Year: 1864

To The DEMocRATs.-Give us guarantees that
you want peace-a lasting peace; not such
peace which is nothing but an armistice not
peace by which the sword of Damocles hangs
on a hair above the head of the people. Give
US permanent, established peace, an we will
abide with you; We will stand by you Give
US guarantees that you will not purchase it w.li
the honor of the "A ttion give Us guarantees that
you will not surrender all that dearly has
been bought by hundreds of thousands of valiant
men, who voluntarily sacrificed their lives for
the sake of our country Give US guarantees
that you will not disgrace the cause of justice !!
And if you want such peace, prove that you
are able 10 attain Il. and we will stand by you
but do not believe you can


Do You believe that the burden of the war is
less oppressive tOus than to you? Do you be-
leve that the wound inflicted on our hearts by
the deith of rel lton burns less than yours p
We also want to shift the burden from
shoulders we also want rest, to dress our
wounds


But do not want to shift that burden in
order to charge ourselves with one much
heavier, and so much more bnrdensome that Of
shame and disyrdce-the disgrace to turn back
lamed, just before the finishing of the work.
We will not be relieved of onr burden-we viii
not clean our bodies, in order to prepare them
for the indelible brand of sowarlicc.


Do you believe we profess TO be more humane
than you? Do yon believe, Germ IN Democrats,
we doubt til 1t yoi W INT not liberty for the slave
well do You want his liberty. but
you do not want to fight for it. And that is
exactly the mistake because YOU do not conquer
liberty for The I'll ck man. but for yourselves -
You do not br-.tk the fettcrs Of the black man,
but your own We and Won were not free-all
Of us were bon led under the supremacy of the
South, and 81, very furnished the tools for our
suhjngation.


tIi "a. ho do
nied. In the Constitution, as ii uas. which yon
extol SO much, AMI in the laws to which yon ad-
here SO much, you can find it,


The free men of the North had the privilege of
voting for themselves, an only for themselves
the voters of the South for themselves and for
their SiaOes. The vote of the slave-owner WAS
of more value than any other citizen, bee tuse 1t
was multiplied by the number Of his slaves, and
to the prejudice of the free white men without
slaves Every slave raised or bought by the
Southern baron formed link more in the chain
for shackling the free Northern citizen with
flock of slaves he governed the polls an you
The slave governed the free man, and black the
white man.


Unhappy confusion created by the love of
peace of our ancestors. Unhappy confusion
which free men like you try to maintain, to re-
establish. Enslave the bllck man anI you en-
slave yourselves bring him into bondage of his
Southern master and you dishonor yourselves to
slaves.


Ours is no war of free men in favor of negroes
it is a war to protect the free white man against
the inroads of slavery we want to be liberated
from the dominion of the South with its fAlsfy
ing of votes. Well may it be said of those who
want the Constitution as ii ,cas, what the great
Roman with afliction and indignation said of his
countrvmen: They are running into servi-:
tude. ."-Transtdted from the S. F. German A6end
Post.