The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-25
How the English Regard the Tory
Democracy OF America. aes.''f

S'S16 VI oiu duu comiOrt 10 the ret
els, we have been denounced as grossl
misrepresenting and slandering that par
ty In defense Of our position, We hav,
heretofore published extracts from tn,
leading rebel papers of the South, whicl
! ofthemselves ought to convince unpreiu
diced minds that the organization ans
building up of parties at this crisis in tn.
history OF our beloved Republic could
only result in evil--by discouraging itl
friends and encouraging its enemies
} That our views on this subject were vel
founded are sustained by the following
! extracts from leading English Journals,
who certainly occupy stand point from
which they can investigate the subiec.
with unpreiudiced minds, and base their
conclusions on facts alone, without re-
gard to personal inclinations, We trust
our readers will give the following ex-
tracts a careful and thoughtful ex-
animation. In doing SO they must con-
clude that the movement of Seymour.
Fernando Wood and Ben. Wood in New
York, of F. NJ, Hughes in Pennsylvania.
Vallandigham and Cox of Ohio, and their
fellows elsewhere is interpreted in Lon
don as it is in Richmond, as intended to
encourage and help the rebels, and per
haps to place the whole nation at their
mercy; dishonoring our soldiers. and
giving victory to Davis and the rebels.
The London Spectator says: ,~es4.,
What can we hope from a party that
puts forth such resolutions as these at
such q time as the present, or indeed
from the people among whom that party
is regaining the ascendant, if that be re-
ally the case7 They lay down princi-
pies which, if they are not akin to those
OF the rebels, differ from them only in
being more petty and more contempti-
ble,s without being a whit nobler; that
contain the seminal principle of Seces-
sion without the vitality of purpose that
renders Secession strong. The Demo
Gratis, indeed, take care to adore (mysti-
cally) the word Union, but strive with
all their might to undermine unity of
purpose, which can alone give that word
q meaning. = s-.-.s...,..
Ii these Democrats are really to recov-
er ascendency in the North for such no
principles as these, if the war is to be
intrusted to the hands of men whose sole
idea 1T is to war against a plural or du-
al number of American flags of foreign
departments-who care for the unity
OF the body Of the northern continent.
but are passionately opposed to
any invention, even of soul, lest the
individual members should be brought
into subjection--who are, in fact, merely
possessed witha passion for arithmetical
slmplicity-who wish to prevent anv
body or party from pirating the Ameri.
can counterfeit of nation, but are far
more heartily opposed to any life and
soul In the nation than the South itself
who would gladly put an evil soul into
it--then they deserve nothing but con-
tempt, for they are fighting for phan-
tom, and worse than phantom, precise
iy what Mr.. Disraeli called an organ
lied hypocrisy" -
g The South has adopted standard. a
princlple, a distinct vital spirit. The
Northern Democrats see, and instead of ]
meeting it by counter principle, by en-
couraging every movement which viii |
give them one heart and one purpose. |
they solemnly proclaim the tremendous
Importance of not taking issue with the
South thereupon, of reserving to them
selves the right to keep the rancorous
Southern leayen among them as long and
as strong as they choose; they reiterate
their general sympathy with the principle
OF caste on which the South is now rafly-
ing its forces-and assert their solemn /
determination never to pay penny to
relieve the border States of the difficulty.
and never to receive colored laborer
from the South or from the border States
into their community ~
And yet they cry out for the Union.
AS if o Union could exist without a ma
tion-and as if a nation could exist with
out yestige of national nobility. Why,
The Southern leaders can at least under
go great sacrifice for the common Though
evil) cause, and are better than such
politicians as these, who care nothing for
trawing close the tie between the North
srn States, nothing for helping friends.
less than nothing for encouraging the
spirit of unity, but are absorbed in their
horror at the thought of losing by COM
petition with negro laborers, and losing
loudly by taxes to compensate the mas.
ers of those laborers for their slaves
We would rather follow Mr.. Jefferson
Davis than the Democrats of the North.
de at least sins Justify, like chief who +.
would reign in hell They are for weak
md paltering policy-for war which
would represent nothing but wicked
md overgrown jealousy, and Constitu- :
ion that anxiously guards against the
possibility of expressing a national faith. +,
The Saturday Review says:
The Democrats have devised a still
nore singular mode of expressing their
pinions in the superlative or transcen-
entail form which belongs to American
abits and tastes Concurring with their (
pponents in their estimate of Mr.. Lin {
oln's qualifications, and affecting to out =