Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-09-03
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HOW SHALL SOLDIERS VOTE7


HOW SHALL SOLDIERS vOTR7
Soldiers of the Union Army! you who
have been "to the front" and faced the shot
and shell of the rebels arrayed against you
the time has come when you may ratify by
your ballots the principles and the heroism
which you have manifested by your bullets.
You may now decide whether you will sus-
tain the party that sustained you, or the par
ty that labored with all its power to defeat
you and drive you home in disgrace from the
field of battle. The following extracts from
the platforms" of the Democracy" and
the speeches of some of its orators, will show
hoO they were !" the friends" of the Sol
diers. 7aa rf
At time when the Government was in
need of men to reinforce the army, in order
to maintain its supremacy, the Democratic
Association Of Lansing, Michigan, held
meeting, March, 1868, at which George W.
Peck said that 6.....0 #5lf,4
\" The Republican party have carried on
tho war for two years. They have sent their
hell-houads and bull dogs down South,
and whathave they accomplished? Nothing.
And we told them that in the beginning
that they could accomplish nothing; and
the reason why is, because they are our
brethren And now they come back and
propose 10 kick up fuss here in the North
and toe are ready for them !"
The party whose orators could denounce
the soldiers of the Union army as "hell-
hounds and bulldogs" could very consist
emily adopt the following disunion resolu
tions, as passed by the Democratic Conven-
tion of Madison county, Ohio, in the sum
mer Of 1868: .5s
Resolved, That we favor an immediate
termination Of the present war, and SEP
ARATION OF THE SECTIONS, because
the North has failed, either by arms OF by
argument, to sustain her right of conquest;
and the South is decided to separate from
the Union at all hazards, rendering us the
| freedom of the Mississippi River. Each
Border State should be left to decide her fu-
ture alliance, whether in the North or South,
| by her own convention; and our armies
| in the field should be held in readiness
to enforce the mode of settlement, and
for no other purpose"
In accordance with the recommendation
of the Albany Atlas and argus, and other
Democratic" authorities, the Government
consented to resort to draft to fill the ranks
OF the army, upon which the Democratic
Convention of Edgar county, Illinois, as
sembled at Elbridge, and adopted the follow
ing resolution among others, on the fourth
of July, 1885, a,
eso.0e inao W. othoyy no.by ,hnt umu,a,1 Wv ,.,;
pieugo une - " tha ,,rasant dn,;nis
.r,,;,,,, -, r.,i;n W, th;s ahol;t;on crusode
| AGAINST The Sonth. that we viii resist to the
l death all attempts to draft any of our citizens
into the army; and that we will permit no
arn.rary arissls " " maue anuns as ny wy
r,'e.s ...sa,,,,;or..-aro s;r,;,a. - .haso
aa.,as -. ~ .non,oaro,;on sto.o IA
NNep =, =. ~ -, e.
n IT, oa.a .,,a an ear ,,o In;on and
-. - r. ...,,,, .,,a ,,,.na 80 ~ .r.,,ans
s%pasA ~ ~ .,'a. wy .ha | So.,ann.,aa. w ~
ouu '''. A''o .e.."eu 'N'' 'A ,..A',.
neither right nor power 10 oeiehd ltseii, us
In the following resolution of the Peace De-
mocracy at Cooper Institute, New York,
1--WE a 1eea,
"ur. -
Hesoeoco' Ihat unuer 1he o9ns,i.u.ioh G.'
tnere Is no power ~ .ne reueia. 1ovefns r
ment 70 coerce Tue o.ales' 9r ahy numpei s Of of
tneli, Wy niii.aiy ivicu. 'ho pomo. Va
oud rot n';l;tarv ~ That tho 6emecrat;c mar
ty, if true to lis own time-honored princi-
pies, can not sustain war against sovereign
STATES lnat we 1eneve !. W ue .no uusy y,S -
W. w that @ ihe q neonle NAV feel that there is at
least one political organization which will
deal honestly and independently and truth
iuliy WIN thehi'
N"' co"'en' WIN 'n's, many VI VI. o'
tors denounced the soldiers as murderers,
assassins, and invaders. Take, for instance,
tho words of one of it's most active leaders.
.,.;...sa Co,-,u,,.,u out ofor
mho was noli'na.eu oo'eino' VI INV ".'''
he had used the following infamous language,
after he had introduced a scheme in Con-
oross 10 d;v;de tho Ir,;on into fo,,,. sec,;ons
ruouse of Representatives. Februarv G.
1891 M, va,land;obam sa;6 !.
uTbor cir nm, MT n Southern man
either-although in this most unholy and
unconstitutional crusade against the South,
in the midst of the invasion, arson, ipsur.
, rectiop, and murder to which she has been
|, subject, and with which she is still threat.
, ened-with the torch of the incendiary and
the dagger of the assassin suspended ovei
her-my most cordial sympathies are wholly
with her"
A, ,ho No,;ono, co,van,;on of tho Ia
s sne -, 1,, - o,,.. lisA ~ an zoo.
: mocracy' heia at ohicago' August ~, ioo4
( Mn.'e W. army Mas ensaeea ~ ''s eno.'s ~ y
ns'a'n ~ 80 ~. s "na '.s .sa ID. - -
NAY, Deen pusneu oa.A r,o,i 'no A'ap'unn m
ahu meie iocAeu up III nonnon' ano
,eispuis' W. D. A. nionAas'''s' VI 'o"
! ioia' sa'u
ns1,l am wo no IS hn,n II, apor oi ~ ,'f
a when % he claims a nlace in its ORGANIZATION
He is Judas, and should be cast out as al
enemy to humanity and to God. War an!
Dlooa' anu raplle an. anu ulJef, % y ;ne ieE,1, Nv
wash our hand clear of ali participation ii
l it,"
j, At the same time and place, Mr.. G. q
Burr, New Jersey Democrat, defined hi
j. position in these words