Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-08-07

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will not fail to see how completely ap-
plicable it is to this latitude.
WASHINGTON, July e8, 1862.
The manner in which the Republi-
cans Of Pennsylvania postponed their
party organization at the Harrisburg
Convention marks an event in the his
tory of these times. The Republicans
display the same spirit in Ohio. New
York, and other States. In Ohio and
New York their abnegation of party,
begun year ago, has now been gener-
ously repeated. It is more than prob
able that If they had adheared to their
exclusive organization. they would have
carried both these States; but they
preferred the wiser course, and are en-
titled to credit for their magnsnimity.
The Breckenridge politicians assert that
the Republicans desire to seduce the
Democrats away from the Democrat
ie party" and that, if they had not
taken this step, defeat would have been
the consequence. This is the present
staple of all these partisans. And yet,
while attacking the Republicans, they
make no effort to show that they are
equally willing to sink party consider
ations. They maintain the old Breck-
inridge machinery in the free States,
as II to shou the Breekinridge men in
the Stare States that their friends of $50
are still their friends of 1862. Now, if
the so-called Democratic party were
really as loyal as they ought to be,
nobody would complain because they
refuse to affiliate with the uncondition-
al Unionists. How easy for them to
prove their loyalty! How easy to dem
onstrate their devotion to their bleed
ing country, by denouncing her foes,
by strengthening the hands of Mr.. Lin
coin. and by insisting that, as the war
was begun by the rebels, the rebels
should suffer deserved vengeance for
their crimes! If they adopt this pol
icy, they might outbid even the avow-
ed and earnest friends of the war, and
oust them from power. But they re-
fuse to walk in this patriotic path
They even decline l am now speaking
Of the leaders who led the Breckinridge
campaign in 186O) to say that they
regret their course in the last Presi-
dental election, when they insisted
that Mr.. Breckenridge was a good
Union man, and that he was pledged
against Secession. The inference is as
clear to my own mind as a mathemeti-
cal proposition. These leaders are
working for the restoration Of their
last candidate for the Presidency to his
former position, and also for the re-
ascendency of his armed associates to
the places they have occupied for so
long a period. Their whole idea Of
peace is bound up in this expectation.
They want allies to defeat the Repub-
licans; and they desire to maintain
themselves that when peace is pro-
claimed, these allies may be the fol-
lowers Of JEFF. Davis in the rebel army.
1t is reasonable enough, therefore,
that they should do nothing to offend
the rebels during the progress of the
war, so that in the hour of franterni-
cation and adjustment they may act
together as cordially as they did two
years ago. Thus. in order to be con-
sistent with this record and to come up
to the expectation Of the avowed friends
of the seeded States. they must keep
up the clamor raised by Breckinridge
himself before he went over to the
traitors in the field. They must shout
for the Constitution, against the war
tax, and against the Republicans; and
above all, they mast maintain the or
ganization of the Democratic party.
OCCASIONAL.