The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-10-03
From the Springfield Republican

From the Springfield Republican.
The Democrats and the President.
1.-THE democrats are disappointed in the
President, We are disappointed in the demo-
Gratis During all the past summer, We have
seen democratic newspapers and democratic
politicians standing firmly by the administra-
ton, when mu.titudes of those who helped to
place that administration in power were tradu-
cling it, and giving essential aid and comfort
tn the enemy. We have been found fault
with BY partizan presses for recognizing the
patriotic action of those who had been the
Presidents political enemies. 1t is but few
days since that the Troy Times lamented that
The Republican could publish an article which
democratic paper would publish with appro-
val. We have openly approved the course OF
the democrats, because it was patriotic. We
had no party ends to push by Withholding or
awarding praise to anybody. We have stood
BY the President from the first, regardless of
party ties and party men and finding demo-
cratic politicians and presses doing the Same,
we have given them the hand of hearty fellow
ship.
But sad change is come over our demo-
cratic friends. The Boston Post, whose noble
course since the war began has been the theme
of praise on every candid, patriotic tongue,
has changed. 1t supported the President un-
til he issued his emancipation proclamation,
and then it uttered one of the most wicked
paragraphs-wicked in its suggestions Of
treason and revolution-which We remember
to have read since the war began. The very
talk which the Post has condemned in the
New York Times and the New York Tribune
and other radical presses" it repeats with
subtle vrulence Of meaning which surprises
no less than it pains US. We defy the Post
to find in the whole range of its newspaper
reading paragraph which has more of the
spirit of treason in it than this which We take
from its last Saturdays issue -
"lhe administration is but fractional part
Of the government. The people own the
whole government, and they will defend and
preserve it against rebels at the South and
traitors in the North. So far as the President
t ly-thc war will he sustained by men and
money 10 put downthe Instruction; but he
who attempts TO divert it from this purpose.
will reckon without his host, and finG himself
as powerless as illegal assumption should al
ways be among free and intelligent people"
! Turning from Massachusetts, We look to
/ New York for an expression of opinion. The
/ Buffalo Courier is one Of the ablest ard every
way the best of the democratic papers in the
empire state. 1t has never betrayed disloyal
sympathy, aud has supported the President
/ through evil report and through good report
1t had, indeed, planted itself upon the Presi-
dents policy, and by its patriotic devotion to
/ the administrations the government and
our only reliance-had put to shame many a
republican press of that state. But We find
that the Courier is changed. The President
no longer imbodies its ideas of honesty and
patriotism. In moment, he has come down
from his lofty pedestal, and, as the Courier
thinks. has consented to mingle in the dirt
Of politics. In issuing the procls nation, it
declares that the President has no other than
aparty motive. 1t says
I The malignants, cherishing these feelings
and purposes, could not be relied upon to
render efficient aiG at the polls, and the re-
publican party was endangered by their ap-
athy or their possible open opposition to the
administration. The proclamation has been
issued, then, not because it will free a slave,
not because it will harm a rebel. not because
it will aid the Union cause in the border
states but because it was necessary to in
vigorate and unite the factions of the political
party that elected Abraham Lincoln, Presi-
dent. 1t is not proclamation aimed at the
rebellion, but at the Union men of the loval
L.. Il
and yet the Albany Journalvies with the New
York Tribune and the Evening Post in laud-
ing this piece of political strategy by which a
few thousand disuniOnisfs are to lie rallied
to the support Of republican demagogues and
ice-seekers."
We expected. of course, that such papers
as the Hartford Times and Albany Argus
would not like the proclamation. Their SYM
pathies have always been too thoroughly with
slavery to allow them to support the gov
eminent, IN any policy for suppressing the
rebellion but when the Boston Post and the
Buffalo Courier comes to us-one armed with
the threat of revolution and the other will.
charge that the President has forfeited his
claim to sympathy and support by consent
ing to perfom purely party ac;, involving
the most tremendous consequences and re-
spOnsibllties-we confess to more disappoint-
ments than We can express. Who darss to
; lay his hand on his heart and say that Abra-
ham Lincoln was less patriot after issuing
that proclamation than he was before? He
has only adopted, and attempted to carry
out. the policy Of Congress. He has only a.
doptcd emancipation as a war power and pol
Icy. lie places it on 70 other ground. He
issues his proclamation as the COMMANDMENTS
chief of the armies and navies of the United
States. Tie democrats talk about "uncon-
s,ltutional acts" Nobody pretends that this
act is constitutional, and nobody cares wheth-
er it is or not. The war is not constitutional.
Tie dissolution of the Union is not constitu-
,ional and when the President finds himself
laborlng to maintain or restore the Union, is
he to stop and higsle about means when no.
body is to be harmed but the rebels them
selves? All talk about the unconstitutional
ity of emancpatins the slaves of rebels is the
talk OF boys. 1t is unworthy of men.
Loyal Governors in Council.
/ The Convention of Governors, at Altoona,
/ Pa. on the Nth inst WAC tnr tho y,nrnoee of