Year: 1865




remuneration for traitors; no justice for the
TWO hundred thousand of black soldiers who
Fought on the battlefield that these traitorou.
Democrats might stay in peace at home
They had no word of justice for the late Ad
minisration.


The Democracy has the eifrontery to de-
clare that they are still in favor of the Union,
and that if their counsels had prevailed
there would have been no disruption of the
Onlon But do they remember the words OF
henry A. Wise, who said that slavery was
the natural condition of the laboring man?
or the threat of Robert Toombs who threat
ehed to call the roll Of his slaves on Bunker
IillE Does that party remember it set up
slavery above the Union; that slavery must
be protected, or the Union should be dis
solved? And yet they say that they have
always been in favor of the Union. Do they
not remember the words of the Democratic
leaders in the Charleston convention? Their
deliberate confession was that they had the
doctrine of secession in contemplation for
more than quarter of century, and that
Tor that time their whole mental power was
given to destroy the Union. Their Northern
mouth-piece, Jesse d. Bright, said that he
regarded their principles as national.


Who was it that refused to reinforce Fort
Sumpter; and made reasonable agreement
with traitors, and said the Government had
no constitutional power to prevent State
from seeding? Who asked us to say
amen to the dispemberment of the U1ion?
Who said that the Government had no au-
ihorlty to assert its integrity, and that the
Constitution provided for its own overthrow?
1t was James Buchanan, President of the
United States, sworn to obey that Constitd-
tion about which they are so solicitous; chief
of party (which always upheld the Coy
crnment, and denounced secession. " -
Laughter. jeremiah Black, one of our
SUPERFICIAL men, who declared that troops of
the United States could not legally put down
traitors 1t was John b. Floyd, the Secre-
tary of War, who did his best to cripple the
Government, so that it could not protect it,
self, who sent arms and ammunition to the
Southern arsenals that it might the more
easily make the attempt to overthrow the
government; it was Isaac Toucey, not a
Southerner, hut worse than that, Northern
Democrat, who sent away seventy out of the
seventy-twO vessels of the navy that they
might not be used to defend the country;
and of this same SUPERFICIAL Democratic
party there were thirteen Senators and
twenty six Representatives who abandoned
the council halls OF the Government to take
up arms against the Union The least said
of them the better for their reputation. -
Laughter The Democratic Mayor of New
York officially advocated the secession of
New York city from the State and United
States, and that she join hand in hand with
the South. It was another solicitous Demo.
GRAFT Judge Woodward, who, on the thir-
tecnth of December 1850, said, "Let South
Carolina go peaceably, go out of the Union;''
and in August, 1868, the Democratic State
Convention set the seal of their approval up
on it. 1t was Ex-President Franklin Pierce
who said, writing to Jefferson Davis, 1.-THE
fight will not be along Mason and Dixons
line but within our own borders, and in our
own streets"


AT meeting of Democrats in National
Hall in this city, on the nth of January,
1861, they presented resolutions declaring
that the time had come for Pennsylvania ia
declare with whom her lot should be cast
whether with the fanatics of the North and
East, ''or with our brethren of the South,
whose wrongs we feel as our own, " and cor.
daily approving the disavowal of President
Buchanan of making war upon the States,
which were carried with tumultuous ap-
plause


George Fl. Pendleton, their candidate fol
the Vice Presidency, said; "Let the seeding
States depart in peace, from their Govern
ment and Empire, and work out their des
Tiny Their convention at Harrisburg
passed resolutions pledging the party to dis
countenance in every way any armed ag
gression upon the Southern States.


Ex-Governor Rodman, OF New Jersey
said that that State ought to go with the
South" He said "that the streets of its
cities should run with blood ere national
army should leave it to attempt to subjugatC
the Southern people"


This was the record of the Democratic
party. This was their boasted loyalty
Without the election of Abraham Lincoln
there would have been no cause for rebellion
The Democratic party was divided with thi.
view. They say, we might have compro
missed, and thus averted war; but do they
know that the flag was fired upon while
Democratic administration was still in power
They assassinated liberty and defed despot





ism. They would have had us bow to seces
sion and slavery. Such were the compro
misses they would have had us accept. LIE
us thank God for the war which gave us ont
country, one flag one people, and foreve
removed the chance of another rebellion.


Their next claim Is that when the wa,
commenced they supported the Government
This claim might be well illustrated by tn,
sayings of the Democratic papers, upon tn,
call of President Lincoln for seventy.fiy,
thousand volunteers, to preserve the life o
the nation Then we may look at their con
duct throughout its continuance In Con
grcss they voted against the law for blockad
ing rebel ports, and the law to prohibit ant
prevent information being carried across tn,
lines; against the loan bill to carry on tn,
war; against the confiseation of the propert,
and slaves of the rebels, by refusing TO vot,
higher pay to the soldiers; against validating
the acts of Mr.. Lincoln, which alone ha(
held the country together; against every
measure for the support of the Government


Such has been their record throughout the
war. When the nations life was at stake
they did everything they could to oppose the