The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-04
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to be going against the Republicans
that z the result would yionlg aprovei
!" blessings in disguise y to- that or
ganization The rema5R now appears
to have been prophetic. tThe tempo
rary success then : achieved by the
Democrats made them 50 - mad with
ioyn, that they have lheen1eenmitting
the emost ridiculous uekcesses lever
since, andlthese exeesses may be turn
ed to advantage by the Republicans.
In New York the Democratic party
charged the Republicanswith extrav-
aganee in administering the State and
National Governments, and promised
great economy if. the, people would
trust the management of affairs in
their hands. The people took the
party at its Word and gave tia large
majority at the polls. What is the
consequence? The Democratic Legis-
lature have nearly doubled the num-
Der of clerks and other attaehees of
that body, and appropriated half a
nlilgiial of dollars, ostensibly for the
relief Of, the papper Democrats of
New York City. but in reality for
corrupt eleetioneering purposes.
+ In Ohio, the Democratic Legisla-
ture has been equally silly Instead
Of honestly carrying out pledges
made to the people during the can
Eass, that body has been devoting its
attention to resembling the States en-
dorsement of the Fourteenth Amend
ment-which is approved by large
majority of; the people of the State
and other legislation of like charac-
ter. These things have opened the
peoples eyes. The result is seen in
the election of iGen. iBEArTY, by
handsome majority, in district
which the Democrats felt confident
of carrying by large vote.
In Kentuc kyTwhere, of course,
nothing better could have been ex :
pected-the most insane and ineen-
diary legislation is enacted. Honors
are heaped upon hitherto disgraeed
rebels, and the grave is no protection
torgallant Union officers, whose mem
cries are blackened by defamation
and denunciation.
In Connecticut, the success of the
party last year has caused it to go be-
fore the people this year without dis
guise. Its State Convention, last
week. announced a platform of prin-
ciples in which, as the New York Her
aid remarks, we discover some
outcroppings of that old red sand
stone copperhead formation which, in
1863, completely upset from one
ocean to the other all the beautiful
Democratic calculations based upon
their victories of 1862.
The Connecticut Democracy of
1868 speak Of Congress as " the pres
ent 1so-called Congress- 1t charges
that body with having denied the
sovereign power of the States. .
They talk of the continued and
Increasing wickedness of this frac-
tional Congress- mourn over ." the
restitution of State sovereignty )"
harp about the domestic affairs of
other sovereignties, y and howl over
the illegal acts of dismembered
Congress" 51-} l.-sGel' -'ia
These phrases are so similar to those
used by the South Carolinians before
the war, that they must mean the
same thing. They mean that the
Government is subordinate to State
Sovereignty, and that, Congress be-
ing an " illegal body and all its acts
illegal, the people are justified in
setting aside everything which has
been done by that body since the
/ rebel States seeded therefrom.i These
EConnecticut resolutions would have
us conclude that the seeding States
were right in setting up hostile
Government, and that the peo-
| pie ofed tAeu Northern States com
/ mitted a great wrong in crushing that
organization In other words, the
| Connectiout Democracy fairly and
squarely range themselves on the side
of the idea suggested by Senator
! MORTON, chat the rebellion was not
sinful but right; that those engaged
i in it forfeited no rights, civil or po-
litieal. and have a right to take charge