The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-11-05
Hear s0hat AIecander III. Stephens

SUOoS
Last week We charged upon the Democratic
party the entire responsibility of the vast deb
contracted by the Republic of the United States
during the war. We directly held that iAustri-
Gus (?) party responsible for all the cslamites
that followed in the wake of secession /; for all
sacrifices of life, property and treasures that
were consequent upon the rebellion; for every
widow and orphan that was made; for every
arm, leg or life that was lost on either side. We
placed upon the shoulders and to the account
and responsibility of the Democratic party all
and every calamity that fell upon the govern
ment or upon individuals by the existence of the
rebellion. We were not actuated by any parti-
san zeal in making these grave charges. We
think they are not whit oostrong. We think
the record of the rebellion will bear US out in
every allegation in this indictment. Lest some
tender-hearted Democrat should think the charges
of guilt have not been fairly made out-not sat-
isfactorily proved, we call upon the stand the H.
lustrious Alexander II. Stephens, who opposed
the adoption of the secession ordinances in the
Georgia Convention with all of his eminent
ability. IL his speech in that body in opposi-
ton to sece sion be uttered this significant proph-
ecy:
''This step (secession) once taken can never
be recalled and all the 6ansfuI consequences thai
must folIow aciI rest on the Convention for all
coming time. When we and our posterity shall
see our lovely South desolated by the demon OF
war which this act of yours will inevitably in
vite and call forth when our green fields oil
waving harvests shall be trodden down by the
murderous soldiery and fiery car of war sweep.
ing over our land our temples of justice laid in
ashes; all the horrors and desolations of war
upon US sch0 but this Convention sOiI be held re-
sponsi6le for ii, and who but he that shall giUt
his vote for this unWiSe and itinaed nedsuee shall
be held to strict account for this suicidal act, by
their present generation, and probably cursed
and execrated by posterity in all coming time,
for the wide and desolating ruin that will inev-
itably follow this act you now propose to perpe-
trate ~
If Alexander Fl. Stephens had waited until
Sherman with his invincibles had completed his
glorious ''March to the Sea- and until Grant
gave Lee his parole at Appomattox, be could moi
have more aptly drawn the picture nor more ap-
propriately arraigned the Democratic party be.
fore the voting community. Alexander Il. Ste
phens has stated the charges against this unfaith
full Democracy more successfully than it were
possible for us to do it. He saw the case exactly
and stated it truthfully. He got the start Of US
in making the charges against the Democracy
before they had committed their crimes. We did
it afterwards
Remember that Alexander H. Stephens was a
Democrat then and has been a Democrat ever
since. The Democracy cannot go behind this
grave charge made against their party by the
second man only in their confederacy. Honest
men with ballots in your hands, can you en-
dorse the Democratic party aud its candidates
with this charge from the mouth of its own wit
ness, staring you in the face?
Our charges upon Democracy are proved by
the Vice President of the Southern Confederacy
Let see the testimony questioned or the charges
disproved.