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MONDAY MORNING, MARCH SO 1863
TAR POSITION AND POLICY OP TIE DEMO
CRATIC PARTY.
LETTER
IPBOX
CHIEF JUSTICE CATO.N,
OZ ILLmois, TO
GOV. HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OP NEW YORK.
Hon. Horatio Seymour ;
Dean Sin.: As you requested, I will pencil
down some suggestions which I made to you
orally a few days since, in reference to Western
sentiment on the present condition of the
country, with some reflections upon
_the late
elections.
Yon are undoubtedly correct that the North
west will never consent to a separation of the
Union, leaving the lower Mississippi in a far
eign jurisdiction. Our interests are agricultu
ral, and upon a market for our products de
pends our well-being-1 might almost say our
existence. Before the war we supplied the
plantations of the South with their horses and
mules, their corn and their bacon. This plan
tation market consumed most of the products
of the counties bordering upon the Mississippi
and its tributaries, and any surplus found its
way to the Atlantic cities and forbign countries
through that great river. By the war we have
lost this market and this outlet, and our pro
ducts, which formerly went south, have been
thrown upon the northern transports and
northern markets, overloading the former and
glutting the latter.. As an inevitable conse
quence, while money has depreciated nearly
one-third, the prices of our great staples in
the hands of our farmers have remained sta
tionary, or have receded in some instances
more than half. At the last Presidential elec
tion, on the Ohio river mules were worth from
one hundred4nd twenty-five to two hundred
and twenty-five dollars per head. Now our
graziers cannot realize more than sixty-five to
eighty dollars per head, notwithstanding the
great consumption by the army; and horses
have depreciated in nearly the same ratio. If
otherportions of the country have found means
to Make money by the war, to the Western
agriculturalist it has proved an unmitigated
burden, which can only be relieved by a resto
ration of peace and of the Union. The former
without the latter would render permanent
that which we now look upon as but tempo
rary. Hence has the West fought; and so will
she fight, not for the desolation of the South
and the final destruction of her plantations,
but for the restoration of the Union. Hence
has Illinois furnished more than ten thousand
troops above her quota. If a draft has been
necessary in any portion of the West, it has
not been where the influence of this plantation
market has been directly felt. I repeat, we
can never consent that the lower Mississippi
shall pass into a foreign jurisdiction.
I also agree with you that the radical Abo
litionists prefer a separation to a restoration
of the Union as it was with all the rights of
the states as they exist under the Constitution,
including slavery; and just so soon as theY
are convinced that a majority of the people of
the North and of Congress are determined to
admit a peace upon the old basis, they will la
bor for a separation. They seem determined
to invent and practice every provocative pos•
sible towards the South, in order to produce
and continue a degreeof alienation which shall
prevent them from embracing the tender which
the conservative North is ready to offer them,
to return and enjoy the protection of the Con
stitution unimpaired. These provocations, in
connection with the known state of feeling
pervading the whole community South, render
any hope that they will embrace the Democra- .
tic offer to return and resume the statul info
ante bellum, entirely futile at the present mo
ment. They will, with bitter contempt, spurn
this offer now, let it come from whom it may.
Such is the present state of feeling in the
Southwest as well as in the' Southeast. Vic
tories must be won before they will listen to
reason from any party and accept reunion on
any terms. Were the . Democrats in power to
day, they must win victories before they could
save the Union. It these victories are won
while the Abolitionists rule, may not the South
accept peace from us when we attain the con
trol, quite as readily as if won under Demo
cratic auspices?
What shall be done in this contingency ? The
answer of ninety-nine in the hundred of those
who voted the . Democratic ticket at, the, October
and November elections is and will be—The war
must be, prosecuted earnestly and to the' last—
not to crush and conquer the South, but to
crush and conquer the rebellion. If a ten
years' war is necessary, rather than give up the
Union, they accept it, sorrowfully, it is tree,
but earnestly. We hope and believe Wirt what
ever the fortunes of war may be this winter,
and especially if success , shall attend our
arms, and if Mr. Lincoln can be brought under
Democratic intlences, or oven if the South can
be brought to believe that conservative princi
plea have acquired such an ascendency in the
North as to admit a peace on the old basis and
protect them in their fair constitutional rights,
then peace is possible after the fourth of March,
when the new Congress will come into being.
