The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-10
Facts foI the People.

IT IS SUSCEPTIBLE OF THE CLEAREST
PROOF THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
as AT PRESENT CONSTITUTED, = WITH
WOOD, VALLANDIGHAlr, AND VOORHEES,
ITS RECOGNIZED LEADERS, AND THE
NEW YORK EXPRESS, CINCINNATI EN-
QUIRER, INDIANA STATE SENTINEL AND
LOUISVILLE DEMOCRAT ITS ACCREDITED
ORGANS, -SYMPATHIZES WITH, AND IS
LABORING IN BEHALF OF, THOSE THo
ARE IN REBELLION AGAINST THE coy
ERNMENT.
THE TRUTH OF THIS is EVIDENT
FIRST. FROM THE WORDS AND ACTIONS
OF TIE MORE OBSCURE MEMBERS OF
THE PARTY.
SECOND. FROM THE SPEECHES OF ITS AC-
KNOWLEDGED LEADERS AND THE EDI-
10RIALS OF ITS LEADING PAPERS.
THIRD. FROM THE WELL-KNOWN OPIN-
IONS AND ANTECEDENTS OF ITS CAN
DIDATES, md THE DOCTRINES SET
FORTH IN ITS PUBLIC RESOL UTIONS.
Aud,
FOURTH. FROM THE FAVOR WITH WHICH
IT is REGARDED By THE REBELS; THE
MARKED SIMILARITY IN THE ABUSE
WHICH BOTH HEAP UPON THE ADMIN
ISTRATION; AND THE REMARKABLE
MANNER IN WHICH THE LEADERS OF
TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, NORTH,
ECHO THE SENTIMENTS, HOPES, AND
FEARS OF THE REBEL LEADERS
SOUTH.
The support of Vallandigham is test
of Democracy. The support of Vallan-
digham is an endorsement of his official
conduct, and an approval of his treason
able doctrines. What has been his
course both in and out of Congress7 The
following is sample. We challenge a
a contradiction of the fact:
Vallandigham repeated in a card pub
hshed in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov.
10th, 1860, what he had declared in a
speech at Cooper Institute on the I'd OF
the same month, that nerer acOuLd,
GS a representative in the Congress Of
the United States, rote one dollar OF
money tohereby one drop Of blood should
be shed in a ciril ,Oar, and affirmed it,
saying he was resolved, though | stand
alone, to make it good to the last mo-
Ot AAASs y wv
cord, Page 81.
Again he declared at Dayton on the
Cd of August, 1862-"Accordingly, /
have not voted for any army bill, or navy
bill, OR ARMY OR NAVY APPRO
. PRIATION BILL, since the meeting
of Congress on the 4th of July, 1861
(Record, Page 49,
Vallaudigham is the idol of democ
racy. Every democrat is expected tt
bow and worship at his shrine He claiml
support on the ground that he has beer
persecuted-that he is a martyr. So fa
from this being true, he is only an agen
of the so-called confederacy-an ennis
sary of the rebels-who is expected II
aid their cause more efficiently than h
could by enlisting in their army. Th
Mobile Register takes the proper view o
Vallandigham's value. While he wa
yet a guest of the rebel authorities,
suggested the programme which he ha
since adopted to the letter. Said tn
Register-(mark well the italics)-
The Confederate press has very gen
orally spoke of the anomalous position @
this distinguished gentleman. Will
there are some differences of opinion il
minor points, we are glad TO recognize
healthy and catholic tone of sentiment
both as to Mr. Vallandigham and as t
the duties of the Government and pee
pie of the Confederacy. Mr.. V. is re
garded in the true light of his position
a position defined by the logic of facts
and accepted by himself with the cando
and honesty that belongs to his charac
ter. He is citizen of country wit
whom we are at war-he is an involur
tary exile, thrown upno Comederat
hospitality and protection, and because
his manly stand for constitutional fret
dom in his own country against de
potism that has no parallel on the cart
In national sense he is an enemy
the Confederacy-but ii cannot be denit
that his personal sympathies are acith
people who are struggling against II
same tyranny that has trdmpted apo
ibertg in his Oun country, and that hs
laid its hand upon him for the purpo
of crushing him out as champion
! that liberty. His own views of his pos
ton was expressed in brief address
the people of Ohio, dated the 9th ul
and written from the Military Prison
Cincinnati
s The Confederate press agree, witho
: dissent, that the misfortunes of the d
:, tinguished exile command respect a
kind treatment at the hands of our pt
pie. They oppose with equal unanimi
) the policy and propriety of any pub
demonstration, or any course OF actl
to alter his status as an exiled citizen
the United States, as candidate
Governor of one of the most promin'
States of the old Union There is