its countenence
to efforts TO obliterate all traces of the great
est evil and blacklist stigma that could be-
fall our nation. But when such papers as
the Warren Constitution, Insignificant as
they may be, in point of influence, would
encourage efforts to restore slavery, it shows
the sentiments of at least a portion of that
party, and is a warning to the people not to
give it power. 1t is now seeking TO steal in
10 control of the government by a national
convention scheme, which is TO ~reorganize
the Democrstic party, and with the admis-
sion that slavery is abolished, - &c, they
hope to delude weakened Union men into
their ranks, to enable them to win, in which
event they would have no more regard for
their pretended acknowledgement that slave
~ ought not to be re established, than had
Davis, Toombs, and traitors generally, for
the Constitution. But We are glad that in
the caucus of Union members of Congress-
held a few days since, a resolution was unan-
imously adopted that no Union member
would countenance the Philadelphia Con-
y%ention. Mr.. Raymond, of New York, who
is the principle editor of the Times, and who
hes heretofore defended the President in
Congress and in his paper, said in the caucus
''That when he endorsed the call it was with
'the distinct understanding that none but
s'Union men were 10 participate in the Con-
E'vention. He has since been pursuaded in
ssto different conclusions, and was ready TO
a4admit that he had done wrong. However,
abe would retract his words, and henceforth
.'there would be no more endorsements of
'the Philadelphia Convention by himself or
fthe Times" This decisive action on the
part Of the leading Union men knocks the
props from under the new party, and it gees
down with no hope of resurrection.
There is but one party to be trusted, and
that one stood by the Union when traitors
South and their sympathizers North, would
have destroyed it. Which party was for
and which against the Republic in its dark
days of peril, every schoOlbOy knows.