The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-01
AN UGLY RECORD.

During the civil war the Northern DEM
ocracy were divided into those who were
loyal to Lincoin's administration until the
Union was restored. and those who held,
with Fernando Wood. Franklin Pierce,
Thomas ii. Seymour. Vallandigham,
Pendleton, Voorhees,. Hendricks, Storey,
Brick Pomeroy, Henry Clay Dean. Judge
Ryan. Of Wisconsin; Judge Woodward, Of
Pennsylvania; United States Senator
Eaton, OF Connecticut; B. +. Thomas, Of
Massachusetts,, and E. J. Phelps, of Yer
mont, that the war was in the interest Of
despotism and against liberty, that a
union restored by bayonets was impossi-
BILE. that the Republican party was fight
ing for mercenary and the Confederates
from heroic motives.
The loyal Democracy included among
Others Daniel 4. sickles, James T. Brady,
Martin T. Mac Mahon, James B. Steed.
man. General Hancock, L. i. smaliey,
General Siocum, William A. Morrison,
General John G. Black, General f. s.
Bragg. General Hooker, General Rose
Grams. General Gibbon, General A. s. VIII
liams, VINO, after the war, returned to the
ranks Of the Democratic party. There
were many other loyal Democrats who
Joined the Republican party after the fir
ing on Sumter, and continued after the
war to support 1t.
Among those Democrats who acted with
the unpatriotic opposition to Llncoln's ad-
ministration was General" Adlai T..
Stevenson. the Democratic candidate for
vice president. who recently at Louisville,
n.y.. set forth his war record as follows:
When the momcntogs issues tha; then divided
people and sections passed from tho domain of
debate and OF the ballot to the broad arbitrs.
mens OF arms. believed with the great senator
from my own state tDouglssl that direct read
to peace lay through the most stupendous prep
arations of war" From the beginning TO the
close OF that great conflict was for the main
terance At whatever cost of our federal uniou-
Let us see what General" Stevenson's
historical attitude was by reciIing his
record. In September. 1864 at the very
hour when Atlanta fell the Vallaniigha,u
or Copperhead Democracy nominated
George Il. Mcclellan. a Union soldier. for
president, and George II. Pendleton. Val
landigham's ablest lieutenant in the or
ganixstien OF his coppsrhead campaign Of
obstruction 10 Lincoln's war measures. for
vice president upon the following peace at
any price platform:
Resosssd, That this convention does exnlicttlv
declare tho sense OF the American pes,nls
that alter four years of failure 10 restore tho
Cnto1 hy the expert gaent y! war, during which
under the prctense OF u military necessity Of A
war power higher than tho constitution. tha
constitution Itself has been diseesa-aei in
every part % and public liberty ami private
night alike iroGdea down - AMI ire material
Il prosperity OF the county essentially i'm
s faired 81, justice. humanity. liberty ana ths
rnhlsc welfare demand that imme iiata cir5rrs
be made for a cessation Of hosotities Win A
view e. an ultimate convention OF al the states
or other pesecabie means, to the ems that a. tha
earliest practical moment peace NAV ee re-
storsd on the basis of tho federal union Of al
Tire states
General" Stevenson was = member Of
this convention and was candidate for
presidential elector on this platform.
General Stevenson probably assumed
tAss the people had forgotten his war
record when he uttered his recent round
beilied campaign lie 81 Louisyille, Nv,
bat the people have not forgotten it; they
are reading ii today, and they VIII re
pudiats General" Stevenson and his
record at the ballot box IN November next
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