To render this possible—to excite a reasonable
hope that the South will return to the Union on
the old basis—it is indispensable that they
should be disabused of the opinion that the
Democratic party is a peace party on the basis
of separation. Whatever this or that Democrat
may think or feel about the prosecution of the
war, certain it is that a vast majority of the
old Democratic party—that is to say, the
Douglas portion of it, all of those who have
formerly voted with the Republicans, hut at
the late elections voted with us, at least in the
West, and no doubt the same is true in the
East—are fixed in the determination that the
war must be prosecuted till the rebellion is put
dqwn, or till those in revolt will submit to the
gdvernment of the Constitution. Indeed, this
follows, as a necessary consequence upon the
determination not to submit to a dismember
ment of the Union—which, as before stated,
must be looked upon as a settled question, at
least in the west.
,Wlten the.rebellion was inaugurated its pro
moters professed to believe, and no doubt most
of them did believe, that they would not only
meet with sympathy, but with material support,
from the Democratic party of the North; and
but for this t elief it is doubtful if they could
have deluded their people to such an extent as
to have secured their acquiescence in the re
volt. All now see how fatal was that delusion.
They should be told in time that the hope that
the late elections are au expression of sympa
thy for secession is a delusion equally great,
and must prove equally fatal. The Northern
Democracy stands now where it has over stood
It will support at all hazards the integrity of
the Union, while it will guarantee to every por
tion of it all the rights and privileges stipulated
in the Constitution. To this extent end fur
these purposes the Democratic party must be
considered a war party, and in its support and
prosecution it will vindicate ita ancient renown
for steadiness of purpose—for pursuing its
object with a calm and determined energy
which evinces its faith in its principles, and
which eier has and ever will, in the end, se
cure its triumph. While we tenet prosecute
the war to the end,proposed, we will do it with
out malice and Without vindictiveness, and
upon those humane and Christian principles
which should illustrate the civilisation of - this
great Republic; and, especially when warring
with our own brethren for the sole purpose
that we may hereafter live with them in peace
and amity. The taunt of those fanatics who
are blinded by rage and the itnaginary wrongs
of the negro, that we . would conduct the war
"with kid gloves" and -"so as not to hurt the
enemy," shall not drive us back to the barba
rism of the dark ages, or compel us to a war of
extermination instead of reconciliation. Every
act'of kindness and mercy opens a new avenue
to reconciliation and peace ; every act of bru
tality and barbarity closes a door leading to
these results_ Acts of brotherly love beget
fraternal feeling; acts of cruelty and oppres
sion and injustice lead to alienation, retaliation
and revenge. While we will firmly hold the
sword in one hand, and use it, too, with deter
mination and resolution, the other must always
be open with the proffer of peace and friend
ship so soon as they will return to their alle
giance to the Constitution; It is due , to the
South—it is due to the North—ft is due to the
world—that the matured and fixed determina
tion of the Democratic party should be known
and thoroughly understood on this subject. It
is due to the South, that they may not cherish
the delusive hope that the late elections mean
that they may go in peace and destroy this
government. IV is due to the North, that those
who have come to our help for the purpose of
bringing the government back within the . re
straints of the Constitution, may know that
they have not been contributing to the success
of the rebellion and the destruction of the gov
ernment and the Constitution. It is due to the
world, to know that our la'e triumphs are not
an invitation to intervention, or an evidence of
division among our people upon the propriety
of the prosecution of the war for the restora
tion of the Uniot}. '
The
. readings or explainations of the late
Democratic. successes have been various and
opposite. By the Republicans it is said that
by these elections the people have condemned
the tauter mode in' which the war has been
ktrosecuted, although this is directly opposed
to their position before the election. In Eu
rope they were a condemnation of the war and
a vote for separation—adopting the Republican
theory during the canvass. The South is
silent on the subject, awaiting events. Now,
the true mode, of tunderstanding the meaning
of these
.elections is to
,read their antecedents.
