The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-19

CONGRESSMAN, which he helped to
procure. and who publicly and pri-
vately at once undertook to make that
defeat a weapon against Ohio's favor
tie son, George III. Pendleton."
The Democracy of Ohio expect the
New York World to attend to its own
business. We do not recognize that
paper as the mouth piece Of the
Democratic party Of the Union IF
the cowardly time-serving and venal
counsels Of such papers as the New
York World had not been repudiated
and scorned By the Democracy of the
Great West in times past, we would
have had no Democratic organization,
other than a mere demoralized ban
ditti, bound together only BY the CO.
hesive power Of public plumber.
i Be- We hope the Democratic press of
Ohio In response to the exhortation
of the World, in regard to the man
DER 1of dealing with Mr.. Vallandig-
ham will heHcefoEth show no tender
ness in dealing with the New York
World, whose base treaehery in this
whole natter is apparent in the fact
that 1t Is VIGOROUSLY opposed to the
nomination of George Ii. Pendleton
or any other WesterR man for the
Presidency.
It's purpose is at once malignant
and treacherous-to destroy the iDfiu :.
ence Of Vallandigham, and to defeat
the nomination of PendletOn-and
yet the proprietors Of that paper have
the effrontery to ask support from
the Democracy of Ohio, and the i'm
pudence to tell what is expected of rs.
We can tell the World what the
Democracy of the Union may expect
of us. They can expect, first of all
what they seek 10 vain for IN the
columns of the New York World
unfaltering fidelity TO the principles
and organization Of the Democratic
party. They may expect our adhe-
renee and support in every effort to
restore the Union under the COnstl
tuition, and in all measures designed
to protect the great wealth-producing
and labOring interests of the country
against the rapacity and willy strata
gems of those who seek to live with
out labor. consume without produc-
ing, and to fill all public places with
out deserving them. They may ex-
pect Of US, at the same time, the re-
pudiation of that whole brood of
coWardly and Venal tricksters who
have no other appreciation of the
Democratic organization than as a
means to secure the honor and emolu-
ments of office, and the plumber Of
partial legislation.
Ifit shall unfortunately become APP
parent to the Democracy of Ohio and
of the West that the principles for
which we have struggled are to be
betrayed, and the men who have been
faithful to them repudiated; if the
vital interests of this, the seat of
American empire, are to be sacrificed
TO the rapacity and exactious of those
who wish to administer the Govern
ment In the interests of a class, and
not Of the people, it may as well be
Understood first as last that the
Deraocratic party in the West will
not lend itself to the accomplishment
of such purposes.
The WOrId claims that Mr.. Vallan-
digham helped to procure the defeat
of Colonel Burns. This is false-it
is as false as it would have been had
Mr.. Vallandigham been In Fort War
rem, where Colonel Burns and the
New York Verdi would have been
glad to have had Lincoln send him
In 1863. Colonel Burns was asking
the support of Democrats, who voted
for Vallandigham in 1863, when he
voted for Brough and who felt disap-
pointed, moreover, that those Demo
Gratis who syInpathIzed with Col. Burns, |
and the New York World, had Just |
succeeded IL defeating Vallandigham
for United States SenabaR IN place of |
Ben. Wade, who had been denounc- |
ing him all over Ohio, at the proceed |
ing election, as a convicted traitor |
and an aspirant for his place. The |
Democrats of Colonel Burns's Dis |
trict, however, like true Democrats |
elsewhere, came to his support man- /
fully as the regular nominated candi- |
date of the Democratic convention; I
unlike Colonel Burns, however, il t
the Gubernatorial campaign OF 1863, |
which did more to Vindicate the pluck /
and manhood of the Democratic par
ty than any election that ever trans /
pired In the United States.
Besides all this, Gen. Beatty flank
ed Gen. Burns OF the bond question
"a question upon which the New
York World affects total blindness in
looking to the causes of Col Burns's
defeat, and In Its anxiety to implicate /
Mr.. Vallandigham active completely.
But again--the World patronizing-
ly speaks of Mr.. Pendleton as Ohio's
favorite son--and yet there is not a
man anywhere in the United States
the World 10 more anxious to defeat
for Presidential nomination than
George III PAndletOn With sinister /