Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-06-05
Reconstruction of The Democratic Party.

gross nave issued an auulcoS w thc
Democracy of the United States" urg-
ing the reorganization of the Demo- |
cratic party, and opposing the union
of the people, and the sinking of par
ty divisions, for the support of the
Government in establishing the au-
thority of the Constitution and laws.
While over six hundred thousand Nor
thern soldiers are offering their lives
in the field to suppress this most for
midable rebellion against constitutions
al government, and hundreds OF them
are falling daily in battle, and from
the diseases of camp and of climate,
the Democratic members OF Congress
issue their circular urging a party Or
ganization to cripple the Government
in the war, and to make terms with
the enemy.
There is in this address no word of
condemnation for the rebels who have
covered the land with slaughter, and
brought the nation to the brink of de-
struction but it charges that the pco-
pie who voted the traitors out of the
Government which they had broken
down by treason, were the cause OF
the rebellion. The means which it
proposes for restoring the Democratic
party, are nothing less than to crush,
under the name of Abolitionism, the
sentiments of the entire people who
do not regard Slavery as moral and
religious right, and are not willing to
submit to it as supreme political
power in this Government, and to
make terms with the Southern rebels,
so as to restore to them the control of
this nation. M.....
In this specification, the cloven foot
of separation, and detachng the North
west and taking it into the Southern
Confedcracy, SO as to establish the
supremacy of the Cotton States by a
Confedcracy which shall leave New
England out, is still apparent. Even
with all the glittering gcneralities OF
restoring the Union, this address can.
not omit that feature of the original
conspiracy. 1t need not have made
its relationship with the original Sc.
ccssion plot any palmer. 1t says
Armies may break down the power
of the Confederate Government in the
South, but the work Of restoration can
only be carried on through political
organization and the ballot in the
North and West" ... .... .....
The meaning of this is, armies may
defeat the Confcderatcs in the field
but the Union cannot be restored eX.
ccpt by putting party in power in
the North and West which will re.
store the rebels to political power
But why not as well by political or
ganization and the ballot in the East
where this reorganization has quite
as good chances as in the North and
West? Simply because, even if this
Democratic regeneration of all the
Free States could be effected, il would
not carry out the original plot. nor
satisfy the Southern demand. Ii
must be a Confcderacy with MAORI
ty Of Slave States.
The restoration of the Democratic
party is the restoration of the rebels
TO power, for every rebel leader was Il
leader i'll the Democratic party. 1t is
the resurrection of q party which died
of treason in Buchanan's Administers
ton, when Cabinet officers were trans
fcrring the Government arms and
property to conspirators, disabling its
forts so that they might be seized by
traitors, robbing its treasury and even
its sacred trust funds, sending its YES
sels to distant seas that it might be ut
tcrIy dcfcnccless, delivering up its ma
Wy yards and arscnaIs to the rebels,
and bullying an imbccile President in
to dwelling submission to the seiz-
urc of forts, arsenals, custom houses,
post Offices and public vessels.
The President of the Confcdcratcs
was Democratic Secretary of War,
appointed and sustained by the Demo-
cratic party when his secession scnti-
ments were as well known as they are
now. Their Vice President was a
Democratic leader in the House of
Representatives in Congress. Their
Cabinet officers were leading members
of "thc old Democratic party" Their
generals have nearly all been accus-
toned to command in the Democratic
party. Their foreign agents are all
Democrats. Their Congress is ancient
Democratic. Their principles are those
they held in the old Democratic party.
The old Democratic Cabinet officers,
foreign Ministers, Senators, Represent
atives and party leaders are, with few
exceptions, among the Confederate
rebels, where they hold similar posi-
tons. But a remnant is left. There
is where the Democratic party has
gone, and nothing less than rcstora.
ton of them to power will be the re-
storation of the Democratic party.
The "Old Democratic party" is now
the rebel Confederacy, having carried
into operation the logical result of its
doctrines. The only way that the
Democratic party can be restored, is
for the Government and the people to
submit to the government Of jeff Da-
Wis. That is the feast to which the
people are invited by this address Of
the remnant of Bereaved Democratic
sympathizers in Congress-this flag
end of treason which astonnded the
world, and disgraced Republican in
stitutions in the eyes Of all mankind
Gin. Gazette.
MELANCHOLY ACcIDENT.-A sad and