Year: 1863

there were men at the North and the


South in those days who desired peace


and an armistice, or sympathized with or


aided the British, these men have no de-


soendants who boast of the conduct of


their ancestors.


One of the favOrite and most taking


sOphisms, by which these enemies of the


Democratic party and teachers of false


doctrine seek to mislead, is, that the en-


emy against which the Union is now con-


tending, is not an ordinary enemy. He


is, say they, of our own flesh and blood,


and it is infamous to protract a war, and
cause the further effusion Of the blood of


our kindred. We have no unkind feel


ing towards the people of the rebel States


personally. We will admit while they


formed part Of the common political fam
lily, they we're flesh Of our flesh; but from


the day Cain slew Abel, the crime of hO-


micide has been rendered ten-fold more


horrible when it was parracidal or fratri-
eidal. Who raised the parracidal hand


that has since deluged this land with the


best blood of the nation2 Who con-
meneed the frakieidaI war, which, spar
ing nothing, has left the bones of the

young men of the nation to whiten upon
countless fields of bloodR Ifthese rebels
are flesh of our flesh, and bone of our
bone, let US also remember, that they
eauselessly, wantonly, defantly commen-
ced the fratricidal war, and let it also be
remembered that the Almighty seizing
the first fratricide, set mark upon him.
The fact that these men are part of
common family, and that they, having
full political power in the Union to ask
for and insist upon constitutional means
Of redreZ for all wrongs, preferred war
and tbat to this day they hurl defiance,
and spit upon all propositions of concili-
alton and Union, in our judgment only
renders them, as enemies, more objection
able and repulsive than if they were some
foreign power, that had never enjoyed
the peaceful prosperity of the American
Union.


But our object at this time is to point
out to the Democracy of the northwest a
necessity which is fast coming upon us.
Shall the Democratic party be a unit. or
shall it be torn into thousand frag-
ments?


In New York, Pennsylvania, and in
every State cast of the Alleghanies, the
Democratic party, under the cool, saga
oious and statesmanlike lead Of Horatio
Seymour, have resolved to stand firmly
by its past glorious and honorable histo-
ry, and to sustain to the last extremity
the Federal Government in all constitu-
tional means to support and uphold the
Union.


Scattered here and there over the north
west, are petty politicians, who have en-
rolled themselves under the head of Mr..
Vallandigham. These men have, as we
have said, a newspaper claiming to be
the organ of the Democracy, in this city.
The hour for choosing is rapidly appro-
aching. VIII the Democracy of Illinois
stand by their brethren of New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey? Will
they follow Seymour, and under his gui-
dance and craftsmanship, sustain the
country, or will they abandon him, aban-
don the Constitution nationality, every
thing, by enlisting under the fahciful
banner of Yallandigham2 Fellow Dem
ocrats, the hour is at hand when you must
choose one of these alternatives. VIII
you follow Seymour to save your coun-
try, or, at least, to rescue what can be
saved of it, or will you join the mob,
bearing destruction to home, life, proper
ty, everything at the call of the reckless
men who worship Vallandigham?