The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1863-11-05


[From the Richmond Enquirer, Oct "a ]
Tn the two great Democratic
States of Pennsylvania and Ohio
the candidates on the side Of the
Gsap anflahe Administration A have
been elected by large maj ritios.
| Vallandigham is crushed. and his
policy Of Peace Democracy" along
with him. Itgoes as we expect
ed. '' .a .'
Repeatedlyin the Enquirer, we
have demonstrated that among our
Yankee enemies there was no diffe-
renee to us; that the Democrats
were equally our enemies with the
Republicans; that the Cooper
head" movement, with all its
Knis hts of the Golden Circle, was
merely a contrivance tor bringing
back the Democratic party Into
power, and that Immediately on
that happy event, the Peace Demo
Gratis would all be War Democrats
The business of that country is
war; by war they live and move.
The credit of their current money,
and its power to purchase the me-
cessaries of life. depend entire ly
upon war; the income and daily
bread of each family is derived
from the war; therefore, all princi,
pies and policies yield to the grand
principle and policy of the war.
The war fever, like any otler
malaGy had to go through all its
range ofsymptoms and reach its
crisis in the regular way. 1t was
not to he hoped. that while the
patient was yet plethoric and full
of blood. the fever would suddenly
abate OF itself.
Was it in human nature that
this delirous fever patient should
subside all at once before the
ninth day, into cool refreshing
sleep, and awake wholean sound?
Neither is the continuance OF the
paroxysm a thing to be regretted,
because the longer and more vehe-
ment the excitement, the more
utter and prostrating will be the
collapse. All that high wrought
i life is false morbid and hetic; it is
not wealth, but moral disease, and
the patient must ether die of it,
or else, alter a hard struggle
and absolute exhaustion, slowly
recover q sadder and wiser man.
And it IS better so. To make
sure that our separation, as two
distinct political communities,
be complete AID eternal, it ia per-
haps needtul that the war be fought
out to the very end that is to
say the entire destruction of the
Yanke nation. The longer they
carry on the war and the more
atrocious they make it, the more
impossible it will be that there
should ever bs any sort of union
between US and that detested peo.
pie. A year ago there were many
"reconstructionstS" in Virginia to
say nothing Of other States-we
mean u sort OF partial reconstruct
Iionists, looking 10 reunion with
some select States OF the Yankee
nation, and OF course, on "honor-
able ternls" Where are they now?
The continued still increasing bru-
tality of our enemy in all the re-
gions occupied by their troops, but
more especially the distinct policy
OF entire subjugation, with which
the reduction of these States to
Territories, universal confscation,
Acknowledgement, disarmament, and
a settlement Of eur lands by Yam
kee proprietors-this plain policy,
announced by Lincoln, and adopted
by Generals, Ministers, platforms
Of Republicans and now deliberate,
ly sanctioned by the Pennsylvania
and Ohio elections, has opened the
eyes and nerved the hearts of thousl
ands of weak and and wellrintenl
toned men, who dreamed of peace
ION some terms" and who now
know that they can havd peace on
no terms save surrender at discrel
ton and aDject vassalage to the
meanest and most vulgar race of
beings on all this earth. sans
| 1t is Wholesome for our people
| to look on and see that extraordi-
nary nation, thus possessed by an