The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-19
Is the Democratic Party Loyal"

- $500
The New York Tribune, In a recent is
sue, declared that the Democracy were
never heartily and earnestly In favor Of
the recent war wnged on the Southern
states. whcrcupon a certain journal, called
the World, which pompously proclaims
itself 'thc foremost Democratic organ in
New York, p%ronounces such n statement a
SANDER upon the patriotism Of the DEM
ocratic party" The Tribune returns to.
the subject and, in reply, makes some adj
missions, which we desire our readers to
note. The editor says:
ave do not doubt that Mr.. ~Nallaudigham,
Col. T. II. Seymour, Judge Black u Cor
love and mean to serve their country.
What we believe, and have tried to
show. Is, that the Democrats held n
theory of Federal authority aud of State
rights, and had been schoolcd In Otion of
the rights of Slavery and the wrongs Of
a~nti-Slavery, which rendered them In
cvitably sympathlzers, In a large measure,
with the Shareholders Rebellion. Wehold
the famous Virginia aud Kentucky resolves
Of l79S and 1893 TO be me germ Of that Re
Jeiiion. aud their repeated Enforcement by
the tcholo Democratic party, North ana
South. i'm National Conventions, to have
weakened and crippled their power 70 re-
sist Secession aud its consequences. That
they loved the Union, II wished TO save
Cor ~restOre) IL, we have not questioned;
but they had no faith In It otherwise than
by letting the Shareholders have their will
Of it,"
On this the Day BOOK thus pertlneutly
and truthrully comments: aside
from certain forms of expression, we
regard the above rs a very candid
and fair statement Of the whole
controversy and, SO far from its impugu-
ing the patriotism of the gentlemen men
toned, or of those in the Democratic party
who thought as they did, IL forms the very
highest compliment that could be paid
them. The question, In 1861, narrowed down
was simply this: shall the Union remain
as il is, or shall It b. changed to what Mr..
GREELEY and the Abolitionists say It oughi
10 beP' As a matter OF Jact, there never
was any contest about the Union, per Sc,
The Southern States loved and desired the
Union p .~rpctuatcd, as il ,Vos, and asked OF
Mr.. LINCOLN to pledge himself to this.
Nothing more. The A%bolitionists had no
objection to the Union, if it were only
made as they declared it ought TO be-
THE pertinent question, then, is,-Was II
patriotic to 90 in with the Abolitionists,
and aid them in subverting the old Union
in other words, make it MS GARRISON and
WENDELL PHLLIPs said 1T ought to be- or
was it patriotic to sympathize with those
struggling to resist its overthrow, so far rs
it applied to their own States! The De-
mocracy of the North had been educated
into the belief that the Federal Government
was one OF delegated powers, rs laid down
in the Virgi MIA and Kentucky Resolutions.
These are now denounced as the germ OF
the Rebellion though one set We're drawn
by the same hand that drafted the Federal
Constitution, and the other by the man who
wrote the Declaration of Independence! l.
it not amazing audacity hat dares to tell
the American people that JAMES MADISON
and THOMAS JEFFERSON were the real au-
thors of what is called the late rebel
liong' If these men did not understand the
theory and intent of our Government, who
OIL earth may be supposed to hayeevcr pos
sesscd any knowledge of it? :"