Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-08-15

on winch slavery was DaSeu.
The abolition Of slaevry in tht
District Of Columbia, the repeal 0
the fugitive slave law, Mr.. Lincoln'i
proclamation Of emancipation, in {
word, every step Of the Unioir party
toward the acknowledgements the
colored people, the peace Democra.
cy opposed, Every war means
adopted to strengthen the cause oi
the Union and weaken the rebellion
met with the same opposition
Whatever Mr.. Lincoln or Congress
did to get money, to get men, or to
obtain the moral support of the
country and the world - tax-laws,
tariff laws, greenbacks, Government
bonds, army bills, drafts, blockades,
proclamati0ns--met the indiscrimi-
nate and bitter assaults Of these men.
The enlistment Of colored soldiers,
u meNrure by which between one and
two hundred thousand able bodied
men were transferred from the SER
vice Of the rebels in corn fields to
the Union service in battle fields
how Mr. Lincoln and the Union par
/ ty were viliGed for that wise and
necessary measure But worse, in
fnitely worse, than mere opposition
to mere war measures, were their eff
forts to impair the confidence of the
people, to diminish the moral power
of the Government, to give hope
and earnestness to the enemies of
Union, by showing that the Admin
istratiOn was to blame for the war,
that it was unnecessary, unjust, and
that it had been perverted from its
original object, and that it could not
but fail.
SPEECHES AND CONDUCT or THE PEACE
DEMOCRACY.
l need not go beyond the record
of leaders of the Ohio Democracy
of to-day for proof of what l am
saying. Mr., Pendleton, usually so
gentlemanly and prudent in speech, |
lost his balance after the victories I
of the peace Democracy in 1862. -
At the Democratic jubilee in Butler
county over the elections, Mr.. Pen
dleton is reported as saying;
~ came up to see if there were
any Butternuts in Butler county
l came to see if there were any Cop
perheads in Butler county, as my
friends of the Cincinnati Gazette |
and Commercial are fond Of terms
ing the Democracy of the country. |
l came up to tell you that there are
a good many of that stripe of ami
mails in old Hamilton. l have trav-
elled about the country lately, and |
l assure you there is a large crop of /
Butternuts everywhere; not only |
that, but the quality and character
of the nut is quite as good as the
quantity"
OF course Mr.. Pendleton was ap-
plauded by his audience; and he re-
turned to his place in the House of
Representatives at Washington, pre-
pared to give expression to his
views with the same plainness and
which marked the utterances of his
colleague, Mr.. Vallandigham,
On the 31st of January, 1868, he
made an elaborate speech against
the enlistment of negroes into the
services Of the United States, in
which he said:
"I should be false to you, my fell
if l did not tell
you that there is an impression,
growing with great rapidity upon
the mind of the people of the North
west that they have been deliberate
ly deceived into this war that their
patriotism and their love of country
have been engaged to call them into
the army, under the pretense that
the war was to be for the Union and
the Constitution, when, in fact, it
was to be an armed crusade for the
abolition Of slavery. Itell you, sir,
that unless this impression is speed
ly arrested it will become universal {
it will ripen into conviction, and
Jhen it will be beyond your power !
o get from their broad plains an
other man, or from their almost ex-
lausted Golfers another dollar"
In the same speech he says;
81 said two years ago, on this i
loor, that armies, money, war, can
lot restore this Union; justice, rca- l
ION, peace, may, believed it then
have believed it at every moment !
iince; l believe it now. No event
If the past two years has for mo- '
nent shaken my faith. Peace is the f
lrst step to union, Peace unbroken '
would have preserved it; peace re
tored will, l hope, in time recon
truct it. The only bonds which /
an hold these States in confedera- {
ion, the only ties which can make
is one people, are the soft and silk /
N cords of affection and interest. '
These are woven in peace, not war;
II Cancellation, not coercion; in t
leeds of kindness and acts of
riendly sympathy, not in deeds of c
iolence and blood. The people of t
he Northwest were carried away by v
he experiment of April and May. t
they believed war would restore the
Jnion. They trusted to the assur- a
noes of the President and his Cab S
net, and of Congress, thatit should V
e carried on under the Constitu- u
ion. They were nntriOtio and con- "