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

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c u was in 1863. Mr.. Lincoln in hi
/. inaugural, defended his and our pc
stions in those memorable word
i, alike applicable to the democrac
! Of the North and South "In you
hands, my fellow citizens, and no
in mine, is the momentous issue 0
civil war. The Government will
not assail you. You can have NJ
conflict without yourselves being
the aggressors. You can have ne
oath registered in heaven to destroy
the Government, while / have tht
most solemn one to preserve, pro
tect and defend it.
What a spectacle of base cring.
ing, crouching, servility is present
ed by the conduct Of these men. -
They do not merely stand mute
spectators Of these opening scenes
of treason, and silent auditors OF
blusturing and bold threats of such
rebels.as Wigfall and his coadju-
tors in inquity, but impudentIy and
sympatllisingly say to them: Tf
you ~ill cruelty freedom and its
friends" you will be cheered in
your infamy by "our tokens of
love" Aye, more, sinking to a
lower depth OF degradation, they
rail and wag their heads in scorn
and derision at those noble men,
who were rushing to the rescue OF
our country and its honor. This
nnblushing perfidy has no plea OF
defence, except to deepen the ca
lamitics and horrors of human
Indebtedness, and to blast the
hopes and happiness of millions
I The dogs which licked the sores of
Lazarus, discharged less debasing
Office, as there was an order of
righteousness exhaled from that
humble pauperto neutralize the dis
agreeablnesss of the task; but
there is nothing to redeem the de-
basement of those who sink to the
offensive operation of licking the
sores off the decaying and rotten
limbs of slavery. And now, in the
year 1868, skulliingly attempt to
hide their shame by the false pre-
tense that they sympatized with
and aided the Federal Government
in its attempts to suppress the re-
bellion-so long as the war was
prosecuted for the purpose of en-
forcing the Constitution and pre-
serving the Union. ''It was the
inspiring cry of devotion to the
Constitution and Union (said Mr..
Pendleton) that brought volunteers
to our ranks, and collected that
large body of men under whose.
martial tread the continent seemed
to shake" When, since 1864, when
the democratic party at Chicago an /
nounced their senselessness as the
American people, "that after four
years Of failure to restore the Union
by the experiment of war, justice,
humanity, liberty and the public
welfare demand that immediate Ell
forts be made for a cessation of
hostilities, ETC." and select d him
to bear a standard emblazoned with
so gross a libel upon that gallant
host of soldiers andcitizens who |
were guarding the ark of ours and
the worlds freedom, I say, when, !
since that time he acquire the right
to use the appropriating possessive
pronom, our, to the ranks of that
army, upon whose bril- /
liant achievements the democratic
Convention had falsely and perfid-
iously written that disgraceful cpl
thet-failure. Such an assumption
Of fellowship with us, so utterlyig-
nored in the day of our struggle,
cannot be tolerated in this, the hour
of triumph, and is only less pre-
than the insinuating
Dretext that the democratic party
would have been in sympathy with
lhe war, but for the discovery that
It's prominent object was to abolish
slavery. These men who thus will
'uily pervert the record Of the
ile war, know that as late as
1862, Mr.. Lincoln, in reply
% a letter addressed to him, enti-
led the prayer of Twenty Mil
IONS" eXhorting him merely to eX-
ecute the laws of the land, which
operated to free large classes of the
slaves of rebels, uttered these me-
norable words: "If there be those
Who would not save the Union I'M
ess they could at the same, time
ave slavery, | do not agree with
hem. If there be those who would
lot save the Union unless they
.ould at the same time destroy
lavery, / do not agreee with them.
Ny paramount object is to save the
Union and not either to save orde-
troy slaveay." Why even the
Jorypheus jeff Davis of the traitor
losts, repudiated the hypocritical
Ian urged by Northern democrats,
hat the contest was for the life or
Ieath of slavery. His declaration
o a committee of conference in
863 was "We are not fighting
or slavery, We are fighting for in !
and that or cXtermina-
ion we will have" /
The predominant sham behind :
Iisloyalty hid itself in 1862 was de !
,otion to the Constitution. This !,
vas the hollow and fraudulant pre- :.
ense of the Baltimore mobocrats, :,
Who meditated the assassination OF u
,ur President on his way to Wash l
noton-instigated to t!is fendish !
,nrpose by the significant utter U
noes of that democratic sheet, the .