The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-10-30
The Lessons Of the aour.

be instructed thereby.
!. One year ago the democratic party was
swept from power in this country as the ST..
moon sweeps away the sands OF The desert
and blasts in is course every vestige of ami.
nal life. Ia vain that party pleaded for iAe
Union OF these States and the integrity of
The sovesnmens. In vain through lis press
and by It's orators-rhrough every channel
in fact by which il could reach the poblic
ear or attract The public attention, did il ad-
.monish the people that the success of sec-
iionss organization would produce civil war
and dismemberment of the States. they
would not heed or hear. There was not
enough left of the democrats of this State,
90 fsr as their orgazation was concerned, 10
even ca,l it a party. All branches of :he
public service were filed with the opposi-
lion, and for the third time since the organ
izaiion of the government, the democracy
hung its harps on the willows and retired
10 monrn for The sad fate of their country.
Their prophesies have been fulfilled
their predictions, in all their terrible reality,
have come to pass. War-murderous and
desola.ing war, now reigns in place of peace
and conlentment. We are rapidly becom-
ing nation of military accomplishments,
and when the end shall be no one can tell
But ga change has come o'er the spirit
OF our. Dreams" Starting on. long before
his campaign commenced With the idea
hat the democratic party was now dead,
the leading political element o. The country
essayed 10 crush out every vestige OF It's vi
taliiy. It's presses were mobbed or placed
under the ban of an exaciing public opinion
that would tolerate nothing but an actual
obedience to the behesis OF the party in
power. Its orators aud public men were
subjected TO irdigniiies such as the Gar oI
all the Russians would hardly dare TO load
upon one of his subjects. The final disso
Luton of the democratic party was anDoun-
ced, with so much earnestness and zeal,
that everywhere the timid faltered and fell
back--the doubling hesiia;ed and looked
about to be sure which would, in the end
be the strongest side and, that large class
Of politicians who have no principles but
The loaves and fshes-who have in turn
belonged 10 all parties and adhered 10 none,
went clear over and joined the opposition
under the specious cry OF "Union.'' But
what has been the RESULT Undismayed by
the disasters that have befallen its country,
or The defeats that but year ago overlook
its party, the everything, active, bfeaihinR
sentiment of democracy, inherent in the
hearts OF The people, has been al work and
performed its mission through The ballot
box. Pennsylvania has been redeemed
from the rule Of the venal-redeemed from
The rule of eectionalism-and has reiurned
to her old and ancient faith.
II has often seemed strange to us that any
body can for moment distrust the recuper-
alive power OF the democratic party. Yet
such there are. The democratic party is
dead is a story that has been said aud
sung for seventy years; and yet how, from
the dust of sackcIoih and humiliation, il al
ways arises No defeat humbIes-no deg
radiation subdues it. Clad in the panoply
Of right-imbned with the principles OF
Union and good government-once over
thrown and stripped OF the robes of power,
il always arises with renewed vigor and
vaior Of good government. and The protector
of the national integrity. Such has been iis
history, and snch il ever will be. The spir-
ii of democracy cannot be subdued or ami
hiIaied. II will 1--we while free government
shall liye-live in the hearts of meL-live
in The attributes OF God live forever.
This election then has written out The firsi
great lesson-ofen written but as often for
gotten, that the democratic parry is not
dead, neither doth il sleep. II is thing of
brealhed into an organized existence by
Thomas jefferson. II is raising up and
reaching ont for the control OF this govern
neui. and il will as surely grasp the object
for which il reaches, as that :he object itself
shall exist to be graspet. The acme OF
folly and madness has been gained, and
wearied with exhsusiing war and sectional
strife, the government will again fall back
into The hands of those who so long and so
successfully controlled it, to be again united
in solid and enduring whole. or we shall
have none 10 unite. And ihis will teach
the people by an experience SO sad and so
bitter that they will never again forget. new
er hereafter distFust the democracy of this
county. Faults II may have-correction
il may sometimes need, but all these must
be made and cured within its own organi-
zziion. To go outside of that cures them
no better. and only imperiIs The country
And Il will isach another thing. To those
who are democrats in sunshine and desert
rs IN etorm-shose who. when the tempest
lowers desert The ship and pray Justify that
Il may 90 10 lhe hoflom-ihose who beiraY