Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-06
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W ACSOfCl rum Tie SuOCk OI Lle
October election. They are pow rub
bing their eyes and looking around to see
If the lightning struck anybody else.
AS returning consciousness spreads their
defeat before them in all its vastness and
humiliation, they are beginning to in.
quire what all the fuss was about, and
how it all happened. There appears to
be division among them, and each fac
ton is disposed to charge the other with
the responsibility of the disaster. The
Dayton Empirs, which reflects the opin-
ions of Vallandigham, and which is edit
ed by the old editor of the rebel Nash
vile Banner, charges unfaithfulness
upon some who profess Democracy 1t
says:
"Certain newspapers and politicians
in the country, claiming to be Democrat
ic, are daily contributing to the strength
of the Abolition party, by quasi sup
port of the war and the present Federal
Administration; and we apprehend they
have chiefly occasioned the Democratic
defsats in the recent State elections"
Waxing furious while meditating upon
this unpleasant truth, it says all kinds of
hard things against these "quasi sup
porters of the war and the Administra-
tion," and winds up by giving them to
understand " that there ought to be no
peace until the independence of the Con-
federacy is secured" That is pluck.
We admire it. We throw up our hats
for the Dayton Empire!
But the Empire is not to usurp the
thrope hitherto occupied by the Cincin-
cinnati Enquirer, as the great organ of
the Peace Democracy. 1t is not to be
permitted to make flank movement of
the kind indicated. The Enquirer,
therefore, of the 18th ult., defines its
position as follows:
The Democracy can never come into
power as a war party" "They
believe that war is utterly opposed to
the continuance of Republican institu-
tions Let US say further to the
World that the Democracy of Ohio, and
we believe also of all the Western States,
agree with Mr.. Vallandigham views re-
specting the war. The Con-
vention that nominated him were for
peace" The Republicans are entitled
to all the glory and all the discredits of
the wal"
The only rivalry discoverable here is,
which can be the most radical for peace
and the acknowledgment of the Confed-
eracy. But there is another element at
work. The Cleveland Plaindealer, be-
ing pretty well up in the Reserve, has
received new light since the election.
1t asserts that the Democratic party is a
tcar party, that it always has been wal
party, that it always will be war party;
a fact, we will add, no one can dispute
while reading the war-like bulletins Of
its contending factions. In dissenting
from the views of its cotemporaries, the
Plaindealer says:
Ii these conclusions were not so singu-
lar, and, if we must needs say it, SO un-
warranted by anything that has vel
transpired in the history of the Democ
racy, we should pass them by in silence
but we cannot become party to these
astonishing declarations, by letting them
go unnoticed
A Government that cannot try to save
itself from disintegration, is gigantic
mockery and farce No man will pre-
tend to say that when Sumter was free
upon, this Government should have re
mained passive. If it had done SO i
would have been kissing and by-word
through all the measureless ages o
time.
Thus we have it up and down, righ
and left. In Ohio they ran Peace
Democrat, and he is beaten near 100,
600 votes. In Pennsylvania they ran {
Mum Democrat, and he is beaten fifteen
thousand votes. In Iowa they ran ;
War Democrat, and he is defeated b
$4,000 votes. In New York they ran
! 'alf an alf ticket, and it is buried be
: meath majority of from $4,000 t.
10000
:" Jim exclaimed one of group G