, 1863-03-13

From the Chicago Post, tWAr ucmocfas1
There Is no doubt but within the great DEM
ocratic party at tlis time there ts a difference
Of opinion as to the proper policy to be pur.
sued respecting the further prosecution ct
the war. This does not arise from any lack Of
patriotism, or devotion to tue Union; but Is
the result Of the mad and reckless teacnlngs
Of few despe1ate political leaders a9a news
that the most disreputah1e to the quiet seu-
approval which MI men feel they merit in
doing their duty tn their country. lhe inter-
ference and Vindictiyeness Of tue RepnoNcan
press has helped these demagognes extremely.
The Democratic masses are loyal TO the
hearts core; there may be exceptions, Dn1
they are outnumbcred ten to one BY lndiVld-
uals who are traitors at heart, yet il full conf
party. The Democratic. party. has been the
war party OF this nation from the foundation
Of the republic, and cannot be anything else,
without nrst repudiatipg every honest Princi-
r1e for which Democrats have struggled, and |
embracing every dishonest principle Of every
dishonest party that has raised its leprous |
head since the adoption Of the Constitution.
There Is q newspaper in this city called the |
Chicago Times, which holds itself forth to the !
country rs the authorized organ Of the views |
and sentiments Of the Democratic party. For |
one year past, the paper Of which We speak.
has been 1aboring with all its industry and |
means to educate The Democratic muses. into |
rank rebellion against the principles Of their |
party and against the great principles Of |
American constitutional liberty. How far ii |
some halfa dozen eheetsin Ohio, one in Mich |
igan, and three OF 1o1r others scattered over
the northwest, is fully understood By tue |
public. We have been a Democrat always;
we have done some service in tue party, and |
though We may not have the power to correct
the evil, or avert its results. we have deter
mined at least to enter our protest against
having the Democratic party converted into q
mere tribe Of jayhawkcrs, acknowledging no
allegiance to constitution and laws, but sub
jcct at 4 cut-throat's order to make war on
friend or foe.
We have seen little, very little III Mr.. Lin
coins administration to approve or endorse.
We think his military and civil iladmini=tration
hare been gross failures; bat that is no rca-
son Why We should join the enemy. During
imbecility Of the Secretary Of War, the In
| efficiency Of the commanding general, and the
general know w-nothingness q The adninistra-
tion, handful Of British infantry, by slow:
it'll, put the President and his cabinet to
fight, took possession Of all the public
buildings, ard after burning all that they
could not take away, leizurely marched
out and let the frightened Administration re-
turn to the Federal city. Could there have
the result Of administrative stupidity, igno-
rance or trcacherye Yet, VIC may search the
records Of the country in vain to find 4 Dem
ocratic meeting, Democratic convention, or
a Democratic newspaper, that proposed as
remedy for the evil either a cessation Of hostiI-
ties. All armistice, OF commissioners to treat
with the enemy. From one end Of the Union
to tho other, the disaster invoked from the
Democratic people of the nation, patriotic,
honorable and Democratic expressions Of de-
| yotion to the government. The very weak
ness Of government Is the strongest reason
why Democrat should give it Ills whole sup
port. THIS is the history Of the Democratic
| ralty in times gone by, and in 1t there is moth.
there were men al the North and at the South
| in those days who desired peace and an armis-
tice, or sympathized with or aided the British,
these men have no descendants who boast Of
the conduct Of their ancestors.
One Of the favorite and most taxing sopl-
isms, by which taese enemies of the Demo-
cratic party and teachers Of false doctrine
seek to misicad, is, that tho enemy against
which the Union Is now contcnding is not Ut,
ordinary enemy. He Is, say they, Of our oWn
tleshand blood, and it is Infamous to protract
u war, md cause the further effnsion Of the
blood Of cur kindred We have no unkiud
feeling towards The people Of the rebel States,
, personally. We will admit that while they
| formed part Of the common political family,
they we're flesh Of our flesh; but from the day
} | has always been rendered tcnfold more horri-
| bic when it was parracidal or frat rieidal.
Who raised the parraeida hand that
las eince deluged this land with the
best blood Of the nation? Who. commenced
+ the fratricidal war, which, sparfng nothing,
! has left tile bones Of the young men Of the
: nation to whiten upon countless fields oi
: blood? If these rebels are flesh Of our flesh
= and bone Of our bone, let us also remember
. that they causelessly, Tantonly, detiantly
be remembered that the Almighty ,seizing the
first fratricide, set Il mark upon him. Tht
fact that these men arc part OF q common
+ family, and that they, having full po}itica
: power III the Union to ask for and insist upoI
: constitutional means Of redress for all wrongs
: preferred war; and that to this day they bur
defiance, and spit upon all propositions Q
r conciliation and Union, In our Judgment, on
= ~ renders them, as enemies, more objection
able and repnlsiye than nm II the5 wsre SON. n
- peaceful prosperity Of the American Union.
Ia But our object at this time is to point on
% the Democracy Of the northwest o nece:
IT sity which is fast coming upon US: Shall til
1t Democratic party be unit, or 5hall it oe tor
e I, into a thousand fragments.
II In New York, Pennsylvania, and In ever
T. State east Of the Alleghanies, the Democrat
party, under the cool, sasacious and state:
T. solvcd to stand firmly by its past glorious IN
IS honorable history, and to sustain to the las
r extremity the Federal Government in all cor
~ stitutiopal means to support and uphold IL
Union.
n, Scattered here and there over the Nortl
west, are petty politicians, who have cnrolle
rs themselves under the lead Of Mr.. Fallandi
he lam. These men hare, as We have said,
IS, newspaper, claiming to be the organ Of tt
u, Democracy, in this city. The hour for choo
is Ray 'PRroaifhpgg III H n pfS Of No
4 York, Pennsylvania. and New Jersey? vi
RI they follow Seymour, and, under hts Suidant
he and statcsmanahip, sustain their country, I
Mt will they abandon him, abandon Constitutio
Mt country, Union, nationality, everything,
IL enlisting under tic hnciful banner Of Val!a
It's aighan,? Fellow Democrats. the hour is
It, hond when you must choose one Of these {
IT, ternatiyes. viii you follow Seymour to sa'
ng your country, or, at least, to rescue what c:
r. be saved Of it, or will you join the mob, be
he ing destruction to home, life, property, ever
~ thing, ut the call Of the reckless nlcn vi
he worship Vallandigha
cir ----
mi The Copper1tend Agitntors.
d. From the New York Herald, 1oth1
u Vallandigham, BoobS Brooks, Ben. Wo
~ md the rest Of the coPperheads who have be
on+ performing their antics n this city are me-
20 2o to say nothing OF the training and cxperiens
ls. requisite for statesmen. They are 1T to
,oe local demagcgucs or ward politicians, b
n remind US Of what New Hampshire farm
"a said Of poor Pierce, who proved SO miseral
are a failure as President, "Frank Pierce S:
"a Ac, twas Il great nun here in the Gran
M 'Mul State; but wien he was spread over tle wlt
~ ~ Union, he was so mighty thin there was no
s lrl, ing Of him. In the same way there
III nothing in such noisy men as TalIau1icha