The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-08
The Democratic Programme, as democrats
state It,

That the Democrats who have uet carried, so
generally, the elections in the loyal States, will
no. be entirely agreed In the policy to be pur
sued in exercising their functions of Office is
fairly TO be pres lmed. We have no doubt that
among the Congressman just elected, and now
claimed as Democrats, there will be every shade
of opinion from the treason Of Ben and Fernando
Wood, to the loyalty and devotion to the Gov
eEnment Of j. S. Sleeper Of Massachusetts.
Whether the War OF Peace Democrats will con-
troll this party organization, it is perhaps use
less to speculate, bat it will do no harm to
watch the Indications 1t is now evident that
the principal Democratic presses throughout
condemnation of what they call the radical
policy in conducting the war,-including Of
course, in this condemnation the Emancipation
Proclamation-yet claim to be devCt ted to the
work Of more vigorous prosecution Of the
war, and the overthrow OF the rebels by the
military arm Of the government. In this vein
the New York World, when we suppose to be
the especial organ Of Mr., Seymour, thus dis
courses of the results of these elections:
Let great military measures follow close on
the heels of this political revolutio and the
:rults OF victory VIII be immediate. The
south, seeing in the result of these elections
l. guarantee OF their constitutional rights, need
only the loss OF one or two battles to bring them
partially t. their senses, They could never
surrender themselves to the tender mercies of
an aboitionzed North they would sooner
spill the last drop OF southern blood. But noW
that this danger is removed, 1t needs only g
great victory by the northern army to cause a
Union party to spring up in the seeded states
I'LL the appearance og suCh party there can be
no doy6reak and peace 1o'H not darn. Before
these elections southern Union party was i'm
possible, because nobody in the South could
stand up against the public opinion of his sec
ton and face the charges of abolition sympa-
thy. great victory Is all that is now necces-
slry to Great. such party, which will reyolu-
IlonIze the South, not qulte as rapidly perhaps,
out not less surely than the acknowledgement of
the administration has reyolutionized political
opinion ID the North.
So far as the above extract urges the army
to obtain a great victory we heartily agree with
it. We have no idea that the Union party at
the South, of which it speaks, will spring up,
but if it does we shall be as glad to recognize
it as any one. And when the South submits
10 the Constitution as it is, the war of course
will end, as there will be nothing left to fight
for.
Blu. it is evident that these Dem ocrats have
no purpose of assuming any responsibility in
the conduct of the war after all. They Will
take nothing upon their own shoulders, unless
the President will surrender to them the Gov
eminent. The same number of the World from
which the above extract is taken, has also the
following
/" In their sphere, ard as far as they may, the
Democrats will doubtless insist upon and aid in
a more vigorous prosecution of the war. But
the members of Congress whom they have cleo
ted W i'll not take their eeats ill December, 1868.
an the Governors whom they have chosen are
not OF the Altoona stripe. Theirs is NOT " the
responsibility " Of the c~nduct of the war UNI
less President Lincoln will remove the present
and appoint new cabinet, and accept forth
WITH IN its length and breadth, the policy
which the conservative masses of the North
have declared themselves lor."
AS specimen of what treason some of the
recently -elected Democratic Congressman are ca