The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-17


corrupt. -
He had always been a Democrat, was
one now, and therefore could not take
the advice of his friend Thayer, to lay
aside party. He could not affiliate with |
the Union party. He thoughtthe Demo
cratic party had not changed principles;
No man could be true Constitutional
Democrat of the old school unless he was |
an unconditional Union man.
I'VE regret Mr.. w forgot to tell us |
what particular school, or how old 1t
He would not quarrel with men for
their opinions, nor did he propose they
should quarrel with him for his. He had
been told that the leaders Of the Demo
cratic party sympathised with traitors.
He knew Twombs, Slidell, Yancy and
Jeff. Davis had been leaders of the dem
ocratic party but they broke it up and
went off to the devils party 1t was no
reason why the Democratic party should
be sneered at because some were now
rebels who had once been Democratic
leaders any, more than the christian reh-
zion should be sneered at because one of
the disciples had turned traitor. { -
(Some were so stupid as to think the
comparison not a good one, as IN one
case a protested disciple turned traitor
to his Teacher, while in the other the
Teachers turned traitors to their own
teachings.) 1881 feA@ o5Glc t19J
The traitors began their work by
breaking up the Democratic. party. They
commenced their work at Charleston and
Baltimore The Democratic party went
down, and then they commenced their
work of destroying the Union.
Had not devils in human form, Gle
meant, no doubt, JEFF Davis, Yancey,
Jesse d. Bright and John c. Breckin-
ridge,) destroyed the Democratic party,
the Union would now be safe. He did mt
say the Republican party was the cause
Of dissolution. They voted honestly for
Mr.. Lincoln, and the election of honest
old Abe was no justification of dissolu-
ton Itwas only pretext. The South,
he said, had duped the people. As long
as the Democratic party was in power,
the country prospered and we had peace.
What were U. S. 6's worth January
1st 1861? Who was President when the
Star of the West was fred into?
| What party ruled when our forts, ar
senals, minis, revenue cutters, cannon
and munitions ofwar were seized by men
who had been leaders in the Democratic
party, but who now professed that they
owed no allegiance to the Constitution
and the Federal Unionl Answer imme-
diately)
He could not leave the Democratic
party because bad men had once belonged
to it. He did not think it right to de-
nounce Democrats as traitors. He then
vindicated Democrats for opposing the
war by reading extracts from the New
York Tribune and Indianapolis Journal
favoring peaceable separation if the
South, was unanimous in their desire to
leave. He did not believe there was any
higher consideration than the integrity
of the Union.
1n other words, it is better to have a
Constitution unimpaired with country
rent by civil war, than to have happy,
prosperous, peaceful country with a
slightly lacerated constitutional
Mr.. w. claimed to have been an origi-
nal war man. Since the bombardment
of Fort Sumter he had always been in
favor of letting the rebels feel cold steel
He then went into denunciation Of
the rebellion and of the leading rebels
with an emphasis and eloquence that was
truly refreshing. 1t was the first time
an acting Sth-ofJanuary Democrat had
been known to indulge in such burs
of patriotism and bitter denunciatioT
against the rebels, and it inspired higher
hopes in the minds of all for the ultimate
salvation of many who, against con
science are still following Vallandgham
Voorhees, & Law.
Mr.. Whttlessey then contrasted thu
conduct of Democrats and Republicans
and thought it hard that Democrats wer
3 not allowed to denounce all the meas
ures of the Government for the suppress
sion of the rebellion, while Republican
were allowed to criticise the conduct Q
e Generals in the field
He DEPRECATED the abuse of Gems Nc
Clellan, Halleck and Grant, and though
it was more likely to discourage enlist
ments than the denunciation of the Ad
ministration as an abolition, perjure'
Administration, the war as an abolition
war, made solely for the purpose of free
ing the niger and violating the consti
tutional rights of the rebels. ais
1--WE do not pretend togive the pre-
else language of the speaker but the oil
vious import Of the argument1
He said if we get men to belive tn
army is badly led, or led by traitors, Q
incompetent officers, we would then fin
them unwilling to go into the war.
He alluded to certain criticisms mad
bv the journal on the Generalship {
Mcclellan and Grant, and thought tn
Journals sensation heading More {
Grant fine Generalship had done tn
cause of enistmente vast injury III
newspaper editors, he said, who try
break down our best Generals, are tn
worst enemies of the country.
On. b. Democratic newspapers hav
carefully abstained from bitter denune
ations of Gems. Fremont, Banks, Butler
Hunter, Wallace, and Dumont,) sas
: Mendo wrong, he said, to charge Co
: ruption and bad faith on great politics
party ~ t....g. rs.. :
? If man is true TO his country, he dit
not care to what party he belonged, if
: was honest and true to the Union. H
intended to stand by his party organic;
t ton. -fsS8 Is s-fa,ls sac sas5ssr
Mr.. James, he said, had been dem'
ora+ wa n oood man. had been his frien