Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-01-17
SATURDAY, JAN. II, 63.
WHO Is LOYALt


&C.. in connection with all illusions to
Democratic men or papers. In our coun'
try more odious epithets could not be
used; they imply criminality upon the
mart of millions Of Northern men-the
penalty for which, under our laws, is that
which attaches to the highest offences
within the criminal calender. The atten.
ton Of the civilized world is row directed
TO US with an interest never before equal
ed.-aud the judgment Of the world with
reference to the merits of our unfortunate
controversy is, to q great extent, made up
from the information communicated
through the public prints.
Is it any wonder then that the sympathy
Of Europe is with the rebellion 7 The fact
is universally known tia. the South is
almost a unit against the Government;
ard in addition TO this there goes abroad
by every Atlantic steamer the united ties
timony of the Administration organs tina,
there is in every Northern State very
large party. aud in many of them q de.
eidsd majority. who not only sympa,hize
with the Sonth, bnt who so far as they
can actively co operate with the rebels in
their efforts to destroy the nation.
SO injurious is the publication of these
allegations that Secretary Seward has felt
it necessary to make them the subject Of
diplomatic correspondence with Mr..
Adams, our Minister to Eng gland, in which
he gives them a most emphatic denial,
and nobly vindica,es the loyalty Of the
Democratic party.
The past Of our history establishes no
fact more clearly than that the Democratic
party has been content with our institu.
tons. They have never soushtto disturb
them, or to change in any manner our
Constitution. They have always been
strict construc'ionists, willing at all times
10 allow to all the rights and immunities
which our great charter guaranteed them.
On the other hand, party has sprung up
with principles based upon the single idea
Of hostility to slavery. Arrogating to
themselves exalted purity of motive, they
have with a spirit of intolerance worthy
the dark ages, denounced everything that
failed to come up to the measure of their
own contracted standard; they have
sought to render nugatory the plain and
positive provisions Of the Constitution,
and have even taught that there was
higher law than that which has been
ordained for Onr government, the provis.
ions of which were alone obligatory upon
US, thus giving to every one The most IN.
bridled license to trample upon the rights
Of others however securely those rights
may be guarded BY legal enactment
Owing to circumstances with which all
are familiar, this party has acquired the
ascendancy, and is now administering the
Government. Thattheir success was really
cause Of alarm to the South their antece-
dants sufficiently proved, and we have no
desire to conceal the fact that Democrats
North as we'll as South shared in the feel.
ing of apprehension, and that they were
willing to cooperate in all legal and
peaceful measures designed to protect the
South in all the rights which law and jus
tice gave them but when the rebellion
became a fixed fact, when the Star Of the
West" was fred upon, and Fort Sumter
was assailed, we affirm that no party
more earnestly demanded swift re,rbu-
ton; none were more ready to peril life
to vindicate our national honor than the
Democratic party. Further than this. we
maintain that in all acquisitions for men
Democrats have been as ready to respond
IS any other class and still further, that
the Democratic papers have been behind
no others in demanding q vigorous prose.
cution OF the war for restoring the Union
and that as a party they are to-day more
determined that The Union shall not be
destroyed than any other in the land. SO
long rs the President adhered to the policy,
which he distinctly announced in the early
part Of his administration, that OF prose
cutting The war for the purpose of saving
the Union ard the Constitution, he had
the support of the opposition to an ex-
ten. never equaled since the Admins,ra.
ton Of Washington. But so soon as this
policy was abandoned, and it was made
apparent tina. the radical dogmas of Aboi.
tionism were adopted, that the solemn re.
4uixements of the Constitution were no
longer to be enforced or observed, that
the wose power of the Government was to
be brought to crush 4 local institution
with which the President had acknowI
edged, be had neither the power or wish
to interfere. the Democratic party with
one accord expressed disapprobatitn. To
have done less We must have been recreant
TO the time honored principles Of our
party. Such is our position to-day. We