Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-02-06
The Approaching Presidential
Election.


this country are involved. Whcth-
er this government is in fact a Uni
ted Government or whether its uni
ty depends upon the mere will of
l, IL or Is factious States. Two
great parties are to be arrayed
against each other in a conflict that
must decide the policy of this Gov
ernment; in fact it may be said,
whether we shall have a UNITED
Government, or ruling oligarchy,
that acknowledges no bond Of I'm
ion that may not be laid aside at
any moment, for the. ruinous State
rights doctrines, advocated by the
Democratic party, that so recently
plunged this Government into a
five years bloody war.
Who now form the the two par
ties in conflict? On the side of
the glorious Union, stand the noble
men who defended the Union and
the Government Of the Union all
through the bloody rebellion; and
on the other side are the men whose
voices and influence were against
the Government, and against furn-
ishirg men and money for the pur
pose of putting down the rebellion
and, enforcing obedience to the
laws of the Government. The party
in this country, North, South, East
and West, and the men who bore
arms against their Government and
did all in their power to destroy it,
stand marshallcd in the same col
umn with the democratic party to-
day, for tie purT ose Of doing bat
tie in the approaching Presidential
Campaign against the loyal men
and party that supported the muir
dered Lincoln in his patriotic cf
forts and policy to put down the
rebellion and fave the Union.
The party that then supported
jeff Davis and followed his lead, is
still against the Union; and their
Northern democratic friends who
CO operated with them in their effort
to defeat the Union party, still
adhere to their Statc-rights doc
tfino, and so far at least MS the
right to rebel against the Gov
ernmeht IS concerned, they, with
Jeff. Davis and the rest of the rcb
els claim that one or more States
have right at any time to with
draw from the rest Of the States, and
set up an Independent Government
within the limits Of the United
States, for themselves; that they
have a right under this Statc-rlghts
dogma, to put at defiance the an.
thority of the Government and
break it up, and establish an oil
garchy, a Government by few
dominant leaders, who, under the
ruling Of the same internal spirit
that caused the rebellion, put
a numerous, but helpless class of
our population again in the dcgra-
ding bonds Of slavery.
The party in the approaching
contest for the Presidency against
which the tried and true friends of
the Union will have to contend, is
the same party led on by the same
leaders that opposed the Union
party all through the rebellion the
same party that had no sympathy for
the success Of. our Union armies,
the same men and the same par
ty that mentally rejoiced at reb-
ei victories over our gallant Union
soldiers on the bloody field Of strife
for the perpetuation Of our Union
the same men who advised the
rank and f'e Of the Butternut party
not to believe tho telegraphio re-
ports Of the Union victories in the
Fall Of 1864, declaring they were
ialschoods put-out to influence vo.
ters lust before the election for
Lincoln, admitting thereby that
Union Victories over the rebel arm
les we're defeat to the democratic
party, and that rebel victories over
our soldiers on hebattle field, wcr
democratic victories at the ballot
boxes for Mcclellan and the demo
cratic party; in short, deny 1t as
they may, tholr hopes Of success at
the polls, their only hope ofelccting
Mcclellan 10 the Presidency de
pended upon the success OF jeff.
Davis armies, aud the defeat Of the
lincoln Soldiery, If our armies
failed, democracy, as they called it,
would triumph at the polls; hence