The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-09-06

Tho proposition presented to the peo
| pie Of Ohio by the Democratic leaders ar,
! these; Our party tried to break up tn,
nation, and plunged the country into civi
war, which has ehtailed q great calamity
We, the Ohio Democratic politicians. de
clared that secession was an accomplished
fact, and the dissolution of the Union
thing that could not DO prevented We
denounced any attempt TO put down the
rebellion as breach of tho Constitution
and We voted against raising man or a
dollar for this purpose. We met in Con
Vention at the beg gnning OF secession, anC
resolved that the North had violated its
duties to the South, and had no right to
resist sepa, alton We used our party disci
pline and prejudice to prevent volunteer.
ing for the public defense. We assailed
every act of the Government as unconsttu
ticnal, and denounced it az Government
to which no man owed allegiance.
We organized tho faithful OF the Demo
cratic party into secret armed bands, to be
ready to strike the blow whenever ths
successes Of our confederates should give
sufficient promise We ilinerated through
the State. delivering harangues tho best
calculated TO stir up men to sedtion and
resistance to the Government We assailed
the Government money as worthless ragH
and tried to prevent our party from touch
ing it, Weassailed the Government bonds,
aud declared they never wonlG be paid,
We added hundreds of millions TO the
Democratic war debt by depressing the
public credit. We held out to our con.
federRtes tho promise OF lS0, 900 Democrats
ready to welcome their triumph and ia
join them in overthrowing the loyal North
crn people. In tho midst of the war we
met in National Convention aud sent aid
and comfort to tho enemy by solemnly re-
solving that the war to prcserVe the Union
was failure. We continually held out to
our confederates the promise that il they
would persevere the North would become
divided and poworless. They had the
assurance always before them that q Dem.
ocratic victory at the polls in the North
would be the Confederate triumph in the
war.
1t was not with the consent of The North
ern Democratic party that our Conioderates
finally submitted. 1t was against our will
that the Union was preserved. The nation
al triumph was our downfall. Its JOY was
our afiliction. But now, since the Union is
preserved in spite of us, since we failed in
five years effort to destroy the nation,
we propose TO take its government into our
hands. The party which saved the nation
from destruction is incompetent TO govern
its affairs in peace. That belongs to us
who tried to destroy it. A long prepared
conspiracy, followed by five years war of
rebellion, has qualified us alone to govern.
We brought all the oalamitiea upon the
country. Nothing but the hair OF, the same
Democratic dog that poisoned tho life blood
of the nation can cure the bite. Patriots
have had their day. None but traitors
must now be put on guard. 7.
This is the modest proposal which the
Democratic speakers present to the people
of OHIO. This is the plain issue. There
is no limit to the meauEess of n Democrats
estimate of the popular intelligence and
Integrity, and therefore these leaders have
the assurance to make this proposition to
the people of Ohio. They thought they
could carry Ohio into the rebellion; they
now bring ont men covered over with the
infamy of treason, and insult the people by
to put them in as rulers, to re.
construct the rebellion, They signally
failed in their estimate of the character of
the people in the war and it ia not likely
that patriotic war and complete tri
umph have degraded the people so that
they will now fOist upon themselves these
characters who are fixed in historical in.
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