Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-19

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At the canvass ofa couple of Major Gen.
erals who claim to be democrats, and uo
der certain circumstances talk respectfully
Of the constitution. To nominate eithrr
Grant or Mcclellan would be suicidal
1t must be bepreceded by wholesale apostacy
from the ground covered by the Kentucky
and Virginia resolutions, and so long
hitherto the avowed creed of the democ.
racy, and forever hereafter to be its onlv
solid foundation. Let us beware Of sucb
a contradiction, for the sole result of il
will be a Waterloo defeat. No such
choice of candidates can have the undiyi
ded support Of the democracy for the
peace party will not accept the humilia-
tlon, but will put their own candidate up-
on their own platform of immediate peace
and peaceable separation and state rights
recognition, and having coOlly nailed that
inscription to the mast, will clear the deck
for Independent action"
The Cincinnati Enquirer plants itself on
Mr.. Longs ground, and attacks the New
York World. The World replies as fol-
lows: H
If we erred in disclaiming participation
in the peace sentiments of Mr.. Long, we
have at least gone astray in excellent
company, as nearly the whole democratic.
delegation in Congress from Ohio made,
through Mr.. Cox, the same disclaimer.
If the local pride of the Enquirer is woun-
ded by our dissent from the views of Mr..
Long, it ought to admit that we have fur
nished pretty broad plaster for the
wound by our declared agreement with
Mr.. Cox and his eleven democratic col
leagues, whose disclaimer he took the first
opportunity to announce to the House.
If the Enquirer wishes to
make proselytes to its peace principles,
the political heathens are at its doors
But if its object is to read the New York
and the Ohio democracy out of the party.
it will pardon US for suggesting that that
is rather formidable undertaking, and
that nothing would please the republicans
better than for the democratic party to 90
into the presidential canvass on Mr.. Longs
platform. a 5.... ..
The Enquirer explicitly defines its po-
sition thus:
= here can be no war under the con-
stitutlon for the coercion of a sovereign
state. The democracy stand by the con-
stitution and insist that such a war cannot
be prosecuted for any legitimate or lust
purpose, or in any just manner"
The Watertown IN. W Union con-
fesses the existence of this irrepressible
" democratic" conflict. In reply to an
article in peace democratic sheet, it
says: t
Now, the editor of that paper must
know that there are democrats who do
not believe in war on rebels at all-pho
sag that the War should cease at once and
adoocate peace, as they haze from tie first,
as the only means Of maintaining, or re-
storing the Union. And he knows equal
ly well that there are "war" democrats
or rather those, who do not ADVOCATE jm-
mediate peace. IL strikes as there is jast
the difference IN the sentiments of these t,oo
classes of democrats as there is bet,oeeu
peace and acar. + These are
rocks upon aohich pe mag split, and ue
must steer clear Of them.
But how are you going to do it2
The Chicago Post (democratic) says:
We have repeatedly pointed out the
evil Infamous measures resorted to by the
few unprincipled men who have seized the
direction of the democratic party and
have rushed it from one calamity to an
other. These democratic leaders, having
pushed their desperate fortunes to ths
worst extremity, now propose the last
measure--in fact, they propose to rise or
fall in the last ditch, and that ditch is the
organization of the democratic party in
armed hostility to the federal govern
ment.