History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
"Another four years of 'Honest old Abe' would leave nothing but the shadow of a Republic on the American continent." It thanks the Eastern State Journal and Highland Democrat for the welcome extended by them to the paper under its new management. On the 4th of June the name of the paper is changed to the Gazette (under which it still exists) and a great " boom " begins in the advertising columns, from the quantity of county advertising thrown in, as in the case of the East-rn State Journal, by the county officials. On the same day begins a series of controversies with the Yonkers Statesman, formerly the Examiner, the leading Republican newspaper of the county, with regard to accusations against the Gazette of "disloyalty." The extract is, --
" We confess to the smallest possible amount of respect for Republican professions of ' loyalty,' or Republican charges of 'disloyalty.' The word is not American, nor Republican even --here it originally expressed the treasonable attachment of the loyal Tories to George the Third, in his wanton war against .Vmericau liberty ; and, as now used, it generally means partisan devotion to .\braham Lincoln, not in resistance to a Southern Rebellion, but in a would-be second war on the liberties of .\merican citizens."'
June 11th comes the notice of the Democratic Convention being called by August Belmont, on which the editor exhorts his readers that " Civil liberty cannot survive another term of Abraham Lincoln." Next week comes an article on " Reconstruction," from which we extract, --