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

lows:
"Wedo not believe the Southern
Generals ever had any idea of at.
tacking Washington. They desire
only to protect their own rights,
liberty and property, If they can
can not do it without dispersing the
the scoundrelly usurpers in that
city, they may attempt to take it. !"
The Cadiz Sentinel, of January
9, 1861, said;
''The Republicans are now play
ing good game of brag. But we
assure our Southern friends that it
is all gas. When the time for ac.
ton arrives-we speak what we
kno,o.- they will find enemies e.
nough TO fight at home, without
going South" 9f
The news Of the fall of ATLANTA
was noticed by the editor of this
Sentinel in the following terms.
"The President has also issued a
congratulatory order to General
Sherman, and requesting the differ
ent churches of the country to offer
up prayer and thanksgiving, on
next Sabbath, for vouchsafing US
snch victory. The churches arc
called upon to thank God that FIVE
to ten thousand more human be-
ings have been butchered to ap-
pease the Moloch Of Abolition ia.
naticism, and God is expected to
justify the sacrifice. What bias
phemyl What devilish demoniac
fanaticism."
The editor evidently stood by
his antecedents to the end. The
Ashland Union, of April II, 1861
John j. Jacobs, editor-declar-
ed
"They Qhe Administration hope
TO commit the Union.loving De-
mocracy of the North to an in.
dorsement Of their mad policy by
getting up the war feeling. In
this way alone do they hope to
raise the $4,000 mon to carry on
the conflict. We have only TO say
10 you, gentlemen, this is not our
fight. You have followed your own
councils; you must do your own
fighting"
The Same paper, January Z,
1868, said:
"We publish in another column
the Emancipation Proclamation,
issued January l, 1868, by the ty.
rant, and usurper, Lincoln. Al
the commencement of the present
troubles i 4 x it is perhaps cor.
rect that we made the assertion
that when the Abolition thieves
and traitors went upon their John
Brown raid to Southern soil, we
hoped they might be welcomed
with bloody hands to hospitable
graves Nota step has been taken
by those in power since the South.
erners commenced fighting for
their constitutional rights that has
induced us to change our opinions.
"S0me three months since the
tyrant Lincoln issued a proclama.
tion, threatening the South that
if they did not submit to his John
Brown government, he would issue
another proclamation, which, as
the old traitor and imbecile vainly
supposed, would rob the Southern
people of hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of their property.
Tho 1st of January came-the
blood stained tyrant and usurper,
the Abolition traitor, whose gar.
ments are red, and whose soul is
answcrable for the life blood Of
hundreds of thousands of Amcri-
can citizcns, would add yet still
grosscr infamy to his multitude of
enormous crimes, by issuing the
clict of emancipation to the Alri-
cans"
February IL, 1868 tho same pa
per said:
THE President with a beggarly
minority of thieving, crazy, inter.
meddling, Puritanic blood hounds
at his back, with the army under
his control, is attempting to force
q dcspiscd and hated political
creed upon this tremendous major,
ity of the people by fire, sword and
slaughter. Shall it be submitted
to? For our own part, wo say
that IL is tho duty Of Americans,
if they wish to preserve their iber-
ties and their manhood, TO resist
the despots at once. Tho ballot.
box in this crisis speaks too slow !;
the cartridge.box will have to be
resorted to-"
Opinions given antccodcnt 10 the
war by these Democratic editors, it
will be. observed, wero maintained
through it without tlinching, and
they are maintained until this day.
These fellows have not learned any
thing. They arc now aching to
grovcl before their whipped South,
ern masters, and they would bite
the heels Of those who whipped
them if they could. The nearest
approach they can mako TO- tho
vlndicaLion OF their "antccedent O..
piLions," is to vote for Thurman,
and we eXpect the "old Green