Year: 1862




the war waged with more zeal, and tn
contest closer than usual, for great re
suits, for good or evil, depend upon tn
issues before the people, s y'Asg s72''.


In former times the Democrats hav,
labored to show the people that your
doctrines were at variance with tht
Constitution and laws of the country,
that your derision and contempt oi
the decisions of the judicial tribunals,
and continued agitation of questions in
which you had no concern, tended tc
and would effect dissolution of the
Union, civil war and bloodshed. In
past time, you have called us in con
tempt "Union Savers" and all that
sort of thing, and some of your leaders
have told US. that if your principle;
DID excite rebellion, FIVE hundred
yankees would soon conquer it. You
have said that the South might 60,
that we could live without it, that it
was burden and curse upon us, all
of which, and much more you can re-
member very we'll. ea


You have succeeded. The whole
north half of the Union, misled as we
think, by your false logic. by major
ity, has seen fit to take passage on
your hobbies and espouse your. views.


1t is not our view at this time to
taant you, by referring you to the
truth Of Democratic prophesy, or ask
you to look at what you have done, or
any, foolish thing of that sort, but we
now merely inquire of you if you don't t
think you have been in an errorin past
times. When out alone, in the field,
on the road, or wherever you may be,
ask yourself the question and see if
your conscience and better judgment
don't tell you that you were honestly
mistaken in regard to the policy the
Government should adopt and follow.
We don't pretend to say here that the
existing war is the natural result Of
the triumph Of your principles, but
leave that with you in your calm mo-
ments to determine.


You will find that the new tangled
notions Of Republicanism cannot we'll
beadopted at this time. 1t is impos-
. sible for you to give homes to all the
homeless, and land to all the landIess,
you can't make all men ''free and
equal" neither can you of the West
stand up under the burden of the Ia
riff, and those are the only material
principles of your creed. You had
thought too, that a change in the ad-
ministration of affairs would better our
condition, and that new men in the
Offices would be more honest and faith
full than the old ones. In this you
were mistaken, and the men who hold
their offices through you learned to
steal and rob you as soon as they came
into office, and your hopes and expec-
tations are all blasted. But these are
all matters Of plainly written history,
and you must judge of them your
, selves. Cant all parties profit by the
past. There is a lesson in it, great
one and good one. We may be
= wrong, but the facts are not against
us as against you. You MAY have a
good cause, but the evidence of that
fact is yet unwritten or spoken. We
renew the fight this year. we 60 into
the canvass with our old convictions
that you are wrong and that we are
right. Do you still think you are
right and we are wrong? You hate
Democracy. It's your old foe. 1t
always has been and ever will be the
unrelenting foe to the alledged iniqm-
ties of your creed. 1t has not been
on the alert for the few years past, OF
the country would be to-day smiling
in peace and Union. 1t has had its
family quarrels and it took care and
watching to keep the old ship on the
2 right track. But now these family
quarrels are cover, and this year your
long-heeled associates and allies will
receive a sounder drubbing from the
Democracy, than the Rebels did at
Donelson, The edict has gone forth.
The Chicago poetical platform will BE-
robbed Of its jingle, and with these
men that framed and were elected on
it, will be buried 50 deep that resurrec
ton will be impossible. % sa'Ass


You have, Of late, adopted "A new
name forus; one that don't sound vel
and which weask you. nall good friend
ship to discard from your catalogue =
Not that we care SO much about it, bu
itlooks 50 bad abroad. You call III
Traitors, Seccssionists, and sympatizer'
u with jeff. Davis, and the old nam
Union Savers you have forgotten .
Don't you think it looks bad, dowl