"Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to the several states to make up and complete their respective battalions to their full complement by draft, or in any other manner they shall think proper, and that they have their quotas of deficiencies ready to take the field, and to march to such place as the Commander-in-Chief shall direct, without delay." ceive, that the Democracy of the country are now, as they ever have been, loyal to their government and true to the Union of their fathers. The best criteria of the aims and purposes of a party or individuals, are their "Thus, it appears, that during the Revolu- recorded avowals-the actual and logical retionary war, men were drafted to fill up the reg-sults of their measures. Having judged of their ular regiments of the line, and were immediately subject to the orders of the Commander-in-opponents by these criteria, we will now pass Chief, without reference to, or control by, the in like review the principal leaders and measGovernors of the states. We have here, thereures of the Democratic party. fore, the most undeniable precedent for the action of the last Congress and that of the President, for raising drafted men and placing them in the army. None but Tories and the friends of the enemy opposed the principle then-none but traitors will do it now.-Rep. Paper. LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM OF DEMOCRATS. General Remarks and Facts pertaining to... The Democracy of New York...The Iowa Democracy... Doctrine of the Kentucky Democracy... The Ohio Democracy... The Democracy of Wisconsin... The Minnesota Democracy... Democracy of Pennsylvania... Illinois Democracy...Connecticut Democracy....Democracy of Indiana....Of Columbus, Ohio....Of Madison, Wis.....The National Democracy ...Sayings and Doings of Leading Democrats...Governor Seymour's Proclamation...Gov. Seymour's Message... Gov. Parker's Proclamation... Remarks of Hon. H. L. Palmer... Et tu Vallandigham...Democrats Rejoice at our Victories... Testimony of our opponents... New York Times...Mr. Seward, Official...Judge Paine, of Wis.... Administration Compliment Gov. Seymour for his Patriotism, &c. From 1801 to 1861 the Democracy of the nation had been constantly in power in one or all of the different branches of Government, and most of this sixty years they had full control of the entire administration of government. That the Democratic party during this long period, embracing the early pupilage of our government, may have committed errorsthat individuals of the party may have perpetrated gross wrongs in the name of that party, perhaps it would be uncandid to deny; but, history, the true arbiter, justifies us in the re petition of the oft reiterated, yet never impeached declaration, that during all this period-while the noble-historical Democracyhave been beset by all the ills that party and flesh are heir to, our country has flourished without a parallel in the annals of human governments. On every recurring national holi day, thousands of candidates for oratorical honors have over-taxed the eulogistic muses, and exhausted the most extravagant panegyrics on the fame and progress of our "Glcrious Union." All parties, without exception, appealing to facts and drawing lavishly from the store-house of fancy, had held up our country, in marked contrast with all other lands, as the most free, happy, progressive and prosperous-nor was it safe for foreign pretenders to draw in question Brother Johnathan's panegyrics of the glorious past, or his predictions of the glorious future. This picture is by no means overwrought, and it shows that high grade of opinion in which, we, at least, held ourselves, and although the leading maratime powers of Europe may not have been willing to acknowledge that Brother Jonathan, yet scarcely out of his teens, had actually outstripped them in wealth and material greatness, they nevertheless acknowledged Having shown, beyond a cavil, in the fore-hither millions of their own citizens to be parour vast and rapidly increasing power, and sent going pages that the Republican leaders are disloyal to their goverement, we will now show by the best evidence that man can give or re LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM OF DEMOCRATS. takers with us of those manifold blessings of personal happiness and civil liberty, for so many centuries denied them on their native nominated HORATIO SEYMOUR, September. soil. 1862: "First, That they will continue to render the Government their sincere and united support in the use of all legitimate means to suppress the rebellion, and to restore the Union as it was, and maintain the Constitution as it be-is-believing that that sacred instrument, founded in wisdom by our fathers, clothes the constituted authorities with full power to accomplish such purpose." We may safely say, without fear of contradiction, that for all these blessings of our government, so justly celebrated for the wisdom and beneficence of its laws, the partakers were indebted to the Democratic party-for we lieve no one will question the fact, or attempt to impeach our veracity, when we state that every general law of general public importance, found on the statute book of the nation, up to December, 1860, had its origin in the Democratic party. Perhaps these laws, or many of them might have been bettered, for no man or party has yet reached the degree of Divine perfection-but such as they were-they constituted the basis of all our national prosperity, so often and so long the lyric's song and the statesman's eulogy. During this sixty years-embracing a long war with the first maratime