[Civil War]: Medary, Samuel: Vallandingham, C[lement] L., [et al.]:

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION, HELD AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1862.... The published proceedings of the Ohio Democratic State Convention for the year 1862, including the text of speeches by Samuel Medary, Rufus P. Ranney, Allen G. Thurman, and noted Copperhead leader, Clement L. Vallandingham, as well as a revealing publisher's advertisement that lays bare the White supremacist ideology underpinning the party's political platform and electoral strategy. The Democratic State Convention was held in Columbus, Ohio, on July 4, 1862, and provided Ohio Democrats with an opportunity to voice their opposition to the war, the Lincoln administration, and its policies. In its platform, outlined in the text of a report printed here, the Democratic Party of Ohio touts its "record of unceasing and unvaried devotion to the Union of the States," noting that "when the fell spirit of Abolitionism at the North and Secessionism at the South...plunged [the country] into civil war," the Democratic Party of Ohio, "Union men in war as well as in peace, rallied en masse to the support of the Government." What had begun, however, just over a year before as a war "to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union," had since been commandeered by radical abolitionists and their allies in Congress and recast as a "crusade against slavery." Here the Democrats express their opposition to the proposed "acts of confiscation and emancipation," whethe

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