The weekly Butte record., 1862-11-22
The Democracy.

Oflate, the Republican papers Of the country
have been taxing their ingenuity to ascertain
the causes of the recent triumphs of the old
Constitutional Guard in the Empire State and
those others of less weighty importance in the
councils of the nation. They seem to worry,
froth and foam over It, as the unbroken steed
foams and frets over his first biting. At first,
in their great agony. they claim it as signal
triumph of treason over loyalty, and a recogni-
tion of the rule of JEFF Davis over that of Abe
Lincoln and then, in their milder moments,
they claim that the election is all right, and
that the chosen OF the Democracy are loyal
War Democrats, devoted to the country and
the maintenance of the Government, and here
in they are right, and their reason plays upon
the true Union card and involuntarily comedies
that which they would much prefer to esehew.
The Democracy have ever been a constitution
al party, which has withstood all the bufetings
of opposition and outside party rancor; it has
been proclaimed dead and buried time and
again by its enemies its precincts have been
entered and its councils have been filled by
those who have sought its destruction, by crea-
ting dissensions therein, and laying down plat
forms distasteful TO the masses; and, when the
present great rebellion burst upon the country,
with the true Democracy battling for the old
Constitution under their patriotic leader, one
long and loud howl went forth that the knell
of the Democracy in America had been soun-
ded, and a long farewell might be bid to its
departing spirit, great was the JOY of the COM
bined opposition to her ancient doctrines; and
great, too, was the scattering and skedaddling
of those weak kneed, milk and water hangers
on in the purlieus of the Democratic sanctuary
whose seeming topping walls threatened to
crush them and bury them in the ruins of the
apprehended grand crash. But the fall came
not +; the edifce that upheld the Constitution,
although shaken from the circumference to its
centre, ceased to quake when all had left, save
those who knew upon what rock it was built,
and now, once more, to the astonishment of
those who sung her requiem, Democracy comes
forth with the banners of triumph, to still
stand guard over that constitutional liberty
which our fathers handed down to US through
the thunder of artillery, and bloody battle.
The uprising of a great people has proclaim
ed to the world that this Government is well
founded in the hearts aud intelligence of its
people, that it is selfsustainng, aud is safe in
the hands of the progressive Union Democra-
cy. The wild and frenzlcd mutterings of the
Republican press show their chasrin at their
coming downfall. The vaScilating course Of
their President in his conduct of the war, and
his weak yielding to party pressure in his gov
policy which he withstood so long
as TO give all patriots hope of his laying aside
the doctrines Of the Chicago Platform, and
his reckless disregard of personal rights, in
land world wide renowned for constitutional
liberty, have all shown that the faith of the
people is shaken in his administration Of the
Government, and they, in their sovereignty,
demand a change. The wave is rolling on
that will wait this misrule from the land that
will uncanonize the felon J Ohm Brown and put
down pGns to his memory by surmounting the
iniquity with our long loved national airs.