Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-30
,ssThe Good ola Democratic Party,'
An: Article OF Remarkable Truth,
sPunSency and Power.

'sThe Good ola .Democrnt.e Party.'
An. Article OF Remarkable TRUTH
sPunSency and Power.
(FrOm the Cincinnati Commercially
4In our humble opinion, Judging the future from
the past there no political organisation iu
itCnce capable Of overcoming the wicked rebellion
Misunderstanding out tanatiCiSn Misunderstanding the
dence among the people, except the we'll tried good
old Democratic party"
The Wayne county Democrat from which
we clip the above, must have the only
original and genuine faith that removes
mountains. We have tried to see it in the
same light, but have failed. We are in-
constable BY reason of hardness ofheart
and tho zstubOrnesss of our uubelief. If
reading Vallaudigham's speeches, ex-Sen- /
ator Brights vindication of his loyalty, or
Senator Starke's evidences of patriotism,
annotated by select committee appointed
ut his own request, or any similar NORTH
cation of the flesh and spirit, would en-.
courage our feeble mustard seed of faith to
sprout and grow to the vigorous dimensions
OF that Of the editor of the Democrat, we
would endure the infliction without mur-
muir, and exhibit resignation emitting us
to canonizatiOn in some future Fox's book
! OF political martyrs.
Judging the future by mot from) the
| young plant wAtered with many tears and
nourished with a tender solicitude, of
which the editor of the Democrat, with his
robust and sHnguiue temperament, can
have no realizing sense.
Judging the future BY the past" we
\ can see in tue restoration of ''the good old
| Democratic party''-an eulogislic phrase
which we remember TO have heard once or
twice before-Only Sthe restoration TO POI
/ litIcaI influence and Office of the Buchnn-
ans, the Breckinridges, the Brights, the
| Benjamius, the Cobbs, the JEFF. Davises, the
| Floycs, the Wises and WigfalIs, who were
bright aud shining lights in ''the good old
! Democratic party" in the days when its eff
| fulgence radiated from the White House,
and Illuminated the Departments and Leg
islative Halls of the Capitol
"Judging the future by the past" who
who does not sigh for return of the old
regime ?-An imbecile Administration a
treAsOn-p plotting CabiueS, and sound, con-
serYaIive, Democratic element in the Sem
ate to defeat the progress of legislation and
| hold disaHeCled States to their allegiance;
sRch sound Democratic Senators AS Benia-
min, Hemphill, lversOn, Johnson, of Arkan-
SHs, Slidell and WigFall, to prepare dis
patches to their respective States that call
islost." aud thus preciPitate their seces-
sion, while they refuse TO vote for the only
compromise which they claim would have
prevented secession, and thus, AS Gov.
| Andrew johnson states, "destrOy the only
compromise upon which they base revoIu-
tom"
What delightful "reminiscences throng
the memory rs one tries to Judge the future
| by the past! Then slave pens alternated
with public buildings along the wide ave-
nucs' and the spontaneous eloquence of
the great leaders of the 'sgood old Demo.
cratic party was emphasized bv the crack
OF the drivers whip, and the hammer of
the auctiOneer in his human s.amblc, in
the City Of Washington. How refreshing
| it was to see the arguments of Senator
answered by a simon pure Democrat
skulEing up behind his seat and beating
him over tho head with caue!-the good
old days when the bIudgeon and the bowie
knife were considered the OuIy Chiyalrous
aud proper answers to reasoning, fact and
illustration, upon the floor of Congress!
| 1t is for this ante quo bellun, we sup.
/ pose, that the editor of the Democrat ira
walls in spirit. He has few industrious
collaberateurs who are Iaboring cnegeiic-
| ally for its reinstatement There Is the
Dayton Empire, which urged s'cverv Demo-
GRAFT in the Legislature to vote solidIy
against dollar or man. to put down nm
unhOly rebellion, and stigmatised pof-
ton of the troops who responded to the
first call of the President, and whose bones.
whitening the plains of Manassas, or Orna.
menting the fingers and center-tables of
rebels, testify to their love of countrv, as
':mercenaries, hirelings aud HessiGns. :"
Nor has 1t a5tess earnest ally in this work
ofreinstatiug ''the well tried, good old
Democratic party, thau the Chicago TF,aes.
| which declared if troops were raised in the
. mi tn mn al al,
South, ga FIRE IN the rear will would I be
opened upon such troops, which will stop
theirInarclI altogether or wonderfully accei.
crate IL, and which openly asserted, and
doubtless still believes, that ''lhe people of
| the South are animated with the same spi-
rit which fred the hearts of the patriots of
the Revolution" And this, too, at a time
when the Richmond Erdminer-au ex-
catheura organ in the old days of 'sthe
good Old Democratic party, a-declared it
to be the purpose of Davis to "march an
army through North Carolina and Virginia
to Washington - when the Examiner of, the
same city said Sthere is one wild shout of.
fierce resolve to capture Washington Cjty.T
and "drive from it every Black Republican
who is a dweller there, aud when the press
and people of the good old Democratic:
States OF the Sonth were r0ving about
overrunuing the North and quartering their
armies in Philadelphia, New York, boston
and Cincinnati.
five would consent TO certain condi-
tons, which, 'judging the future by the
past" the aforesaid .'well-tricd good old
Democratic party wonld subscribe to, we
could undoubtedly have peace. Senator
Starke, who is laboring with the Democrat
to reinstnte the ''gOod Old &C., probably
laid down the platform on which it is pro.
posed toput Nn end to the rebellion, when
ne said that for the sake of peace he was
willing to have the loyal absorbed into the
Confederate States. That was what the
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