Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-23
The Reri,alof the pemocrntlc Parry.

In every part of the country the sentiment is
expressed and felt by the great body of the
people who have the true interests of the country
at heart, that the only hope of the restoration of
the Union as it was is in the ascendancy of the
Democratic party, which has ever had for its
standard the banner of the Constitution and the
Union, would give confidence to the loyal people
of all sections of the country that constitutional
rights would be respected and the guarantees of
the Constitution faithfully maintained. If the
ship of State was again guided by Democratic
principles, policy and men, it would be the rain
bow of hope and the promise of peace and re-
union to all who have respected our Government
as the most benefcent ever vouchsafed to any
people. This result can only be accomplished
by the early and thorough reorganization of the
Democratic party, and everywhere we see evil
dences that the necessity of this work and the
determination to accomplish it, pervades the
public mind The Chicago Times refers to the
copy, as applicable to all sections of the country,
and as reflex of popular sentiment:
The Democratic State Committee of Rhode
Island have just held meeting and resolved to
''put again into working order the old Democrat
ic party" as being "the surest and speed;est way
OF dealing POLITICAL death to those chiefest and
most powerful enemies of the Union and the
Constitutions, the Abolitionists." That being the
sentiment of the Democracy of Rhode Island, il
perfectly harmOnlzes with the Democratic senti
ment OF the Northwest, and we doubt not of the
whole country.
In the Northwest the sentiment was wonder
fully strong, and it IS purely popular sentiment
as distinguished from a movement of politicians.
1t lacks development, because the opportunities
of development have not occurred, though some
indications of it disclosed in the recent State
election. We, as Journalists see and feel more
of il than appears on the surface the casual OBJ
server, aud through our business correspondence.
Letters come to Us daily from the seven North
western States, aud numerous OF the writeas adj
vert to the condition of the country and assert
their belief that there is but one way out of
the difficulties which threaten the national ex-
istence, and that is through the Democratic
party. In every instance where the Times has
suggested the necessity of revival of the Dem.
ocratic party AS essential to the national saliva
ton, responsive chord in the popular heart has
seemed to be touched, for the return mails
have brought Us food OF letters telling us
how certainly we have given expression to the
feeling of the Democratic masses
! Now the Democratic masses are always in
stinctively right. They have never been wrong
in the political history of this government They
have forcseen from the beginning, as clearly as
the prOudest Statesmen, the DRIFT of abolitionism
and the catastrophe of its triumph. In no wise
responsible for this war--forever protesting
against and resisting the causes which have pro-
duced it--they constitute to-day three-quarers of
the army which is Carrying it on Had they,
when the war began, stood back and left it to the
abohtonists, who made the war, to carry it on,
Washington would long ago have been the Con
feerate capital and the chief northern cities would
lie at the mercy ofthe Confederate armies The
men, the party, who have made the war, can new
er end it except in humiliation of the North and
final disruption Of the Union- 1t is this grand
fact, distinctly realized by the Democratic mass
es, that Is moving them to revival of theDemo
cratic party preparatory to the elections OF thd
ensuing year.