power on the globe, and sundry harrassing Indian wars, together with a war with the Republic of Mexico, no man was arbitrarily deprived of his liberty without a remedy-no press was destroyed by the direction or connivance of the administrators or executors of the laws-no system of espoinage, spies and delators was established. No citizen was ever exiled or banished-no suspension of the writ of habeas corpus occurred outside of military lines. In short, no constitutional right was denied to the people without a remedy. No Democrat was known to curse this Union as a "league with hell," or any equivalent, impious anathema. No clear and unequivocal infractions of the constitution were suffered. In short, the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were guaranteed to all, in strict accordance with the constitution. Such, in brief, was the history and result of Democratic rule, up to the breaking out of our present troubles, and it becomes us now to enquire, what Democrats and the Democratic party (we mean those and only those who fell not into the snares of secession) have done since that time. Our remarks will apply to the two millions of Democrats in the loyal states. Are they disloyal, or are they not?Let them answer for themselves. THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY. The following is the pertinent plank in the platform of the Democratic Convention that NEW YORK DEMOCRACY IN 1863. The State Convention that met at Albany, September, 1863, passed the following: "Resolved, That we reaffirm the platform adopted by the Democratic Convention of 1862, viz.: First, That we will continue to render the Government our sincere and united support in the use of all legitimate means to suppress the rebellion, and to restore 'the Union as it was,' and to maintain 'the Constitution as it is,' believing that sacred instrument, founded tuted authorities with full power to accomplish in wisdom by our fathers, clothes the constisuch purpose." THE IOWA DEMOCRACY-1863. Gen. TUTTLE, the Democratic candidate for Gov. in 1863, issued an address to the people, from which we take the following, and on which he was supported by the Democracy: "I am in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war to the full extent of our power, until the rebellion is suppressed, and of using all means that may be in our possession, recognized by honorable warfare, for that purpose. I am for the Union without an if, and regardless whether slavery stands or falls by its restoration, and in favor of peace on no other terms than the unconditional surrender of the rebels to the constituted authorities of the government of the United States." DOCTRINE OF THE KENTUCKY DEMOCRACY. The following from the message of Governor BRAMLETTE, Sep. 1, 1863, is the doctrine not only of the Democracy of Kentucky, but everywhere: "We affiliate with the loyal men north and south, whose object and policy is to preserve the Union and the Constitution unchanged and unbroken, and to restore the people to harmony and peace with the government, as they were before the rebellion. "It is not a restored Union, not a reconstructed Union, that Kentucky desires; but a preserved Union, and a restored peace upon a constitutional basis." THE OHIO DEMOCRACY. We select the following from among the planks of the Democratic platform adopted by the convention that nominated VALLANDIG- tional and oppressive and unjust the same may HAM, in 1863: appear, he must submit thereto, until such laws are repealed, or declared null and void by the proper tribunals. That we will earnestly support every constitutional measure tending to preserve the Union of the States. No men have a greater interest in its preservation than we have. None desire it more. There are none who will make greater sacrifices or endure more than we will to accomplish that end. We are, as we ever have been, the devoted friends of the Constitution and the Union, and we have no sympathy with the enemies of either." THE DEMOCRACY OF WISCONSIN. The following is from the celebrated "RYAN Address," adopted by the Democracy, in Mass Convention at Milwaukee, September, 1862, and reaffirmed in 1863: "We claim the right on their behalf and our own, to censure the political acts of the Administration, when we think that they deserve it, and to do all lawfully within our power to sustain the supremacy of the Constitution in all places north or south, and over all persons in office and out of it. And to that end we devote our hearts, minds, estates, to aid the Administration in the most vigorous and speedy prosecution of the war waged against the Union by the revolted states. We believe that in so doing we fulfil the most sacred duty we owe to the constitution. And to this, we solemly pledge the faith of our party and ourselves, until the war be endel and the constitution restored, as the su preme law of the land, in every state of the Union." THE SAME PARTY IN 1863. The following, among others, was adopted at the Democratic nominating State Convention, in 1863: "11. Resolved, That we are proud of the gallantry and devotion of our fellow citizens serving in the land and naval forces of the United States, and sympathize deeply with all their sacrifices of life, health and comfort. End as the war may, their place in history is one of glory-successful whenever beyond the reach of corrupt political influences surrounding the administration, failing from no fault of their own whenever within the reach of those influences, equally brave and patriotic in either fortune, they are the glorious brothers of our blood and will never make good the brutal boast that