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

y RNA"kA1 N"aNh1h RhN RAktfNs 80
; piled to the party, is an egregiou
} misnomer, unless some appellatiot
= is added by which it may be dis
: crimiuated from the Jeffersonial
Democracy of18l2, or the jackson
Democracy Of 1882. If jackson
who uttered those memorable sen
! timents-"The Constitution and til,
laws are supreme, and the UnioI
indissolublc," "disunion by armeC
force is treason," was ready to hans
Calhoun for the heresy of nullifca
ton, would he not, if he had beer
an acter in the tragic scenes of the
recent struggle, have hung as higL
as Haman such impenitent, and un,
washed traitors and professed dem.
ocrats as Forrest, Hampton, Pres
ton, Kemper, and their coadjutors
in rebellion, who we're recently re.
ceiyed with such cordial congratu-
lations at the New York Convention
by their brethren of the Northern
type. from whom they had been so
painfully separated since the Charles
ton Convention of 1860, by those
unpleasant events which occurred
since 1861, which had disturbed
the peaceful and fraternal relations
of the members of a family spread
from the Gulf to the Lakes-whose
marked features Of unity and harmo-
my shone so conspicuously amid the
scenes Of that interesting Democrat
ic reunion. ...l
| 1t is not strange that the promi-
nent, leaders of such inglorious acts
should ask that the pale Of oblivion
should be spread over their record
in the. war of the rebellion. The
stain upon their name and memory
is as dark and frightful as that foul
spot which SO disturbed the guilty
vision of Lady Macbeth, When
gentlemen, who occupied such an
unenriable prominence in the pre-
liminaries of the rebellion as exhib-
tied at Washington, and such unde-
sirablc distinction as the Vice Pres
idential candidate Of this Infamous
ly famous Chicago Convention of
1864, attempts to cast reproach
upon the Union party, it becomes
us to unvail the gallery of portraits
and point to his picture and those
of his compatriots. The traitors
would have staggered from their
fell purpose, and, despondent, skunk
into a reluctant acquiescence, as
they did in 1899, but for the words
of cheer received from their sympa-
thizers of the North.
DEEDS OF THE DEMOCRACY.
twas but eight days after South
C8ro4ena had unanimously passed
her ordinance of secession, that an
Illinois Democratic Ex-Governor
wrote to his distinguished friends
and brother Democrats, eX-Govern- /
or William Smith and Jefferson
Davis-this is his language: "Dear
friends: am in heart and soul for
the South, as they are right in the
principles and possess the Constitu-
ton. If the public mind will bear
it, the seat of Government, the Gov
eminent itself, and the Army and
Navy ought to remain with the Con
According to that dis
functionary it was CON
stitutional to break up the Union.
Earlier, in the year 1860, that
time honored and office honored .
Democrat, Franklin Pearce, reveal'd
his sympathy with the South and
his hostility to the North in letter
to his confidential friend and broth
er Democrat, JEFF. Davis: "Without
the question Of right, OF
abstract power to secede, | have
never believed that actual disrup-
lion of the Union can occur with
out blood and if, throuh the mad
ness of Northern abolitionists, that
lire calamity must come, the fight
NO will not be along Mason and
Dixon's line merely lit will be with
n our own borders, on our own
streets, between the two classes OF
citizens to whom | have REFEREED
Those who defy laws and scout
obligations, will, ii
we ever reach the arbitrament of
lrms, find occupation enough at
lome."
Such an utterance is rank with
reason. "lt hath the primal eldest {
curse upon it, brothers murder
Whatif should say, in the hearing
IF this audience, my fellow citizen, =
Mills Gardner, has unjustitiably !
provoked the wrath Of A. B, OF
| will not say anything
IF the abstract right Ofassassinating
lin, but if any blood is split, let it S
low in Washington. IT, with such 6
IN utterancc, Gardner should be |
murdered by the same A. B., would {
not be regarded as an accessory {
,efore the fact-as an accomplice in f
he bloody tragedy? i
There is another gentleman, OF
marked celebrity, who, in his place {
is a Representative in Congress, on
he 18th of January, 1861, after four {
If the rebel States had declared for
lisunion, thus spoke: Fifteen |
states of this Union come to you l
o-day with these complaints. Hear l
hem. They tell you that they have t
Redress them. They !
ay they have apprehensions of ]
wrong. Assauge them, Gentlemen. {
Remove every cause of agitation c
nd irritation, however unfounded a
-ou may deem it. They may have /
acts of Dassjon and l.