The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-07-04

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protection. The States. according
TO the Democratic party, must de
termibe the legal status and tht
rights Of individuals, and may cur
tail them. at pleasure. A man il
not q freeman because he is an A
meriean, but because the State O
South Carolina, Georgia, or, Beav
en- defend us, the State Of KentuckJ J
graciously doles out TO him a scan
ty allowance Of rights upon which
the mob will be encouraged Il
trample. The Democratic party,
as now constituted. does rot be-
lieve in rights born with the indi.
vidual it only believes in rights
conferred by a State. We say, the
American first, the Kentuckian af
terward. The Democratic party
says, first the Kentuckian, the Car.
Gilman, the Alabamian. and, last oi
all, the American. We say the
American has certain rights which
Kentucky must respect. The Dem
ocra;ic party calls this centraliza.
ton, and says the American citizen
has no rights but those which Ken
lucky, or Maryland. or South Car
olina has been pleased to grant
In this respect, our disagreement
with the Democratic party is radi-
cal. They say, first, the rights Of
States. and the rights Of man. We
say, first, the rights Of man, and
then the rights of States, because
States were made for men, not men
for States. We are in favor of
complete local and municipal self
government, but we claim that fun
damental and inalienable rights are
national, and must not be interfer-
ed with, or trampled upon by acci-
dental geographical subdivisions,
or tyrannical local majorities.-
What would be the use d having a
Federal Government, if 1t should
not, in case of necessity, throw
over the poorest and humblest in
dividual, the protecting mantle Of
freedom? Indeed, / cannot under
stand with what right our oppo-
nents still claim the name Of Dem.
ocrats. They are opposed to every
fundamental principle Of Democra-
cy. They are opposed TO the prin-
clple of equal justice to all. They
are opposed to equality before the
law. They are opposed to the very
theory upon which our Govern
ment is based, and they hailed and
encouraged the blows that were
struck at its very existence. Their
leaders are peace men, when the
country is at war, and menacing
agitators and seditious instigators,
when the country seeks 10 re.esiab.
lish peace. Their subserviency
and compliance brought on seces-
sion. They prolonged the war by
encouraging resistance. They now
endeavor to prolong the present
state of uncertainty and transition
by counseling against submission.
In theory they are opponents Of
the sublime idea Of q great Ameri
can nationality based on liberty
and human rights. In practice,
they are disorganizers and anar-
chists. Deserters from the princi-
piles OF true Democracy, they scoff
at the noblest impulses of our peo.
pie, and mischievously beliltle our
great national struggle. They
keep the wounds of the war from
healing by studiously sowing dis
cord aud fermenting ill-will be.
tween the two sections of the coun-
try. They cultivate sectional pref
udices, and preach hatred of race.
They endeavor to arouse the worst
passions that lie dormant in the
human heart. They are continual.
ly tempting the stronger to oppress
the weaker, and call this democ-
racy. Their political organization
is dangerous to liberty dangerous
to our national existence; danger.
GUS to the peace and prosperity OF
the country. The are the authors
of our national calamitiea, which,
should they succeed to power, they
would inevitably perpetuate.
THE SOUTH AND THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
But itseems to be the great event
of the day that our misguided
Southern countrymen at last begin
to realize that the Democratic par
ty has acted toward them the part
of Mephistopheles, in Faust, urg,
ing them on from mistake to mis-
take, from blunder to blunder, from
wrong until they landed in utter
ruin and perdltion. They begin to
realize at last that the advice which
the Democratic party gave the
South has always been like that of
the serpent in Paradise.
The Democratic party made
them believe that the North would
not fight; but the North fought.
1t made them believe that any
attempt at coercion would lead to
civil war in the North; but the
North remained united.
1t made them believe that the
North would soon grow tired of the
war, instead of which she only
grow tired of the Democratic par
ty.
II filed them with false hope as
TO the Presidential election of 1864.
The Southerners would not have
persisted so long in a hopeless
against the inexhaustible
resources Of the Union, If they had
not beheld an organization in the
North which, though defeated and
in a minority, had ruled the coun-
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