Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-06-14
Revival of tho Democratic Party.

The little cabload of politicians who re.
Gently distinguished themselves by putting
their names to an address asking the people
of the U. S. to revive the Democratic par.
ty under the auspices, tell US in that way
alone can the Union be saved-that it can
never be done under Republican Admins
tration.
PrepoSterous and ludricrous as the thought
is, let us for q moment suppose that the
control Of the Government be changed TO
democratic hands, with Buchanan or Breck-
nrdge in the Presidency, Lane or John
ston in the vicePresidency Floyd in Stanton's
and Cobb in ChaSeS place. eff Davis and
Bright and Mason, &c. &c. at the head Of
the Committees, aud Burnett, Barksdale,
Garnett Vallandigham, &c, as leaders of
the House -Beauregard, Lee, Twiggs and
Tatnall commanding the Army and Navy.
Suppose we say, that these gentlemen
should have their way aud the old order of
things revived-hol0 a0onld tie Union be
sared ! What better thing could now be
expected of the party leaders named, than
was shown by them when they were in
power?
Some credulous democrat may altter
himself than under a revival of the demo.
cratic party, the traitors who formerly con-
trOlled its action and broke it mp the more
esectually to attack the Union, would be
repudated aud denied power. Bnt what rea.
son have they for believing that Certainly
no such idea is justified by the address re.
ferred TO. 1t contains no deawaciatioa or
ereH ceRSWre, of the base conspirators who
as shown by their impndent boasts, have
been for thirty years in league for the very
rebellion which the loyal democrats aud 9th
er citizens are now engage in putting down!
There is nothing in their course 10 Congress
TO lead us 10 doubt that when the rebellion
is crushed, these men will be ready 20 meet
in Convention at Charleston or NJ Montgom
cry, with the traitors who two years since
broke up The Democratic party at the for
mer city, and agreed to put the government
into the hands of those who controlled the
party throughout the times this infamou,
treason was hatchDg. If the signers o
that address do not intend to saddle the
old traitorous crew upon the backs of the
democracy, why do they not say so L
their party is to be any purer than the one
which furnished all the leading spirits il
this rebellion, why not show us how it is tc
be made so?
1t is most significant fact, which can
not be to often repeated, that the declara
tlons OF principles and policy put forth by
these politicians for the examination of 10y
al citizens, affords no assurance whatevel
that with the democratic party revived un
auspices like theirs, the men now controlling
the Southern conspiracy would not be re
lnstated 10 their old places at the head o
that party. The address contains surfei
OF censure, direct and indirect, for loya
Northern citizens whom its authors canno
control, but not a word for the base ingratel
with whom they have ever been on termi
OF political aud personal intimacy They
can warn the people against the Republican,
and Abolitionists, but they seem to have nC
apprehension of danger from any othel
source
We can tell these men their own loyalty
is not sufficiently established to relieve then
OF the suspicion of sympathy with the ole
associates whom they now treat SO tender
ly. Mere denunciations of their old politi
cal opponents will not induce Intelligent
loyal democrats again to place themselves
IN the power OF those who have so baselI
abused their confidence as have the conspir
alors OF this rebellion. Whatever they do
they will repndiate any democracy that hai
o faint OF secession or secessionists. See /
they don't Toledo Blade.