Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-09-08
Pri1ctpics u ontcd-N0t LcUders.

Gen. Rosecrans, recently appointed
Minister to Mexico, has taken upon
himself another mission recently, as
our readers are aware, and has been in
consultation with the principal leaders
in the late rebellion, for that purpose
visiting first IIoratio Seymour, at Utica,
and next the aforesaid leaders, at White
Sulphur Springs, Virginia-Farquha
County, we believe. Gen. Rosecrans
went in the interest of the Democratic
party forgetting, evidently, that what
was the peace " is now the war
Democracy ; as Frank Blair's letter and
his consequent nomination do fully
show. He wanted the quiet Lee to say
Il word that would help the cause OfSey
m our to indicate, as a recent leader of
the South, what medicine the South
would be willing to accept out of a DEM
ocratic spoon. with a Constitutional bib
under its chin, to protect its suit Ofgray.
This little effort of the General shows
that the party in whose interest it was
made seek for the support of men who
love the South more than they do the
country, and whose inclinations are
therefore not NATIONAL, but sectional.
Does the Democratic party wish to
undo the work of reconstruction already
done, and place it in the hands or at IT,.
will of such men? This seems evident
to US by the course that party is pursu-
ing, and by its instincts exhibited dur
ing and since the war. 1t shows a ten
derness for the South and the " lost
cause" which ignores the right of THE
PEOPLE to make themselves secure
against further sectional efforts tending
toward revolution. For the security of
this right, the Democracy show no con-
Germ whatever, either through their ora
tors or their press. This, with those
who really love the Union, will be
enough to secure condemnation of the
Democratic cause. 1t goes down in a
ship of its own making, and under
false colors, for it appeals to the Consti
tuition only in the interest Of sectional
ism. Every intelligent man knOaCS this
is true, if he reads even u Democratic
paper of fair ability. He knows that,
from the first Of the campaign until
now, no condemnation of the spirit that
caused the rebellion, and which still
seeks for rule in the South, has been ut
tered by the Democracy in any way to
give such expression authority. On this
point their Conventions are dumb. But,
on the other hand, the national debt,
incurred necessarily in the preservation
of the Union, is held up as the result of
"Radical rule" merely, and its real
cause steadily and UNANIMOUSLY ignored.
1t thus tries, before the eyes the world,
to transfer the guilt and the evils of Sc
cession to the party which put secession
down, and has only the most fraternai
feeling and undying pity for those who
hated the Union with hatred that still
manifests itself in the most internal
forms all through the Southern States.
We do not wonder that Northern Dem
the work they are trying to do, and its
hopelessness unless the Southern lead
ers will come up to their help. The eff
fort of Rosecrans is an open confession
Of weakness. 1t is not solitary one.
Pendleton has signified that he cannot
fill his engagements to speak i'll Illinois,
because Of the greater need of his
speeches in Ohio. The Democracy
hoped to win by audacity. Their move
ment falters. They cry out for help.
They hunt up the idols of the "lost
cause" and ask for aid. They think
they want leaders, when their only lack
is in principles that touch the Union in
stead Of the Southern heart. Let them
wait, as they must, until another cam
paign, and In the meantime seek first
the integrity of the Union and its per-
petuity as the protector of the rights of
man, and then, perhaps, 'all these
things" which are sought for political
ly, may be added.