Year: 1868

and when Democratic orators ana VIII
ters still more scandalously and persist
ently illuminated us as having conver-
ted the war for the Union into an abo-
lition war to free negroes, we fearlessly
allied our cause to that of the humble and
the HELPLESS, ana Providence rewarded
US for Cur fidelity by that brilliant sue
cessions Of triumphs which gave saliva
ton to the Union as we'll as freedom to
the slave


When the National Convention of our
opponents at Chicago dared to hang Out
the white flag of surrender, by proclaim
ing the war failure, and demanding an
immediate cessation of hostiliities, we
promptly accepted the issue; and the
soldier with his cartridge bax, and the
nation with the ballot box. united IN
stamping their indignant condemnation
on the disgraceful avowal.


When the Government was compelled
to issue bonds by the hundreds OF mill
ions for the preservation of our natlonai
existence, Democrats ridiculed them as
worthless and cautioned the people
against risking their means in them: but
the loyal people were deaf to their war
nings, and now the same party denonnce
them as having made too good an invest
ment in their purchase.


When ssgreenbacks" were authorized
by a Republican Congress, who can for
get the Democratic predictions that 1t
would ultimately take hat full OF them
to buy a hat? And now they have the
assurance to seek to m AXE political cap
ital out of their popularity.


When the Thirty ninth Congress re-
jected the Presidents policy of recon
struction and insisted on one which
should embody the Constitutional guar
antees for the future, with full protec-
ton for all who loved the flag and the
Union, our enemies denounced us as
wishing to postpone reconstruction;
while now the same Democrats with
their alley, the President, are striving to
put every possible stumbling block in
the way Of their return.


/ When the "14th Article was pro
posed as an amendment to the Constitu-
ton, embodying no mandatory suffrage
enactment, but protecting equally the
civil rights of all, native born and natu-
rallied, making voter in Indiana just
as potential as one in South Carolina
and no more, barring the door OF the
Treasury against any payment on ac-
count of the rebel debt or the emancipa
ton Of slaves, the whole Democratic
party denounced it, and urged the
Southern rebels to spurn it as they did,
Now, the two Democratic States Of Ken
lucky and Maryland demand payment
out Of the peoples taxes in the Treasury
for the slaves the nation emancipated:
and the two Democratic Legislatures Of
Ohio and New Jersey endeavor to with
draw the assent of those States to this





leaving the door open for the presenta
ton of these Democratic claims if q
Democratic Congress could be chosen.


will not extend this letter by a de
fence of the Congressional policy of re
construction. for Senator Morton's able
vindication of it has covered the whole
ground unanswerably. Suffice it to say
that Congress, having authorized the
suffrage Of every freeman in the late
rebel States, rebels and all. except those
who, by violating official oaths, had
added perjury TO treason, and the Dem
ocratic party having denounced US for
this limited and temporary disfranchise
ment, the same party shouts its rejoi
cings over the fact that the remainder
have recently and voluntarily disfran-





prevent the reorganization of that State
on loyal basis.


Nor is this all The President, now
in full sympathy with the same Demo
cratic party which opposed his election
declared that treason should be made
odious, but who, as Chief Magistrate. is
the hope and admiration Of every one
VIII , still loves "the lost cause"--whose
oath binds him to ''take care that the
laws be faithfully executed" and who
keeps it by striking down officer after
officer for the perform ance of his duty
who retains in Office and under salery
as his Attorney General presiding over
one of the departments which he claims
in his anti Stanton message to the Sen
ate should be in unison with the Presi-
dent) gentleman who says publicly
that he viU not appear before the court
to defend "the laws from hostile
at last self convicted
before the country as having striven to
induce the General of our armies to defy
a law he did not himself dare to resist.
Signally falling in this, his Democratic
write now in bitter denunci-
ations of that single hearted and illus
trious officer, with epithets which will
not soil these pages by repeating. But
the heart Of the country, always gener-
Gus and just, turns towards this gallant
and slandered commander with even
more affection than before, and longs
for the hour, when at the ballot box, the
people will vindicate his fair fame from
these malignant aspersions and call him
to that seat Of power and responsibility
W hi oh has heen honored bv the Father
Of the country which our greatest sol
dier saved. And the Congress-, to
whose fidelity and inflexible firmness the
nation, despite the criticism Of friend
and foe. owes the prevention of rebel re-
in the South, will, instead
of taking any backward step 'speak to
the people that they go forward" until