Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-18
The PittsburK Post ana The
Democracy OF Ohio.

the present, and to surrender the lines TO
such expert jockeys as the editor Of the
Post and others Of his kidney.
We confess to no little surprise upon
this interesting occasion We were not
aware of any forwardness nor any at
tempt upon our part to dictate to the peo-
pie Of any other State. But il we had
fallen into such an error, the last paper
from which we wonld have expected
reproof, is the one which now ssurps the
place of lecturer in GHETTO the 0HIo dem
ocracy. The impotence of some people
surpssses that Of BEELzEBuB himself.
The PITTsBURoH Post, for want of any
other organ, may occasionally pass for
democratic in that God forsaken abolition
county of ALLEGHESY but there never
has been time, since the war began.
when the fact could have been definitely
ascertained from perussl of its editorial
columns. That such a paper. with such
record as it has made, should now put
on such airs. and undertake to lecture Mr..
VALLANDIoHAM, and to push aside the
sterling and courageous democracy OF the
State of ONO, amazss every sensible man,
and is almost as ludicrous as it is impu-
dent. Pray sir since when has the Post
been democratic ?
The chief objection to Mr.. VALLANDIo-
HAM is found in his peculiar views
This is the standard phrase of all his time
serving enemies, and is revamped by the
Post together with several filings of a
personal nature which we have seen be-
fore in abolition organs. "What "pecu-
liar views ?" Is it peculiar" nowadays
to insist upon adherence to the Constin-
tion, to condemn arbitrary arrests, to op-
pose the suppression Of the press, to favor
an armistice, to condemn this horrible
war and demand its termination If ESQ.
then is the whole country filed with
peculiar" men, and "peculiarity" is
becoming not only popular but epidemic.
attacking white and black unfortunately
In this western country, and threatening
the very minions of ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The personal feeling of the would be
lecturer of the Posi- lies at the bottom of
his advice He has some axe to grind
which he fears will not be sharpened since
Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM's return Here 10
where the shoe pinches. 1t is manifest
from two grave falsehoods which he puts
forward with all the ease of a trained
abolition organ. He asserts that Mr.
MLLANDIeHAM was arrested by the adj
ministration to force his nomination upon
the democracy of Ono, Nobody better
knows this to be false than BURNSIDE him
self who ordered the arrest and at one
time undertook to prevent the nomination.
de next asserts that Mr.. VALLANpIeBAM
came home by the connivanee or permis-
sion Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN and not of his
own motion. This is lie of rare maeni-
tude, SO large in its proportions that no
abolition organ, no abolition congressman.
or stump orator has yet ventured upon it.
We can readily appreciate our lecturers
difficulty in believing that Mr.. VALLAN-
pIoHAM came home in defiance Of ABRAHAM
LINCOLN. Under similar circumstances
he would have remained in Canada until
he could have begged or bought pardon
from his gracious master, and he would
then have crawled to WAsHINGToN ON his
hands and knees TO bless his kind benefao,
tor. But let us assure him that, strange
as it may seem to a man of his composi
tion, Mr.. VALLANDIoHAM came home.
like true man, upon his own res sponsi
bility, and that he remains at home be.
cause the despot at WASHINGTON knows
that the democracy of the WEsr are made
of sterner stuff than some others he has
heard of.
We regret that the Democracy of
WESTERN Pennsylvania have no better
representative Of their views than the
PiTTsBURaH Post; and we do not wish
to be Understood as speaking Of Msm in
this c0nneStion. WO know the people Of
PENNSYLVANIA, and honor the courage and
fidelity to principle of the PENNsYLvAN1A
democracy. Nowhere has Mr.. VALLAx-