The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-21

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spect overreached themselves. They
have prescribed in advance the terms
upon which this convention must
meet, and these constitute the exact
basis and platform of the present
Copperhead Democracy. So that
every man that goes into that conven-
ton is advised in advance, that what
ever change of name he may undergo
he must subscribe Internationally to
the old "Copperhead creed. q
/ This "call is addressed to rebels
as well as Union men; the loyal men
who sustained the country. are not
specified, and Confederate officers and
soldiers are invited to take their seats
in convention in Philadelphia for the
purpose of settling the questions and
consequences growing out of the re-
bellion in which they have just been
defeated. Fr.a
This new party is to be dubbed the
National Union party. ~ E
But according to the doctrines en-
tertained by the men who promise to
form it, there is no nation, there is no
united indivisible American people.
They and their predecessors for forty
years have advocated the dogma that
our Government is mere compact,
mere Confederacy of States, ofsover-
eign and independent States, each of
which, according to the Kentucky and
Virginia resolutions, which have long
formed the corner stone of the Dem
ocratic creed, had a right to judge of
the infraction of the Constitution as
well as the remedy, and to remain in
or withdraw from the confederation
according to its own will. They held
that we were not one nation, but as
many nations as States, bound to-
gether in copartnership by an article
called the Constitution, and which
might be dissolved at pleasure.
As to the Union, there would be
none if the Democratic party of the
North had not been defeated at the
polls, and the Democratic party of the
South had not been defeated upon the
field of battle; and it will be a curious
sight to see Confederate officers and
members of the rebel Con-
gress, guerrillas, Northern Democrats
and ''Sons of Libery" sit down to-
gether in council in Philadelphia, and
resolve that they constitute the Ma
tionai Union party devise measures
for future protection, and make plas-
ters for the wounds inflicted by the
rebellion. 1000 le1lsf9H ln9sBIt
History records that lawless army
once resolved that the earth and the
fullness thereof belonged to the saints,
and then resolved that they were the
saints" s.
HIGH TAXES.
Every Democratic orator and news.
paper agonizes upon the subject of
high taxes. They dwell pathetically
upon the oppression of the people,
and pretend to thank God that the
Democratic party has no responsible
ity in the matter. But, how stands
the great fact? These high taxes, one
and all, were levied by the Demo-
cratic party. That party is the author
and creator, absolutely, of the great
debt which now rests upon the coun-
indeed, by direct legislation,
but by bringing upon the country the
terrible necessities out of which it
has grown. Had it not been for the
assurances given by the Democratic
party of the North to the people of
the South, that no resistance would
be offered to secession, and that the.
and, the people of the
North would be held still while the
work of establishing Southern Con-
federacy should be perfected, the re-
bellion never would have been under
taken. This is an historical truth as 4
well established as the fact that Wash
ington lived, or that Columbus dis
covered America. The blood, the
wasted treasure, the happiness of
families destroyed, the untold suffer-
ing of this dreadful war, rest upon the
party which deluded Southern rebels
with the belief that they might prose
cute their schemes of secession and
secure from all resistance.
But suppose that, after the war be-
gan, all parties had united in support
ing the Government, filling up the
armies and prosecuting the war to
successful conclusion. how long, / ask,
could it have lasted? Certainly not
more than two years; probably not
more than one. Now that it is over
and the internal history of the rebel
lion is laid bare, we know that the
last two years of the struggle existed
entirely upon hopes of relief and vic /
tory from the success of the Demo
cratic partyin the North. They had,
friends and correspondents In every
Northern neighborhood. They were
in receipt of all our newspapers, and
were thus perfectly informed Of every
political movement in our midst, and
of the tendency of public sentiment
They were assured by, every, Demo-
cratic speaker Of sympathy and sup
port, and strengthened blythe declar-
alton that the Dem ocracyli everywhere
recognized the war as wicked and un77
constitutional on our part, and would,
when it came into power, withdraw
our armies and acknowledge the Con-
tederacv gret3 fst-t4eI D1.sk