Year: 1863




the thief. for abolitionists to charge disunion
TO the Democracy. A baser falsehood was
naver uttered. Democrats have always been
and are now true to the Constitution of our
fathers We endorse the Statesman article
fully, when it says:


There is constant effort made BY the lead
ing papers and politicians in the Admiuistra-
ton party in the North, to impress the minds
of the people with the belief that the Demo-
cratic party is not loyal 10 the Union that
it sympathizes with rebellion; that its public
men are not ouly unworthy of confidence, but
that they should be branded as traitors and
even deprived of those constitutional rights
which are guaranteed to every citizen. These
allegations are not only without foundation,
but the facts are precisely the reverse Of what
is alleged. The Democratic party as an or
ganization has always been Union loving and
loyal, and lis public men have upon all occa-
sions been the defenders of the Union and Con-
stitution, whether assailed by Secessionists of
the South or Abolitionists of the North
whereas the leading men and papers in the
Administration party were the aiders and
abettors of treason, and in the beginning OF
the rebellion used all their influence to encour-
age and promote its success.


1t will be remembered that the South Car
olina politicians had everything in readiness at
the time of the last Presidential election to
pass an ordinance of secession, and that the
election of Lincoln, which the Carolina Disu-
nionists did all they could to promote, was to
be the signal for their withdrawal from the
Union. As soon au the election was over the
New York Tribune, the leading paper in the
Republican party, by way of encouragement
to South Carolina in her design to break up
the Union, on the 9th of November, 1850,
said


If the cotton States shall become satisfied
that they can do better out of the Union than
in it, we insist on letting them 60 in peace.
The right to secede may be revolutionary
one, but it exists nevertheless. We must ever
resist the right of any State to remain in the
Union and nulify or defy the laws thereof.
To withdraw from the Union is quite another
matter. Whenever a considerable section
shall deliberately resolve to 90 out, we shall
resist all coercive measures to keep it in. We
hope never to live in Republic whereof one
section is pinned to another by bayonets





South Carolina passed her secession ordin-
auce, and other cotton States followed in rapid
succession, aud during their movements the
Tribune said at the dates given, what we here
insert, as follows:


IFrom the Tribune. Nov. 90 1sGO.J


"If the cotton States unitedly and earnestly
wish to withdraw peaceably from the Union,
We think they should and would be allowed to
do so. Any attempt to compel them by force
to remain, would be contrary to the principles
enunciated contrary to the fundamental ideas
on which human liberty is based


tFrom the Tribune Dee. l.. 1901


"Ifit (the Declaration of Independence JUS
titled the secession from the British empire of
three millions of colonists in 1176, we do not
see why it would not Justify the secession of
five millions of Southerners from the Union in
1861"


From the Tribune. Feb. %, lS6l.l


whenever it shall be clear that the great
body of the Southern people have become con
clusively alenated from the Union, and anx
ious to escape from it, we will do our best to
forward their views"


During these movements. BENZ Stanton, the
present Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, made a
speech in Congress, in which he declared that
if such States as seeded could maintain their
position for limited time (long since expired
be would be for letting them go and the Ohio
State Journal, in discanting upon the subject.
asked why should any good man deplore its
downfall. The Cincinnati Gazette during the
progress Of the secession movements, and Just
before the Inauguration of Lincoln, assured the
rebels that if they desired to go, they might
uU 81 III peace ludl lutIe Hdu UeSl III lUe
sixty days preceding its article, great change
in the public mind of the North, and there
would be no attempt to coerce them back into
the Union. We might multiply facts of this
sort, until we filed our columns, all going to
show that the leaders iu the Administration
party at the critical period referred to, did pro
mote the rebellion and give aid and comfort to
those engaged in it. And yet these men are
50 UNANIMOUSLY mean that, with such a record
they now have the hardhood to slauder and
misrepreseut the Democratic party and its
prominent men, By charging it with the very
ofeuses of which they themselves are guilty.
For such men and such party to profess to
be real sincere Union men is the height of i'm
pudence. For such men to profess to be the
defenders Of the Constitution, is like Satan
protesting to be the angel of light. They and
their marty are DisunioDists per Sc and so will