nfranchisement and elevation of the
African race, became their settled policy. By this policy they were
placed in harmony with their former associates, the rebels of the
South. The rebels were fighting to destroy the Union. The peace
party were opposing the only measures which could save it. The
rebels were fighting for slavery. The peace party were laboring in
their way to keep alive and inflame the prejudice against race and
color, on which slavery was based.

The abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the repeal of
the fugitive slave law, Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of emancipation,
in a word, every step of the Union party toward enfranchisement of
the colored people, the peace Democracy opposed. Every war measure,
every means adopted to strengthen the cause of the Union and weaken
the rebellion, met with the the same opposition. Whatever Mr.
Lincoln or Congress did to get money, to get men, or to obtain the
moral support of the country and the world--tax laws, tariff laws,
greenbacks, government bonds, army bills, drafts, blockades,
proclamations--met the indiscriminate and bitter assaults of these
men. The enlistment of colored soldiers, a measure by which between
one and two hundred thousand able-bodied men were transferred from
the service of the rebels in corn-fields to the Union service in
battle-fields--how Mr. Lincoln and the Union party were vilified
for that wise and necessary measure! But worse, infinitely worse,
than mere opposition to war measures, were their efforts to impair
the confidence of the people, to diminish the moral power of the
government, to give hope and earnestness to the enemies of the
Union, by showing that the administration was to blame for the war,
that it was unnecessary, unjust, and that it had been perverted
from its original object, and that it could not but fail.

I need not go beyond the record of leaders of the Ohio Democracy of
to-day for proof what I am saying. Mr. Pendleton, usually so
gentlemanly and prudent in speech, lost his balance after the
victories of the peace Democracy in 1862. At the Democratic jubilee
in Butler county over the elections, Mr. Pendleton is reported as
saying:

"I came up to see if there were any Butternuts in Butler county. I
came to see if there were any Cop