Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-10-11
RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1866.
Raymond,s opinion of Democracy.


Henry ]. Raymond, having recently
circled out of his Copper-Johnson al
lance, is moving about vigorously on
the rear and flank of the Democratic
party in New York, dealing the most
unexpected blows and the most startling
thrusts at upguarded points, between the
Joints OF their harness, over their heads,
under their heels and in every imagin-
able place where he can cause them an
noyance or injury. The amusing part
of this performance is that the Demo
cratic party itself converted Raymond
into a boomerang, and furnished him with
the power which he is now using to their
detriment by making him leader Of their
coalition. Moreover, when the Republic
cans dropped the New York Times,
(Raymond's mouthpiece9 on account of
its apostacy, thousands Of Democrats
subscribed for it to help him along, and
they now find themselves savagely cut
up in their own paper.
Raymond still mildly dissents from
the Republicans in some things, so as
not to make it appear that he has taken
the back track with unbecoming haste;
but he attacks the Democracy with
whom he was so recently in close league
with the most vehement denunCiations.
In the Times of Friday last he says the
course of the Democracy in the rebellion
from which the country has just emerg-
ed will no sooner be forgotten than was
the notorious Hartford Convention after
the war of 1872. He adds:
att is idle to claim that the party did
not oppose the Government but only the
administration-that it was not aiding
the Rebellion but only regulating the
war waged against it, The people in
such emergencies, draw no nice distinc-
tions. They see the existence Of the
nation at stake and the Government
fighting to preserve it-those who help
the Government are it's friends-those
who do not are its foes. That is their
record and they must abide by it.
The record of the Democratic party
during the war is disloyal and unpatri-
otto. We speak not Of individuals, but
of the party in its organized action. Its
conventions, State and national-the
action of its epresentatives-thes speech
es of it's office holders and candidates,
the language Of its orators and its press
es, were all calculated and intended to
embarrass and cripple the Government
NOT to aid, support and strengthen it
in it's life and death struggle. The
Democratic party opposed the draft. 1t
denounced the arrest and imprisonment
of spies and sympathisers with treason
in the North. 1t made itself everywhere
the champion and defender of those who,
in the loyal States, sought to give aid
and comfort to the rebels in the South.
Vallandigham, in Ohio, was arrested,
tried and punished for dissuading sol
diers from enlisting, for encouraging de-
sertions, and for other fragrant violations
of the law, perpetrated in aid of the re-
bellion; and the Democratic party Of
that State not only denounced his pun
ishment as an act Of tyranny, but made
him the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor-thus distinctly espousing and in
dorsing his acts as their own. Governor
Seymour, in this State, wrote letter
declaring, in substance; that it was
more important to put down the Gov
eminent for it's treatment Of Vallandig
ham, than to put down the rebellion;
and the Democratic party made him
their governor. So it was everywhere.
The Democratic party, throughout the
North, in all it's party action, took
ground against the Government, and
practically and substantially in aid of
the rebellion"