The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-12-26
Dolttttall
What has BECOME Of it.

w nat mas become CT IL.
Not one in a thousand will have the fol-
" to deny that the Freesoil party that once
was, has gone the way OF al uuprincipi,d
factions. II is dead. beyond the power Of a
resurrection, and none--not even the re-
ported authors OF its existence-are so poor
an object as to do it reverence, Il does
not now exist, even in name. Aud a COM
mon ciyility demands that we should make
a note OF the manner of its death, and mark
the insatiate grave which has swallowed l.
up.
All but men of zone idea," from first to
ast, pronounced it useless and irpracti-
cable thing. No statesman Of comprehen,
sive mind, ever, for a moment, imagined
that an organization like it could, by any
possibility, be otherwise than injurious to
the Interests of the country, and especially
so to the enslaved portion of the African
race. Nor does even that charity which
corrects multitude of sins, require us to
believe that the most brawliug leaders of
the faction had any nther or higher object
in view than to use the honest opponents OF
all formg Of oppression, for their own ag-
| graEdzement. Under the cloak 0 phian-
thropy, they for the time being concealed
gross selfshness. Ifuver fact concerning
the motives Of men can be proved by their
actions, this charge. grave and pointed as
it is, can be demonstrated to any who are
not so blind that thy will not see, and 50
deaf that they will not hear
1t may be amusing AMI instructive to
glance at the brief and dsreputable history
of that party. Less than four short years
ago, those who stood as the God fathers and
God mothers Of thut def1rmed bantljng Of
of sefsmess and corruption, insisted that
the principles which constituted the basis oil
the organization, We're purely and pre- en-
inenty Democratic Those political trick
sters had the impulence, even while advo'
eating their "higher law" doctrines, and
committing every possible outrage upon the
Safeguards of our national compact, TO PIE
tend that they were more democratic than
Democracy itself, and so purely patriotic
that all the patriotism of our political faith
ers was unclean in their sight To carry
out that game of deception, several Of their
! leading journals actually appropriated cur
: time horored name.
The True Democrat Of this city, the Ii;
dependent Democrat of Flyria. and other:
elsewhere located, serve as proofs Of the
fact asserted, and of the game Of deception
successfully played by those desperate ant
unscrupuious political quacks.
But what has become of that party, an(
what must we now say of its well remem
f bered professions OF regard for Democratic
prir Plies and rules Of political ac.ion7 =
n That the party is dead, and died by tn
a cordial consent of those who created it ON
d of the odds and ends of all the faction
n since the food will not be delied An
r have the elements Of which it is co"poae
in obedience to their poll ical aflinties, N
# into and been absorbed by the Democrat
s. party of this State or this nation? No.
II Finding that the real Democracy were to
wise to be deceived by their professions, m
T.. that the game they were playing was bette
q understood by the people than they wishe'
J. it to be, still intent upon the object the
a had in view from the first, despairing
b. success by open and honorable meaus, an
:. having learned that the Democracy couI
,r neither be intimidated or purchased, the
r sought and found an alliance atogeth,
10 congenia, and promising all they had ev'
an hoped fof-temporary success. WhiggeI
h. and Know Nothingism, the former dead ar
:. already offensive, and the latter alive ar
in kicking just emitted from the jews Of poll
> ical rotterness-kindly wrapped the wins
ID ing. sheet, around the party Of zone idea,
m and that was the last of it.
III Thank God the Democracy are not a
10 coun.ab|e for its existence, nor justly r
lie sponslble for its untimely enA. When {
D. inquest is he'd over the body of that orga
h ization, the verdict will be-"died Of Il
n poison Of It's own bitterness, in the year
h grare eighteen Hundred and ffty-6ye." :"
il So mote it be.-( Plaindealer.