Year: 1864

0TWe ask ourreaders to give the follow
article careful reading. II is from that
sterling Democratic paper, the Bangor (Me
Democrat. The Editor expresses the belief
chat War Democrat, elected to the Office
of President, would resort to more Infamous
and odious measures, for the prosecution Of
the war. than any ever resorted to by Lin
coin; and we think that the writer'sreasons
are plain and conclusive: zat avaI


-' The Reason l-


In our last issue we expressed the belief
that this war, tax en- up at the end of Mr..
Lincoln's term of office, and prosecuted by a
Dem ocratic Administration would prove
more burd eusome, more fruitful Ia arbitrary
arrests, and more fatal to free speech aud a
free press, than it has hitherto done. We
deem it due to our readers to give a reason
for such belief.


We do not hold that the Democratic party,
as an organization, isso disposed to arbitrary
measures as the Republican,; but we do hold
that this war, alike unconstitutional and
hostile to every principle of liberty, will
force any party which undertakes to con-
duct it, to the commission of most high
handed desperate acts.





he assumed the reins of Government, had
an innate desire to convert our forts into
basties, and to fill them with prisoners of
State. But he entered upon a war which
had no justification either In reason or in
fact, and having entered upon it, he could
only save his Administration from infamy
by bringing it to successful issue. He and
his supporters were aware that the merits
Of the war would not bear discussion. They
knew that it was of vital importance to
them. that there should be seeming uu-
animity of support of the war at the North. h.
Hence all discussion was silenced by mob
violence, instigated by government, and by
arbitrary arrests and Imprisonment.


If the war rendered such steps necessary
in the beginning, when the Governmen ent
was free from debt, when there was at its
disposal the accumulated wealth of nearly
fifty years of peace, and when million of
men could be summoned to arms at the call
of the bugle, what may we not expect when
the Government is overwhelmed with debt,
when our accumulated wealth hes all been
wasted. and when the land is stripped of its
able bodied men.


Let US suppose, then, a Democratic Ad
ministration inaugurated on the Fourth of
March next, on the pledge of bringing the
war to speedy close by crushing armed re-
bellion.' Let US see in what condition it will
be TO redeem its pledge. ..I-. -


Is 1t reasonable to presume that the Re-
publican party will give the war cordial
support when it shall be prosecuted by a
Dem ocrat tic Administration, not far the pur-
pose of emancipation, especially when they
remember tn at their mode of prosecuting it
was uniformly aud persistently condemned
by the war DemocratsP Is it reasonable to
suppose that they would contribute their
efforts to bring war to successful issue
under Democratic Administration, which
had miserably failed under Republican
Administration? 1t Is not reasonable thus
to presu ume or thus to suppose. '-,


We take it for granted that the attitude of
the Peace Democracy in relation to the war
would be the same under Democratic Ad-
ministratiou. as it now is under the present
Republican Administration.


Such, then, would be the disposition of
the great mass of the people towards the
war. The Administrations then. would be
obliged to resort to the lost arbitrary mea
sures to secure men and means As we
have already intimated. it will find the
country sorely drained of both. To fill its
armies it would be compelled to resort to a
most relentless conscriptions and to fill its
Treasury it will be compelled to resort to
forced loans These measures will incite
instruction, and to suppress Instructions, it
will be obliged to suppress freedom ofspeech
and freedom of press, and in fine to resort to
all those despotic measures which have
ever characterized every Government in its
experiments when not cordially sustained
by majority of the people.


Such would be the condition of affairs at
the North. How will they be at the South ?


The end ofeach year Of the war has found
the South stronger than the beginning. The
Confederate States have been infinitely
more successful in defending themselves
than were the colonies during the first three
years of the Revolution. The conviction of
the entire South has now become settled and
deep that their independence is an estab-
lished fact. They anticipate no other result
of the war. e> sf.
Thrown upon their own resources by the
block kade, they have become we'll nigh in
dependent Of the world in all respects. H.
deed the South las become Sparta Their
business is soar. To this end the energies
of her entire population, slave and free, old
and young, male and female are directed.
Unless every Indication fails, the South, in
every particular, will be stronger on the
fourth of March next, than they are at this
moment. ef- s s'@T e~1


II our view OF the case Is correct then,
Democratic Administration insugurated on
war platform. wonld find an exhausted,
divided. and factious North, and united,
| determined and powerful South. An at
tempt to prosecute this war under such cir
Gu instance would certainly result in most
disgraceful failure. Surely there are no
laurels. no glory, to be won by the Demo-
cracy in the war path.


| oh ara ia q couFsa which the Darn ocYatir
can take which will greatly addto it's sl
ready abundant fame. To the Democratic
party belongs the glory of having made onl
4 land the great and prosperous country it wat
/ when delivered over to the hands of the
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