Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-02-21

known as war democrats. ne bnFAs1
1t the hstarodox and emaseulatsd plat
form with Its quasi endorsement of
the late civil war is well made. The
statement that Mr.. Jewett refused to
support the regular nominee of the
Demo5Tacy in 1853, will not add TO that
gentleman's popularity among Yallan-
digham's friends, any more than his
taeit denial in the Legislature that he
voted for Brough viii help him in the
estimation Of Union men who have
eharitably overlooked q multitude of
hIs sins on account of that hypothet-
ieaI instance Of patriotism.
Yal's. statement about money being
sent into the District BY Democratic
''aspirants and their friends" is use
fuI supposition for the virtuous Demo
Gratis who have sought Co excuse the
defeat Of their party by the demoraI-
iziDg effect Of Republican greenbaoks.
But this remarkable manifesto from
VaIlandigham is but the prelude to
the play. It is followed or rather
answered by an intensely bitter editor
ial IN the New York World, the ma
tional organ Of the Democracy. To
show It's animus it is is necessary to
quote but a few sentences. For in
stance
The forbearance heretofore prac-
ticed By the Democratic press toward
Clement l.. Vallandigham has ceased
TO be virtue. So long as he injured
the party only by the discredit brought
upon it by his character, we remember
that he had been a victim of arbitrary
power, aud passed his imperfectious
by. But now that he has spitefully
contributed to the defeat of the party,
and exults In his revenge, he has can
celed his claims to lenity, and releases
US to speak of him as we would of any
other aVoWed foe. 1t was be that de-
feated Colonel Burns In the Eighth
Congressional District of Ohio, and
he glories in the achievement. The
article from the Dayton Ledger, which
we copy in another place, Is attributed,
and We doubt not Justly attributed,
to the pen Of Mr.. YaIlaHdigham but
We have seen more direct evidence of
his reVengeful exultatiOn over the
Democratic losses In that district. His
attachment to the Democratic party is
like the reverence of an ancient Wor-
shipper of Isis for the sacred COW. He
He dealt her a plentiful YOlley of
curses and kicks when he found she
could not be MIXED into his pail. y
In another place the World speaks
of Val. as always drunk with the al
eohoI of egotism, and in another re-
fers to him in the following words and
figures
But this reckless demagogue had a
more ample store of pent-up vengeance
against the Democratic party. He
wanted to be elected United States
Senator; and the success of his COM
petItor, Judge Thurman, fills him with
rage and envy When Thurman was
put IN one scale, and Vallandigham In
the other, 1t was ike weighing a gen
ulne coin against one fabricated of
base metal. Its lightness caused it to
kick the beam, although it had passed
through the mint of martyrdOm and
bore a stamp which would have given
currency to a piece having Intrinsic
value. A eOUnterfeit coin is not only
a bad thing in itself, but it brings sus-
picion and discredit on the genuine.
1t Is time this base piece were nailed to
the counter. Judas Iscariot was for a
long time tolerated among the disei-
pies, although it was known that he
bad devil T; but We do not read that
the association was continued after his
open. cooperation with the party of
crueifeFs The defeat in the Eighth
District Of Ohio can be very well
borne, if it enables the Democratic
parig to fling off this viper.
Vallandigham is an active, restless
politician of small ealiber, who fancied
that when Burnside's court martial
had banished him beyond the rebel
lines, his political fortune was made.
Had he been a man Of capacity and
solid merit, the Democratic party Of
the whole country would have recOg-
nized the claims Of a prosecuted pa
tFiOt. But persecution can not raise a
man above his natural level,
An accidental circumstance, like the
foolish blunder of General Burnside,
can not make a man seven feet high if
nature has formed him only five feet
nine nor can it give any additional
height to his intellect and character.
It can no more make a Seymour or a
Pendleton Of a Vallandigham, than
banishing a pugRaeiOus cock from his
native duBghEll can give him the flight
and the eye of an eagle. If the re-
turned cock flaps his wings and insists
that his proper station is In the clouds,
We do not exactly see how it is in the
power of his felloW-birds to place him
there IF he falls foul of them with
his rrr7vc for Ah aSv -.afvTyoH h
know what they can do better than to
spread their light pinions and leave
him on his duughiIl. -
For this impudent speech the
Georgetown Cd. C.) Courier hits the
World the following slap on the
mouth
"Tbe New York World assumes to
be the mouthpiece of the Democracy. /
1t denounces in bitter terms Mr.. Val !
landigham for his recent course In /
causing the defeat of Col. Burns in |
the Eighth Congressional District Of /
Ohio. At this juncture In our affairs 1
this event is certainly to be deplored ; /
but If it should serve as a warning in 4
making nominations to escheW such |
hermaphrodites as war Democrats, /
great good will be effected. In any
event we protest against the reading of
lessons on Democracy BY the World to
Vallandigham for if there is re-
naming on the stage of action man
thoroughly imbued with the teachings
of Jefferson and Jackson, it is Glenn
ent L. Yallandigham."
This was republished in the Dayton
Journal (Rep.) and called forth let
ter from Vallandigham to that paper
in which the martyr says
''That in my (his) Judgment the
nomination of Colonel Burns was one
not fit to have been made and that his
defeat was the natural conseq uence ofl
elamOr then prevalent among the poll
,ieians Of Ohio for "policy''-a clamor
" hfeh, upon every move, and regard to
every measure, and even in the select
ton Of candidates, insinuates the era
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