Year: 1866

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the restoration of the Government,
but the immediate, unconditional sur
render and ultimate destruction of the
Government. Thereby the rebels would
achieve in the political arena that
which all their armies under their great
leaders, together with the aid and com
fort of the Vallandighams, the Woods,
and all their traitorous hosts in the


North, could not effect in the field or
at the ballot-box. Those men never
had any real sympathy with the Gov
ernment during its awful struggle for
life. True, in the summer and fall of
1852, they pretended to favor the prose
cution of the war for the Union, and
worked diligently to induce Union men
to go to the field with the secret under
standing that Democrats would stay at
home and vote at the ensuing election.
Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania re-
sponded very promptly to the call of
the Government that year. Nine-tenths
OF all the volunteers were Union men,
who would have voted the Union ticket
had they remained at home, but being
absent from the polls the so-called
Democrats were enabled to elect four
teen OF the nineteen members of Con-
gress from Ohio, and gained largely i'm
the other States for tho same reason.


The result of that election was bare
ly transmitted over the wires when
Vallandigham and the entire party
were rejoicing over the fruits of their
perfidy, holding large and enthusiastic
meetings all over the State, claiming
their victories as verdict of the peo-
pie against the administration of Mr.
Lincoln and against the further prose
cution of the war.


But these men raised the shouts of a
rebel victory little too early, as did
the rebel armies at Richmond in 1864,
when they heard of the, nomination of
Mcclellan for the Presidency. The
cause for which patriots were battling
was just and holy one and when
Union men were cheated at home or
stricken down in the field, like Roderic
Dhu, it sounded it's buglc, and other
patriots rushed to it's standard and
overwhelmed the traitors. And SO it
will ever be in so just cause.


" They never fail who die In great cause;


The block may suck their gore


Their heads may sodden in the sun their limbs
BE strung to city gates and castle walls,


hut s;n their spirit walks abroad, tho ugh years
ELAPSED aud others share as dark 81 em


They but augment tue deep aud swcepnl * thoughts
Which oyerpo~er all others,


And conduct the world at last 10 freedom"


The great object to be ACHE we'd by
the success of this scheme is the play
of the old role, "a united South ai7d di-
vided North" The uniting and con-
solidating Of the two wings of the Tate
Democratic party, with such additio MS
thereto AS it is believed, intended, and
expected that presidential patronage
will secure from nominal Union men
with such material they expect to con-
solidate all the factions named in one
great conservative party, organized
and ready for the campaign OF 1868,
relying almost exclusively upon Gov
ernment patronage to aggregate this
discordant mass, and blend it into a
sympathizing whole, if indeed, the
| President shall be so conspicuously un-
fortunate as to fall into their hands.
What a motley army of mercenaries!
Well may the President turn upon
them and say, "Ye serpents, ye gen
Grafton of vipers, copperheads ye do
not follow me because of the mighty
works which do, but for the loayes
and the fishes"


This party when thus consolidated
is to be baptized "The ative
party of the Constitution" The trait
ors, semitraitors, bounty Jumpers,
skedaddlers from drafts, cowardly SOL
diers, rascally contractors, with the
very few Union men, will all look and
act SO much like traitors that the fu-
ture ethnologist will be compelled to
classify them all as rebels. Presiden.
tial patronage is to be the sword OF
Brennus, whose massive weight will
make truth and justice kick the beam.
1t is to be the all-healiDg restorative
which will bring together and cement
the discovered parts into one grand
whole. They claim that in such par.
ty, composed Of such elements, there
is enough good men who once sympa-
thized aud acted with loyalty to digni-
fly and give character to the whole.
This will be simply impossible. The
Union faction will become so thorough
ly ingrafted into the rebel vine and SO
completely identified with the parent
stock that distinction cannot be no.
ted. ....... ......


Mr.. Speaker, I call to mind single
analogy which will serve to illustrate
my views of the result. "Once upon
time a cute Yankee visited the west
to dispose of wonderful invention OF
his prolific brain. He named the in
vention nerve and bone liniment, and
all healing restorative His best test
as to its remarkable qualities was
made upon a sheep-killing dog whose
tail was severed from the body. The
restorative being applied to the stump
a new tail was Immediately produced,
looking precisely like the original.
Seeing the magical effect of this appli-
cation, he also applied the restorative
to the discovered tail, and as instantly
a new dog was produced at the end of
the tail, looking precisely like the
original, and the unfortunate owner
was then and there possessed of two
sheep-killing dogs looking so nearly
alike that he could not tell 'tother from
which.


But, sir, the most preposterous and
the most mendacious assertion Of all
is, that their scheme was inaugurated
and supported by the late President
Lincoln. The bare statement that the
late martyred President, during his
wise administration of the Govern.
ment, ever entertained single
thought other than that of preserving
the Government for loyal men is simp-
ly absurd. 1t is foul slander upon
his fair fame and good name. The enc
mics of the country, not content with
pursuing him while he lived with the
most cruel and malignant warfare and