Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-11-05
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I1Dk% hgt euE actempopaIIsa heyer Fefey 70 u,
mot Ahay. Atthst election The Deniocracy was
|asSEn IN che field With good platform and
ticket v Ith that euInsns iqrIss, Judge RANAIr.
tstthehead. The aggregate. vote polled was |
about 4,O0O more than the aggregate vote Of
1861, and 1sl reversed the 'majorisy Of $1,000
d against us In 1881, and elected our ticket BY
majority Of ever 5000. thus making change
!: In one year Of sixty thousand votesi
The aggregate vote of 1863 10 about 10000
greater than the vote Of 1862, and We are beat.
en- fome $4,000, whereas had the charge mani
fested in our favor by the vote Of ls6S over that
Of 1861, been continued through the canvass of |
1863, We should this year have had majority
Of some 10000. instead Of being beaten some
$4,000. Admitting however that the BRouoH
party voted some 10000 illegal votes at the late
, election, which being deducted, and then upon
the aggregate vote left, our majority In 1863,
II the current in our favor from 1861 TO 1862,
had not been obstructsd in some way, would
still have been very large al the late election.
What produced the reverse and checked tba
current which was running so strong ip =
favor' We have said that the nomip>.' >dr
Mr.. VALLANDIaHAM was an error,s' -don Of
was committed by the party. I'D that error
the boginnlue, 81 our tror' Bus 1t was not
Th.s platform Of lS> Aole.
=, al resr, .e62 Was o good one. It
80. end ,eo.s judicous, appropriate and
"a . vas so esteemed by the people. But
;. 6ot one word in support of tho present
r .Sailar dogmas of the EnQuir1 and Crisis on
=, var or peace Not one word, and yet these
journals as soon as the election was over, assert
= ed that the lesson Of that election was peace
=, and nothing but peace, on their theory and
~ plan, and claimed to mike their assertions on
~. the authority of the party. Mr.. VALLANDlc-
HAM with their approval and no doubt their ad-
~ vice, took ground for peace, on his plan and
theirs, in his celebrated speech in Congress in
". January 1863, and both these papers said no
Nv spoke for the entire Democratic party Of this
State. This was the beginning of our trouble;
ur the period when that mighty current of people
W were coming TO the Democratic party, and In
u tended to place II In power on the basis OF its
us avowals in 1862, and its platform Of that year,
an was turned from us and driven in another d.
i's rection. Gov. MEDARY was President Of the
D" Convention of 1862, Mr.. VALLANDIoHAh was,
w. we believe, on the committee on resolu-
a. tions, and the EnQuirr and Crisis both approv
cd Of all that was done The effort afterwards
ns made to misconstrue the lesson Of the election
ps OF 1882 TO repudate and set aside the platform,
= - NJ nuia hnka M 0f had faiih
70. the pirty, and with what has followed has
Of wrought our defeat At the time of this ibf
70 deity to party organization by the EnQuSsS and
er Crisis, 10 this State the FSseman's Journal and
te the Now York Ns,os, 10 N. Y, the Chicago
4 Times, the Dubuque Herald, Iowa. and kindred
m spirits in all the loysl States joined In the
L chorus, all of them trying to mystify and mis-
q represent the position Of the Democratic party,
7: aud all claiming to speak In the name OF the
- party and for It, though without particle Of
q authority from 1t In the premises; and to these
I. means Is TO be ascrbed the change of sentiment
N against us in the elections Of this fall, when
compared with the result In our favor not only
D. In Ohio, but in other States, In 1862, Had the
party been permitted to 90 on 10 the even tenor
+ of It's way upon the ground occupied by 70 In
n 1862, and on which II carried New York, New
= Jersey, PenDsylvsnia, Ohio, Indiana and I'LL. |
q nola. we would In October and November, 1863,
Z have had victories and not defeats to record
d Our cotemporsrle, see nothing very discour-
% aging In our recent defeats. These are not In
% their view barren. Party success to them is |
o nothing, principles everything. Defeat with
!. principles, (which are really only their whima
= and notionsl is preferable to success without
o them. We confess to differ little with our
cotemporAriea. We are for princlpe,; but we
,. want men TO carry them into effect. We sup
# pose, too, Il 10 the object Of party when It
0 enters the campaign to win the race ifit can
. do 80 honorsbly, and hence Il is folly and mad.
}, ness to hamper itsolf or take up burden that
Q Il cannot bear through the contest. I. may be
= la weakness In Us, but II 10 be We confess to Il
d and admit that We want our party to win on
u election day, and those who do not had better
d stand aside and not be oficious in planning or
= managing campaign:
ell The Enquirer informs us that the Admins |
traion 10 In need of help and that we had better
/. ljoin the dominant party. We cannot crafty
our neighDor, any more than we could think of
: putting and praising HoRAcE GREELEY as the
0 Enquirr did within the last year. Practically
o the Enquirer and all papers likeit, are the best
0 supporters this Administration has; and It may
\ be, nay ii must be the case, that that journal
. and oil who hold its present views will have to
o change them before the next Presidential cam.
Ipaign, or they will 6nd Il utterly impossible to
Support the nominee Of the Democracy, who.
ever he may be- We ask both the EsqMrr
and Crisb to think Of tbls matter. II 10 well
worthy Of consideration. ,..,,o
SOME Of the self-ssylel "Union" party object
ed TO being classed with the radical Abolition