Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-23
The COpperhead District Platform.

The Copperhead District Platform.
H.
We resume, from yesterdays Daily,
our analysis and test of the resolutions
adopted on the Goth inst. By the District
Convention Of the Copperhead party.
We there left of with an examination Of
resolution s. We now proceed to dis
sect
20. That we are in favor Of the Union
Of the States as il existed from the be-
ginning, and we favor an immediate re-
sort to peaceful measures, believing that
our national difficulties can be c0mpro-
missed, but that the Union cannot be pre-
served by the arbitrament Of the sword "
The only persons who are trying 10 de-
stroy the "Union Of the States as it
existed from the beginning" are the reb-
els now ia arms against the constituted
authorities. Nobody else is endeavoring
to destroy that Union. The Govern
meut--the Administration, if you please
lis doing all in its power to preserve
that Union. Yet the men who adopted
the resolutions under consideration are
moving the heavens and the earth to de-
feat the purpose of the authorities to save
the Union, while, at the same time, they
give all the laid and comfort that it is
possible for them to give, to the rebels
in arms, who seek to destroy ''the Union
of the States as it existed IRON the
beginning" And yet these partizan je-
suits, who profess one thing and practice
another, have the hardihood to pass
resolution proclaiming their own iucon
sisteney, and telling a deliberate and
palpable lie, for the purpose of deceiv-
ing the people and gaining political pow
err in order that they may aid in the de-
struetion of the old Union and the es-
adjustment Of an indefinite number of
minor Confederacies. Can partizau de-
pravity 20 lurtherf
1--WE favor an immediate resort to
peaceful measures
Who prevents On immediate resort to
peaceful measures ?" Not the Admin.
istration, for it is doing all it can to com
pei an observance Of the laws and to
bring about peace on the only substan.
tial and enduring foundation, viz. a re-
cognition of the fact that the minority
must submit to the decision of the ma
jority, aud Of the further fact that tbs
laws must be obeyed and the Con
stitution observed by our whole people
else our governmental system will de
generate into anarchy.
Il is not the loyal people who proven
"an immediate resort to peaceful meas
ures,' for they submit quietly to the laws
and abide in good faith by the provis
ions of the Constitution, and only ask
and insist that the people of the rebei
States shall do the same.
1t is the rebels who prevent IAN i'm.
mediate resort to peaceful measures, .
for all they have to do to stop the effu
sioa of blood and to bring down the Whit.
winged angel of Peace to our unhappy
land, is to return to their allegiance, OBJ
serve the provisions of the Constitution
and obey the laws made under it. Let
them do this and there will be peace, and
not before. 1.-THE Copperheads wish to
denonnee the real peaee-breakers and
those who are responsible Cor the con-
tinuance ofthe war, let them fall ON the
rebels with the weight of their wrath,
and not on the Government which is striv-
ing for legitimate peace, nor on the low
al people who are backing up the Execu.
tive in its righteous attempt to preserve
the Union and conquer peace from the
traitors in arms.
Believing that our national difhcu!.
ties can be compromised, -
Compromise compromise, is the
iucessant cry of the sympathizers with
the rebels. As if any government can
compromise with traitors in arms. Does
any nation ever do it? Can any nation
DO 1t and retain the respect of the world
ana exercise any authority over its citi-
sens2 Suppose the Government of the
United States were to make PROPOSE.
tons for compromise while its yery ex.
lstenee IS threatened by armed rebellion.
What would be the respOnse7 In les,
than three days Lee, perceivinr tbis ev.
idenee of weakness, would bs thunderinr
at the dsfenses of Washington, and The
loyal States would be threatened all
along the border. Rebellion would gath
er fresh courage, believing the Gov
eminent to be getting discouraged and
the people of the North to &c waxing
faint-hearted.
The only compromise" is for the reb-
els to return to their allegiance and to
obey the laws as the loyal people do.