Not • what the Republicans or AbolitiOnists
said of us, for that would sustain the foreign
explanation: But what did our friends say ?
What did our papers and 'our speakers say ?
What did the party proclaim as its principles,
to the support of which it invited and claimed
the suffrages of the people? These were sus
thined by the popular vote, and these tell with
unerring certainty what these elections mean.
Did any representative speaker, or did any
standard paper, advocate a dissolution of the
Union or a peace upon the basis of separation ?
Our enemies said this, of us ; but we denied it
veheule i ntly, East and West, and everywhere.
They knew ancl ire knew that a conviction of
thUse - charges WAS a certain defeat. All know
now, all knew then, that no 'anti-war party
could dimmed with the ptittple—that the popu
lar vote could only be secured upon the war
platform, and the only difference which we
admitted or recognized was the principles and
purposes for which the war should be prose
cuted. We all insisted—papers, orators and
conventions—and proved, too, that oar ene
mies were prosecuting the war for unconstitu
tional purposes and by unconstitutional means
—that the emancipation proclamation was
unconstitutional, and that arbitrary arrests
and th'e.suspension, or rather suppression of the
writ of habeas corpus, by the Executive and his
subordinates was equally a violation of that
instrument. It was upon these measures we
took issue with our opponents, and not, upon
a prosecution of the war, and upon these issues
the popular verdict has been rendered. Both
parties went to the country admitting and ad
vocating the propriety and the necessity of
prosecuting the war. The whole country then
—both parties L—were for the war. There were
individual exceptions no doubt on both sides,
but they entertained their opinions in silence
and voted for that party which approached near- .
eat their views. There were no doubt some few
who voted with us who have ever been disgus
ted with the war, who have ever sympathized
with the rebe:lien, and think the South has a
right to separate and go in peace, but they are
very few. There are many more Abolitionists
who feel that the 'South can never be con
quered but by extermination, which the history
of the world shows is impossible, and that a
prolongation of the war will insure Democratic
ascendency, and result in a restoration of the
Union ae it was under the Constitution as it is,
arid hence they are for a separation and a
peace, at once, which they deem preferable to
the old Union. Neither party countenanced
these extreme views, and to have done so
would insured certain defeat.
Where, then, did we get our votes ? There
were not enough old Democrats to give us the
victory. We must get, and did get, accessions
from the' Republicans—from those who voted
for Mr. Lincoln—who helped to place the
present administration, including the Congress,
in power. How did we get these votes? Why
did they leave the Republicans and come to us?
It was because the Republican party—the ad
ministration—ceased to represent their views.
They disapproved, it is true, but still tolerated
arbitrary and illegal arrests, perhaps, because
the Confederate COVernment did the same thing
in a most arbitrary manner, with the Union
men in the south. But, it was the proclamation
which produced the revolution in the North—a
peaceful and a constitutional revolution. The
process of reasoning which brought to our
ranks such accessions of patriotic men, and
will bring to us many times more in the future,
was not uniform among those who deserted
the opposite party and came to us; while all
were influenced by substantially the same
causes. As the human mind differs in dif
ferent men, so will men reason differently
from the same facts while arriving at the same
result.
As for some, if not by far the greatest pro
portion of our accessions during the late elec
tions, they saw that in his inaugural address
Mr. Lincoln had proclaimed that he would
maintain the Constitution, and not violate it ;
that he had approved most cordially the Crit
teoden resolutions passed at the special session
in July, 1861 ; that he had, in fact, disapproved
of the confiscation law and finally signed it
with great reluctance and virtually under pro
test. All approved of his Greeley letter as
showing that he was prosecuting the war only
for the restoration of the Union. He had re
voked the Fremont and Hunter orders pro
fessing to free the slaves in their respective
departments, and had removed both those gen
erals from their commands, and finally in his
answer to the Chicago clerical committee, ha
PRICE TWO CENTS.
