Flopping Aces (h/t: Anchoress) presents material from this site that outlines Democrat positions from 1864 — when they were tired of the slog of war, and looking for a way out. Civil War cut-&-runners, so to speak.

Hmmm, kinda sounds eerily familiar, doesn’t it? Maybe Chuck, Joe, Nancy and Babs are channeling their 142 year-old counterparts. Here’s a few items from a discussion of the 1864 campaign and the Democratic Party platform:

By 1864, the Country had grown weary of the long and bloody Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of the countries’ best and bravest young men had fallen on the fields of Bull Run, Antietam, Shiloh, and countless more. Many began to think that the war was not worth it, and the price of freedom too great. The Republican Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln thought no price was too great for the abolition of slavery and the creation of a society in which a man was not judged by the color of his skin. Unfortunately, after four long years of war, Lincoln’s support was dropping fast, and people were looking for a way out of the war.

Both then, and now — a President with strong values, that actually believes in something and that this something was/is worth sending young men into battle to die for, that there are worse things on this earth than an individual’s loss of his own life, that those lost lives are not “wasted” on the fields of battle, but that their shed blood is the horrible price to be paid in a war against evil — in Lincoln’s time it was the evils of slavery, today it is the evil of radical Islamofascism.

Don’t miss the next part, where the Democrats were willing to let slavery continue, as long as the fighting would just stop already, and the south would bring their football back and play nice — Makes me think of Iraq. They’d sell out the Iraqis today — hoping that the Shias and the Jihadis would consider Iraq a great gift, and would then leave us alone. Wrong then — wrong now!

Resolved, that this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States.

Resolved, that the direct interference of the military authorities of the United States in the recent elections held in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware, was a shameful violation of the Constitution, and a repetition of such acts in the approaching election will be held as revolutionary, and resisted with all the means and power under our control.

Resolved, that the aim and object of the Democratic party are to preserve the federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired and they hereby declare that they consider the administrative usurpation of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution; the subversion of the civil by the military laws in States not in insurrection; the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sentence of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full force; the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press; the denial of the right of asylum; the open and avowed disregard of State rights; the employment of unusual test oaths, and the interference with and denial of the right of the people to bear arms in their defense, as calculated to prevent a restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of a government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed.

Wow — they sure don’t change their playbook much, huh? Curt at FA wraps it up thusly:

Amazing what a difference 142 years makes huh? Or not. Imagine the slogans back then:

Lincoln = Satan

Not In My Name

No Blood For Slaves

Lincoln lied, People Died

We live among those with a bumper-sticker mindset. Scary! And, I keep asking myself — every time I see a Democrat talking head — why do they want a return to power? What will they do if they get control of the Congress? How would cut-&-run leadership bent upon appeasement help win the War on Terror?

What if ALL they want to do is Get. George. Bush? The only “plan” that I have heard from the Dems is a plan to “investigate”, a plan to “obstruct”, a plan to “impeach”. Iran? Hey, let’s talk to that nut — he’ll listen to reason won’t he? Israel? Screw ‘em! Let the Arabs take care of ‘em — it was their land first, right? Islamofascism? Caused by poverty. Give ‘em some moolah and they’ll be blingin’ out their Benzes and ‘Sclades, not flyin’ planes into buildings — haven’t you been payin’ attention to what we accomplished here in the ’60s & ’70s?

Yeah, right — Even more of the same. I’ve always thought that no matter which party was in power, this country was big enough, strong enough and great enough to withstand anything for eight years. Now, I’ve got my doubts . . . (db)

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BTW — Curt is putting together a super sweet 1969 Dodge Charger R/T! Be sure and check that out, too . . .

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