when they shall have suppressed rebellion in the south, they will turn their arms against their brethren in the north" THE MINNESOTA DEMOCRACY. We select the following from the platform adopted by the Democracy in State Convention July 26, 1863: "6. That it is the duty of every citizen to obey the laws, and that however unconstitu . That we tender our army, and especially the members of our minnesota regiments, our heartfelt thanks for their patriotic devotion to their country, and we also tender our sympathy to the survivors of the gallant dead, who have offered up their lives as a sacrifice for their country and won for themselves the everlasting gratitude of the nation." THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRACY. The following was passed by the Democracy of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, against the united votes of the opposisition, in 1863: "That Pennsylvania will adhere to the Constitution and the Union as the best, it may be the last hope of popular freedom, and for all wrongs which may have been committed, or evils which may exist, will seek redress under the Constitution and within the Union, by the peaceful but powerful agency of the suffrage of a free people. demns and denounces the faults of the Admin"That while the General Assembly conistration, and the encroachments of the Aboliand denounce the heresy of Secession, as untionists, it does also most thoroughly condemn alike of the security and perpetuity of governwarranted by the Constitution, and destructive ment and of peace and liberty; the people of Union; and will persistently exert their whole the State are opposed to any division of this influence and power under the Constitution to maintain and defend it." THE ILLINOIS DEMOCRACY. The Democracy of the Legislature of Illinois, in 1863, among others, adopted the following: Resolved, That while we condemn and denounce the flagrant and monstrous usurpations by the Administration, and encroachments by Abolitionism, we equally denounce and condemn the ruinous heresy of secession, as unwarranted by the Constitution, and destructive alike of the society and perpetuity of our government, and the peace and liberty of the people." THE DEMOCRACY OF CONNECTICUT. The following we take from the Democratic platform of 1863: "2d. That while as citizens of Connecticut, we assert our devotion to the Constitution and the Union, and will hereafter, as we have heretofore, support with zeal and energy the authorities of the U. S. in the full constitutional exercise of their powers, we deliberately aver that the liberties of the people are menaced by congressional and federal usurpa THE DEMOCRACY OF INDIANA. The following is taken from the address of the Democratic members of the Legislature of Indiana, 1863: "The Democratic party, if in power to-day, would put down this rebellion, and restore the Union as it was in six months, and by the honest and lawful method of subduing combattants, and protecting those not in arms against the government. It would make no war on States, and populations. It would overthrow the guilty rebel wherever found in arms. would confiscate nothing that did not belong to a fighting traitor to the Union. * * It A Democratic Administration would see that our victorious legions marched wherever there was an armed foe to conquer." DEMOCRACY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO. The following clearly defines the position of the Democracy everywhere. It is the first of a series of resolutions passed by the Democracy of Columbus, Ohio, in 1863: "Resolved, That the present war should be carried on to maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and the enforcement of all constitutional laws, and that when this is accomplished, the war ought to cease." DEMOCRACY OF MADISON, WISCONSIN. The Democracy of Madison, Wisconsin, in July, 1863, met to celebrate the taking of Vicksburg, and adopted the following resolu tions: "Resolved, That the Democracy of the city of Madison and Dane county rejoice "with exceeding great joy," at the surrender of Vicksburg, the great Sebastopol of the Mississippi Valley, and that our thanks are due and hereby tendered to Major General Grant and the brave troops under his command for this glorious achievement-that while we tender our sympathies to those who have been wounded in battle, we embrace the mournful privilege of offering our sympathy and condolence to the friends and relatives of those brave men who have fallen while defending the Constitution and Union of our fathers. "Resolved, That we award a like mede of praise and sympathy for sufferers in the Army of the Potomac, who have so bravely and so heroically defended the soil of Pennsylvania from the polution of rebel invasion. Resolved, In the spirit of the resolution passed by the last Congress, that the war ought to be vigorously prosecuted for the establishment of the National authority, and the supremacy of the constitution and laws over every foot of our territory, and when that object is obtained the war ought to cease The following we select from Gov. SEYMOUR's proclamation, issued in response to the President's call for troops, October 29, 1863: "In this emergency it is the duty of all citizens to listen to the appeal put forth by the President, and to give efficient and cheerful mies. It is due to our brethren in the field, aid in filling up the thinned ranks of our arwho have battled so heroically for the flag of our country, the Union of the states, and to uphold the Constitution, and prompt and voluntary assistance should be sent to them in this moment of their peril. They went