Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-18
Northern Democracy and the
South.

Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, has
lost confidence in the Democratic
party. In speech delivered few
days since at Charleston, he declared
that he had given over all hope Of
seeing the old Democratic party ever
again restored to power. and then
went on to call the Northern wing of
the party to an account for their
false friendship and counsel to the
South. He said:
'Many Of you well remember that
when the war first commenced, great
hopes and expectations were held
out by cur friends in the North and
West, that there would be no war,
and that lfit commenced it would be
nerth of Mason and Dixon's line,
and not in the South. You know,
sir, turning to Gen. Sickles. that
faith was pledged, and / will now
state that if that faith had been
properly carried out, there is no
probability that any State but South
Carolina would have seeded from
the Federal Union.
Another account which l have to
bring against the Democratic party,
is that when the Philadelphia Con-
vention met, it adopted a platform
broad enough to embrace every con-
servative man North and South; yet
no sooner had it adjourned than an
attempt was made to give it a Demo
cratic character, and make it appear
that every man who attended that
Convention was an accession to the
Democratic party.
Again, during the pendency of the
Constitutional Amendment, every
Northern newspaper, and almost
every Democrat in the country,
urged upon the South to reject its
provisions. 1t was rejected. A few
weeks only elapsed, and yet we find
that On the passage of the Sherman
Bill, our Democratic friends, acting
in conjunction with old Thad. Ste
vens, were instrumental in incorpo-
rating On that bill its most odious
features. Invent back to the Senate,
was finally adopted, and every one
of the Democratic newspapers all
over the North, so far as / a.u in
formed, have come out and urged he
Southern people to accept the bill
/ say to you, therefore, that in my
judgement, it IS time for us to seek
new friends and new alliance"
The views expressed above by
Gov. Orr are true in letter and IN
spirit, and the sooner the South be
gins TO realize this fact, the better
will be for herself and the country
There is no body or party of men in
the whole country so directly re.
spsnsible for the Inauguration and
continuance of the late war as this
same Northern Democratic Copper
head party. Their false representa-
tions as to the sentiments Of the
North, and their equally false prom
ises of aid in the event of war, car
ried the South into a rebellion which
otherwise they would not have dared
to attempt. Once in the contest
their Northern allies abandoned
them and left them to fight it out
alone. They suddenly became peace
men, toe peaceable either to strike a
blow in the defense of their Govern
ment, or on the other hand in behalf
of the South whom they had induced
to take up arms. 1t would naturally
have been supposed that the lesson
thus learned by the South, would
have been remembered when th'
war was over. But not so. They
again listened to the false counsel o.
this copperheae party at the North
who advised resistance to all condi
tions and terms Of recenstructiel
attempted to be imposed by Con
gress. Following this advice, tn
Southern States rejected the mill
terms of the Constitutional Amend
ment, and as the legitimate result o
that rejection they will now be com
PEELED to reorg rganize under the NOR
stringent measures of the Sherman
Bill. Truly, Northern Democrac,
has proved a false prophet to tn,
South, and well may she exclaim
''deliver me from my friends" 1t i
gratifying to see that such men a
Gov. Orr are beginning to discoveI
the fatal mistake they have made il
trusting to the representations o
this bogus Northern Democracy.