Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-09-01

calls extending aid and comfort to the
enemies of the Government. is, so far as
possible, to be pushed back out of sight.
And since the people have become thor
oughly out of patience with the conduct
of individual Republicans, the Demo-
cratic Committee seems to think there
is chance of their attempting to rem
edy the matter by abandoning the party
which saved the country, and commit
ting the nation into the hands of those
who throughout the rebellion were al
lied with rebels.
A glance at this Democratic record
ought to be sufficient to convince even
Democrats themselves that the nation
can not afford yet to trust its interests
in their hands. 1t is thoroughly con-
sistent throughout, and up to tie pres
ent moment shows no change of heart.
THE RECORD IN OUTLINE.
Ifany one will turn through the Con-
gressional Globe from the outbreak of
the war it will be found that in the cases
given below the majority of the Demo-
Gratis then in Congress were arrayed
against the Government. and that in
comparatively few of the instances cited
was there any marked departure from a
strict party vote:
On the 31st of December, 1861, the
Democrats in the House voted that any
attempt to preserve the Union by force
would be impracticable and destructive
to republican liberty.
january, 1861, they voted against
resolution approving Major Anderson's
withdrawal from Fort Moultrie to Fort
Sumter, and indorsing the determina-
tion of the President to sustain him.
February 18th, they voted against the
bill to suppress insurrection. and au-
thorizing the President to employ troops
for the purpose.
March 8, 1868, protested in writing
against the act to indemnify the Presi-
dent and other officers for suspending
the writ of habeas corpus.
August, 1861, and again in May, 1862,
opposed bill declaring such slaves free
as should be employed by their owners
in aiding the insurrection.
March, 1862, opposed a resolution,
recommended in message from the
President, "TE at the United States
ought to cooperate with any State
which may adopt gradual abolition of
slavery, giving to such State pecuniary
aid, to be used by such State in its dis
cretion, to compensate for the inconve-
niences, public and private, produced by
such change of system"
April, 1862, opposed bill for compen-
sated emancipation in the District of
Columbia, and prohibiting slavery
within those limits except as punish
ment for crime.
April, 1862, opposed instructing a
committee to inquire whether any plan
cold be devised for the gradual eman-
cipation of the slaves in the Border
States, and how far the Government
ought to aid in the matter.
January, 1858, opposed bill reported
from select committee to secure COM
pensated emancipation in Missouri.
December, 1862, voted against reso-
luton indorsing the Presidents procla-
nation of emancipation, and for reso-
luton declaring it ian assumption of
power dangerous to the rights of citi-
zens, and to the perpetuity of free
people,"
June, 1864, opposed the repeal of the
Fugitive Slave law.
July, 9, 1861, opposed the passage of
the following: Resolved, That in the
judgment of this House, it is no part of
the duty of the soldiers of the United
States to capture and return fugitive
slaves"
March, 1862, opposed the new article
of war prohibiting all persons employed
in the military or naval force from en-
ploying any of the forces un1er their
command to aid in returning fugitive
slaves.
June, 1862, opposed resolution forbid
ding the employment of slaves, in navy |
yards, dock yards, arsenals and forts, or
at the Naval Academy.
April, 1852, opposed the recognition of
Hsyti and Liberia.
April, 1869, opposed removing the dis
qualification of color in carrying the
mails.
February, 1868, opposed the enroll
ment act, and, subsequently, all acts
thereto.
December. 1923, opposed raising,
equipping or paying negro SOL
diers.
December, 1868, some of the rebel
States being occupied and held by the
Union forces, steps We're taken toward
The Democrats opposed
the first bill looking in that direction,
which authorized the President to ap-
point Provisional Governors in each
State reclaimed by the national forces.
June, 1862, opposed the resolution re-
quiring the iron-clad oath for all ap-
pointed or elected to officers of honor or
profit under the Government.
June, 1854, and January, 1865, voted
against the 18th Amendment, abolish
ing slavery.
February 20, 1866, voted Tor Mr.. John
sons proposition to admit all the rebel
States to immediate representation.
Voted against the civil Rights bill
and the Freedmen's Bureau bill, and to
sustain Mr.. johnson in his vetoes of
these measures.
July 18th, committed the party
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