New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-28

Uoratyo Seymour Of this State privately argued
that New York should likewise unite with that
Confectionery whose head was Jefferson Davis
II was held by leading Democrats that the
Union might thus be reconstructed without
! bloodsbed or conyulsion-Only New-England
and perhaps two OF three of the more fanatlcal
States of the North West, being excluded there
| from, as unacceptable to our Southern Dreth-
| rem
X Actual hostilties were commenced by the
Rebels-not by firing on Fort Sumter, as is
often asserted, and as Pollard now pretends
but months before, while Mr.. Buchanan was
vet President They seized and appropriated
the forts, arsenals, armories, ordnance, arms,
munitions, custom-houses, post-Ofiices, sub
treasures, &C., throughout nearly half the
| Union, without O shadow of resistance-hls
Democratic Secretaries Of War and the Treas
ury being conspicuous, active Disunionists, and
he himself, with most of his cOunselors, play
things in their hands. Before Texas was out OF
the Union, according to Rebel computation, the
bulk of our little army had been betrayed by
| its commander, Gen. Twiggs, and sur
rendered to three Rebel C0mmissioners-FeD.
! 18th, 1914 fortnight before Mr. Buchanan
went out of office. If ever Government for
bore till smitten on both cheeks, and till to-
bacco-juiee had been spit into its eyes, that
did the Federal Government before graphing
with the Shareholders Rebellion. And yet,
| from first to last, the Democratic Journals ana
| canvassers represented the War for the Union
as waged by Mr.. Lincoln and the Republicans,
and assumed that the Rebels were assailed and
standing on the defensive
! Y. Democratic protests and remOnstrances
public and private, against the War as cruel
| fratricidal, wicked, revolving, abhorrent &cv
&C., were abundant throughout the struggle
| not one of them, so far as we can recollect, ad-
dressed to the Rebel chiefs, but all assuming
that Mr.. Lincoln and the Republicans were
waging hostilities needlesIy if not wantonly,
and might have an honorable peace whenever
they would Thopas II. Seymour of Connecti-
cut was the author of one of the earliest OF
these paralyzng missives and he was nomlna-
ted by reclamation by the Democrats OF Con-
necticut as their candidate for Governor III 1858,
and his election enthusiastically supported by
the party.
II. In this City, one of our Democratic jour
nails. The Daily Ners, was an open, unquall-
fled contemner of the War on our side and
champion of the Rebellion from first to last.
Union armies. eulogzed the Rebel chiefs, and
proclaimed that they could never be subdued
Systematically magnified their successes and de-
MED or belittled their reverses; and was well
understood to be their stipendiary and tool. In
full view of these facts, its editor was IN 1852
made the regular Democratic candidate for Con-
grcss in one of our strong Democratic districts,
running on the same ticket with Gov. Seymour
and receiving nearly the full vote of his party;
and he has since been chosen 10y that party to a
seat in our State Senate
NIL As to the propositions, speeches, acts
| and votes of Vallandigham, Bayard, Bright,
MAY, JOSH Allen Jack. Rogers, and other
Democrats in Congress- including Benz u.
IIarris's vaunt that the Rebellion never could
nor ought to be put down, we leave them to
Mr. Ashley or whoever shall see fit to answer
MessIs Winfield and Hunter not according to
their folly. Just a word, however, to the form
or of these gentlemen. One of the very fore
most Democrats in his district is (or was) Gen.
Archibald c. Niven, who, very early in the
war; wrote a letter to nephew who
meditated enlistment to fight for the Union,
urging him not to do so, and representing the
! War Oh our side as cruelty oppressive and I'M
just That letter was published and thereupon
! Cen Niven was made the Democratic candi-
date for Senator Tin Mr.. Winfelds precise dis
tric) and received the full Democratic vote, by
which he was returned elected; but the Senate,
Oh a contest, gave the seat to his Republican
competitor, Judge Low
We might multiply such facts to infinity;
but need WEI Suffice it that, as theyresult OF
most anxious, intent contemplatiORof the
history of our great struggle, we do most UNI
doubtngy believe that the Democrats, as a
party, were not at heart for the Union in its
terrible struggle with Secession-that they did
not rejoice at its triumphs nor deplore its de-
| feats. We do not say that majority of them
wished the Union permanently dissOlved we
know, and have often stated, that they did
not but they believed that Union defeats and
disasters would dscredlt and destroy the Repub-
lican ascendancy and that they would there
upon come into power and coax the Rebels
back into the Union by all manner of
concessions and prostratOns to the Slave Power
! They had no notion that the Union could (or
should) be saved otherwise than bytletting the
shareholders have their way in it; and the road
victories but the contrary.
Firmly grounded in this conviction, are we at
liberty to proclaim itY Do we deserve to be
knocked down and stamped on whenever we
say what we believed or only to be branded as
larsq What say you, Messrs. Winfield and
Hunter!
| FREE TRADE BULLYING.
| The EUening Post parades a lot of figures ar
ranged to show that the Tariff bill now before