Have You?

John W. Forney writing from Washington to the Philadelphia Press, makes the following pertinent inquiries: “Have you ever heard a secessionist talk politics who did not claim to be a Democrat? Have you ever heard a sympathizer with secession talk politics who did not boast of his Democracy?” Forney declares that the men who always tried to break down the Democratic party in its days of honor and loyalty are now seeking shelter under the name of Democracy, in order the more successfully to assist the rebels in arms against the Constitution and the laws.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 3, 1862, p. 2