The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-03-28

ness and cogency, yet in perfect
kindness, demonstrated that a
President must, 10 the utmost limit
Of bis ability, cause the laws Of the
Union to be respected and obeyed
in every State and Tcrritory-that,
should a collision Of forces result,
his position would be strictly de.
fensive and conservative-that the |
couse,, Lent war would be made on
him not by him. Never was
manifesto more firm and lucid Z;
never was one less irritating
Either its doctrines were sound, or
any State might at any time dis
solve the Union. Yet, Of the five
hundred Democratic journals with
in our reach we believe no single
one approved and sustained the po-
8 tons of Mr.. Lincoln.
Z. Throughout the winter and
the ensuing spring, all the organs
Of Democratic opinion within our
observation reprobated Mr.. Lincoln
and the Republicans as disturbers,
and disunionists, because Of their
intent to oppose force by force, if
that should become necessary, to
maintain the integrity and author
ity of the Union. We can recall
no instance OF Democratic rebuke
to those who were openly, ostenta-
tiously conspiring and arming to
resist the Union, which they pro.
claimed already dissolved.
8. A confederacy Of seeded
States having been formed, leading
Northern and Western Democrats
openly advocated the secession Of
their several States from the Union,
and their accession to the Southern
Confederacy. "If the Union is to
be dissolved said Judge George
W. Woodward, democratic candi.
date for Governor in 1863 81
want the line to run north of Penn
sylvania. Ex-Governor Rodman
NJ. Price, Of New Jersey, wrote and
printed q letter elaborately urging
that New Jersey should forthwith
unite her fortunes with those ofths
slave holding confederacy. (See II
in "American Conflict. vol. i, p.
439.) And Ex-Governor Horatio
Seymour, of this State, privately
argued that New York shoHld like
wise unite with that confederacy
whose head was Jefferson Davis.
1t was held by leading Democrats
that the Union might thus be re-
constructed without bloOdshed or
convulsion, only New England, and
perhaps two or three more tanati-
cal States Of the Northwest, being
excluded therefrom. as unaccepta-
BILE to our Southern brethren.
Q. Actual hostilities were COM
menced by the rebels-not by fir.
ing on Fort Sumter, as is often as.
! serted, and as Pollard now pre-.
! tends, but months before, whllt
Mr.. Buchanan was yet President
They seized and appropriated th'
forts, arsenals, armories, ordnance
: arms, munitions, m-houses
post Offices, sub-treasuries, &c.
throughout nearly half the Union
without shadow of resistance
:, his Democratic Secretaries of War
! and the Treasury being conspicu
= GUS, active disunionists, and b,
+ himself, with most Of his counsel
ors, playthings in their hands. Be
i fore Texas went out of the Union
according to rebel computation
! !, the bulk of our little army ha
u been betrayed by its commands
u General Twiggs, and surrendere
IS to three Rebel Commissioners-Fel
. 1S, 1S61,-a fortnight before Nj
u Buchanan went out of office.
|. ever q government forebore ii
II smitten on both cheeks, and ii
J tobacco juice had been spit into il
l. eyes, that did the Federal Coy
2 ernment before graphing with th
}, shareholders rebellion. And ye
" from first to last. the Democrat
l. journals and canvassers Tepresen
D. ed the war for the Union as wage
l. by Mr.. Lincoln and the Republ
Ie cans, and assumed that the rebe
a were assaulted and sta nding on Il
i defensive!
is 10. Democratic protests ana
Y monstrances, public and privat
n against the war as cruel, fratric
\. dal, wicked, revolving, abhorrer
r. &c, were abundant throughout Il
10 struggle; not ono of them, SO Fl
N as we can recoIlect, addressed
10 the rebel chiefs, but all assumiI
ISS that Mr.. Lincoln and the Republ
N cans were wagilg hostilities nee
to lessly if not wantonly, and mig
no have an honorable peace whenev
N they would. Thomas H. Seymot
+" of Connecticut, was author OF o
ar of the earliest of those paralyzi
of missives; and he was nominal
by acclamation by the Democr:
n of Connecticut as their candidf
re- for Governor in 1868, and his ell
is ton enthusiastically supported
IL. the party.
ne IL. In this city, one of Q
er Democratic journals, the Da
'se News, was an open, unqualih
To- contemner of the war on our 81
he and champion OF the rebelli'
TO- from fret to last. 1t did its utm
hc to prevent enlistment in the Uni
lie. armies, eulogized the rebel chi'
,se and proclaimed that they col
he never be subdued systematica
re- magnifed their successes, and
&C. MED or belittled their revers
I. and was well understood to