Year: 1864

!


Gov. Brough. in speech few days since
at Circleville to the returned 100 day men
showed up Democratic sympathy in the Chi
| cago platform for the soldiers thus:


SYMPATHY FOR THE SOLDIER.


There is a body of men several hundred
! thousand strong, and with arms in their hands
who are endeavOring to uphold the dear old
| flag, and to bring US peace by lawful means
There are four hundred Thousand men stan-
ding upon be fields of the United States un-
der this banner, ready to lay down their lives
for the success of the Union cause. There are
four hundred thousand of those, that these
scamps at Chicago were angling after 1t
would not do, therefore, after passing resolu-
tions of armistice, and calling back the army
in disgrace, TO let this pill go without little
sugar coating. 1t is notorious that the sol
diers have good jaws to crack hard tack with
and guets 10 get them down, but they could
not swallow that pill without a little sugar
coating; so they must pass resolution compli.
menting the soldiers.


want your papers to print this platform
at the head of your columns to the eecti on
l want every man OF you to read it; and To
prevail on your neigBbors to sit down and
read the resolution in regard to soldiers
Coolly consider its language. 1t is the most
Internal insult to a body of brave and noble
men, ever offered even by the Southern Cen
federacy. For Davis himself has acknowl-
edged our men were brave and gallant
What do these men say?


"ReSolUed, That the sympathy of the Dem
ocratic party is heartily and earnestly exten-
ded to the soldiers of our army who are and
have been on the field under the flag of our
country, and in the event of our attaining
power, will receive all care, protection, re-
gard and kindness that the brave soldiers o
the Republic have so nobly earned
How does it read .?


"ReS0lved, That we tender our thanks to
the noble men in the army" &c.


Not a word of it. What then? "That we
tender our sympathies," and our pity, to our
soldiers in the field. We do not glorify them
We do not rejoice in their gallant deeds-in
their victories, No. No man in that Uhica-
go Convention ever rejoiced over victory
yet; nor any man that supports the Chicago
platform was ever found kindling a bonfire
over victory won by our arms. Cheers.
This is not bare assertion. They do not
| rejoice in the victories won. No. But they
"sympalhize" with the soldiers who are stan
ding under the old flag, and on the battlefield
| Well, they might as well sympathize with hor.
ses that stood on the battlefield, for the hor.
ses care as much about it as the soldiers; and
the mules too. 1 don't know but the mules
would have kicked up their heels at their sym
palhies for the soldiers too.


The language of that resolution is simply
impudent; it is simply abuse. 1t is simply
cowardly, and means disgrace. With out
ward tongue it speaks in accents Of affection
but inwardIy of the traitor. eve sympathize
with our soldiers" They are not then 10 a
glorious cause. We don't rejoice with them
that their patriotism called them forth to up.
hold that banner. We don't sympathize with
the brave that have gone forth 10 die We
don't glory in anything they do. We don't
say their cause is just. We don't thank them
We simply pity them.


Then what7 Don't trust me for these
words, for although they are ground into my
memory. and burned into my brain, won't
ask you to trust my memory: "In the event
of our coming in'o power, they (the soldiers,
will receive all the care, protection and re-
gard that the soldiers Of The Itepuolic have
earned" If they come into power-that is
what they are afer-they protect and send
them to their homes, to sin no more by taking
up arms against their Southern brethren.-
They shan't be punished because they dared
10 fight JEFF. Davis. They shan't be put into
prison there shan't any harm come upon
them-they will protect them and send them
out of danger. We want their votes, and we
must be kind to them. And the Devil
promised what did not belong to him and
what he could not get, to Christ, these fellows
promise their protection; and as that distin-
gushed gentleman was cast out of heaven in
TO the lower regions, similar fate awaits the
Chicago fellows. Look at the naked infamy
attempted to be practiced on the people by
the passage of this resolution. They want
the ordinary reader to suppose that they 10
tended to compliment the soldiers for doing
what they have done. But they don't mean
any such thing. If they had meant it, why
could they not have said, 1--WE tender ouI
thanks to our brave soldiers who have been
upholding our flag against armed rebellion p
| They could not say it because the traitors did
not mean it.