Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-09-03

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and flesh of our flesh; they al
our fellow citizens and onr bretlrer
DEMOCRATIC POLICY ILLUSTRATED.
II a court of Hamilton count
had received certain intelligen 2
that a band of conspirators had or
ganized in one of the townships, hat
defcd the law and its authorities
and had sworn to resist unto deatl
any attempt to apprehend them, ant
was meditating as to the means 0
snppressing the insurrection-is i
even imaginable that Mr. PendletOr
would rise in his place and say =
"May it please the court, those out
laws in Storrs township bave theil
complaints. They feel end think
THAT they are better qualified to adj
minister tie affairs OF this county
than the men who have been select.
ed by the popular vote. Apprehcn-
sive that they may be compelled to
obey, they have assaulted some OF
the citizens--stolen property be-
longing to the couhty--and sworn
that they will usurp the power OF
the county. Nevertheless, my judg-
ment is, that if you will permit
them to perseyere in this error, that
the very process of wrong doing.
according to my philosophy, will
produce righteousness. And, fur
ther, may it please your honor,
these men are children of Adam
bone of our bone, and flesh of our
hesh'-and are descend'd from Cain,
Jereboam and Judas, who have been
thought worthy of record in the
volume Of divine reyelation."-
Would not such an apology assign
the advocate place as a participant
in the wrong? 1t was with the
same inspiration of a lofty patriot
ism and devotion to the Union that
he uttered those other and choicer
sentiments on the same occasion !:
"If these Southern States can not
be conciliated, and if you, gentle
men, can not find it in your hearts
to grant their demands; if they
must leave the family mansion, /
would signalize their departure by
tokens Of love. / wonld bid them
farewell so tenderly that they wo'd
forever be touched by the recollec-
ton of it; and if in the vicissitudes
of their separate existence they
should desire to come together with
again in our common Government,
there should be no pride to be hum
bled, there should be no wound in
aicted by any hand to be healed
They should come and be welcome
TO the places they now oucupy"
This same Mr.. PendIeton, who
the departure of those
traitors with tokens of love, is
ready "to welcome them back to the
family mansion" with the tenderest
In unison with these expressions
of generous sympathy for these un- |
fortunate traitors is that memorable
greeting sent to the people of Ohio
by 100000 democrats in conven-
ton assembled January 23d, 1861,
"that it would not be proper for
them to take into consideration the
question Of the right and propriety
of coercion, until the people of the
North had fulfilled their duties to
the Constitution and the South /!
What a base humiliation of the par
" once honored with the name and
'ame of General Jackson-pro-
claiming to the traitors of 5 States
llready in rebellion: we will not
punish your treason until our fellow
,itizens of the North submit to the
ash Of despotism.
How maccountable such an eXhi-
Dition of base and crouching servil-
ty by men who had been driven by
he scorn and derision of these
anne disunionists from the Charles
on Convention, but a few months
previously! And why? Because
the Union was saved, that dear
st idol of their hearts-the Demo
ratio party-would be sunk into
blivion. All, these were the men
nd these were the utterances which
mboldened the traitors to go mad !
Y forward in their career of ruin.
lad these Democratic leaders in the
lfancy of the rebellion, actively
nd cordially co-operated with the
republicans, as did the Wings with ,
he Democratic party and General
ackson, in 1882, in suppressing
ullilication, treason and traitors
-ould have been crushed in 1861 ,
FALSE PRETENsEs. {
These leaders who have been s
wept from power by the current of
patriotic public sentiment, and
pen whom the seal Of public con s
has been stamped, now
tempted an apology for their |
lithlpssness by the pretense that I
was a perversion of the origonal I
biect of the war. "cnforcing of the {
and the preserving of
le Union" which caused the dis ]
ffection of the Democratic party. t
his subterfuge is too shallow to {
e even plausible. All this cur t
ent literature running from the
louths of these Democratic au- {
lors-as to the amendment by Mr.. '
lincoln of the sentiments of his '
naugural-and as to the sympathy t
f the Democratic party with the Y
fort to crush the rebellion, until {
Iarmed lest emancipation should i
e the result, has no higher source !
nm the fuddled brains and hearts g