The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-03
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at tte mere mention OF restored ana nnltea De
mocracy.--E Clngett's Constitution.
Every true patriot in the land may vel
dread that event, when he remember
the last exploits of the Administration
put in power by the Democratic party,
the Kansas tyranny, eliminating in the
Lecompton issue, and the ostracism Of
Douglas, the conspiracy of the traitor Cab
met Of Buchanan, backed by the traitor
Senate. the mighty frauds and robberies
by Floyd and Cobb. the outbreak Of the
great rebellion, planned, fostered and
finally prscipitated by Democratic Cab
met officers and Senators. No wonder
that we dread the reunion and restora-
ton of SUCH men to power. No greater
calamity could befall the nation, for its
ruin would be inevitable.
THos. w. CLAGETT wrote a number Of
letters, which were published in the Jour-
nal last summer, deprecating the reor-
gsnization of the Democratic party as one
Of the m ost serious evils that could afiict
the country. Hear what he said in let
ter CONNIE nting on the Van Buren, county
resolutions:
"This Is no time for purity pickering. about The
causs Of our dsptordbte condition as q nation Our
eeaHtry is imperiied our Union is at stake, and
our very liberties endangered"
Now, however, Clagetts Constitution
is filled with party chickering's charging
the war upon the Republican party.
In those communications Thomas W.
Clagett denounced those who assailed the
Administration for acts done to suppress
the rebellion, as well Is those who advo-
Gated peace conventions, as nothing less
than traitors. Now Clagett's Constitution
denounces the measures Of the Admins
tration as unconstitutional and tyrannical,
and advocates the identical peace policy
which be then held as reasonable.
In Thomas w. Clagett's reply to DR..
Bailey, of Van Buren,, we have his opin-
ion of the Democratic party IN brief:
But let me ask the DR.. what he means by Dem
ocrate principles. Does he mean those which the
National Democratic party promulged in their ma
tional platform In 1856 and 1907 or those now
held by the secession wing, in the o-called Con
federate States2 This is very important ques-
ton, which should like to have lifelong Demo-
Gratis answer. For my own part, I stick to the
great principle Of equality, which was promnl ged
ut the time became member of the party, and as
the Southern wing has repudiated 1t, I repudiats
them. The Doctor seems 10 be utterly oblvous to
the fact that there is not any Natio nal Demo
cratic party.
One-half Of the party, in the South, are seces-
aionsts and traitors; the other half, in the North
with the exception of few sympnthizers with
the Southern wing-are actually aiding their old
political enemy tthe Republicans) to whip them
the country which they seeking to overthrow
in civil war.
The Democratic party, ms distinct political ma
tiona organization, has hadits back broken. Itis
lame in its spinal column. Its nationality is gone
1t is no longer organization existing in all the
States Its capacity to restore peace TO the country
IL gone.
Now Clagetts Constitution daily adyo-
Gates the reorganization of the broken.
backed Democracy he wants to glue the
Northern wing of the Democracy to the
Southern traitors and splice up the spina
column with the salve of peace policy
which he used TO denounce as contrabane
Of war.
And in the following structures on DR.
Bailey and his friends, we have Thoma.
W. Clagett's opinion, as expressed las,
July, Of the present aims and purposes Of
Clagett's Constitution under its Vallun
digham- Mallory programme of revived
and re united Democracy. The opinion
is not very nattering in any sense, bu,
will do:
The DR.. Bailey seems to think il presumption
in me to criticisc resolutions passed by lfe-ions
democratic. Upon what ground he bases his ides
OF presumption, 1 am unable to divine II he ant
his friends who endorse the resolutions referred 10
have any peculiar franchise privilege in tn,
Democratic party, by reason Of their antiouity
which members who are not life long dare not cues
ton without being deemed presumptuous. then
suppose &tn Suiity- But have been taught In
school which has much higher regard for brain
than for age Hence took the liberty Of cues
tioning both the patriotism and the wisdom Of tbos
antique Democrats who have become so hard
sheled that the rays Of truth cannot penetrate ths
enianeous covering They ara, no doubt, old, an,
might have been called togy. They cannot iii
themselves out Of the nire OF party politics The,
can see nothing right or patriotic, except 1t ema
hates through them They would invoke the ghos
q parry, even when the country was in ruins, an
would see the whole fabric perish rather than snv
II through any other influence than that Of thei
OWE party. Lst me AK my friend, the Dr., II b
believes there is the slightest chance Of ever mai
uniting the Democratic party, North and south ?
Thomas w. Clagett was seeking nom
ination to Congress at the hands Of tn
union men last summer; the editor Q
the Constitution is now seeking nomi
nation at the hands Of .tDr. Bailey an
his friends The circumstance. bein
altered, changes the ease.