The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-11-02


the north and that principle was It's oe
yotion TO the Union. 1t was their gulali'g
star by night and their pillar OF hre Oy
day. 49,
Who.on the other hand swamped Con
gress with petitions for the dissolution
of the Union? Who were they that IN
1860 taught that the Union was league
with He'll and the constitution cove
nant with the devil? Who that SAID Let
the Union Slide? And when Senator
Banks uttered those infamous words
was there in this broad land single re.
publican paper that uttered word OF
protest? There was in 1860 paper OF
immense circulation, the chief organ Of
great party. whose influence was Douha
less with that party, was its leading spirit
and mouth piece. That paper not once
nor twice but often boldly advocated the
dissolution of the Union. 1t was the
New York Ti6une and it spoke the sen
timents of great majority OF the repuo'
llcan party.
This herd of unmitigated pharisees
who now, with their pockets filled with
the money stolen from the people, while
millions are on the point OF starvation,
for recreation in their long career o.
systematic and multiplied plunder shout
for the Uuion-.who now, gorged with
spoils and gangrened corruption occa-
slonally pause in their plous work o.
addition division and silence to calum'
Mate northern Democrats, in the dark
days of 1860 we're sneering at, derldlng,
ridiculing and denouncing northern
Democrats for their devotion to the un'
ion Their malice, their hatred tor the
union knew no bonds. When northern
Democrats wrote an appeal for the Un-
ion, they were stizmatised as Union
Shriekers" Union Savers" Dough
faces" and other vile epithets, were
hurted upon them, by this self same
gang of impostors, whoslike the pharl ee
of old in the.temple, are now proclaiming
their patriotism from house tops.
These political frauds who now and
then manage to raise their heads out OF
corruption TO echo the words Of the credit
moblier Dix; Shoot down the man who
hauls down the American flag were
then in their envenomed hatred for the
flag of the Union, stigmatzing this
glorious emblem as "lying rag" and
a Haunting lie And these frauds dare
to speak of 1860! They were rank dis
unionists in those times. While northern
Democrats we're advocating the union
they were, as they are now, preaching the
Gopil of hate, infaming the North against
the South and joining hands with the fire
eaters OF the South for the Obstruction of
the Union they equally hated.
The Southern fire eaters never could
have got the South out of the Union but
for the conduct of the republican disun-
ionists.
The Southern States were carried into
secession by bare majorities there was
strong and powerful Union party in
the South and but for the atrocious DIS
union harangues, and the abuse and de.
nunciation Of the South by the Republi-
cans, it would have trimphed and pre-
vented secession .l....
Were not those fire eaters hearing the
cry of dlsunion singing through the north?
Did they not hear the Union stgmatized
as "Iag gue with hell" the constitution as
covenant with death and the flag of
our country as lying rag" and Aaun-
ting lie ?" Did they not hear the Repub-
lcan party through its orators, its press
and its pulpit preaching crusade ofhate
againsts the South ? And was not all
this powerful instrument in the hands
of the Southern secessionists to drag their
people out of the union
The time has come to tell the truth of
history we repeat it and it is a truth that
history will vindicate, the leaders never
could have dragged the South out Of the
union but for the disunion of the Repub
lican party. But for this the cause ofthe
union would have triumphed in the
South and them Slavery would have in
the fnluess Of Gods on an appointed time
gradually yielded to the impulses of a
higher civilization and the teachings of
christianity and peaceably disappeared
! from our midst without shock, without
a deluge of human blood, without the aC.
cumulation of wealth in the few and the
impoverishment ofthe many, and without
a monstrous debt that, like the fabled
vampire, is now preying upon the vitals
of the country and for centuries to come
, will be milestone around the neck OF
unborn generations. I
We repeatthe Republican party was a
disunion party, it was so over the whole
North, it was so in this county. Not a
word of protest fell from the lips of Re
publicans when the republican papersin
this county famed the spirit Of disunion
= when with devil engendered malice anG
q hell born hate they published the infa
r nous Sentences following:
This unholy Union between the Nortf
: and South has lasted too long. Let u
cut loose from this sum of all villainies.
. lrrepressbIe conflict is upon us and free
! dom will go 10 the wall. We say lie
freedom stand through the Union b.
dissolved. The enobling and elevation
b Of the downtrodden race is Of more i'm
a portance than the existence of this ac
= cursed Union" "Unholy Union! Sun
. of all villanies !" ''accursed Union I
Il And these arrant hypocrltes now want
n boast OF their devotion to this "accurse
d Union as they, in malignant hate, stie
l. matized it. We challenge our aisnnfo
radical friends to name one solitar
% Northern Democrat who ever before tn
war, or during the war or since the wa
y uttered such traitorous sentiment, 9
that during the war or since the war eve