The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1862-05-17
From the Cincinnati Commsscial.
!. THE 00OD OLD D9MOCRATIC PARTY"
AN ARTICLE, or REMARKAQhE TAUTH.
Pune ENcY AND POWER.

Union 70 Wnat was, ana bringing peace ana c0n0oe
among the people except tho well tried good old DEM
ocratic party" -
I The Wayne county Democrat. from which
We clip the above, must have the only gen.
tuine and original faith that removes noun.
taips. We hs ve tried TO SEQ 10 in the same
light /, but have failed. We are inconsola-
bic by reason Of hardness Of heart and the
stubbornness 81 our unbelief. X reading
vallandingham' speeches and ex-senator
Brisht,a yindacasion Of his loyalty, or Sem
.ator siS.arks's evidence of patriotism, an
notatsd by q select committee appointed at
his own request, or any similar morsf6ca-
tiou OF the flesh and spirit, would encour-
ass ous feeble mustard seed Of faith to
sps0ss end grow, to the vigorous dimen-
sions. OF that Of the editor Of the Demo-
crat, We would endure the inf1iction with
out nurmur, and exhibit resignation en-.
titiing as to canouization in some future
FOx's book of political martyrs. ssg.
!" Judging the future by (not from) the
past - has had withering effect on the
young plant watered BY many tears, and
nourisbed By q atender solicitudc, Of which
the editor of the Democrat, with his ro-
bust and ssneuine temperament, can have
no realizing sense. arrtes esNgE
:" Judging the future by the past" we
can see 10 the resurrection Of &c the good old
Democratic party n-au ealogistic phrase
which We have heard ono .before-oniy the
restorationyto political influence and Office
of the Buchanans, the Breckinridges, the
Br,gh,s, the Benjamin's, the Cobbs, the
jeff Davises, the Floyds, the Wises and
W,gfalls, who were bright and shining
lights in $ the good old Democratic party"
in the days when it's effulgence radiated
from the White House, and illuminated the
Departments and legislative halls Of the
capitol. 4aia tH6 &a GI&
/, 6 ssJudging the future by the past,' who
does not sigh for the return of the old re.
gime pan imbecile Administration, o trea-
son plotting Cabinet, and q sound conserv-
ative, Democratic elementin the Senate to
defeat the progress of legislation and hold
disa tf.cted States to their allegiance; sucn
sound Democratic Senators as Benjamin,
Hemphill, Iverson, johnson, Of Arkansas,
Slidell and Wigfall, to prepare dispatches
to their several States that "all is lost
and thus precipitate their secession, while
thev refuse to vote FOR the only compro--
mise which they claim would have prev yented
secession, and thus, as Gov. johnson states,
$ destroy the only compromise upon which
they base their revolution -"
What delightful "reminiscences throng the
memory as one tries to Judge the future BY
the past Then slave pens alternated with
public buildings along the wide avenues,
and the spontaneous eloquence OF the great
leaders Of "the good old Democratic par
ty !" was emphasized by the crack Of the
drivers whip, and the hammer of the auc-
tioneer in his human shambles in the ty of
Washington. How refreshing It was to see
the arguments of q Senator answered by a
simon pure Democrat skulking up behind
bis seat and beating him over the head with
cane the good days when the bludgeon
and the bowie knife were considered the
only chivalrous and proper answer to reas.
onipg, fact and illussration upon the floor
of Congress! Gata z'2aga e.. taaaHa
It is for this ante quo bclluns, we sup
pose, that the editor OF the Democrat ira.
walls in spirit. He has a few Interesting
collaberAseurs who are laboring energeti-
cally for It's reinstatement. There 10 the
Dayton Empire which urges every Dem
ocrat in the Legislature to vote solidly
against dollar or man " to put down
an unholy rebellion, and stigmatized q por-
tion Of the troops who responded to the
irst 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 country, as
:. merceadries, hirelings and Hessians." ."-
Nor has it q less earnest ally in this work
of reinstatiDg "the well-tried, good old
Democratic party" than the Chicago Times,
which declared If troops were raised in the
North to put down the rebellion in the
South, /" FIRE in the rear will would be
opened upon such troops, which will stop
their march altogether or wonderfully ac-
celerate il" and which openly asserted, and
doubtless still believes, that g the people
of the South are animated by the same
spirit which fred the hearts Of the patriots
Of the Revolution." And this, too, at q
time when the Richmond Examiner-an cx-g
cathedra organ Of the old days of ssthe good
old ID emocratic party, ty,'-declared it to be
the purpose of Davis to i" march an army
through North Carolina and Virginia to
Washington :" when the Examiner Of the
same city said, there is one wild shout OF
fierce resolve to capture Washington City,"
and +" drive from it every Black Republican
who is dweller there," and when the press
and people Of the good old Democratic
states of the South were raving about over
running the North, and quartering their ar
mics 10 Philadelphia, New York, Boston and
Cincinnati. ,ss-,- s-,. 80. n
! II we would consent to certain conditions,
which, '.judging the future by the past," !"
the aforesaid " we'll tried good cid Dem-
ocratic party /" would subscribe to, wecould
undoubtedly have peace. Senator Starke,
who is laboring with the Democrat to rein
state IS the good old &C." probably laid
down the platform on which it is proposed
TO put an end to the rebellion, when he said
that for the sake of peace he was willing to
have the loyal absorbed into the Confed.
crate States. That was what the Dayton
Empire wanted when it urged Democrats in
the Legislature to vote against man or .
dollar for the mainteuance Of the authority
Of the Government; that's what the Chicago
Times was after when it threatened 6re
10 the rear of the armies of the Union; that
was what the Cincinnati Enquirer meant
in q recent article endorsing the assertion
Of the London Times. that there is not tan
advocate Of the Union," nor any love for it
North or South than which no more mon
strous' lie was ever altered, % the th0us-a
ands of Union men in East Tennessee, Vir-l
ginnia and other Southern States will bear
witness, to say nothing Of the six or seven
hundred thousand men now under arms,
and offering their lives . sacrifice in its de-
tense. II we would indeed sue for peace
upon such terms it would doubtless be
granted. How very grateful to the ears OF
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