Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-08
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this very singular procedure a mere &C
cidsnt? Of all parties, the sso-callec
Democratic party would be the least
likely to nominate sectional ticket
we're there no especial reason for doing
80, because their whole stock in trade
against Fremont and Dayton, in 1886, /
and Lincoln aud Hsmlin, in 1860, was
that ell these nominees Of the Repabli-
can party we're from the Northern section
Of the Unioa. Would the selfs;yled |
Democracy thus staltify themselves il
.oue peculiar and foFeibIe reason did
not exist to Justify them in the minds OF
their own partisans2
We heard one OF them urge Is rsas-
on for this almost inexpIieabls course,
that the Slave States we're in rebellion,
and hence could not supply them can
didAtel We asked him whether Delaware
-Missosri, Kentucky, Maryland, or West
Virginia If be acknowledged the latter
to be Stats) had seeded. he said, No.
We then mentioned the names Of prom
inent "Demoerats" and conservatives
Ia those States who might have been
nominated for the Vice Presidency, and
asked him why one Of them soa no,
chosen. All be could say il reply was
that the Democracy did not aim to
please their opponents in nominating
ticket. We told him that they ought to
have consulted their own interest By
nominating a Na,ionA! instead Of
Sectional ticket
There is no lack Of eminent Copper
heads, as poisonous and Shiny and ser,
peutine as Pendleton, in the slave States
sdherIng to the Union. There are Me.srs,
Harris, Of Maryland; Salisbury, Of
Delaware; Garlic, Of Yves. Virginia
Garrett Davis, Cows WickliHe and Pow.
ell. and Guthrie, Of Kentucky; and Jno.
$. Phelps. Of Missouri. There ia Vice
Presidential timber IN this lis, sufficient
ly good Tor badl) to have chosea from
| Why was it not done2 0ae Of these
gentlemsn could doubtless have been
prevailed on, by hard cosxing, to &C
cspt the nomination. One Of them
James Gathrie-woulJ have been a
strong candidate. Why was he not nom
/ inated7
We can think Of only two reasons for
this strange transaction.
One is that PendIeton, the Aominee, Is
an ultra Peace man, has been so from
the start, never aided the Government
directly or indirectly, and was selected
by the Sons Of Liberty-whieh order
held a grand conclave during the sitting
Of the National Cousehlion-as their
candidate, in order 10 ease their fall in
not getting their Grand Commander aud
HFst observation-disclosures Presi-
dent Mcclellan was but their second
choice, aud they, assuming to dictate
the candidates, must be Modified BY tax.
ing their first choice for Vice President
The other reasonable great oyerahad-
owing one-we conceive to be this
The doctrine Of the Sons Of Liberty,
who are the soul and controlling power
Of the Copperhead organization, is that
secession Is fact as good as accom-
plished; that the rebels are lighting for
their rights; that the Government is
guilty OF tyrannyiu attempting to pre-
vent secession; that the Confederacy is
a separste and independent nation, and
ought TO be recognized as such With
this view, Of course il would not do to
enter into any "entaagling alliances
with a foreign country By taking Vice
President Of the Federal Union from
the States which have established their
independence, or even from those which
the rebels say will inevitably gravita's
into the Confectionery The "Democra-
ey' are preparing for recognition, aud
will not do anything to smbarrass them
selves in carrying out their designs, viz !;
|. The recognition of the Southern Con-
fedsracy. q The establishment Of a
Northwestern Confederacy, preparatory
to annexing il 20 the Southern Confed-
eracy, for the formation OF great slave
empire. Hence, to still further prepare
for the grand denouement, they took
both their sandidaies-McClellan and
Pendleton-from the Northwest Nc
Clsllan has at present nominal resi-
dence in New York, but Immediately
before the war he lived in Illinois, and
previous 70 that in Ohio. He is a sort
| Of rsripatssic resident, like the Whisky
Row aenizens that our opponents vote
against Us at every election. Their
home is wherever they happen to be at
the time They are cosmopolitsns
Mcclellan is more identified with the
West than he is with New York, ten
times over, and is really Western man
By the formation OF this sectional
ticket, the Copperheads, considering
their former denuueiations of sectional
tickets" substantially acknowledge the
Independence of the Southern Conf,d-
eracy 50 far as their action can do it
Had there not existed plan 10 separate
.he South from the North, they would
have been very far from taking both
candidates from one section There is
a secret and reasonable design in their
: action.
Look at the contrast afforded by the
action Of the Union Convention which
nominated Abraham Lincoln from the
Northwest for President, and Andrew
Johnson from the Southwest for Vice
President No recognition of secession
there No seetioDaiismi It is Ma