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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], A deluded people. (search)
e assumes to be its especial guardian. And strange to say, Democrats have been deluded by the arch machinations of these destroyers of our country — these worse than madmen, who talk about preserving the Union by fighting for it! Are the people stark mad? Are they crazy? Will they not pause and listen to reason? Let us recur to a few facts. Not long since, a Democratic Convention was held at Albany. It was just after our people had been frightened by "a big scare" gotten up by Judge Smalley. That Convention solemnly pledged the Democracy and Union men of this State to oppose coercion, and demanded that the Republicans should either grant some reasonable compromise to the South, or else that Mr. Crittenden's compromise amendments should be submitted to a vote of the people. If the Republicans failed to do this, that Convention solemnly pledged itself to resist, with all their influence, the coercive policy of Lincoln. Where are these men now? We trust the Convention