Year: 1863




TThe Journal h as particular strutjus
now on what it holds honorable. It's ipst
di1it on such points are so self-complacent
that we can't help inquiring on what meal
our Cesar has fed of late.


1t was once honorable and patriotic to b {
neutral; to refuse all aid to the Government
in this contest. 1t was honorable and pa
triotic to advise our officers to surrender
their swords. 1t was honorable and patriotic
to give notice that the editor would join the
rebellion if he could not keep the State out
of il; but now it is treason not to appropriate
money to arm negroes to subiugate white
men, and Kentucky must do that or not be
honorable and patriotic.


According to the creed of the Journal
now, the editor has not been honorable or
patriotic in the past; and his lectures now,
without an humble confession of his past
sins, are refreshing.


The fact is, the Journals honor and pa
triotism consist in following party. Our
m embers of Congress would not vote sup
plies for the army; but they are honorable
and patriotic, for they will vote the ticket
1t is not so much matter what a man says
or what he does, so he votes the ticket and
supports the party. We should be a good
patriot as anybody now if we would support
the ticket. The great object of the Journal
is to support its party. What measures they
advocate is not of SO much Consequence
Just support the ticket and it will all be
right.


1t is amusing to see how party covers
more sins than charity. a Republican can
advocate treaty of peace now, and oppose
the war, and be patriot; but if a Democrat
denounces the war and says peace, he is a
traitor, and is sent to camp. A Republican
can announce daily, no moro Union with
slave States, and is cheered by the uncondi.
tiouals; but If man says he is for the Con-
stitu.ion and the Union, now and forever,
one and inseparable, he is Copperhead, and
ought to be exiled.


a Republican committee can charge the
President with all the calamities of the war,
and even insinuate that the rebels found
out what none but the President and his two
high functionaries knew, and still be patri-
ots. These Republicans support the party,
they vote the ticket, and that cures all.


If the editor of the Louisville Journal had
read to the late Convention here some of his
editorials we have reproduced. and many
Others of the same sort, he would have been
hissed down like Mr.. Cravens, except, per-
haps, be had pledged himself to support the
ticket; and when the Republicans said
slavery is the cause and strength of the re-
.bellion, and must be put down, the Journal
would reply: "If slavery stands between me
and my Government, slavery must go down."
In that case, his editorials would be forgiven,
indeed, considered patriotic. Such is party;
but it is always patriotic. Listen to its or
gans, and those who don't support it are ex-
ceedingly Inconsistent, absurd. stupid, or
wicked. They can preach heresy. sin, and
treason; bat if they vote the ticket it's all
right. We shall see what position the Jour
raFs candidates for Congress will take
Will they pledge themselves to vote money
out of the treasury, knowing, as they do
that it is used to support negroes made free
by the Presidents proclaim alton, and to arm
companies and regiments of slaves thus
emancipated to subjugate their masters?-
Let them do so in this State to the people,
and see hom many votes they will get.


Louisville Democrat.