The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-07-05

| hOVRa W hilunlu, huu NTuDJ was IOrc
ing Lee back into the defenses of Rich
mond, in desperate and bloody battles
every day; when The fate Of the Nation
hung in the balance, and the world
watched with breatbless interest tn,
gigantic struggle which was to settle
the question ofrepublican government
assembled in Convention. in Chicago
and resolved that the war was fail
ure; that our cause was unjust, and
that we ought to lay down our arms
and sue for peace, 1t was throwing 9
mountain into the Confederate scale
to make the Union, kick the beam. il
was a bold and desperate interference
in behalf of the rebellion, at the very
crisis of the fight. 1t was an insult tt
the loyal armies of the nation, SO vast
malignant and deadly, that Language
can convey no adequate idea Of its
wickedness. And in future times the
historian will record the fact with as
tonishment that the Government, al
the most critical moment of its life
when few hours or few days at far
thest, must determine whether il
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 tho
rebellion. ,. .,..
Now, l do not mean to say that al
the Democratic leaders have done al
these things, but what l do say is this
that the men who haye done these
are combined together and constitute
the real leaders Of the Democratic par
ty, The few moderate men of the par
ty have been stripped Of all power anc
influence, and are carried along with
it merely for numbers and policy
while tho living and aggressive Gle
ment which controls it are "Sons o.
Liberty" and those who acted in sym
pathy and concert with them.
They are the men who have peryer
ted the word Democracy from its once
honorable meaning, to be a shield anC
cover for rebellion, and for every
crime that attaches to causcless ant
atrocious war. r..,a .... .l
WHO CALLED THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS
Every unregenerate rebel, lately il
arms against his Government, call
himself a Democrat. .n.ere ..gu
Every "bounty jumper" every
"descrter," every "sneak," who rar
away from the draft calls himself ;
Democrat Bowles, Mlligan, Walker
Dodd, Horscy and Humphreys cal
themselves Democrats Every "Sor
of Liberty" who conspired to murder
burn, rob arscnals, and release rebe
prisoners, calls himself Democrat
John Morgan, Sue Munday, ChamI
Ferguson. Wirz, Paine and Booth pro
claimed themselves Democrats Ev
+ery man who labored for the rebellion
in the field, who murdered Union pris
oners by cruelty and starvation, who
conspired to bring about civil warir
the loyal States, who invented danger
Gus compounds to burn steamboats, ano
Northern cities, who contrlved hell
ish schemes to introduce into North
ern cities the wasting pcstilence o.
yellow fever, calls himself Demo.
crat. Every dishonest contractor
who has been convicted of defraudlng
the Government-every dishonest
paymaster or disbursing officer wbC
has been convicted of squandering the
public money at the gaming table OF
in gold gambling operations-every
officer in the army who was dismissed
for cowardice or disloyalty, calls him
self Democrat. Every wolf in
Sleeps clothing, who pretends to
preach the Gospel, but proclaims the
Righteousness of selling and sla
very-one who shoots down negroes
in the streets, burns negro schoo
houses and meeting houses, and mur
dcrs women and children by the ligb
OF their own flaming dwellings, call
himself democrat. Every New
York rioter in 1868, who burned ~
little children in colored asylums-
who robbed, ravished and murdered
indiscriminately in the midst of bla
zing city Tor three days and nights
called himself a Democrat. In shor
the Democratic party may be desert
bed as acommon sewer and loathsomC
receptacle, into which is emptiod every
clement of treason North and South
and every element of inhumanity ant
barbarism which has dishonored thC
age. t r.' IH .a. a i.-r. usa
And this party, composed of thu
men and clements l have described
in defiance of truth and deconcy, as
serts itself as the special champion o
the Constitution and the Union, whicl
but short sixteen months ago il wa
in arms to destroys; and proclaims t
an astonished worldlt the only ef
feet ofvanquishingI armed rebels il
the field, is To return them to seats il
Congress, and to restore them to po
litical power, Having failed to des
troy the Constitution by force. they
seek to doit by construction, and MS
sumo to have made the lremarkabl,
discovery that rebels who fought Il
destroy the Constitution were its tru,
friends, and that the men who shet
their blood and gave their substanc'
to preserve it were its only enemies.
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