St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-10-11


promise and fusion viii enlldangsr the pres
tige AID POTENCY ,nther tlan|tIs Principles
Of the wcsker kcti@.| aoprsa,r;i,kipies"
say they We 4gheoomYropbe il Older
to rescue the governne ffoa ths hands
Of the Black Republicans; But our dignity,
our right to equality in the number Of
electors and the promotion Of our favorite
candidate, never.' It'll thu; ttat patriot
ism is lost in q fog. Fromzthe full per.
suasion that the election Of Lincoln would
DO the sundering Of the Union, the cry has
shifted to hopeful strain in view Of the
prospective brevity Of his administration.
Now the bitterness Of feeling toward the
Republican party has lost its twang by
reason Of tho seveufold bitterness between
the contending factions of its opponents.
"We," says Mr.. Brady, "can have nothing
more to do with those who demand of us
such humiliating concessions. To have
conceded to them would have been to de-
serve the burning scorn and reproach Of
all honorable men. The hour of compro-
mise is past ! Douglas must try his
strength in the canvass, and the probabili-
ties are that he will not receive single
electoral vote in single State in the Tn
ion." Meanwhile, lie (Mr. Brady looks
upon the great catastrophe Of Republican
triumph as inevitable, yet not f,tal. "Sup-
pose Mr.. Lincoln is elected I trust for
the good Of the country he may not be-
But if he should be, VIM. H. Seward will
be his Secretary of State, and VIM. NJ.
Evarts will be U. S. Senator for this IN.
" State. And what then? Why the
Republican party will die out in two years
time" Glorious hope! That the onl,
party that holds fast the faith Of the found
ers Of this Republic, that is carrying out
the principles which alone can make our
pretensions to being a free. people aught
else than a Kissing and scorn to the world,
that propose nothing more radical than
what is to be found in the Constitution,
and nothing more aggressive in the cause
Of emancipation than was firmly adhered to
for the first thirty years Of our history,
that is struggling simply to restore what
the compromises and tergiversations in
trucking subserviency to the slave power
for the last forty years have thrown away,
is going to die out in two years. There is
hope for our country if its ancient faith
may be restored even for that length of
time. And We will Let the predictions of
it's speedy o1terpaticn, for the time being,
have the go by. But the spa1tan heroism
Of the Bell Everett party is going to save
the country. Itnow begins to glory in the
paucity Of it's numbers! Strange glorying
that, for party whose chief boast has been
that they are the only national party and
who have claimed for themselves the ex-
treme of ,iberaity towards the country's
greatest cause. OF course with such pre-
tensions they are not looking just now for
any Thcrn,opyle on which to display their
.wondrous patriotism. They are willing to
bide their time. until on the 60 down of
Linoolnn'ss administration the mario = pass
shall be discovered! = For the present they
prefer any thiag-- that which. but
three months ago they declared an newt
able finale to the union Of these States, be-
fore fusion OF compromise, though these
might be effected with little or no yielding
Of principle. ra l.. - .,...., ~. -
In this refusal of the different factions
Of the Democratic party to coalcsce, while
they must know that such refusal renders
a Republican triumph inevitable, there is
something to engage the musings Of the
moralist as wellas the skill and zeal of the
politician. We must confess to feeling
nearly bordering: on hero worship as we
see the great Statesman Of New York STAN
ding IN the midst of this bloodless re,,v1olu-
ton, looking calmly around on SO much,
in the political atmosphere which, if he
were more arrogant he ght claim as the
work Of his own hands, and still pointing
his auditors to an overriding providence,
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