Year: 1863

rangements to effect thorough organization
in the several townships and precincts of the
county. The Abolition State Central Com
mittee and the Abolition organs have recon,
mended the organization of what they call
"Unon Leagues" These leagues are moth.
ing less than secret, oath bound Abolition
societies, and to counteract their influence
Democratic Clubs must be formed, and hold
their meetings openly, as they always have
done. Our National Union must be pre-
served by the Democratic party, by open
and fearless defense of the Constitution and
laws, in defiance of the edic;s Of the Admin
stration and its army Of spies, nformers
and military upstarts. Let the Democracy
and conservative men organize-let their
meetings be open, where full and free dis
cussions shall be allowed. Democracy has
nothing to fear from discussion. The prin-
ciples Of the Democratic party have stood
the test of time and received the endorse
ment--the hearty, sincere, earnest endorse
ment-of our great statesmen. The masses
have endorsed them and will do so again,
when the civil power once more asserts and
maintains It's supremacy over the military.
With the restoration of the Union the pre-
serv1tion of the Constitution, the rigid en-,
forcement of the laws, and the maintanauce
of the Government in all its power and
rightful authority for our watchword, and
open doors and free discussion for our motto,
we must triumph. Fanaticism, imbecility
and corruption have brought the country to
the verge Of ruin; the masses turn hopefully
to the Democratic party, to save it. They
have come to realize the great fact that if
our Government is to be preserved, its sal
walton can come only by and through the
Democratic party. That party is founded
upon the principles of the Constitution and
its mission is to see that the Union is pre-.
served, the Constitution maintained invo
late, the laws executed, the Government
sustained, and prosperity restored to the
country The organization Of Democratic
clubs will strengthen the Democratic party,
encourage the timd, arouse the lukewarm
and determine the wavering; and materially
aid the party in its patriotic mission.


The Union Leagues" the AboIiionists
talk about organizing all true Americans
should shun. They are merely Abolition
societies under more plausible name.-
When they shrek Union they mean emanc-
patton; when they howl out freedom for the
black, they mean poverty aud slavery for the
white. But the loyal conservative, thought
fuI men of this State, we hope, are not to be
deuded by political trickery They have
penetration enough to discover and over
throw the most ingenious devices of unscru,
pulous partisnns, and dscernment enough to
to understand the desperate designs Of cor
rupt, ambitious and egotistcal politicians,
They have sagacity enough to perceive that
Abolition Unionjsts are sailing under false
colors, and that the men aud party who
prayed for dissolution of the Union but a
few years ago, cannot be sincere Unionists
now. 1t is an insult to the intelligence of
the people to ask them to join League
of Abolition traitors.


Mountain Democrat.


PosuION OF DEMOCRATIC EDToR.-
Governor Medarv, of Columbus, Ohio, whose
printing office was recently mobbed by some
of the sodiery from Camp Chase, refers to
the actin the following language:


OF all disorders, we despise those among
neighbors the most-of all wars, we hold
those called civil wars in the greatest abhor
renee and during q life time, we have de
nounced them-abhorred them as a matter
of principle and as we loved country and
the family of men, we have ever shrunb
with Ioathag from the man who, in public
or private position, dared SO far forget God
and humanity, as to advocate either local
disorder or national blood letting. And SEN
sitve as we know we are, to personal dshon-
or or national disgrace, we never saw the
day we would prefer rsking for time, the
charge of a proper want OF spirit for the
virtue that would come after it if we suppos
ed we should involve living soul except our
self in trouble. Mere personal risks we all
ways take in our own insurance Office and iul
vove no securities.


But let no one mistake the fact that be-
cause we so strenuously advocated peace
under the laaD that we are Il SubmlSslonlI
when laws and constitutions, oalhs of office
and oaths of morality and religion are thrown
aside and trampI4d with impunity and con-
tempt in the dirt Our peace doctrines 60
no further than the law, and the prompt and
reasonable settlement and adjustment OF
difficulties aud dangers originating from a
misunderstanding or misconception OF the
law. When all these fail, and mobs and
burglars seize the reins of State and govern
as the beasts Of prey govern each other in
the forests then submission is meaner and
more dastardly, because more dangerous and
destructive than that resistance which God
and nature vouchsated for self protection.


We desire to be explicit-we use the term
claw and order," in no craven, cowardly
spirit-not in supplication for self-not even
for family or friends, but as warning to
those who should heed it and heed it in time
who cowardly and craven like rush on to
destruction, when, perhaps, least they know
it. This is all the meaning there is in our
use of the term, and we think we can speak
truly, also for our friends


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