New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-30
A TALK WITH DEMOCRATS.

The Democrats of our State are invited 70
choose one DELEGATE from each Assembly Dis
trict to a State Convention which viii assemble
at Albany on the oath prox. to choose seventy
Delegates from our State to their next National
ConventiOn--in other words, TO inaugurate the
Presidential canvass of 1864. This then, seems
fit opportunity for few Voras Of WELDON
sidered, earnest counsel.
We have some thousands OF readers who ae-
count themselves members of the Democratic
party. The logic-very bad, in our view
whereby many Of them Justify such adhesion
runs thus: 1.-The Democratic is the popular
party-the party of the countryside party
which will DO in power al least two-thirds OF
the time--it commits mistakes and is led
into errors like other parties; but. after all. u
is patriotic party; its instincts are right; and
il is better TO stick TO II and help to work it of
Such logic as this-mistaken as it seems to us
retains thousands in its ranks who dissent from
very much that it has affirmed and done.
In the Autumn of Is62, the country threw
itself into the hands of this party. Connecticut,
it was claimed, was carried by Il: while New
York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Wisconsin ION the Home vote
rallied TO its standard II seemed as though
every thing was going Democratic.
Another year passed, and all was changed.
why! What induced so sudden and general a
yevulsion ? We answer,
TIL, Democratic party uSed The poser thus 70
stored 10 il ~ such manner as 10 GJd and encourage
The traitor DispmiORists--hs enemies Of orr conn
try. This suited great many Democrats; but
it aggrieved and alienatcd others. The first
Messages Of Cows. Seymour and Parker; the
Peace demonstrations in tho Legislatures Of
New-Jersey aud Illinois; the nominations Of
r. III. Seymour, Woodward, and Vallandigham
the Four,h-ol-July orations of Frank Pierce and
HoratiO Seym0ur-thesc, and many more such,
alarmed and Disguised tens Of thousands, who
wanted to vote Democratic a. their fathers did
Davis and Disunion. Hence the discomGture
Of the Democrats in the elections Of all the loyal
States for l8GS-Ncw-Jersey excepted.
Shall these lessons pass unheeded2 Will you
run your heads viciously against stone wall
There were not three Democrats, fit for Justice
Of the Peace in Connecticut, who could have
lost the State last Spring, yet one Of these was
nominated for Governor. There was just one
man in Ohio who could have been beaten ont of
human shape in running as Democratic candi-
date for Governor of that State; yet that man
was nominated. How much more of this will
be enough
The Democratic party might have been domi-
nant in most Free States to-day. II had only
to refuse TO commit suicide. Just as the Repub-
lican Administration Of Madison would have
broken down during the War of 1912, had il
not been upheld by the mad folly of the Hart
ford Convention FedeTalists, so the Republican
Administration of 1861 would have broken
down but for the similar conduct Of its oppo-
nents.
War is wasteful, burdensome, eracting. Al
most everybody wants to get out Of It so soon
as may be. People hate to pay heavy taxes,
and stand conscriptions, and roll up enormous
debts. An overloaded man always likes to shift
his load frequently from one shoulder to the
other. There is always prOdigality, and ra-
pacity, and rascality, evinced in the manage.
ment of great war; and an Opposition that
stands firmly by the country while resisting its
rulers is morally certain to rise in popular favor
If, now, the Democratic party chooses 10 be
led by It's Vallandighams and T. II. Seymours
in The Presidential contest at hacd. it may read