The weekly Butte record., 1863-11-21
The Late Elections.

The New York Day Book, paper
so ultra, rabid and senseless on the
subject of peace" as to be ready to
fight for it, INDUCES in some reflections,
and less philosophy on the result Of the
October and November elections. 1t
holds that these elections "force one
conclusion upon the minds of all reflect
i've men: TIE Democratic party is divi-
ded in sentiment upon the present war. .
Its deductions from tbs very superb
cial force with which it thinks the minds
of all men are by this time imbued, is
not more forclble than the premises it
starts from and is Of about an equal
practical value. After showing that
Tuttle, a war democrat, was beaten in
Iowa, and Vallandigham, a peace dem
ocrat, in Ohio, it sums up as follows :
"The truth is that while the elections
do not show that We can achieve sue
cess on the anti-war platform, they are
conclusive that we do not secure it by
endorsing the war" As statement
of facts, it is all very well, but if it
points out any course by which the
prospect is to be frightened, We do not
see it. But it is, probably, quite as
far as the faction, styling themselves
"Peace Democrats" or those who sup
port the radical policy of the Admins
ton can go. There is nothing practi-
cable in the policy Of either of these
parties, peace dictated by rebels, and
lnterminable war. The people fancy
they can see better show for the pres
ervation of the Union, in a war that is
directed against the institutions Of the
Southern States, than in a refusal to
wage war at all against the rebel States;
and hence their endorsement of the
Administration policy.
We deny the forcible proposition of
the Day Book that the Democratic
party is "divided in sentiment" or that
it is demoralized, or conquered; it has
been beaten however,ju just as Mcade's ar
my wo'd be beaten, should its right wing
60 over to the enemy, and the left wing
make war upon the centre. 1t has been
beaten down because there are two
factions, formerly connected with it,
who have abandoned its time -honored
principles and devotion to the Union,
and betrayed its organization. We al
lude to the faction, of which the Day
Book is the organ, and to that other
faction, headed by Dickinson, Butler
and others, who support the radical
policy of the war. Both these factions
claim to be Democrats still, and the
one with just as much truth as the other.
Neither are Democratic. They are
traitors to Democratic principles-to
the principles which have guided the
people since the foundation of the gov
ernment. They are responsible for the
present policy of the war: The ''Peace
Democrats" by originally declaring
their opposition to the use of force in
putting down armed rebellion, and the
Dickinson-Butler faction by slavishly
proclaiming their readiness in advance,
to sustain any policy that Greedy, Ere
mont, Sumner and Chandler, might in
duce the Administration to adopt
There is where the responsibility of the
present policy rests, and if these treas
enable factionists are still Democrats,
the present policy of the war is demo
cratic. They are not Democrats
Democracy repudiates them, and the
policy their insanity has forced upon
the people.
1t was right to make war for the
preservation of the Union, and wrong to
divert it to any other purpose. The
''peace democracy would have permit
ted armed rebellion to override the
constitution and laws, steal government
forts and mints, and divide the Union
where they pleased as with a cimeter,
and say that it was not democratic to
use force. These democrats" had
forgotten their democracy of less than
thirty years before, that responded tc
old Hickory's proclamation against
South Carolina secession, with shout