The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-07-18
AN ADDRESS TO THE BE NJ
QCATES PARTY.

to the world the spectacle OF house d.
vided against itself, and we are assured
by the highest authority that house
thus divided cannot stand. AS party,
you are about to die. Following the law
Of al voluntary organizations Of men, es-
pocially where society progresses, as in
Amsrica, your party has outirod its use
fulness, departed from its original prin-
ciples, aul become corrupt By its resort
to temporary expeIients for tho porpetu-
ation of its power. You are, indeed,
party no longer. You are not held to-
gethcr BY common creed; you do not,
and cannot, follow common leader. You
are so far at war among yourselves that
half of you would much prefer to see the
enemie; Of both your factions triumph,
than have your particular faction beaten
by its particular OBJ onent. The old poll
tic:an under whose leadership you achiev
ed your last national yi.tory, is about to
depart from his post of responsibility
and power, usod-up man-politicai!y
disgraced-thc last president Of q used-rp
party. Better men than you, or he, must
take charge of the government, or the
government itself will fall.
Thee is to be q great reaction from al
this corruption and diablerie, and this
reactie is identified with the republican
movement. When that party like yours
shall become corrupt, or useless, it VIII
die as yours is dying to day. God for
bid that it live long enough to become
rotten like yours. If it die, sooner or
later, as we suppose it will, let it be sur
rounded with associations of gallant strug-
giles and noble men, like the chiva-
ric old whig party! Let us remember 1t
with respect!
In view of your approaching dissolu-
ton. there are q few word. Of counsel
which, as members of a party that died
ono day, we feel peculiarly qualified to
say 70 you,
l. Admit, at once, what common sense,
analogy and common observation teach
you-that, as party, you are going to
die, and then go Immediately and make
preparations for your funeral. Do not
stand up through all this campaign and
try to make people believe that your par
ty is bound to win. What is the use Of
lying, and trying to convince yourself and
others that you arc not IN artic'Io morris z
Die gracefuIly-d;e good paturedly.--
Make the best of what you cannot help.
You know you DO not Ike The way your
patty has been going on for few yeas
past, and that there must DO reform
You know thot the old issues on which
the democratic party was originally found
ed have faded ont, and that the party
cannot, in the nature of things, survive
them. For that, at least, you ara not TO
blame, So, give up tho old concern, and
if there Is anything pleasant about it.
cherish It ia your memory.
II When you die, de. Don's lie five
years about It. Look about You and see
what spoonios a lot of respectable old
wings have made Of themselves. The
poor fellows did not suppose it was poss-
iblc for the wing party to die; and when
the noble old organization was ontombed.
and the mourners went about the streets,
or gent of immediately to look up new
connections, they 'eouId not mako it
dead" Simple-hearted, chiyalric, dcyo-
ted men, they believed that the party had
only hidden itself of little season, and
that ultimately it would come forth, con-
quering and to conquer. Some of them
still, with the eye ofsublime, unwavcring
faith, look forward to golden day in
the far future whom the wing party, with
its name upon its forehead, will appear,
and believe that the whole nation will fall
down and worship it. Look at these old
fellows, and see how they are laid up,
forgotten, shelycd and done for, and all
because they they will not belieyo that
their party is dead. No, no. When
yon die, die, and be done with it, If
you see among the machines left On The
tack any that you think yeu would like
to ride after, jump on. Otherwise, wait
ILL the new machine comes along. Don't
be left behind to accommodate anybody.
# you do, you sill De sorry for it as long
as you live, and, possibly, be left at last
to getting up Bell and Everett parties, or
something else as foolish.
III. Having recognized the fact that
the democratic party is dsad, and that
it has on moro claims upon ycu, and has
ia il nothing more for you, bring to your
realization the fact Il at it was killed by
the Niger, and try to understand that