Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-08-14
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: TO the controlling element of their part
The record of their party was in tho
ough sympathy with the rebellion duril
the war, and the leaders and manage
are the same now as then, and TO prov
this statement we give few extracts b
low as follows:
If you will not if you find concili,
ton impossible; if your differences al
so great that you cannot or will not re,
oncile them, then, gentlemen, let the s,
ceding States depart IN peace; lei them G
tabiish their government and empire an
work out their destiny according to III
wisdom which God has given them
Geo H. PeadletoR, 1861.
eff it is true that slavery must b,
abolished to save the Union, then the pe0
pie of the South should be dl,otOed L
WITHDRAW THEMSELVES FROM
THE GOVERNMENT tchich cannot giut
them guarantees By It's terms.-Seymoatr ~
October, 1861.
ResoIted, That under the Constitution
there is no power in the Federal Govern
ment to coerce the States, or any number
of them, by military force. If the pow
err of coercion exists at all, it is legal
power, and not military That the dem
ocratic party, if true to its own time
honored principles, cannot sustain way
| against sovereign states that we believe
it to be the duty Of the party to pro-
claim these sentiments boldly, that the
people may feel that there is at least
one political organization which will deal
honestly and Independently and truth
fully with them. IN Y. Democracy IA,
Cooper Institute, June 3, 1868.
| deny, as / have ever done; that the
Federal Government has any right I'M
der the Constitution to coerce by force
OF arms any one or more of its great con-
stituencies.- Wm. II. Reed Of Pennsylvania.
Depend upon it, Heaven will frown
upon such n cause as this it cannot and
will not come to good.-Thomas H. Sey-
mour.
| say emphatically they would go with
the South from every wise, prudential,
and patriotic reason.-Price Of the ~ j.
Democracy.
To show the present status of the de-
we have only to refer to the
Blair letter which goes in for multiplying
the laws of Congress, the very germ of
secession, which was commenced in South
Carolina in 1888, and followed up till
hey plunged the country into rebellion
md bloody war. This letter is now en-
lorsed by the managers of the democrat
C party, and has even become part of
heir platform. Thus we have once more
o meet this old democratic doctrine of
The Richmond Examiner
My few days since declared that they
wanted peace Con their own terms of
ourse) and if it is now to be required
a0ade through q sea of blood to reach
t, THESOONER COMMENCED THE
BETTER y But even this is drawing
t very mild as compared with the dec
arations OF many other southern papers
md orators. The Mobile Tribune has
10 doubt of the real issue of the impend-
ng contest. More frank than wise. it
ays the principles of the late rebellion
ire again to be fought for, thus plainly
Friends fellow-citizens of Mobile
comrades Of the Queen City of the Gulf;
let us make one more effort in behalf Of
our rights and our liberties. IF sce are
'ncees@tm IN the approaching contest sce
shall regain all that que haze lost IN the
Lost Cause We shall be freemen once
more. We shall have country. We
shall be able to reverse the iron rule
which has been imposed upon us, and
turning that iron into brands of fire, hurl
hem back on the heads of the flagitious
Wretches who have inflicted so many foul
and fagrant wrongs on our bleeding
country. Once more to the breach then
yet once more and when the cloud
shall, ! have cleared away from the flaming
ield, our fag-the grand old democratic
be seen in all its glory, stream
ng like the thunder-cloud against the
Vind. Let us then rally once more
around HE DEAR OLD FLAG, which we
ave followed SO often to glory and to
,,ietory. Let us plant our standard in
he midst of the field, and let us once
more raise the war cry he who doubts
damned; he who dallies is a BASTARD
We have mentioned above the bad l
ecord of the democratic party as par S
during the war, and it is also true s
hat when they gave even a semblance of ]
Import to the Union cause, it was done d
rom mere force of circumstances. bv an a
overwhelming public sentiment, or be- o
ause they were unable to do other u
Use. This was especially true of Sey-
our, and for proof of it read the fol. II
wing frank acknowledgement from u
apt. Edward Marshall, a democratic 6
rator of the Kentucky breed, a democ- q
Icy which just now is receiving the most "
early applause from the northern de- Il
iocracy. AT Seymour ratification o
ieeting he said: tt
seymour was nominated as a war L
for the reason that no other Il
qua WIN. lie was called a war demo. s
,at, but he had never given any aid or n