The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-08-08

Democratic press of Ohio during
the war can not very well be class
ed as "antecedent opinions" What
were the editors who are now sup
porting Thurman for Governor o.
Ohio saying while the wal, was go
ing on 10 question the extreme
pertinence of which is without ques
tion. The Circleville Watchman
of April II, 1861, said: :o9 PSI,
"Ciyil war and blood. We arr
about 10 have it all. Well, let i
come: and let those who inaugu
rate this policy fight their own bat
ties. And if we were a Southern
or, we would say TO the Northern
invaders, whenthey should come t.
our country, Have you not room
mt home TO bury your dead3 Ifyor
come here to bury them, you shal
be welcomed with bloody hands t
hospitable graves" ta
This was an l"antecedent opin
ion" and it requires no italics u
emphasize its enormities. This
fellow-John w. Kees was the cd
itor-baekcd up his antecedent O
pinion, when the war had beer
prosecuted more than year, june
6, 1862, with this article, exultine
over the reverscs of the Union ar
mics, in 1862:
ave think the late panic occa
stoned by the fight Of the traitor
disunion Lcoundrcl, Banks, from
Virginia, may appropriately be
compared TO the girl who while
looking at a very bot fire in bake
oven, i'm agined how bad she should
feel if Pat. O'Flanagan should
marry her, she have sweet little
babe, and it get burned up in that
oven. We should have no tears to
shed, however, if Jackson had
caught the Abolition, brawling
coward. and sliced his traitorous
head off. If he and about len
thousand of his confederates had
been hung with John Brown this
country would never have been
destroyed and disgr aced in the cs-
tlmation of the civilized world by
civil war for the negro.
"When the Abolition Republi
cans were striving 10 provoke the
South to rebel and make war on
tho Government, they ridiculcd
the people of that country, making
themselves appear silly and con-
temptible in the estimation OF all
fair.minded men. When we heard
this silly stuff, We advised all Dem.
ocrats to stay at home and let the
authors and provokers of this war,
the Abolition Republicans, fight
out their own war themselves. This
IS what ought TO havo been done
1t (tho war; has been on hand now
well on to two years, and we fear
it will continue until long after
supper. 1t will continue until
long after many of the Abolition
brawling towards, who involved
us in this civil conflict will take
their suppers in hell, if they ever
have any suppers in that place
But, supper or no supper, about len
millions of them ought to have
been hung with their patron saint
John Brown, at least twelve years
ago"
The Ohio Eagle, of April IS
1861, in the midst Of the great up
rising of the North after the bonn
bardment Of Fort Sumter. said:
"lf blood must be shed let it be
Republican blood. u a.
democrats of tho North. ave
you to be dragged in to a civil war
of murderous horrors fer a cause
in which you have no sympathy"
And the Eagle to this day has
never said any thing inconsistent
with this iniamy.
T The Stark County Democrat, A,
McGrcgor editor, said, April II,
1861:
"Of course our Republican oppo.
ncnts will not expect tho Demo.
Gratis to enroll themselves in lin.
coins IS, 900 troops; and when rs
900 Republicans leave for the south
tho Democracy will carry most Of
the Northern States, secure ma.
iority in Congress, and make peace
Would not this be glorirous?"
This antecedcnt opinion he
backed up the following year in
his issue OF December 81, 1862
with the following explicit recon-
mendation that tho United States
authorities should bo assassinatod
"Tho Government of Russia has
been defined 70 be AN absolute des.
potism, tempered and modified by
assassination, and Dickinson and
others claim that the President has
tho power of tho Gar without any
thing about the modification. Is
is not surprising that tho 'modif'
cation has not been supplied long
orc this? IT'S well perhaps it has
not But lot mono doubt tho modi.
fcati0n may bo lost sight Of and
may DO enforced unless the tyrants
and usurpors of tho country are
soon putt down or cease their iniqui.
ties, They are known and under
stood, whether they are 10 bo found
in the low knavos and blackguards
that dare to show thoir heads on
our street cornors, and in some Of
our hotels, 4 * i Il or are to be
found in the halls of Congress, OF
in tho Executive Departments oI
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