The Portland daily press., 1865-07-29
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SPLITTING
ON THE ROCK OF NEGRO SUFFRAGE.

| yin AAA-@ 49, 80 ~ ~ 0O1'1nA1Gs
We have read somewhere of a sect of relg-
ious philosophers who zealously maintained
tnat the sixGn seal was already opened; that
tne heavens were IN a process of gradual di5s0-
luton that aerolites and meteOric Stones
yuigarly SO called-were really the wrecks OF
the dislntegrating sky-stars OF heaven falling
upon the earth "even as green fig-tree cast
eth her untimely figs when she Is shaken by
mighty wind"
in like manner the Copperhead second ad-
vantists have been sitting in the coWl and
| shrol of the resurrection morning, waiting
| and watching for years for the "breaking up"
of the Republican party; and when Fremont
shot furidIy athwart the sky, or Wendell
| Phillips brandished his flaming sword in the
heavens, or the Southern cross blazed amidst
the fiery portents of the armament, the Cop
perhead seers gathered their ascension robes
about, them and declared that the Republican
sky was actually failing, and that the Republi-
can party was in a state of actual diSintegra-
ton. Once or twice annually for the last five
years the impending dissolution of the Repub-
lican, or as they prefer to call it., the Radical
party has been Solemnly announced by all the
Copperhead journals in chorus; but somehow,
Just as they thought they were going to get
lid of it, it has burst into life again, each time
fresheri and stronger than before. Dying
see MS, on the whole, good for it. Cut down
ike the grass by the keen blade of Democrat
/ ic rhetoric the grass it fourishes best in
its own decomposition the decay of one sea-
son only enricnes and strengthens the growth
of the next; and every copperhead blast but
scatterS wider the seeds OF anew harvest of Re
publican victories. - sz-ff a5t $1,000 - ~ rs
The annual disintegration of the Republican
party means simply the annual addition there
TO of several thousand converted Copperheads
"a process Of disintegration that has been
going on rapidly with every year of the war
| and now that the result OF the war has vindi-
Gated the sounlness Of Republican principles
and policy, and subjugated the rebels and
Coppefheads together, both the conquered
armies are coming in in repentant droyes,
tlsuing for pardon and begging Tor admission to
the Republican household. The World, hear
ing these contrite Copperheads knocking at
| the door of the Republican party, fancies nom
tithe noise they make, that the Republican
| house is coming down. on the heads of the
inmates: but unon closer investigation the
W0rtd will perceive that the row does not
arise from any effort OF the Republicans TO
get out of their party, but from the desperate
efforts OF the Cops to get into it. Why even
the New Y rk Daily .Nea1s is among the
/ throng Of rebel applicants for Presidential
clemency and admission into the Republican
ranks. The News is one of those journals
which has always governed its political action
by the dictum OF fancy, shat negroes have no
rights which white men are bound to respect"
Now the Neaos suddenly turns its back on this
fundamental principle OF s'the great and glori-
Gus Democratic party" and declares that the
feed negro has rights which white men are
bound to respect, and among others the right
To vote 1t claims this for the negro as a
natural right, though it declares that only the
state has the power to regulate its exercise.
We could mention other quondam copperhead