Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-07-26
The DisuniOnfsts.

The Democratic party now a days, is very
fond of boasting of its loyalty, affecting to
be filled with great anxiety to have the
Union restored, and charging the Repub-
licans with all kinds Of disunion projects be.
cause we demanded guarantees for the future
from the rebels. Who are these glib fel-
lows who thus charge the party who saved
the nation with being disupionists? The
Detroit Post answers:
They are the men who declare that seces-
sion was not treason
They are the men who styled Union sol.
diers hounds" bulldogs" "hirelings," !"
''Hessians," ''minions" and thieves"
They are the men who threatened "fire
in the rear" of our gallant Union armies.
These men opsosed the raising of armies
by volunteering.
They opposed the raising of armies by con-
scription.
They opposed and denounced every
measure by and through which the Union
was restored.
They declared that the Union cause
should not have man or dollar, if they
could prevent it.
They called the war for the Union an un
holy war.
They denounced Abraham Lincoln as
'tyrant, ''usurper," ''ape," "babboon,"
'fool, and assassin"
They opposed allowing our soldiers to
vote, and ceclared when they did vote, that
their votes were dishonesty cast.
Every rebel in the North belonged to
their party, and does yet.
They concocted conspiracies in the inter-
est OF the rebels.
They organized reasonable societies.
Their followers murdered draft officers
and mobbed draft officers.
Their friends" in New York got up the
most disgraceful riot known in American
history.
Their most exalted leaders were chosen
from the worst enemies of the Union in the
North.
Every one of the rebel leaders was
member of their party.
They daclared the war a failure, and that
it ought to cease, and went into a PreSiden-
tial contest with played out failure for
candidate upon that platform.
Their allies and agents maintained trea-
sonabe correspondence with armed rebels
They rejOiced over rebel and mourned
over Union victories.
They opposed the establishment of nation
al currency, and declared it was worthless.
BY every act and article of which unarm-
ed treason is capable, they injured the ma
tional credit abroad, and tarnished the ma
tonal honor at home.
Their party was and is the receptacle Of
every disgraced officer dismissed from the
Union service, or compelled to resign on
account of cowardice or incapacity.
To the crime of sneaking treachery they
added the infamy OF black ingrattude to
those whose patriotism and bravery saved
them and their sons from conscription.
Their newspaper Offices, and none but
theirs, refused to hoist the Union flag, until
compelled to do so.
Their last Vice-President was O rebel
leader; their last President conceited and
traitorous coward; and his predecessor was
the author of letter to the rebel leader
encouraging Esecession, and pledging the
Northern Democracy to sustain rebellion
with arms in case of resistance to secession
And this is the party, these papers and
the men who now have the unblushing of
frontery to charge the party whose exertions
and policy saved the Republic from death,
with disunionism.
DO they imagine that the people have
forgotten their misdeeds so soon; or that
they received political amnesty with their
reconstructed" brethren? +.