The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-07-10
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OrthOdOx DemOcracy.

70 honor as victim to the despotism OF
the Government, iusti6es the rebel raid
Northward In an editorial OF the Iitn
inst it says:
otis not very clear to our perceptions
what the Confederates mean to DO IN
Peunsylvauia, but we venture to eonJec-
str,re that one of Gen. Lees objects Is to
retsliate on the capital of Pennsylvania
.the vandalism of Butler and Grant at
jackson and Baton Rouge, the capitals
of Mississippi and Louisiana.
"These acts were nothing short of van
dalism and they justify retaliation, un-
pleasant as it might be to experience it.
If the burning of jackson, Mississippi,
was a matter of congratuldtlon, will the
destruction of Harrisburg be an act of |
vandalism
In answer to the call for more troops,
the editor says:
"If Democrats were not forbearing
beyond virtue itself, they would tell Mr..
Lincoln to defend himself as best he may,
until he would manifest willingness to
administer the Government in accord
ance with the Constitution, and until he
disclaimed any authority to exercise
power otherwise or for any other purpose
than to maintain the supremacy OF the
Constitution Democrats asO1ttd not only
be justified in withholding their services,
but it is their duty to do so, until they be
assured that it is for the supremacy of
the Constitution and the laws they give
their lives, and not to carry into effect
partisan theories and projects, and to
subvert and destroy the Government
This is the Democracy" of the Peace
party, q little more plainly expressed
than the organ here ventures on, but ex-
actly in keeping with late article in the
New York World, which justified oppo-
sition to the CONSUMPTION unless the dis
loyal Democracy could dictate the policy
of the war.
The same sentiment was avowed
months before by Vallandigham, in
speech at Newark, n j., in April last
when he invited invasion as follows:
at has been proclaimed that it was
the Confederates intention to invade the
Northern States Yet, if this ,0ar is
Kept up, battles fought, no relenting spir-
1T, no prospect Of peace, no sound Of
concord to reach their ears, THEY
OUGHT TO BE INDUCED TO MAKE
THIS INVASION"
In the same speech Mr.. Y. said.
~ remember that it was in the city of
Newark, little more than two years
ago, that I first gave the pledge to any
portion of the people of the United States
that never would contribute, by my
works or acts, to the shedding of one
drop of American blood in civil war.
(Great applause.) How far and consist
emily have kept that pledge let you,
part of my countrymen, determine"
This is not bastard" Democracy, but
the simon pure faith of the party to which
the Sentinel clique belongs 1t is the
faith OF the Woods, of New York; of Pow
Ill sc .s.alz---=a-aI-tA a-=kalA-l>A -A9e
are Calhoun Democrats by right of sue
cession. The latter never abandoned
their party leader, Breckenridge, or his
platform, even in secession. They are
such Democrats to-day as they were then
Their treason, at the same time in pro-
: cess of consummation, is now fact
The Democracy of the North repudiated
! Calhounism in the Presidential election,
{ and when the first hostile shot was fred
i at the American flag, few to arms.
Cowardly apologists for traitors WINGED
2 and covered before the uprising of the
: people. While the true democrats of the
North were standing by the flag of their
country, these dislOyalists plotted the es-
Enlistment of party built upon the
principles of Southern traitors, and first
issued their call for an organization in
r May, 1862 On the 14th of February
last Vallandigham declared II. speech
at Newark, n. j.:
"One year ago to day the hopes of
Of revival and organization of the Demo
cratic party were as dark and gloomy as
. to-day are the hopes of a reunion. That
Be- party was publicly and formally organized
on the 9Th of May, 1862"
In speech at Dayton, O., October
18th, 1862, Mr.. Vallandigham referred
to the late election as an endorsement of
his anti-war policy, and spoke of the
handful of men who had organized the
4; Democratic party in theNorth, as follows
when the first Democratic caucus,
after the commencement of the war, was
called at Washington, but thirty-fve
names was signed to the call. Fourteen
Congressman only signed the address is
sued THAT of May 9Th, 1887 The Demo
cratic party of to-day sprang from that
appeal"
Referring to the principles on which
he had stood, he justified his opposition
to the war:
81 am not here as candidate, but as
a citizen. | have sacrificed not one of
my principles. l knew that they were
right l have not trimmed to secure
votes, nor said one thing at one place
and another at another place. Those
principles have triumphed because they
were truthful But ten days after the
beginning Of this war. gentleman of
my party said to me that party friends
had demonstrated against my opposition
to the war, because l would make myself
unpopular l answered, that if was
not satisfied my course was right, l
would not adhere to it. know it is I'M
popular, but it is right I mean to adj
here to it, and the whole country will
see that it is right and come to it. l
walked by faith then; l believed the peo-
pie would reject the wrong, and they
have done it"
That is orthodox Democracy with the
Sentinel 1t has the ring Of the true
metal in the ears of the editor. 1t passes
current with JEFF Davis, and has carried