had again publicly committed himself to a
conservative and constitutional °minim, and
had, by most unanswerable arguments and
illustrations, pointed out the danger and the
folly of the course which they urged upon
him. Many of these old Lincoln men—the old
conservative Webster and Clay Whigs, who
constituted the conservative element f the
Republican party—believed, said still believe,
that Mr. Lincoln had been honest and truthful
in these professions, and faithfully representea
his own real convictions, and the principles
upon which he desired to conduct his adminis
,tration and to prosecute the war. , These men
saw with surprise and consternation his pro
clamation of the 22c1 of September, only ten
days after his answer to the Chicago committee,
before whom he had so nobly vindicated him
self. How wagthis to be accounted for? They
believed still in hie truth and proverbial hon
esty. They did not believe that he had been
merely acting a part falsely, that he might the
more securely adopt the •radical measures of
the wild fanatics who had been howling around
him and embarrassing and abusing him from
the very commencement of his administration.
But they thought that his firmness of papose
had given away. He yielded to a pressure
which a Jackson would have defied, but which
he could not resist. Of this pressure he had
often complained, sometimes publicly, oftener
in private. To the Border State delegation
particularly had he complained of this pres
sure, and intimated that it was backed by the
threat of defection and desertion by those
whose support ho could not spare. They saw
—the whole world saw—whence this pressure
came. All the Northern States were in the
control of one party. Not one Democratic
Governor, not one Democratic Legislature to
which he could look for support and relief. All
were Republican, and most of them of a radical
and violent character. Many of them were
bold bad men who would scruple at nothing to
attain their ends, even to the overturning of
the Government and a daring usurpation.—
They saw that upon such men be was entirely
dependent for hie army; if not for his trea
sury.
At the commencement of the war, 'he con
sented to the plan, of raising the volunteer
forces through the State Executives, and allow
ing them to appoint all the regimental and
company officers. At this juncture there were
three hundred : thousand volnnteers assembled
and organized in ; ttese States,. held and con
trolled by the State . Governors and commanded
by officers appointed by them,'-and still subject
to their military orders as their superior . offi
cers. :Nearly, if not quite, all r of these Gover
nors were clamorous forradicalmettaures—for
the proolamation—a measure which they pro
fessed to believe would•crush the rebellion and
end the war directly, and that without it there
was no hope of success..
Here was a pressure. Here was a visible,
tangible power, sufficient to overturn the go
vernment and hurl Mi. Lincoln fro'm the Pre
sidential chair—a measure which we have
every reason to believe was actually contem
plated, at least by a portion of these State
Executives, and who shall say that it would
not have been earthily accomplished had the
President not finally yielded? Then there
would have been no peaceful October and No
vember elections. The conservatives would
then have had a double task to Perform, and
would have achieved a double victory. True,
he resisted and complained till the meeting of
the Governors at Altoona-was about to assem
ble and give shape and
,unity to this mighty
force. and then who shall say for himself that
he would 'not have yielded`? ' ?to doubt there,
are men who would.not have given way to this
threatening, crushing pressure, but they are
the men who would never have allowed this
combination against the government and the
Constitution to have assumed 'such vast pro
portions.
Here were facts which have already become
history, and these are the constructions given
to them by at least a portion of the conservative
Republicans who, with Mr. Lincoln himself,
had been devout followers of Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster, and who believed that Mr.
Lincoln told the truth when he said that at
heart he was opposed to • the violent doetrines
of the proclamation, and they firmly believed
that he only yielded his own judgment and
deserted his own cherished policy under this
almost resistless pressure. They believed that
the Abolitionists had, with violent hand, seized
him . and demanded of him the proclamation
and a change of poliey on pettier deilosltion.
They saw there was no way Of *resting him
from this violent grasp—of disenthralling him
from the meshes in which they had entangled
him, that he might conduct the government
and prosecute the war upon constitutional
principles and for constitutional ends but in
the success of the Democratic party.
Thus reasoned a portion but not all of those
who had become disgusted and alarmed at the
new policy so suddenly inaugurated at Wash
ington. Others, and there are no doubt many
of them, who believed that Mr. Lincoln had at
heart been' in deep sympathy with the most
radical from the beginning, and had only affect
ed moderation as a matter of policy. When
they looked back and remembered all he had
said and done they could see this radicalism
cropping out on many occasions, as when he
caressed and countenanced Wendell Phillips,
and many other indications equally suggestive,
and upon a review of his wrilings and sayings
designed to create an impression of a con
servative purpose, they found certain reserva
tions and qualifications indicating a predeter
mination to adopt the radical policy as soon
as he could do so safely. They now believed
that while he had "held the word of promise
to the ear," he designed "to break it to the
hope." This class of men left him in disgust,
for they had lost all faith in his integrity.
