Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-05-29
Connecticut Democracy.


The action of the Democracy of Con.
necticut in tho election of Eaton to the
United States Senate is an earnest of the
purposes of the Democratic party of the
nation. The Pittsburgh Commercial fur
nishes the following brief biography of
Mr.. Eaton:
At the outbreak Of the rebellion he threatened
that the Massachusetts soldiers en- route to Wash
ington would have to pass over his dead j body. ,
down the United States flag In the streets OF Hart
ford. He not only opposed the raising OF troops
and revenue, but he counseled armed resistance TO
the draft and the collection Of taxes. He de-
nounced those patriots who volunteered for the de.
fense Of the Union as Lincoln hirelings" and
"aboliton assassins !" and he rejoiced over rebel
victories and mourned over rebel defeats. His
speeches reeked with the most rancorous treason.
Short Of taking up arms In Its behalf he did all he
beginning to tho end OF the war was, and gorhed
in being, deadly, impacabe enemy Of the Gov
ernment and Of the Union.
According to this picture Mr.. Eaton
wanted nothing except courage to fit him
for the rebel army. As he attempted to
"tear down the United States flag in the
streets of Hartford" 80 he would doubt.
less have surrendered it, on invitation, to
the rebels, had he been in command of
any fort in the country. 1t seems he was
constructively a traitor, and failed to
commit the overt act only because ofcow
ardice. The war is over, and thousands
of traitors who had the courage as well as
the will to openly rebel and the semi
patriotism to risk their lives in defense of
false cause have been pardoned and re-
stored to all the rights of citizenship.
But the man who in the North raised his
hand against the national flag and "coun-
seled armed resistance to the draft and
the collection of taxes" ought never TO
haxf DI, 20 ~ tl,n ,ntt F,oI
Senate. 1t is, however, of small conse-
quence that an individual Copperhead"
should reach distinguished station in the
Government through the accident of poll.
tics. But it Is of consequence to know
whether we have political party whose
purpose it is to undo the work accom-.
plished in crushing out the rebellion. 1t
is of consequence to know whether the
Democratic party of Connecticut, in
electing Mr.. Eaton to the Senate, pro-
poses to have the country understand that
it indorses his cowardly record of con-
structive treason during the war. One
Democratic organ, the Buffalo Courier,
declares that this is precisely what the
Democratic party of the nation proposes.
1t not only indorses Mr.. Eaton, but flaunts
his record in the face of the millions of
Union men who stood by the flag he
tONliOu % tnluS W BIC prOuu Ol' ~
says:
The worst they can say of him is that he is a
"Copperhead," On the whole, we disposed TO
regard the epithet as complimentary. II means
that the new Senator from Connecticut is an
earnest uncompromising Democrat, and has stood
by his party principles when it cost comfort and
popularity to do 80.
Here is a recognition and reassertion of
the fact that the party principles of the
Democracy of 1862, as illustrated by Mr.
Eaton when he attempted to tear down
the American flag when he counseled
armed resistance to the draft and the col
lection of taxes, when he rejoiced over
rebel victories and mourned over rebel
defeats, when he threatened that the Mas
sachusetts soldiers en- route for Washing
ton would have to pass over his dead body
are the party principles of the Democ-
racy of to day This assertion of party
doctrine is threat to the country that if
the Democratic party is returned to power
1t will seek to nullify the recent amend
ments to the Constitution and repeal the
Reconstruction acts. There is nothing
uncertain or indefinite in the language Of
the organ, and the logic of the election OF
Mr.. Eaton to the United States Senate
leads inevitably to the conclusion that
the Democratic party proposes to undo the
work OF reconstruction, thereby enabling
the slave oligarchy once more to place its
foot upon the neck of the negro popula-
tlon Reaction! with all its train of
1ncalculable evils, stands on the yery
threshold of the first Democratic national
success.-Inter Ocean.