New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-01

ARE THEY DIsLOYALs
The great body of the American People. no
matter of what party, are and always have
been heartily loyal to the republican Constitu.
ton and Government established BY their ia
theirs. They have a deep and abiding con-
victiou that these are, in spite of some defects
aud anomalies, the best yet established on
earth. Errors, abuses, corruptons, iniquities,
VIGOROUSLY exist here, as they will under any
government administered by fallible mon.
Many desire improvement in this or that re-
spect: very few believe that subversion is the
way to reform. We believe that there is at
this hour loyal Union majority even in the
Rebel States, if the truth were but allowed
free course There, and if freedom of opinion
were not stHed by terror. In the Free
States, not onc-tenth of the population sympa-
thze with the despOtic purposes OF the slave
holding traitors.
But the politicians who control the machinery
of the Democratic party in nearly every State
are at heart disloyal. They do not desire that
the Federal Government shall Overwhelm and
crush out the armed treason now desolating
our country. They would like well enough to
see it bribcd into outward loyalty by shameful
conce ssions; but their plan is to have the loyal
State. exhausted aud wcaried out by delays and
disappointments, until the Administration shall
be compelled to make Disunion peace, which
(they calculate) will throw the Republicans out
of Office, when they will come in, and, by n
complete prostration of tho country at the feet
of the Slave Power, they expect to be able TO
patch up a reunion. This is the idea which
to-day governs the action Of the present leaders
Of the Sham Democracy, and renders them
syrnpatbizers with and practical allies OF the
Rebels.
Let US state q few Illustrative facts:
Last Winter, a Democratic State Conven-
ton for Connecticut was held at Middletown
to nominate State Officers. While it was in
session, the news of Burnsido's crushing VIC
tory at Roanoke Island was received aid issued
in on extra, a copy Of which was handed up
to the President of the Convention. The news
was evidently net to his taste-at all events.
he did not read nor announce it-and the Con-
vention separated scon after without one cheer
or congratuation over triumph whercto Con-
pecticut vaor had largely contributed! Was
that like old-fnshioned Dmocracy
Take Seymour's late speech-or the speech
of any one who supports Seymours election
and note the venom displayed, the labor ex-
pended, 10 denuncatlOns of the Administration,
of Congress, Of the Republicans. of the Eman-
cipation policy, and the brief and faint censlre'
Of the Rebels and their Rebellion. Think Of the
Characterization, in the address Of the Fer
nando Wood and James Brooks Mass Meeting
in cur city, Of this Rebellion as al irregular
opposition TO the Government Listen to
speaker on that side where you will, and you
will find the burden Of his strain run thus
" xpu may hate the Rebels a little, if you in
sst on it, provided you will hate the Repubii-
cans with all your might" Who is il tina.
these professediy loyal Democrats want hung
"On sour apple tree i''-one who 10 fighting
to subvert the Government, or one who 10
laboring TO uphold it
We were last week standing unobserved in
q Democratic newspaper office in an inland
city, whence volunteer regiment had just
started for the Potomac. A little crowd
gathered, discussing this departure. md the
current Of their talk ran thus; " Few of those
fools Will ever come back" (exultingy;) 81
should like TO see them undertake t. draft Iuen
in this county" &c, &c. Not one expression
Of sympathy with their gallant neghbors who
had just laid their lives ON the altar Of their
county's Salyaton-not lisp Of concern for
that country, with the clutch of fendsh traitors
on her throat. Had JEFF. Davis been present, |
every word that was uttered would have been
music in his ezra
1t is threatened in some Of our Journals that
men are to be knocked down in our streets
who dare to couple the names Of disoyalty and
Democracy. We state facts; lot the candid
draw the necessary differences.