The Democratic Party and History

Who said the following, and about what?

(I'm removing any name or date that might indicate who said what and when)

1. "[The] President (name removed) is a fungus from the corrupt womb of bigotry and fanaticism” and a “worse tyrant and more inhuman butcher than has existed since the days of Nero… The man who votes for (name removed) now is a traitor and murderer..."

2. "Nero has indeed returned, but not as Nero the Roman emperor. He's returned in spirit as (name removed), the (removed) (P)resident of the United States.."

Amusing? #1 was a Democrat, speaking for his party, in 1864, talking of Abraham Lincoln.
#2 was a Democrat, speaking for his party, in 2006, of George Bush.

Now consider some more rhetoric:

3. "Edward G. Roddy, owner of the Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Genius of Liberty was an intensely partisan Democrat who saw blacks as an inferior race and Abraham Lincoln as a despot and dunce." -- spoken by a Democratic Party activist about Lincoln and about black people...

4. "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..." So spoke George McClellan, Democratic Party candidate for President in 1864, in the Party's platform. He continued, to "demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view of an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end..."

5. "The Union's recent military victories took some of the wind out of the sails of the peace issue, although Democrats continued to insist that the destruction of slavery was neither desirable nor necessary to win the war. In attacking Lincoln's policy on emancipation, the state's Democratic leaders aggressively played the race card and appealed to anti-black feeling in the state. Anti-black racism had always been part of the Democratic party's stock-in-trade."

6. "If (name removed) were victorious, the American people would bid "farewell to civil liberty, to a republican form of government, and to the unity of these states...." Spoken by: the State Journal (IL), echoing sentiments of the Democratic Party and its Peace factions. The year? Sounds like the Present... but it's, again, 1864

7. "This president purposely led us into an unnecessary war. Using proper diplomacy and compromise, this useless war could have been avoided all together." Sound like the Democratic Party that's running Congress today? Nope. This was the Democrats talking about Lincoln and the Civil War... where they argued that the war was hopeless and couldn't be won (even though it was won less than a year after the 1864 election) and that peace should come immediately (which in turn would have left the Confederate States of America intact).

I was wondering if the almost rabid inclination toward labelling almost any war as "unnecessary", "a waste", and if demonizing their opponents ("like Nero"; "murderer"; "Hitler"; "the biggest terrorist", etc) were new to the Democratic Party, or if it was ingrained in that party.

Given the literal mirroring of the rhetoric of the Democratic Party of 1864 and the one currently running Congress (2007), I have to say... nope, not new. The Democratic Party has always been rabidly anti-military, always demonized their opponents, and regarded even the Civil War as a "useless, unnecessary war".

And that is really frightening. They haven't learned anything in a century and a half. They haven't even changed their rhetoric. Or their tactics.