The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1865-10-19
Destruction of the Democratic
Party.

CLdllC purity Huo OcchJ IL 1t not u matter o
astonishment and wonder to see where i
is now? elbow are the mighty fallen y
Under Jefferson, it was the great party o.
the people, and of equal rights as opposed
to old-fashloned federalism Tn the las
war with Great Britain, it stood manfully
by the old flag, replenished and kept alive
our army, and, with Madison at its head
wrung from the British Lion direct re-
cosnition of the rights of our brave sea-
men. While the federalists were holding
Hartford Conventions, the Democracy raj
lied around their country's banner and
saved it.
Under President Monroe, party lines
became somewhat obliterated, while the
administration of John Quincy Adams
well nigh broke them up entirely. Under
General Jackson, the old Democratic party
again rallied and came up in its giant
strength. Upon the great issues then
between it and the cid Whig party, it
fought many hard battle and came off
victorious. Again it rallied and elected
Martin Van Buren, to the Presidency
In 1910, it went under the cloud, and
General Harrison succeeded to the Presi-
Dental chair. In 1874, in the great
campaign between Henry Clay and James
k. Polk, the latter came out of the fight
victorious, and again the Democratic par
ty took the ascendency. It was under the
administration of Mr.. Polk that the seeds
of the rebellion took new root.
a solemn agreement entered into by
John Tyler to pass over the question of
the annexation of Texas to the then in
coming administration was violated, and
treason began to draw its deadly coils
around the Democratic party. The cleo
ton of General Taylor gave a temporary
check to the spirit of slavery then devel-
oping itself in tie Democratic organiza-
tion; but the death of the old veteran left
the Presidential chair in the hands of
man of expediency rather than principle,
who became an easy conquest to the slave
power. The fair pledges of Franklin
Pierce gave him an easy conquest in the
Presidential contest between him and
General Scott, and the Democratic party
again rolled into power, counting its ma
jorities by hundreds of thousands. In
Pierce, the slave power found willing
instrument of wickedness, and his admin
istration eliminated in the reputation of
the old Missouri compact. This act
proved the entire destruction of the old
Whig party but the slave power, by uni
ting the entire Southern vote with that oc
tie Democracy of the North, defeated
Fremont and elected Buchanan. The
treason o. the old '.Public Functionary"
and his Democratic friends, which inau-
guratsd the rebellion and let slip the dogs
of civil war, made an end of their once
powerful political organization. During
the war, the Democratic party, as party, !
was the friend and exponent of treason ;
its leaders sympatbized with the rebels,
and threw every possible obstruction in
the way of the suppression of the rebel |
lion.
The Democratic party still keeps up
show of life, Dut it is in reality dead as
door nail There is not loyal State in
which it has majority Of votes. With |
regard to the great States of Pennsylva- |
MIA, Ohio and Indiana, the result of the !
late elections fully verifes this assertion.
1t is a party without platform and with
out principles. As an ally OF the rebel
lion, it is looked upon with just suspicion
by loyal men everywhere, and until 1t
purges itself of the deadly
treason which poisons every part of its or
ganization, it cannot and will not be trus-
ted. Its day of greatness, when it was
looked upon as the sheet-anchor of the
Republic, has passed away; now, none so
poor to do it reverence. 1t may give an
occasional spasmodic kick, about election
times, but this will be mere galvanic
phenomenon, resulting in nothing. It
will be impotent fOr further evil.
Turn whichever way we may, the graf
ifying conviction fosoes itself upon us that
the Democratic party is dead, beyond the
he hope of resurrection. And its doom
is just. The punishment of treason is
death, and the people have been its exc