Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-07-06
The Micawbar DemocracY.

that he can neither succeed in the coal the
brewery, or the banking business His
mis-; ortunes compel kind of sympathy
Tor II there Is anything sad to see it is thi:
spectacle OF man going through the worlc
perpetually waiting tor something to turn
up. Mr. Micawbar is now in peculia,
trouble. He is really a Fallen Tower H
cannot find candidate-he cannot borrow
a plattorin-he cannot even get a Conven-
ton. What Is to be done He purposed
gong to Chicago, and Mr.. Vallandigham
| his next best friend, undertook the perils
OF journey from Canada to Ohio, entering
! Hamilton In dramatic way, in the hope
OF giving life and fire to the Chicago Con
ventlon. Even that has failed Vallan-
/ dIgham finds himself in a state Of sin and
misery In Dayton-despised by one party,
distrusted BY his own friends, and very sad
indeed because no one will put him under
arrest If he had only been arrested there
might have been a riot, a great trouble,
| much excitement, and an opportunity at
! Chicago for Mr. Micawbar Then there
| were hopes of Mr. Mcclellan This Micaw-
Der OF warriors was Just the man for the Mi
cawber Democracy. He managed war very
much as his great original managed his fl
| nances, and with much the same result. He
got into difficulties on the Peninsula, and
had to come home. Why should he not be
made candidate for the Presidency? +? He
was popular throughout the South He
was respected by the rebels. He had never
SAID word to rnjure the feelings of the
most sensitive Southern gentleman He
had managed large army so that as little
injury as possible wotld be done to the re-
belllon. He was precisely the man for
Chicago A Micawber party could do no
better than nominate Micawber captain
and SO men believed Mr. Micawber does
not think so. He wants to wait little lon
ger This man Grant has ruined whatever
reputation as a military man Mcclellan may
have ever gained. Mr. Micawber is, there
fore, in difficulties again. He concludes not
to go to Chicago, but to wait two months
longer and sec if something will not possibly
turn up.
The issue therefore stands Fremont and
Cochrane on the one hand, Lincoln and
johnson on the other. As Fremont and
Cochrane represent nothing but small
miserable faction, we may virtually say that
Lincoln and johnson are alone in the field |
They have no rivals, Their enemies virtu-
ally surrender the fight. These enemies say
that they have examined the record of Lin I
coin and Johnson-the administration of |
the army and navy, the career oil the for
mer as President, and Of the latter as Gov
ernor and Senator, the platform upon which |
they stand, and the principles they repre-
sent-and they find II impossible to name
candidate TO oppose them, Or TO construct a
platform IN opposition that can In any way
the confidence of the people In
other words, this great Copperhead conbi-
nation bows down before the viii Of the peo-
pie. Filled with enmity and hatred desir-
ing above all things the overthrow of the
country and the Administration, it is afraid
to take the field on ground of its own choos-
Ing, TO accept the challenge we have given.
1t is afraid to say now what principles it
believes or what man is deems proper to re-
Dent those principles. We find the conven-
Jon in Illinois refusing to adopt any resolu-
ions but one endorsing Vallandighanl 1t
prefers to wait until the Chicago Convention
meets and determines a policy. In other
words. the Democracy III Illinois, and. In
Iced, IN most parts OF the country, do not
NOW what to believe until they are instruct
ID by Mr.. Nallaudigham and company Of
gentlemen at Chicago. They have a word
II sympathy for banished traitor, but they
nave no word OF sympathy for our cause
10 voice, sentiment, or opinion on any Issue
involved In our war Tor a harassed and suff-
rIng country. A great contest has been
aging for years thousands Of men have
'een slain deeds that history will dwell
!pon Tor ages TO come are being performed,
nd yet this Democratic party has no word :
0 say OF approval or disapproval. 1t is 81 :
ent, and not only SO, but silent under the :
usplcion of cowardice. Why does it not (
peak 1t cannot be ont of sympathy for !
he war, or from desire to do nothing that !,
1ay embarrass the prosecution of the war, :
1r these men have ne sympathy for our !:
ause or our country. They are time-serv. :
rs, trImmers camp-followers, men who
ang around the baggage-trains until the .
attic Is over and join the victorious party
} plumber the dead. Whether Cassie kill
.Oderigo, or Roderigo kill Cassie, or each
0 XIII the other, every way works to their
am. They are perfectly content 70 nomi- 7
ate Grant if he takes Richmond, or 10 take
rank submissionist as Seymour Of Con- =,
ecticut, or Wood of New York, if Rich !"
ond, should not he taken. With these it :,
neither peace nor war, but political vic :, ;,
ry. As we have said, so that they can e
under the dead it matters little who wins +
le day = !,
Is it not humiliating TO see great party T. T.
reduced and abandoned that we can fad -
, term but fanatic creation Of fiction =,
hereby to describe it =? Where is the Dem al
ratio party of other days, proud and def -
1t in the consciousness of principle first II
the fray, with its banner aloft like the Il
inner of Percy, and its motto Esperance -
ways in the font How have the nigh - -
fallen Like the banner of the Percy, 80 -,
e standard of the Democracy has long y,
ice been shattered and torn, and trailed =,
the dust The carrion crows have made =,
their rookery, and where brave and good ~
en- were once pr oud to follow, adventur- - -
; and banditti now presume to lead.--Pha =
Ielphia Press. SIS. :,
That's superiority, where the majority, CO
I the minority. have the authority re