New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-28
TIE RECORD or THE DEMOCRATIC
PIRTI"

The speech of Mr. Sargent in the House of
Representatives, upon "the Record OF the
Democracy" which unpleasantly scents some
half dozen columns of recent Globe. and
which is very full in its documentary Illus
tratiOns, is not line too long, or a mOrscl
too full in its evidence of treason
which must pass into history, and which will
give certain public men a bad record for all
time to come. For in the first place, Mr. Sargent
shows that the leaders of the Rebellion, about
whose wrong-doing there could be no dispute
men like Davis, Toombs, Wigfall, Slidell, Cobb,
Burnett, and Brccllinridge-were all Demo
d" Gratis" "The rebellion he says truly "was
1" inaugurated by Democrats and was fought by
" Democrats, who only executed what Demo
" Gratis had planned long before That, how
ever. is a matter of little consequence, and
need not detain us. The important and shame
full part of this record is that which gives us
the trucking, the treason, and the suDserY-
iency of the Democrats" of the North. &c
begins with the private and confidential letter
of ex-President Pierce to Mr.. Davis in which,
with rare decacy, he declined to discuss the
right to secedc," predicted "war IN our own
streets" and limited that the Democracy OF
the North would give "the Abolitionists quite
" enough to dor Mr.. Pierce had already
proved himself q very poor sort OF President,
and he here appears in the doubly dlsgracetW
character of poor patriot and an equally poor
nronbet II turned out that what little street.
fobtino there was to do was speedily accom-
plished.
The sympathy of the Northern Copnerheads
with the Secession was OF highly abstract
kind; they contriyed to do two things aD-
parently Incompatible they bounded on the
Rebels, and thus betrayed the North, and
when it came to risking their necks, these
worthy gentlemen went home and went to bed.
There was Mr.. Nallandigham, who was specially
pugnacous in his language, and who loudly
declared that he would never "vote one dollar
"whereby one drop of American blood should
abe shed in a civil warr-brave words, indeed,
but of what possible value were they to the
Rebel Generals, and how much money did
they prevent the North from raising? Then,
again, comes up that little gem of correspond
ence between our own Fernando and Mr..
Toombs. Have arms consigned to the State
" of Georgia" inquired ToOmbs, been seized
by the public authorities of tho State of
"New-Y 7" "Too true!" responded our
Mayor; "but the City of New-Yorli
"must in no way be responsible for
1.-THE outrage" 1t was then that Mr.. Wood
informed the City Council that "the dssolu-
"tion of the Union was inevitable" and wanted
to know why NewYork might not secede
also, and set herself up as "a free city,
Then there was Rodman Price, who onged for
New-Jersey to join the Confederacy. Then
there was the Democratic State Convention of
Ohio in 1861 vchemently denouncng coercion"
while Wigfall was declaring the Union dead
in his place in the Senate. Then there were
the Democrats steadily voting in Congress
against every measure to raise money for the
public exigencics. Then there was Gov. Sey-
mour. in the very thick of the great battle,
speaking of mobs as sometimes "a revolution
cary necessity Then there were our Demo
cratic newspapers, The Ners, The World, and
The Express. daily dcnOuncing the draft.
But Mr.. Sargent gave some figures which
are interesting. They are as follows:
Number OF Republican Representatives who fought
the Union side, 81 number OF Democratic Representa-.
uves who 30 fought. =. Fifty-one to Eightr
1t is unnecessary Tor us to 80 into further