Year: 1862




Ba%When democrats are asked to
abandon their party let them reply that
while that party controlled the Govern
ment there was peace and plenty in the
land. There was market for every
thing at good prices, and labor had its
reward. In an evil hour the democracy
was defeated, and alas, what has follow
edI Now we are in the midst of the most
terrible civil war the world ever knew
Bloodshed is the order of the day. Car
mage is all over the land. This is the
result of change from democratic poll
cy. Why then should democrats aban-
don their party? Neverl Let them stand
by their party and when we succeed to
power again we will right the misfortunes
brought upon the land by republican
rule--EuaRseiHe Gazette


The editor of the Gazette has been sick
for several weeks, and it is but charitable
to suppose that some of his political
friends have been drawing on their brains,
If they possess such an an article, to aid
in filing up his paper. Certainly no
editor who has read the current history
of the last two years would offer such an
insult to the intelligence of his readers.
We have charity enough to believe that
some energetic young democrat, who
has devoted his time so exclusively to
the democratic party that he had no time
to read the current news of the day, and
who only knows that war exists from the
fact that an order for drafting had been
issued, penned the above extract. Who
was in power when convention of trait
ors assembled in Columbia S. c., on the
18th day of December, 1860, with the
avowed purpose of dissolving the Union?


Who held the reins of Government
when the public arsenal in Charleston,
the Custom House, and other property
belonging to the United States were
seized by men who declared themselves
independent of the Federal Government? I?


What party held the Executive, Judic-
ial and Legislative powers Of this Gov
ernment when South Carolina passed a
law to raise an army of 10000 men, to
make war against the United States? or
when General Beauregard erected bat
teries around Fort Sumpter, with the
avowed object of expelling United States
soldiers therefrom? or when they fred
upon an unarmed vessel of the United
States, carrying provisions to United
States garrison in United States fort?
Who was in power when all the forts and
arsenals, and Custom Houses and mints
in Southern States, and revenue cutters
in Southern waters, were seized by the
rebels?


Does the editor of the Gazette think
his readers are so ignorant or so stupid
that they do not know that Democrat
ic President and Democratic Congress
were in power when all these acts of
war and of outrage were committed, and
that the Democratic rulers did not raise
a hand or utter protest against it2


We know not where the Gazette cir
culates, but certainly the editor ought to
know the capacity of his readers. He
pays them very high compliment truly.
peace and plenty prevailedP'


The writer must have felt facetious and
was indulging in witticisms. He doubt
less meant pieces of artillery, and plenty
of shot and shell prevailed around Fort
Sumter, or that great pieces of property
and plenty of fire arms were stolen by
Democrats, such as Floyd, Mason
Thompson, Slidel, Breckenridge & Co,
when the Democratic party held power.


The world never witnessed such a
spectacle.


For three months, aye and longer
members of Democratic cabinet were
engaged in maturing nlan to dastrn1
the governments; had deprecated the
public credit; had bankrupted the public
treasury; had placed in the hands of trait
ors the public arms, while their aiders
/ and abettors had erected formidable bat
teries to destroy federal fort; had seiz
ed millions of dollars worth of public
property, and fred on the United State!
flag, and yet the Administration mad,
no effort to vindicate that flag, to pre-
serve that fort, or to recover the stolel
property. And yet men have the assur
ance to ask the people to restore thos
men, or others who sympathize witt
them, to power Could assurance e
further, even in South Carolina?