Year: 1863

should the Democratic Ticket


Re Supported.


The Opposition say that you shoulc
not support the Democratic ticket
that in time of Civil War the Demo
cratic party and the Constitution o
the United States should be ignored
that they are good enough in time o.
peace; but are not adapted to the tur
moil and confusion incident to such
war as our. Let us consider for mo
ment, whether there is really any fore,
in talk of this description.


John Brough, although he has no
voted the Democratic ticket since 1855
is held up, by the Republican press
as ga lifelong Democrat" and thi'
alleged fact is so dwelt upon as tt
cause to spring up in most min ds The
belief that to have been "a lifelong
Democrat" is the highest eulogy tina,
can be pronounced upon politician
John Brough, in his Marietta speech
in speaking of General Jesse Hide
brand, whose presence at that meeting
would have delighted him much, said
he was san original and lifelong Dem
ocrat, and supporter Of Jackson in
days when it was almost thought q
crime in this Washington county to
be one.'


A reference to the newspapers that
opposed even the recollection of An>
drew jackson, man whose memory
the opposition of the present day af-
feet an inability to sufficiently laud,
was villfed with severity and un-
truthfulness greater if anything than
that which is showered upon the head
of Vallandigham. A short time ago
We copied the following from an anti
Jackson paper of 1882:


ADVANTAGES PROPOSED By THE RE-
ELECTION OF ANDREW JACKsoN.-A
repeal of the Constitution; no settled
Government whatever, Van Buren, Die
tator; no Supreme Court; no Bank of
the United States; Senate disregarded,
or according to Isaac Hills paper,
the N. III. Patriot, CUT DOWN! Con
gress ovcrawcd by desperadocs; Ia
riff destroyed; Land reduced SO per
cent. in value; wages down to 30 cents
per day; the whole country overrun
with British agents; no manufactures
no mechanic arts-MINIsTERs OF
TIE GOSPEL IMPRISONED, OUR CoUN-
TRYMEN TRANSFERRED, LIKE CATTLE,
TO a FOREIGN POWER.


These allegations were presented
everywhere, in every conceivable form,
and with every variety of emphasis.
1t was then held to be treason to the
country by the malignant anti>Jack>
son politicians to vote for Jackson, and
it was not alone in Washington coun-
ty that sit was almest thought crime"
to support Jackson. The great mass
of the people outside of the towns and
villages were not to be thus intimida-
ted; they knew the patriotism of Jack
son; they knew him to be man of
iron nerve; they knew he would not
give his sanction to anything that was
in the least measure calculated to do
harm to the country; and they re-elec-
ted him triumphantly. And the peo>
pie who thus reposed their confidence
in him we're not disappointed; but
events built monument of repIoach
upon those who had undertaken to make
it appear that he was the despicable
tool of foreign power. 1t required
nerve-it required dauntless purpose
to support Jackson in the days when
hc was candidate for the Presidency,
and especially whsn he was a candi-
date for reelection. lie was deserted
by the weak and the mercenary; the
weak shrunk in out Of the storm that
pitilessly rained down on him and his
Administration ISLANDERS the vilest and
the most bitter. 1t is now thirty>one
years since that political storm was
beginning to rage in its wild fury, and
very few there are to be found who
openly take credit to themselves for
having aided in giving force to the
storm of opposition of that day.


What do these facts teach! Do they
not teach that Democrats should stand
firm--that they should not falter-
that they should not be deferred from
supporting Vallandigham by the char
ges that are made against him and the
Democratic party by malignant hate?
He is not a worse abused man than
Jackson was, nor, indeed, a worse abu-
sed man than Jefferson was. His
whole career, from early manhood un-
til now, has been marked by jealous
devotion to the Union and the Consti-
tuition, and the great desire of his
heart is to have the Union re-instated.
There is no man to-day in the Union
of firmer courage or more dauntless
purpose; neither is there one more
welded to the Union.


Mr.. Conway, the Republican M. @.
from Kansas, in his speech last winter,
urging the recognition of the Southern
Confedcracy, declared that the Dem
ocratic party would not consent to a
separation of the Union-that they
abhorred the idea as treasonable--and
hence it is that papers in the South
that echo jeff Davis sentiments be-
rate the Democratic party, and want
such men as Vallandigham, Cox and
Richardson silenced Thev we'll know