The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-09-12

Providential issue Of the war. But did
they do it? Listen to their deliberate
voice in convention assembled {:
/ ReSolved, That if the counsels of the
Democratic party had prevailed, the Uni
on would have been preserved in all its
integrity and honor, without the stdu9h-
ter, de6t, and disgrace Of a ciUI ,Car; but
when the formation of sectional parties
in the North and in the South, and the
advent of one of those parties into the
seats of federal power, made war a fact
which we could not control, we sustained
the Federal authorities in good faith ask
ing nothing at their hands except de-
cent respect for our legal rights, and some
show of common honesty in the manage
ment of our financial affairs bat in both
these particulars we were disappointed
and betrayed.
1t was ''peace, peace" during the days
of war, and when war was over, in a saw
ed nation and freed race they could see
only "debt, slaughter, and disgrace. =
Bitter, graphic, historical words
In 1866 a Democratic convention as
sembled in Pennsylvania, to nomiate
candidate for Governor. The national
skies were bright, and there was not
much mischief for Democrats to do or
wish, but what they could they did. Read
the sixth plank orthe platform of 1866
''That the bold enunciation Of tho prin-
ciples of the Constitution and the policy
of restoration contained in the recent an
nuai message aud Freedmen's Bureau We
to message of President johnson, entitle
him to the confidence and support of all
who respect the Constitution and love
their country
Out of their own mouths we judge
them. Their deliberate profession of po-
litical faith, made with all the solemni-
ties possible, and after mature earnest dis
cussion and deliberation, are all unre-
pudiated. They have never yet been dis
owned, denied or apologized for, and they
will not be now. There is not Demo
cratic paper in this State that will today
acknowledge these resolutions to have
been wrong, dishonorable, aud treason
able, or as giving "aid and comfort to the
enemy" in the hour of danger. On the
contrary, the leaders Of the party con-
tinually ring changes on the 'landmarks,"
"the time honored customs" the "ancient
doctrimes," the cold traditions" No,
these shameful and shameless resolutions
have not been and will not be recanted
They are parts of the platform on which
Judge SharswoOd is presented to the peo-
pie. They spring from the same political
heresy and the same disloyal sympathies
which prompted the decision against the
constitutionality of the draft and Of our
legaltcnd notes. They are all together
the effluence of Caihouism-pure, mod
cru, sectional, pro-slavery Democracy.
This is the unforgotten record of the
Democratic party. Read it, voters Of
Pennsylvania, and ponder upon your re-
sponsibility this fall. think on it and
weep over it, fathers and brothers of the
men who sleep at Gettysburg and Chick
amauga. Every word in these false heart
ed resolutions has filled Union soldiers
graves. If to day the colors of the Union
float from sea to sea if to-day the nation.
stands saved, rcgenerated, and abreast in
the column of civilization with Russia
and Rrazil if to- day the sword is turn
ed into the ploughshare, and the smiling
harveSts of peace and plently are smooth
ing out from the face of the land the fur
rows of war; if to-day Pennsylvania, our
glorious Commonwealth is the keystone of
a united country, it is in spite of and in
the teeth of the labors and efforts of the
Democratic party. Their history has not
been the history of our country. Their
record has not been the record Of the
country.
On this record we make no comment.
We leave it to the people who have car
ried the nation through the great strug-
gle, only reminding any careless or un-
thinking voter that every vote cast for
Sharswood is tacit endorsement Of those
black resolutions, and an implied refec-
tion on the now silent armies of the Re-
public. who died that We might live
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