The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-01
The nolitioal friends of the Union are MOI

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tilted, every day, to witness Its silly course
in provoking comment upon subjects 1t ougn'
n have discretion enough to avoid
We will now merely allude to a few OF It's
reckless and untruthful statements in one ar
ticle, on Saturday. Referring to the demo-
cratic party. the Union says ''they claim the
war to have been failure" They never
claimed any such thing, and he who makes
the assertion knows it. The Union also says
''they 1.-THE democratic partyl urged an ar
mistice for the purpose Of negotiating an an
glorious peace and hunabling the nation ."
sioht of the sohole vorld" This is falshood
90 monssrous that the bare statement of it is
enough to stamp its author as willful and
malicious liar.
Referring to Mr.. Lincoln he says ne
changed not his policy" Such reckless state
ments naturally provoke exposure, and Mr..
Liucolu's political friends may we'll ask to be
spared from such injudicious defenders as the
Union. Mr.. Lincoln's policies were changed
just as often as pressure" enough was
brought to bear-and that was pretty often.
It is only necessary to refer to one instance,
now: He gave the best reasons In the world,
to the Chicago committee, for not issuing the
emancipation proclamation, and then, before
the ink was hardly dry on their report, he
issued it. The result proves just what he
predicted before he issued it it was "bull
against the comet" It!never freed slave
and never will. Slavery viii be abolished by
the constitutional amendment.
Referring to Judge Douglas, the Union says
"Ae repudiated has party" and leaves the
reader to infer that he went over to the ad-
ministration party. There was never more
unmitigated falsehood. There was never any
difference of opinion between Judge Douglas
and the democratic party. His course and
that of the democratic party were Identical
on every question. Both supported the war,
Both supported Mr.. Lincoln's administration
in every measure while Judge Douglas lived,
and the democratic party continued its sup
port during the first year and nearly through
the second year of the administration. Judge
Douglas, died on the Sd of June 186l-only
two months after Mr.Lincoln was inaugural
ed Had he lived his course toward the ad-
ministration would have been the same
as that of the democratic party. He
would have opposed its partizan course, its
corruptions, and its unlawful assumptions of
power-snd supported the war. The demo-
cratic party has done that from the begin
ming to the end.
The democratic party has made no record
it wishes to change. It's course has been one
of the highest patriotism and devotion to the
country. If any man or number of men, who
claimed to be democrats, have been unpatri-
otto, the party is not responsible for their acts.
The party, as a party, by an immense major
ity, has been true to its principles and true
to it's country. Its record is one of constant
devotion to the Union, the Constitution, and
the Laws. 1t has generously and effectively
supported the administration in carrying on
the war, from the beginning to the end,-and
without its support the war could not have
been carried ON three months. 1t has, with
a magnanimity unparalleled in the history of
parties, given hearty and effective support
to every measure of the administration to
preserve the Union, and enforce the Constitu-
tion and the laws.
We beg the malignants not to give them
selves any uneasiness about the democratic
party. Its record is proud one-a record
of unselfsh devotion to the whole country,
and one 1t has no desire to change 1t repu
dates the false men of its own organic alton
as deci iedly as it does those of any other,-
and it knows the difference between the ad-
ministration and the government. 1t stands
by the former, in what it conceives to be right
it stands by the latter always.