The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-09-18

not a single Republican in the entire
Union who voluntarily went with the
rebellion. All were Democrats, every
one, and they commenced war whose
end was to overthrow the government
and establishin its stead government
"whose corner stone was 10 be slavery"
Because of this rebellion, the Presi-
dent was forced to call into the field
immense armies, to raise large sums of
money and TO sacrifice hundreds Of
thousands of lives, and at every step of
| progress of the war the efforts of the
loyal administration were opposed and
resisted by the Democratic party.
After war of four years duration,
unparalleled for wicked cruelty and
bloodshed. on the part ofthe secession.
lists, aided and encouraged by the Dem
ocratic party, the South laid down its
arms and submitted to the general gov
ernment
Without stoppingto count the noble
lives that this Democratic war sacri-
feed, the hundred of thousands of Grip
pies It made who are pensioners upon
the government, the helpless widows
and orphans who fill the land with sor-
row and mourning, it imposed upon
the people a debt Of three thousand mil
lions of dollars, all of which was spent
in saving the nation and oyerthrowing |
this gigantic rebellion.
Nor must 1t be forgotten that in this
war eyeryman who fought against the
flag was Democrat, and every man
who encouraged the rebellion was a
Democrat and thet every Republican
in the Union was on the side of the
government sts si-a 5li5 a.
These are facts 50 patent and notori-
GUS that every one who thinks and is
honest knows and believes them, and
it seems like an insult to ones reason
and understanding to urge them upon
his notice. Yet it is necessary, be-
cause every Democratic journal that is
published and every Democratic stump
speaker boldly and falsely charge the
war debt and all its consequences upon
the Republican party. .io -
The enormous tax the people are
forced to pay yearly is the result of the
rebellion, of a,rebeIlion origiuated and
prosecuted during four years by Demo.
Gratis. 1t is tax TO pay the interest on
the National debt created by Demo
cratic war and to pay pensions 10 dis ,
abled soldiers, and to the widows and +
orphans of deceased soldiers killed
by Democratic rebels. Does any person
who has reached mans estate not know
thiSs And. yet ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and speakers attemptto shift the weight :,
and responsibility Of this burdeusome !,
taxation, the frHit of Democratic re-
belliop, upon the shoulders of the Re Ii
publican party, and say that it brought 3
t upon the people. "a.
This wholesale system flying adopt
I'd by the organs of the Democracy %
,learly shows the extremity to which g
hey are driven. Having no record up u I
IN which they dare go before the peo- + +
Die, their only hope is to deceive the
masses into the belief that their most d.
'dius acts are not their own but the Vi
lcts of the Rspublicau party. u
In 1850 they asked the sufTrages of
to orbOlster up the rotten sys- : !
EN- ofslsFery, and threatened if it were 60
lot done there would be civil war. The H
'eOPle repudiated them, and the war Pr
anne. True to their threats, none but &c
Democrats upheld and fought for sla- 8
cry. But it t'went down, and with it tn
laf the Democratic thunder and all its 70
error. In 1864 they declared that the C,
var was failure and was carried on to
or the purpose Of prosecuting their
southern bretheru, and carried the is es
ue before the people. The loyal @ ,s
masses repudiated them again by an a.
overwhelming Republican victory. IO
Vow the war is over and but for Dem ye
cratic hostility all the seeded States M
IOuld be fully restored to their former
Citations in the Federal Government. 20
third, and we believe, last time they ,b
SIX the people to reject the reconstruc- otI
on acts Of Congress, to accept their "
ft-told lies about the authors of the
Iatiodal debt and Federal taxes, to ac fir
ept a revolutionary President and Vice 2, q,
resident, and iuaugurate another civil lac %
ar They want President who will 70,
ample into dust the reconstruction Oe'
cts of Congress. ma
It is for the loyal voters 10 say ", %1
hether the Union is worth what It ms
'st; and if it be so they will hesitate sli
'ug before they elect the candidates of
lie present Democratic party to the an
cad Of the National Government and me
specially candidates who pledge them, Wa
lives to overthrow the government and We We
augurate another rebellion, oei