Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-05
Tho Last Struggle of Democrat

The old Democratic hulk went down at
Baltimore on Saturday last, hopeless
wreck. The party which has rioted in cor
ruption since 1852 has been rent assunder.
1t has perished by that agitation which it
originated for the purpose of perpeLuating
its power-and it now presents TO the
country spectacle of disorganization and
disaffection which is almost humiliating TO
behold. The immediate authors of its
ruin, are James Buchanan and Stephen A.
Douglas, who in their servility to the Slave
power sacrificed the organization which gave
them place and position. May their fate
be warning to public men in the future
10 think more of their country and less Of
their party, and do that which is right ra-
ther than that which they may deem expe-
dient. The scenes at Baltimore at the
final death struggle of the democracy were
appropriate to the occasion, and were char
acteristic of the end of a party that owed
its vitality to dishonesty and corruption.
Even the New York Herald, which is not
supposed to have very delicate notions of
propriety, says that "rufianism was the
predominating element in the Convention" )"
and from this argued (this was before the
secession) that the days of this demoral-
lied party are numbered, it being now in the
agonies of DEATH" The Herald further
says: at is too badly cut up, too seriously
crippled, and has too many lines broken to
be healed and put upon its legs agin in a
single day or single year. 1t is practi-
cally dissolved and disbanded-it is suffer
ing the fate of Tammany Halls in all the
days of ruffianism--discords, disunions, re-
bellions, defeat and disgrace"
From the Baltimore PARROT, we extract
the following account of the scenes enacted
near the final dissolution:
"The scenes that have been enacted in
our midst since Monday last-the daily
scuff1es and nightly broils-the quarrels,
dissension and fights-the drunkenness,
gambling, profanity and other disreputable
conduct, which has been visible for the
week-must, we think, lead all men to re-
joice that the end is near.
The peace of the city has been disturbed
only by those non-residents, who were
sent here to produce harmony and peace
Men occupying high position, members of
Congress, have peen arrested for open
breaches of peace and public decorum.-
Pistols have been exhibited, dirkknives
used, and in and around the drinking shops
and gambling room, excited kuots of men,
"clubs," have gathered in angry discussion,
which has generally led TO knock-dowp,
and drag-out by the police.
Citizens throughout the country do not
see, but the citizens of Baltimore have seen
to their hearts content or, perhaps it
would be better to say, TO the stomach's
disgust, the kind of men, who through the
machinery of Conventions, have ruled the
fortunes of this Republic.
1t may be supposed, and on very good
grounds, that we contemplate the near
prospect of the dissolution and disper-
sion of such Convention and such a
party with feelings of pleasure. We real
Iy think that no greater good fortune could
befal the country than the final disruption
and scattering of the Democratic Conspir-
acy."