Again, there were others whose attention
was arrested principally by the imbecility of
the administration. While it was obstinate it
was weak. It was incapable of comprehending
the magnitude of the rebellion and the resour
ces and the endurance of the South, and was
utterly unable effectually to use the vast re
sources placed in its hands so as to produce
any adequate results, They believed hat the
President was not a judge of men nor of
things. That he could neither conduct the war
himself nor comprehend the capacity of others
to conduct it. That the whole history of the•
administration was a combination of obstinacy
and vacillation. T he proclamation as a war
measure completetheir dif!trust and destroyed
their last hope in the ability of the adminis
tration to prosecute the war to a successful
issue. It was was mere child's play on a
grander scale than was ever before exhibited
in the history of the world. They felt that
the interests, nay the life, of the nation were
wickedly trifled with ; and that the time bad
coma, if the country was to be saved at all, for
the great mass of the people—whose servants
our rulers are—whose interests are committed
to their hands—whose country and wluise gov
ernment it is that is to be saved or lost—to
band together under come form, some Organi
zation, and form such a party , as, by its uum
bees and its influence, would make itself heard
and heeded at the seat of gt,verancent. The
only way to do this was for all the conserve,
tive..men bf the nation to rally around the
Democratic party.
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It is,not my purpose to express an opinion
as to which was nearest right ; but by wilich
ever of these varlous motive!, or consideratinne
the Republicans`whe came to our supPerritere
influencedoill aped in the last conclusion.—
All saw that the. Democrats were as earnestly
engaged in the prosecution of the war as war
Mr. Lincoln himself. •They ea* that no party
in the history. of..this,. or any other country,
had over shown. more .disinterested patriotism
than had been exhibited by the Demoorats since
the breaking out of the rebellion. Before the
smoke of the politiealbattle of 1860, by which
Mr. Lincoln watt placed in power,,had cleared
away, a civil war was inaugurated, whielt.lad
been provoked and induced, though certainty
not justified, by the wild fanaticism of the very
leaders of the party which had . phreft-Mr.
Lincoln in power, and Democrats Were tiked
upon to go and shed their blood and' 'COM
their substance in a war which they belieVed
might 'have been avoided by a proper °bacilli,-
tory course, which they had reconaneaded, but
had been treated with contumely by than 'in
power. But notwithstanding all this -the
Democrats had shut their eyes ft• at that had
gone before, and hushed the involuntary mur
murings that the war was needlessly provoked
by that wild fanaticism which had jtait defeated
them at the polls, and they had rushstrto Idle
ranks under Mr. Lincoln, only remerabbehig
that their country and its Constitution vre4ist
danger. These conservative Republicans hid
witnessed all this and they appreciated`
They saw that the Democrats had come:trio.
the support of the country even more cheer
fully and earnestly than had their politica
opponents,in whose hands was all the patronage•
of both the civil and the military adminietaa
tion. All could see that the Democrats had
boldly fought and freely bled from no sordid
motives—to maintain no party ascendency, lint)
solely to • maintain the Union and the Constitui
tion.
When they saw all this, the conviction was'
forced upon them that to the Democratic partr
alone must they look for the salvation of the•
country and the restoration of peace and the
Union. They , found only in the Democratic
party those principles for the conduct of the
war which Mr. Lincoln had always maintained,
or professed to maintain, until he was forced
to abandon them, as some of them believed,
against his own settled convictions of right
and policy: Thus alone could he be enabled
to return or be forced back to his old censer
vative policy, which afforded the only Impact
an honorable termination of the war, or ale
st oration of the Union and a vindication of
the Constitution.