forth in the full confidence that they would at all times receive from their fellow citizens at home a generous and efficient support. "Every motive of pride and patriotism should impel us to give this by voluntary and cheerful contributions of men and money, and not by a forced conscription or coercive action on the part of the government. Gov. Seymour's Message. The following paragraph is taken from the message of Gov. SEYMOUR to the New York Lngislature, January, 1863: The "We must accept the condition of affairs as they stand. At this moment the fortunes of our country are influenced by the results of battles. Our armies in the field must be supported. All constitutional demands of our General Government must be promptly responded to! But, war alone will not save the Union. rule of action which is used to put down an ordinary insurrection is not applicable to a widespread armed resistance of great communities. It is wildness and folly to shut our eyes to this truth. Under no circumstances can the division of the Union be conceded. We will put forth every exertion of power. We will hold out every inducement to the people of the South to return to their allegiance, consistent with honor. "We will guarantee them every right, every consideration, demanded by the Constitution, and by that fraternal regard which must prevail in a common country. But we can never voluntarily consent to the breaking up of the Union of these states, or the destruction of the Constitution." Gov. Parker's Proclamation. On the 22d of October, 1863, Governor PARKER, of New Jersey, issued a proclamation in response to the President's call for troops, in which occurs the following: "I earnestly call upon every citizen of this state to use every effort to raise these troops. The time for work is short; but, if the people of New Jersey, who have hitherto never fal tered in the discharge of duty, will, unitedly and in the proper spirit, at once enter upon it, with a determination not to fail, they will suc ceed. "Our armies should be largely reinforced. A crushing blow at the armed power of the rebellion, if followed by wise, just and conciliatory counsels, will open the door to the peace which we so much desire, and which has thus far eluded us." Hon. H. L. Palmer's Speech. The Hon. H. L. PALMER, late Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, presided at a patriotic meeting at Milwaukee. In addressing the vast assemblage he used the following language: "A most gigantic and stupendously wicked rebellion has arisen to destroy, with bloody and raricidal hands, this fair fabric raised at the cost of our father's blood; and now we are called upon to put it down and save our loved land. I trust we stand here to-day as Americans only, and that we shall not fail in effective measures to answer the call of our country and to send succor to our brothers in arms and peril in the South." Et tu Vallandigham. of all measures and laws whatsoever, as in Mr. Vallandigham in Congress. "For my own part, sir, while I would not in the beginning have given a dollar or a man to commence this war, I am willing-now that we are in the midst of it without any act of ours-TO VOTE JUST AS MANY MEN AND JUST IT!" Democrats Rejoice at our Victories. The following short extract from an editorial in the Chicago Post of July 11, 1863, speaks volumes of praise for the Democracy: "The best answer to Gen. Singleton's un conditional peace speeches is to be found in the universal rejoicing by the democratic papers of the country, over the victories of Meade and Grant. In these rejoicings we have an impression of the true democratic sentiment. They are unconditional rejoicings.They are not qualified by regrets that the war is not a constitutional one, or that it is a barbarous one, or that it is a war to overturn and destroy the liberties of the people; but the reun-joicings are earnest and universal that the armed rebels against the Constitution and the Union have been beaten, defeated and cut to pieces by the troops of the United States. It is claimed that these victories are as honorable and as brilliant as though they were gained over any other enemy seeking to destroy the American Union. In these victories the democratic papers, and the democratic masses everywhere see a hope that the Administration will learn and profit by the lesson that armed rebellion cannot be crushed except by force of arms; that paper proclamations and cruel laws only serve to exasperate the enemy, who is to be put down by blows and offers of pardon upon proper submission." Even VALLANDIGHAM, who has been so mercifully and fouly villified as a traitor, uttered the following patriotic sentiments in reply to a charge of the New York Times that he counselled resistance to law: "NEW YORK, March 8, 1863. "To the Editor of the New York Times: "Allow me to say that the statement of your reporter that I denied that we owed any obedience to the Conscription act, and your own that I counselled resistance to it by the people of the North, are both incorrect. On the contrary, I expressly counselled the trial of all questions of law before our judicial courts, and all questions of politics before the tribunal of the ballot-box. I AM FOR OBEDIENCE TO ALL LAWS-obedience by the people and by men in power also. I am for a free discussion of all questions of law before our judicial courts, and all questions of politics before the tribunal of the ballot-box. I am for a free discussion TESTIMONY OF OUR OPPONENTS. The New York Times, after months of idle and slanderous denunciations of the Democratic party, was compelled to make the fol lowing admission: |