The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-19

1t is not to be denied that q Democratic victory at
the North would be a subject of much qualification.
About the same time the Atlanta Register de-
clared that
If they 1.-THE Democrats viii use the b~allot.box
against Mr.. Lincoln, while we use the cartridge-box,
each side will be the helper of the other.
The Richmond Wing said:
If Lincoln be defeated, the war NAV be brought to
a speedy. honorable and satisfactory close. & : It
is the sheerest nonsense for the Southron to affect
indifference as to what is going on at the North, or as
to who the people of that section may have for Presi-
dent. : = = 1t is a matter of the first Importance
TO us that that functionary be a man who will have
The richmond Examiner, certain Of the sue
cess of their combination, declared:
A new party viii succeed to power. which viii sheathe
the sword and hold out the olive branch. =
And after the fall of Atlanta added:
The Democratic party would have been forever
obliged to General Hood if he had managed to hold
Atlanta for another fortnight
An army letter published in the New York
Herald during the same campaign informed the
country that
Mr.. Barrows, while working outside of the stockade,
had frequent conversations with rebel officers. = : :
The prevailing belief is that 1.-The Democrats will
elect a President that will help us"
The Richmond Examiner of Sept. 8. 1864, said:
Every defeat of Lincoln's forces inures to the bene-
fit of Mcclellan. = : = The influence of the South,
more powerful in the shock of battle than when throw
ing her minority vote in the Electoral College, will be
cast in favor of Mcclellan, by this indirect yet effca-
cious means.
To the same effect. a little later, the Charles
ton Mercury maintained that
All of us perceive the intimate connection existing
between the armies of the Confederacy, and the peace
men of the United States. These constitute two inn
mense forces that are working together for the pro-
curement of peace. The party whose nomination and
platform we are considering are altogether dependent
for success upon the courage and resolution of our
fighting men. IL their generalship, s~agacity, valor
and vigilance are unable to obtain victories and arrest
the progress of the invading hordes, the existing ad-
ministration will laugh to scorn the efforts of the op-
position; and, in spite of the most powerful combine
tons, will continue to hold the places they occupy.
Our success in battle insures the success Of McClel-
Ian. Our failure will inevitably lead to his defeat.
In the victories that have crowned our arms since the
year began, that have given existence, strength and
harmony to that organization which has arrayed itself
with hrm defiant front against the despot and his min
ions. It is one long unbroken series Of splendid sue
cesses that has emboldened the few men of sense and
honesty in Yankedom 1.-THE Seymours, Hendrickses,
and Vallandighams, to raise their voices in denuncia-
ton of the unconstitutional, base, foolish measures
adopted and enforced by their governments; and they
have gathered round their exceptional men-[Let us
build their monuments $50 large a number that
they have good hope of being able to make head
against the oppressor and tyrant.
These quotations might be indefinitely multi
piled, but | shall add only two more, and they
iberately published since the close of the war.
The first is copied from the life of Robert E.
Lee. written by his nephew, Mr.. Childe, who
has been SO long abroad that he seems neither to
NV tuO ihuEudSo " tuo tuSttbutiOuS Ol Ills
country. In broken English he says:
In November the election of delegates ~Ielectorsl.
who were charged with nominating ~[electingl the
President of the United States took place. The choice
assured the election of Mr.. Lincoln and the defeat of
General Mcclellan, who was regarded as more favora-
BILE to the Southerners. This was a sign that there
with their army in their hands could the confederates
conquer their Independence; that there was 10 other
way for them to issue happily out of their trials.
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The last witnass unon tba ouast;or of oo-o,or-
alton between the confederate armies and the
political leaders of the Democratic party of the
North, during the presidential contest of 1864,
that l shall call, is Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, of
the confederate army. He has, like other lead
ers of that cause, written his account of his part
In the war of the rebellion, and of the motives
which influenced his action therein. Speaking
of these in 1864, ne says:
The Importance to the Confederaey of defeating the
enterprise against Atlanta was not to be measured by
military consequences alone. Observation-Disclosures
We're also involved. and added much to the interest of
that campaign. The Northern Democrats had pro-
nounced the management of the war a failure. and de-
clared against its being continued, and the presiden-
tiai election, soon to occur, was to turn upon the
all the earlier part of the year 1864 the
press had been publishing to the Northern people
of Atlanta; and that it was to be taken. and that its
capture would terminate the war. If Sherman had
failed, these teachings would have caused great ex-
aggeration OF the consequences OF his failure, which
would have strengthened the peace party greatly; so
much, perhaps. as to have enabled it to carry the
presidential election, which would have brought the
war to an immediate close. Page 1921
If treason against the United States NAV be
committed, and if it consist Tin levying war
against them, or in adhering to their enemies,
giving them aid and comfort" can it be doubted
that Mr.. Seymour and his coadjutors who framed
a political platform conformity with public enc
mics, and in terms to suit those enemies; adopted
and proclaimed it in convention, and went to the
country to support it by arguments and ballots
on one side. and by battles and bullets on the
other. were guilty of treason in heart and in
fact throughout the political campain of 1862
If an impartial, intelligent and law-regarding
jury were trying them, who would doubt Of their
convictionI The spirit and machinery of these
mems partin the canvass of that year. as disclosed
by their speeches and symbols, prove their motives
and purposes, and that these were reasonable.
The mutual understanding between them and
the public enemies, and their mutual encour-
agement and co operation for the qualification of
these motives and the accomplishment of these
| purposes constitute the overt act.
1t was in the expression of this treason that in
some of the great cities of the North funeral
professions were formed representing the death
and burial of the American Union, the hearse
being drawn by donkeys and mules having the
heads and faces of the great generals at the
head of the national armies; and behind it, as
chief mourners, President Lincoln and his Cabi-
net. upon a carriage drawn by animals of similar
makeup. Such representations were the fit
| encouragement of and responses to the thunder
of battle against the Union and its government
the proper stimulants of red handed treason in
it's determination to realize what they so ma
liciously and reasonably symbolized. In all
this saturnalia of treason and slaughter, Messrs.
seymour Hendricks and other Democratic
leaders took a conspicuous and emphatic part.
The Southern leaders have never ceased to
recognize this CO. operation of these leaders in
their campaign of 1864, and in their nomination
for President in 1868 gave emphasis to their
recognition. Mr.. Seymour's nomination called
the whole force of the rebels that had co-operated
in battles in 1864 with the Democratic party of
that year to the front, and the spirit of the
rebellion blossomed again blood-red throughout
the South, everywhere throughout the South
the Toombses, Ramseys and Hampdens
openly proclaiming it to be the purpose of the
party to drive out the Congress of the United
States by force. 1t was in this spirit that the
men WIN had dona most In the war to- save the