The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-24
A Little OF the Record.

The Courier says we are slandering
JACOB MILLER, its candidate; fo1
Sheriff, and doing McCLELLAN, NIB
LACK, WHITTLEsEY, MCBRIDE, and
the rest of the Democratic party
great injustice in charging them with
opposition to the war and the SOL
diers, and calling them Copperheads
And yet it is prepared to defend the
whole record of the Democracy
during the war. 1t will be we'll,
therefore, to give our readers a few
extracts from that record, and re-
fresh their memories on some points
which time and the present temper of
the Democracy might cause them to
forget.
First, we quote from the Demo-
cratic National Platform of 1864,
adopted at Chicago, which the Con-
rier says we have misguided:
Resolved, That this Convention
does explicitly declare, as the sense of
the American people, that, after four
yed,s of failure 10 restore the Union by
The experiment Of a0or, during which,
under the pretense of military neces-
sity or war power higher than the
Constitution, the Constitution itself
has been disregarded in every part,
and public liberty and private right
alike trodden down, and the material
prosperity of the country essentially
impaired, justice, humanity, liberty,
and the public acelfdre demand that
IMMEDIATE EFFORTS BE
MADE FOR A CESSATION OF
HOSTILITIES, with a view to an
ultimate convention of all the States.
or other pedceable means, to the end
that at the earliest practicable mo-
ment peace may be restored on the
basis of the Federal Union of the
States.
That sounds very much like the
Copperheads, who assembled in 1864,
were of the opinion that the war
was failure" and that they were
anxious for an immediate cessation
of hostilities." So understanding
their purposes, the loyal North placed
upon them the seal of condemnation.
Are the Democracy of Vanderburgh
bold enough to defend these declara-
tons now?
But to come little nearer home.
The Democratic District Convention
which met in Princeton in 1864, pass
ed the following resolutions. intro-l
duced by A. T. WHITTLEsY, and en-
dorsed in a speech by Col. CHARLES
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: That the new call of Abraham
Lincoln for fue hundred thousand
more of the laboring men of this COM
try IS unreasonable, and IF enforced
neustresut IN serious injury to our pro
ducttre resources. 70 M - 49, q.
~ That we are In favor of the Union
OF the States. asait existed prior to
the beginning of the war, and IN ia
cor Of an immediate resort to peaceful
measures, 6elieuing that oar national
difficulties can be compromised, buti
that The Union can not be preserved by
the arbitrament ofthe s,0ord.pi lTow u
This convention nominated w. E.
iNIBLACK for Congress. This gentle
man, in his canvass, took the following
position.
IF L am elected TO Congress I piH
nerer cote to draft any man into the SER
rice; and If 1 aoere your Representa-
tie no,o, I aoould vote to repeal the
present lao authorizing a draft"
" I soiUnot, If elected yoar Represen-
tatiUe, cote any more men or money an
der any circumstances, for the proseca-
ton of the aoar under the policy Upon
aohich 1t IS conducted"
Upon this platform he received the
enthusiastic support of JACOB MILLER
and other opponents of the war and
the soldiers in Vanderburgh County.
Thus, the earnest purpose of the
Democracy at that. time, when the
soldiers were calling loudly for aid,
was plainly declared Has Mr.. JACOB
MULLER changed his views since then,
or does he call upon the soldiers and
loyal men to vote for him now, enter
tanning the same sentiments?
We have given above the platform
of principles of the Democratic party
of 1864, which the editor of the Cour-
Ter, is perhaps, himself so ready and
willing to defend. We have album