The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-13
DEMOCRATIC DisLOYALTYs

DEMOCRATIC DtSLOh AL
The following, from the ST Louis Even-
ing nsAs, Of August 4th, so accurately de-
,Ineat es the true tendency of the Democratic
faction now seeking to distract the public
mind in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, that we
commend il TO the serious consideration of
all loyal men TO whatever party they may
have adhered hitherto.
The News has frequently been pointed to
as a truly conservative paper, and no bon
est man will dare charge it with sympathy
with abolitionists.
It's declarations are not whit too strong.
They are, alas too true:
tnWe would not say that all the Democrats
in the loyal States are disIoyalists, for Holt,
Dix, Logan, McClerusnd, Wright and others
whom we could name, are among the abest
and purest vatriots to be found in the Union
ranks. But to say that the Democratic
party, as now being organized in Indiana
and Illinois, is disloyal faction, striking
at the Administration, but really aiming ct
the Government, would be perfect truth.
This is no time for the organization Of
factions. We have no use for either Dem
ocratic or Republican party-for either a
Democratic or Republican platform. They
are redundancies we cannot afford. We
must dispense with them till more peace
full season. There can be but one loyal
party in the loyal States, and that is the
Union party. All other factions are less
enemies to the Republican party than they
are enemies to the Union and the Govern
ment; and disguise their schemes as they
may, under the specious veil of accustomed
conventions, addresses and resolutions, the
People will see the disloyalty that turks be-
meath.
Mr. Lincoln was elected as a Republican,
but the strict partisanism of his politics has
disappeared in the dust and smoke of this
stupendous struggle. He knew at the start
that his party alone could not carry him
through the contests and, therefore, over
leapiDg the trammels of party, be threw
himself upon the people. He called, not al.
his partisans, but all patriots around him.
He gave the Offices at his disposal to Demo-
Gratis and Republicans aIike--to Halleck,
Stanton, Mcclellan, Dix, Holt, Rosencranz,
Buell., Andy johnson, Phelps, Logan, Nc
Clernand aud Siekles, as well as to Banks,
Fremont, Seward aud Chase. He has
right 10 demand and the loyal masses haze
right 10 demand that no mere party organi-
EATON shall be arrayed against him in the
loyal States.
The Government has as much as it can
do TO meet the Southern revolt in the field.
That revolt is its foe; and all who array
themselves against il, by that very act,
make themselves friends and supporters of
that foe. Indeed, il is sympathy for the
aevoIt, more than honest aud legitimate OPP
position to the policy of the Administra-
ton, that is the true key 10 their action.
IL is sympathy with the rebellion that
| broughtthe lndiana Democratic CONVEX ton
together; that prompted its resolutions;
that characterized all its proceedings. The
| leading participants in IL Hendricks Rich
ards7n, Carlisle, Voorhees, and Wickliffe-
are already but one remove from open Sc
cessionists aud they are rapidly drifting
into q position of open hostility to the
Union. With one tender word against
| AboIitiouism, and industriously endeavor
to estrange the People from the Govern
ment by exciting the old odium against
Ab6litionism.
Do not these men know-yes they dc
kuow-that opposition 10 the Government
is active support of the rebelIion-that, il
this struggle, either the Government or the
I IcOctn01 IA 0Ss cuSCCCu-tudC TIE ueIeat Oh
the Government IS the triumph of the re.
bellion. If Mr.. Lincoln's Administration
should, or could, be overthrown, and the
Democratic regime re-established in it:
stead, IL would be such victory of the re.
bellion as the rebels themselves never dared
to hope for, and which they could never bt
sufficiently thankful for.
Let the peonle beware of these attempts
to reofgauizs the Democratic party. They
are but attempts to organize the rebellion
in the loyal States. They are open plotting
against the Union, aud, il they go muct
farther, it will be the duty of the Govern
ment, as the protector of the Union TO NEE
them as it meets their Southern parent
sVtth armed force.