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And the recent exposures among the
leaders of The Republican party in
North Carolina shows that never was
it 50 little entitled TO confidence and
support.
In his Three Decades Of Federal
Legislation" s. 5. Cox, a true patriot
and the best type OF Ohio Democracy,
makes this true statement:
when the war closed there was but
one Union party in the country. n
was the Democratic party OF the
North. Had its policy then prevailed,
sectional discord would soon nave dis
appeared; the peace of 1885 Would
have been a~nte-dated twenty years.
There would have been the same con-
stitutiOnal adjustment of slavery; for
the Democratic party was in no mood
to offer it any resistance. There would
have been a better, because a volun-
tary extension of the political ran
chise. For, as often asserted by Mr..
Calhoun, that vas one of the inevlta-
bic and logical consequences OF
emancipation. The suffrage would
have been gradually extended
The devotion to constitutional gov
shown by the Northern Dem
ocrats before during and after the
War Between the States has no
parallel in history There never was
a day when those brave men did not
stand with Lincoln to preserve the
Union. but there never was a day
when they did not stand for a re-
united constitutional union by the re-
turn of the seeding States. Their
n0,,-I rnn,
their heads persecution and oStraciSm;
they were deemed guilty of treason
and branded as enemies of their
country; their peace measures were
declared to be aid to the enemy; their
every act held up as traitorous.
Through it all, in and out Of Congress,
the Democrats of the North never
wavered in their devotion to constitu-
tional government, and then Lee sur
rendered they rendered the country
the greatest service in protesting
against the harsh and prOscriptive
measures that We're intended TO pre-
vent q reunion Of the states, and their
effective opposition held in partial
check the determination to prescribe
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whole people of the Union. They
were not actuated in their course by
sympathy for secession per Sc. out by
their love for the Union and their re-
solVe to oppose any harsh or illegal
conditions to it's restoration as it ex-
listed IN 1860 when the Southern Dem
ocrats made the monumental mistake
of ,,nt I1nTnrfio o nnrfrlnc fnr +Ia
presidency. The popular vote for
President in 1860 was 4,676.S53. of
which Lincoln received 1.S66,352:
Douglas 1,375,157; Breckenridge S45,-
763; Bell 589,5S1. Ic the opponents
of the Lincoln programme had been
willing to unite on Douglas, who stood
for the only policy that could save
ocratic party would have remained in
power. But-Why speculate on what
might have been?" Sun Set Cox
states an historic truth when. after
referring to the opposition Of Northern
Democrats to the "iron-clad oath" and
other prescriptions introduced purely
to help the Republican party, he de-
clares: Had it not been for the
Democratic party there would not be
today. a Union of States. There
would be only a unity of a govern
ment by the party Of ostracism and
tyranny"
Every voter in the country. particu-
larry every Democrat, ought to read
the great work of Sun Set Cox.
There are histories m of
War and Of Reconstruction, but it is
the only history of the conflict in the
North between the party that stood
for prosecuting the war in order TO
restore the constitutional union and
the party that stood for prosecuting
the war to free the slaves and impose
such conditions as would make the