Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-11
Democratic Harmony.

Democrass-is being waged with in
creasing bitterness and determination.
The Tammany men feel that they were
swindled eby the "Peace" men in the
late State Convention that appointed
delegates to the Copperhead National
Convention, which proposes to desecrate
the next Fourth of July at Chicago, and
manifest an unwillingness to submit to
the swindle. The Sunday Mercury, a
paper of large circulation, extensive in
huence, and remarkable ingenuity in
coming falsehoods calculated to injure
the Administration in the estimation Of
the people, calls loudly for another deal
of the cards 1t says the triumph of the
Democracy in 1862 is to be attributed to
the fact that they stood upon war plat
form. Governor Seymour was elected,
it urges, upon the ground that the Ad-
ministration was imbecile in the man
agement of its affairs, and was not Wig,
orously prosecuting the war. On the
other hand, it maintains, further, that
the overwhelming defeat of the party in
1868 is attributable to the fact that the
leaders of the Peace Democracy-the
Vallandighams, the Voorheeses, the Tom
Seymours, and the Woods-got control
Of the organization, and put the party
in q false attitude. In ell the great
States the Democracy had, 'through the
openly avowed sympathies of some of its
leaders for Vallandigham and his peace
heresies, became tainted acith treason. F"
The language is the Mercuy's. The
same defeat awaits us this year, argues
the Mercury, unless the. leaders Of the
Democracy make the Peace Democratic
element in each Of the States, take back
seat, and follow, not lead, in the ensuing
campaign.
But the language Of the Mercury is so
decided as to what the War wing of the
Democracy ought to do in New York,
that we copy it for the benefit of some
of our Democratic friends, lest-their
organ failing to publish it-they may nst
have correct idea as to what is going
on in their own party. After speaking,
as We have quoted above, the Mercury
proceeds as follows:
We have been led to these views by
the cowardly conduct of the late Demo.
cratic Convention, held at Albany-se
verelv condemned in our last issue-and
by the present honest and patriotic atti-
tude of the War Democracy of this city
The Tammany organization hold the
cards to win the game in this State il
they had the leaders, the nerve and the
pluck to live up to their professions in
favor Of vigorously prosecuting the war
in opposition to the Ben. Wood peace
theories; and if they should promulgate
call for State Convention to meet al
Albany, to elect War Democrats to Chi
cago, in favor Of the nomination of Gen
Mcclellan, or some other prominen
War Democrat-and not secretly pledg
ed to the support of Horatio Seymou
and the Peace Democracy, as are th,
Regency Delegates, they would com
mand the sympathies and support of th'
Democratic masses. The Douglas
Democrats of the North may re
member the conduct of the Albany Re
gency managers at the Charleston Con
vention, in 1860 1t is well known tha
they were then ready to throw Dougla
overheard, and anxious to support Sey
mour (if he had had any chance for tn
nomination), or Guthrie, or anybod
else they might be able to drive a sue
cessful bargain with, as to the dispositio
of the spoils. We prognosticate this
this will again occur at Chicago in Jul
next, if the War Democracy of hi
State do not take the matter out of th
hands of Horatio Seymour and the A
bany Regency, by calling a Conventio
of their own, and sending thirty-for
Delegates from the Congressional Di
tricts of this State, known as War, an
not Peace Democrats, and pledged
give expression to the well known pre-
erences of the Democracy of the Sta
iu favor of Mcclellan.
+. The platform proposed at recel
: meeting Of the General Committee
, the New York Democracy (reported
another column by Hon Theodore
Tomlinson-whose eloquent voice We
stihed in the late Albany Convention
the Vaccinations of that great agitat,
to keep the party in the minority-Jol
> McKeon-would seem to be one tn
must be entirely acceptable to the D
= mocracy. 1t is the only one, at any raj
upon which the Democrats can stand t
8 ghost of chance for success; and t
best thing that Tammany Hall can do
to plant itself at once upon it. Let t
y great war meeting to be held at the O
st Wigwam tomorrow night be the inaug
ration of a movement that is destined
place the Democratic party on patrio
grounds, and smash the Albany Regen
machine to atoms.