The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-08-20

BY the bullets sigel sent,
By the fight and rout and rally
OfSherldan along the Valley,
Grant shall be our Presidentl
[From Harper's Weekly, August l5.l
cat the Point Ofthe BayOnet."
Every day makes it palmer that
the policy which tho Democratic
party has chosen 10 submit TO the
public judgment in this campaign
is not one of administration Lerely
but of absolute and torciblo reyo-
luton. 1t proposes TO reverse all
the national legislation Of tho last
three years, to subvert the recon-
struction which the country has ap-
proved, 10 dispersc organized
State governments by the bayonet:
by the same means to reinstato
those who, for the highest crime
against tho Commonwealth, have
been temporarily disfranchiscd:
TO deprive hundreds of thousands
of new citizens of the ballot, and
thrust them back into o semi. i.en-
shaved condition. project which
can not be accomplished but by
the most sanguinary measures.
Proclaiming wholly arbitrary
test Of citizenship in color--a test
involving caste and uncomfortable
injustice, which embraces the en-
tire disaffected class, and excludes
q large body Of the loyal people
it announces that if its claim is dis
regarded it will appeal to "physic-
al force, and place its candidate
in the White House at tho point oil
the bayonet.
1t will not bo forgotten that the
I party which thus enters into po'
litical campaign with loud threat
of civil war is the one that hal
previously made the same threat
and fulfilled it TO the letter. Ii
1860, the Democratic orators sale
, that 1.-THE South" could not be ex
pccted to submit to the election
OF Mr.. Lincoln. In 1856, Mr., Fill
more, absurdly called Conserva
tive, had said the same thing il
view of the election of Mr.. Ere
. mont. 1t was not bravado merely
? Whatever the Northern portion o
!, the party may have thought or in
!, tended, the Southern portion wa
sincere and resolved; and it wa
that portion which had entirel!
controlled the party and dictated
it's policy, because it was the posi-
, tive element.
$ This history repeats itself Il
r, 1864 the positive element was th
Copperhead majority represents
by Vallandigham, who made th
Democratic platform of that yeal
! which was merely a proposal t
!. succor the rebellion and secure il
s 'n success. In any event it was reN
olution in the interest Of the slave
: holding oligarchy. The nationi
conscience and sagacity, howovc
., a. were too strong; the Union an
o, progressive free society were sax
cd. In 1868 the same spectacle
: presented. Tho war is over. b.
vs. the passion and purposes OF i
chiet instigators remain. Defei
J, in the effort to destroy the Unio
has not taught them love OF Il
Union. Profound hostility to Il
principles of society which ha'
prevailed and to an interpretatiC
S. OF the character of the governme
= which has triumphcd, does not siI
!, into acquiescence without furth
J! struggle. Fooled in the field, VIII
:. chance is there in political j
''' trigue2 Oppressed with del
strained by long and severe exc
nd tion of every kind, vexed by t
be. delay of complete pacifcation,
ger not the country an army fatigu
after it's victory, sleeping upon I
In field, and fatally exposed to o
MS, daring, desperate assault? II
- was the question with which t
old, positive, ruling element of I
Democratic party entered it's &C
o. vention. Part of the Northe
wing, which that element despis
had suggested in advance some
-. :. acknowledgement of actual even
For The war, it said, cautiously, n
have been u mistake, but it m
w. y. be honestly paid for. Reconstr
= tion may be unconstitutional,
it is accomplished, and can boz
versed only in the way itself P
vides. The party, justly or unjus
=! has become such q stencil in
national nostrils that it may
nts better to take a candidate fl
without its lines. Indeed, {
srs this wing Of the party, with an
stem of valor, on the very day before
oods convention met, if the South
delegates take part in tho acI
D. Of the convention, they must al
:, u,. by it.
r our III may be lmhBineu WIN
sell disdain tho Southern delegat
read these words in a paper vi
son's :%%Ts their mere distant frown had !
. s..,n 70. cd to renounce its candidate. l
siSf this came to tho Convention led
from rom Wade Hampton, a relentless s.