The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-05-19
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Ihs lecofoco political Ranaessera a frcouentl
happens with othsr gambsers, ars, nov-a-days
rather in : desperate ccadision. The sikns q th
! tmes do not seem 70 be particularly auapicioa
aos their saccess. They begin - see that tl,ei
chances for an election Of President, by the peo
PIE, have mot only become doobsful, but are q
tually almost hopelcsA They perceive that III
, great national" party has aAeady rot into
fragmeatary position, and dat there 10 htsl,
likelihood Of soon bringing the de6ris again int.
} . united and sympathixing mass
Its true that The trump cards Of the Loco
focos ass oil played out The only game lele q,
them e TO strive 70 defeat popular election b,
the Republicans. Some Of them Imagine tha,
the power 70 do this is yet left TO thcsa Thsiu
plan 10 70 unite the South on . ticket suited q
that latitude, and TO run another candidate III
the North, with whom they will cndeavor "a
carry two or three Northern States, 20 that the
election must. Of no necessity, 70 to the House.
They think also, that in all probability, the
House would fail TO make an election, and
that the Senate would elect Vice President.
Who would become the acting President for the
term. The Locofocos have the Senate In their
own hands, or the Senate have the I.ocofocoa.
We don't know exactly which, They think this
scheme will ensure their party supremacy Sor the
next four years. This, they believe, is SOFT Of
game that will work admirably. II looks quite
plausible, 70 he sure. 1f they were certain of
obtaining all the votes cast for their party in SO,
and they were quite sure that the Rcpubli-
cans would get no more votes than in the last
campaign, Of course such game would win.
But there are two serious impediments in their
way. One is, the much greater strength Of the
Republicans. The opposition forces in all the
Northern States are much more numeous. more
firmly knit together, and will make much more
formidable contest than they were able to make
four years SINCE This is more particularly true Of
the identical States which were then lost by them
The second impeachment is to be found among the
Democracy themselves. Four years since they
were thoroughly united-moved by single feel
ing, and animated hy the most brilliant pros
poets. There were then no clouds of ominous
portent in the skies they looked upon. Now ev-
erything is different. The party is divided
The party is full of discomfort There is no
unanimity Of thought, nor any of action, in its
ranks. Its prestige is gone. The old watch
words have lost their influence. The sentiment
OF nationality, which was Mea the mistaken
foundation Of almost innumerablc votes, no long
er has any existence. The arguments then
showered with such force of expletives upon the
Republicans, now apply to themselves. II the
Republicans are not nationals the Locofocos
have always asserted-so are not the Democrats,
either North or South. 1t is evident to our |
mind that, from these causes alone, this last !
card of the gamblers in politics, would like the
rest, prove miserable failure.
But let US look further. II the Convention at |
Baltimore nominates Douglas, il is quite certain
that the boilers will also have candidate. In |
that case, supposing the Southern nominee Oh |
tains oniy one-tenth Of the vote In the Demo
cratic States-that is, the South,-the result |
would be that Bell, in all human probability,
would carry every Southern State. The South |
ern nominee would also have a ticket in the |
North, and obtain for it quite enough votes, to
answer the defeat of Douglas in every Northern |
State, 20 that in the event of the nomination Of |
Douglas, it is doubtful if he would obtain sim |
gle electoral vote in the whole Union.
II Douglas is not nominated, the same results |
for the Republicans seem to US inevitable -
Thousands upon thousands Of his supporters,
who are in reality as much Republicans Us any
one can be, would at once repudiate the party, |
the name of which has alone kept them where !
they are, and unite with that with which they in |
fact sympathize. They willing to support
Douglas, because they think that, somehow or |
other, he is in fact a man with Northern prin- |
ciples But if he is set aside simply because
he will not support ''slavc code" the great
mass Of honest Democrats, who are opposed to |
such code, will join the Republicans rs speedi- |
~ as possible.
So that it appears patent to us that the
great "National Democratic Party,"-as its
members have SO much delighted to style it's
now upon its last legs and totteIing to an ineyit.
able fall in November ncxt-that, nomatter how
skillfully the schemes may be devised, there is
no human probability that any will do more than
preserve the form Of the party until the
election, when it will die the death it
deserves, and be buried deeply and forever.
This will p,ove good thing for the country |
and no less a good thing for the De-
mocrats themselves. We are anticipating, |
with great pleasure, the time when the very per-
sons who have been most bitter against Repub-
licanism, will be among its most enthusiastic |
supporters, and not less astonished at their |
former opposition to it, than we have always |
kno~ they are riyht, and be quite as willing to |
Ego ahead"
Hon. THOMAS SERGEANT.-Tbe Philadelphia |
papers announce the deccase Of Hon. Thomas |