Seeing all this, they could not heeitatc to
abandon their old politisalassoeiates, who tad
greedy abandoned the principles upon, which
the war , had hitherto professedly been con
ducted, if not the President of their choiee,
and ally theingelves with the Debworsts:
This-is the trap explanation where , the votes
came from, and why they came, which gave
. 14 the victory—which produced this great po
litical revolution.
• It is undimbtedly true that bat a small'por
tion of the conservative Repuhlioana, who :are
opposed to• this wild and destructive radicalism
of their Abolition leaders, which now reigns
supreme in the Cabinet and in Congress, aban
doned them and came' to us during The late
canvass. Indeed, only the most reflective and
sagacious of them were prepared to do so, as it
were, on the spur of the moment. Were the
election. to be repeated to-morrow, ten would
vdte'ivith Sia'now Where one did in November,
The persistent and envenomed abase of ,Demo
oratic loyalty by the political ;tapers, and:ora
tors which altine they - were in the..,helkit, of
reading and hearing, induced many to tonally
doubt whether the Democratic' party, if once in
power, would sustain the governtient in the
prosecution of the war to restore the Union and
vindicate the Constitution; while others had
not sufficiently analyzed their own' feelings, in
view of the altered and peculiar state of 'things,
to enable them to break away from old names
and old associations, and to overcome old ;pre
judices so far as to allow them to vote the
Democratic ticket. But, thanks to the enlight
enment of the American people, enough 'saw
the truth and acted upon it to overthrow those
dangerous men whose manifest and even de
clared object is to overthrow the Constitution
of their country, and who will, in history,
stand side by side with the leaders of this re
bellion. Posterity will be divided' upon the
question as to which are the wickedest and
which the greatest traitors.
The true course of the Democratic party in
the future is manifest. We must walk in the
light of the past. If we would maintain the
ascendency already attained, and augment our
ranks by the accession of those' Republicans
who are disgusted and alarmed by the radical
policy of the Abolition leaders, and who desire
to prosecute the war by constitutional means
and for constitutional ends, we Must pursue a
course alike dictated by patriotism and by pol
icy. We must heartily and cordially live up to
our professions during the canvas. We must
show no lokewarmness, or hesitancy in, sus
taining and prosecuting a war which, if aban
doned by the people, must result in a dismemm •
berment of the Union, , the destruction of the
Constitution and a disgrace to this people ,
which must attach to them and their posterity,
through all time: A dissolution of the Union..
once admitted—a destruction of the Constitum
Lion once effected, then this community
States will be resolved into its original element,.
and who can foretell where will be the end ?•
There never was a clearer light shining before.
public men than that which illuminates the way
in which we ahouid walk. We may pursue a.
course now which will draw to our pariy.all
the reflective, substantial conservatthm ef• the•
nation, by the aid and support of which , we
shalt be enabled to wrest Abraham lineoln,
from the desperate hands of those who are bent
on the destruction of the Constitution and the
government, and to take the lead of imclic afi:-
fairs, and finally restore the country to•peacte,
unity and happiness. Or we may by another
course repel from us those who have ROW octane
to our help and given us the victory, as well as
the great mass of the Democrota themselves,
and leave the party literally annihilated, and
with it the last hope of the country blasted.
Yours truly, J. IX, CAwes,
OTTOWit, 111., Deo. 1862.
"MURDER WILL Our."—On the' 4 2.011 of
October, 1858, an unknown men was found
lying on the railroad track at Altoona, with
fife entirely extinct. There were no marks or
bruises about him, other than a fracture of the
skull, which had evidently bees inflicted by a
slung shot or some other round or blunt in
strument. Some ss9 in money, and a ticket.
from Chicago to New York were found . in hi&
possession. His name was supposed . to be /0.
T. Bernier. On Tuesday morning last', Nichr ,
olas Ehringer, propieter of the RIAU •U o t, e l,
Altoona, was arrested, on oath of titartin Hor
man charged with the murder of the,Men above
referred to. Harman xuade oath 'thit be saw
Ettringer put the man on tho`treek the night
previous to the stamping :in:srhieli,, he was
found; that he told Harman that hebsd killed
him, and that be gave, or promised to give,
Harman money to say nothing shout it. The
case will underge a' full inveuttgotior4 0 1 0tO
next term Of WM.