Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-11-15
Tho Gazette and Tho. Democracy.

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The Cmclnaoii Gasciie Of Monday gives
the Democracy an airing while comment.
Ing on Judge Thurman's speech 70 the
Democrats Of Franklin County al meet.
Ing In Columbus on Saturday night Il,
says
Because the Democratic party was not
true 10 tho country II was driven from
power; and because " restored TO power Il
would undo ell that has been accomplished
by tho war; tho Government will not again
DO placed 10 It's hands. This we say In the
face OF the result Of tho late elections, A
party that IL led by men who kept up a
steady FIRE In the rear Of our arms while
struggling on the battlefield for their
country, can not be permanently successful
The people were dissatisfied with the Ad-
ministration OF 1862, aud tho Democrats,
under false protenscs, carried the cleo.
tons moro generally than In October and
November, 1867. The elections over,
they proved themselves tho same party
which, ia 1901, tried TO hand over the Gov.
ernment 10 the rebels. Meantime tho
Union party saw the errors which were
condemned by the people, corrected them,
aud, Ia 1863, the Democratic leaders were
driven TO their holes again. So II will be
between now aud November, 1868. The
work accomplished BY the successful war
for tho Union, cannot be undone.
Asa leader Of the Democratic party,
Judge Thurman is handled by the Gasetts
In this wise;
Indefinite aSJudge Thurman aims 10 be
as to the future policy of his party, he
says enough to indicate what may be ex-
pecied IL he should succeed Ia leading the
Democratic party into power. That organ.
izaiion, he contends, has been right all
through the last seven years. II was right
When his own resolution, adopted on the
A23d day Of January, 1861, sent greeting
to the rebels 10 the name Of 200 900 Dem.
Iocrafs of Ohio that coercion waa uncon.
kstitutional and would be opposed by the
democratic party OF the North. II was
Tight when enlistments were discouraged;
when descrtions from the army were 70
commended; when the credit Of the ma
ton was assailed; when the Government
was embarrassed at every step; when rebel
armies were encouraged to invade the
North to help in the elections; when rsb.
|els were courted and fed on Injuries and
Union soldiers were denounced as Lincoln
lhirelIngs. 1t was right when one of its
'pers sent bullet through the head
Of the President Of the United States;
II was right when II rejoiced over
rebel victories and the slaughter of Union
soldiers; when it denounced the emancipa-
ton proclamation; when it opposed the
al ming of negroes TO help fight our battles;
when it advocated the Immediate admis-
sion Of red handed rebels into Congress
and the restoration to power in the seced-
cd States of the men who carried those
States, through fraud and misrepresenta-
ton, into the rebellion. In all these
things, according to Judge Thurman,
the Democratic party was right.
Do the people think so? Are the cleo
tons to be taken as an Endorsement Of the
cause of the Democratic party during the
war? BY no means.
The Union party erred 10 some things
during last year, as il erred in 1862; there
fore the PEOPLE have warned it. This
warning will be needed, and in 1868 the
great party which drove the Democratic
party from power because OF its treachery
and saved the Union, will sweep the States
as it did in 1868. Let not Judge Thur.
man console himself with the idea that the
people IN the late elections Endorsed him
aud bis party, andthat they are now ready
to hand over the Government, which was
saved in spite OF him and his party, to the
control Of the latter.
l 1t will be observed that Judge Thur
man advises the followers to forgive these
who supported the war for the Union,
But who prove themselves right now by
joining the Democratic party. This is
generous; but it will hardly be appreciated
by the loyal men who labored to put down
the enemy in the front, while they we're
persisiently pelted by the Democratic
party from the rear.