The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-14
WASHINGTON CITY.
rnURsDAY, ocToBER 10. 1865.
THE ELECTIONS.

cratic party. Excuses not remedies ana we
shall not therefore, invoke them. We have been
sadly beaten by extended detection in our own
ranks-beaten we regret to say, precisely at the
time that the evil policy Of the opposition most
deeply felt all over the country. Our friends
have struggled with intestine difficulties and with
the open enemy, who were encouraged to renewed
efforts in consequence Of the quarres in own
party. 1t is undoubtedly true, too, that the ques
ton Of revision of the tariff the basis of direct
protection to special interests had much to do in
procuring votes for the opposition They professed
to be the peculiar friends of protection and to have
it in their power if elected to aid the people of Penn
sylvania We shall be able hereafter to test the
soundness Of the judgment that would thus strike
down the men of Pennsylvania who best sub
serve the true interests Of that State in order to give
place to handful of political spectators who really
have no power to benefit honest industry.
1t is not our purpose to comment upon the returns
reported to US of the elections Wo have carefully
complied and arranged them so that the reader may
have all the information which has reached the Union
Office. Our duty does not end with recording these
defeats Of the democracy The which have led
to them must be the subject of thought and discus.
sion furnishing lessons of experience for our f-
ture guidance With the open enemy of our prnci-
Piles we have no terms of compromise or concilia-
ton. In tho hour of their temporary triumph we
bid defiance to their organization and spurn their
reasonable doctrines We have met aud conquered
them in tho past and will do it again in the future
Blackrepublicanism has no firm hold upon the hon
WI
and warned Of the dangers which flow from the fri
umphs Of these sectional enemies of the constitution
and the Union, the voice of patriotic people will
soon consign them to merited defeat If at this
time they had been thrown upon their own I'M
aided resources, their present victory would have
been hopeless and disastrous overthrow. With
them we shall have future reckoning, of which
they may have foretaste by recurring to
the past triumphs and victories of the democracy
which have heretofore suffered similar defeats to
the present Unlike all other political organizations
in this country, the democratic party survive dis
asters and gather new power and strength from each
recurrence of them Our principles have an abiding
place in the hearts and affections Of the American
people, and we cling to them with deeper feeling
and stronger faith in the hour of danger and dis
aster than in the day of victory. The triumphant
republican-the exultant know-nothing-the traitor
GUS democrat of them, nor all of them com
bincd feel half proud and defiant in their victory
as the true and noble democrat who retires from
the lost battle with consciousness Of the honesty
of his motives, the purity of his principles, and the
ultimate invincibiity of his party.
With those democrats who have leagued with the
enemy and given them the victory, we can have
faith alliance In looking tho field, Douglas
and his Forneys may find cause for rejoicing and
selflaudatons They may glory alike in their own
shame and the defeat of the noble old party which
they have betrayed and abandoned 1t is their work,
and they may claim from their new allies full com
pensation for the service they have rendered They
and the black-republicans have been faithful CO.
workers beginning with Judge Douglass attack
President Buchanan's administration at the
mencement Of the last session Of Congress- and end
ing in their present joint and inglorious victory.
They have fought well and successfully together.
Let them together rejoice, and in common prepare
for the final doom that awaits alike the original enc
mics and tho recent deserters of the democratic
party
81 W 8 have no Tears OF Tie masses. iney may LOT
time be deceived and delnded by those in whom
they have been accustomed to confde. 1t is not
strange that men like Judge Douglas, who had been
trusted and honored by the democracy of the whole
Union, should be able to lead asray many good and
true men; but it would be strange indeed if he
could induce them to remain with him in the EN-
braces Of black-republicansm. Douglas and such
instruments as Forncy may and no doubt will take
permanent quarters in tho ranks Of the opposition,
but they will find themselves left without demo
cratic sympathizer to participate in their shame and
dishonor. The democratic party must submit to
these periodical purgations 1t purifes the organi
cation by striking from the rolls men who in the
past were unworthy Of our confidence, and in the
future viii BIO incapable Of doing us an injury En-
couraged by the noble efforts of our friends in every
quarter, and strengthened in our democratic faith,
we look hopefully to the future, not doubling that
it has in store for us other and glorious tri
umphs than even thoso bright victories in tho past
which have rendered our principles immortal and
our organization invinoiblc.
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