The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-06-08

ists who melted civil war for the negro
but had not the courage to place their
own worthless carcasses in danger of
"RebsP' bullet.
It seems that our article containing
something like the foregoing aroused our
neighbor, and in his last issue he devotes
near column to the subject Of Hartzells
War Record and McGregor's Peace Re
cord. Plutarch always compares warriors,
or statesmen, or lawgivers; but the fertile
genius of neighbor Hartzell compares
niger warite with Peace white man.
1t may be we have been doing our neigh
Dor injustice We ought perhaps to be
sounding his praise-giving in detail has
brilliant "war record" his exploits at
Stone river, at Bull Run, at the battles
before Richmond, in Georgia, &c, &c. Not
being posted we hope our neighbor will
favor us with full particulars, even if he
were there by proxy. With another de-
partment we are more familiar, for, did not
our valiant neighbor boldly urge "the
boys" to gO2 To give the rebels hell !?
To fight for our glorious Union" when it
was really for the Nigger2 Intact
not our neighbor one of the valiant stay
at-homes who found the war profitable,
and could well shout "copperhead trai-
tors" and all that sort of cheap stuff that
cowardly abolition disunion skunks and
fends were so full off
In this connection our neighbor says
MIR Hartzell was not in the service, but
he was known to be the friend of those
who were, Just as distinctly as Mr. Nc
Gregor was known to be their enemy,
So "HartzeH iDdS not AZ tSe service, 6lit
tcas kglOl0n to be he friend of those t0hO
1oeTe" Noble, loyal, gallant. war worn
veteran, Hartzenl The "friend of those
who were in the service P' Not sufficient
ly "friend" to yield the Canton Post
Office till Grant, Amber & CO. choked him
off in April 1869 Cheap friendship
t~Then WHAT'S mis- friendship but in name
charm that lus to sleep,
And leaves the wretch to weepY'
But M. MeGregor 1Oas krlO,On to be
their enemy" "The boys" now know
McGregor was their friend. They enlis-
ted to "save the Union" and restore the
Constitution of our fathers. With them
this was the object of the war Develop
ments have demonstrated however that
such was not the policy of the disunion
abolition leaders. Their object was to
overthrow the Union of Washington and
compel US all to engage in a Negro love
feast. Our gallant young men who so
readily entered the army for the pittance
of thirteen dollars month. were deceived
and betrayed by these infamous abolition
leaders.
Did not Mr Lincoln repeatedly declare
thst the sole purpose of the war was to
restore the Union2' After the battle of
Bun run, on the 18th of July, 1861, Con-
gress passed the following
THAT this war is not waged for any
purpose of conquest or subJugation, or
purpose of oYerthrowing the Constitutions
of those states, but to defend and main
tam the supremacy of the Constitution,
I with all the rights Of the several states
unimpaired; and that as soon as these OBJ
jects are accomplished the war ought to
cease"
This resolution received a unanimous
vote in the Senate. and there were but
two dissenting votes in the House
- In lelitioEs- -fasssOinor sSzSVaFSl
in his dispatches to foreign governments
disclaimed any intention on the part of
the United States government to inter
fere with existing state institutions"
This was the avowed policy-with this
consideration young men enlisted. But
the evil spirit of abolition soon forced the
war in negro direction, disclaiming then,
however, any purpose to equalize the
Negro with white men. Tennessee was
the FIRST state reconstructed during the
war with Andrew johnson as Military
governor, and no negro equality was him
ted at then, In short the party in power
have betrayed every man who honestly
enlisted in the army. Those party lead
ers are the traitors to the Constitution of
our fathers.
Daniel Webster's predictions of over 20
years ago are fulfilled to the letter. He
said if the abolition leaders ever obtained
power. they would involve US in civil war,
overthrow the Constitution, subjugate
states, abolish negro slavery, and make
the negro the equal of the white laboring
man Henry Clay made similar phro-
phecy Remembering all these and know
ing the infaIay of these abolition free-love
leaders, the Phillipses, Summers, Wades,
&c, we had no faith in their war for the
Union" We knew the villains lied and
historic facts now prove it all Instead
of the Union of our fathers, \ URion of
free and independent states" we have a
Negro Union of subjugated states, all rul-
ed by a minority, leagued in with the
monied power. Has not history fully vim
dicated our cause? But our war worn
nsighbor claims that ''in August 1866, he
published his letter repudiating Johnson's
policy and resigning his commission"
True, our neighbor had been with us
rather supporting Johnson and his policy,
till it endangered his condition with his
own party. And when Congress had throt-
tied Andy so that he could not remove
postmaster. our neighbor pitched in vail
antly and threw dirt with might and main.
Of course he was soon all right with his
| party
Neighbor Hartzen accuses us of using
terms not found in Webster, such as "loil,
pasi-triot. hellion, hellian, Sheer-em-man,
nigger-biscitum, &c To the hellion or
helian we plead not guilty, and the 9TH
ers are mostly found in Webster. but the
spelling may differ The spelling, howev-
er, is quite expressive
Now, we rather like to compare notes
with our neighbor and we hope it viii tend
to vindicate history. We believe in men
and parties keeping faith The faithless