The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1864-01-30
A Significant Confession.

The Boston Courier, a paper Of not doubt.
full loyalty, in an article designed to show
the Republican party responsible for the ne.
cessi.y Of draft. makes the following state
nent
The success OF the Republican party at the
recent State elections Is q fact which no one can
escape from. II is obvious as church by day.
light. In all the loyal States, except New Jer-
scy, they have majority whether real or ar
England, especially. they have everything their
own way, like bull in china shop or don
key IN q chicken yard. With .tec exceptions,
they hare the press. the pulpit. The men OF let
tiers, aud the lecturers on their side. The
trsioht ofsoeiai infusnes and feminine tasei-
nation Is Nth hsm.
The italics in the above arc ours, and to
those sentences, so significant in the truths
contained in them, so humiliating to the
confessor and so panoramic Of the position
ofthe copperheads, We ask particular atten-
ton.
Tho Courier very wisely does not attempt
to explain why those facts exist, which are
as "obyious as church by daylight" why
the intelligence Of the country is adverse to
the position Of the "democratic y party
No one will agree that the 'men Of letters
are more easily influenced in the wrong di-
rection than the masses which compose the
aforesaid organization, nor are they less
capable of judging in regard to those princi-
Piles which make nations prosperous and
great. Is the pulpit of the present day SO
entirely corrupt that they are incapable OF
Judging between right and wrong, and less
likely to entertain proper political opinions
than the "gregarious many" who shout the
praises Of Vallandigham, and whom Sey-
mour calls his friends? The question need
DO asked only to show its monstrosity.
The fact that the democratic" party is
deserted by those men whose opinions are
valuable, may we'll lncite inquiry Tor the
cause. For the last fifteen years this party
has ceased to be an independent party hav-
ing any established principle of right. 1t
has been the instrument in the hands OF the
very men who now figure at Richmond, to
bring about the independence Of slavery on
this continent. All who see it now were not
conscious Of ii then-that they were aiding
a future rebellion. One Of the most gifted
orators of this State, whose valuable services
in the recent New York election have been
acknowledged by the press of that State, re-
marked to us in this Office during our last
campaign, "The democratic partyhas of late
years been only tail to the traitors kite.
We did not 500 1t for some time, and then
only by degrees and when conscious of the
fact many of US chung to the organization
with the hopO of rcscuins it at the last
The coppcrhcad instinct OF aiding the rattle
snake pervaded the party to too great an ex-
tent, and here we are. THIS war will kill
slavery, and where that dies this so-callcd
democratic party dies. Let it perish, let it
20 out from among US till it has not whercOn
to lay its head"
The Courier understands rs well rs any
ono that the intelligence of this country is
arrayed against the party OF which 1t is an
exponent, because between the two there is
no bond OF sympathy, and the principles OF
that party are adverse u the civilization OF
the age.