Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-12-09
WeavervjIle, Saturday, Dec. 9, 1865.
The Doom OF the Democratic Party.

That once proud and defiant organization is no
more 1t will be forgotten, save for its latter
day deeds of infamy. The interested managers
are still clinging around the ruins of their ex-
ploded machinery, and endeavoring to put wheels
on the axles, and connecting rods, and pulleys
in their places, and conscripting engineers from
the Union ranks to carry their train over the road
to power and patronage. The expedient won t
succeed The men who plunged the nation will
fully into the abyss Of war are not the ones to
restore it to order and prosperity.
The result of the recent elections in the East
cannot be misunderstood, and although written
before that result was known, we think the fol-
lowing article from Harper's Weekly hits the
Democratic " situation about right:
r The Democratic party is doomed. The Feder-
al party fifty years ago opposed. a popular war
and disappeared The Democratic party oppos-
ed vital and inevitable and glorious war; and
is perishing before eyes In the State of New
York it processes to hope for a little longer life
But it is the profession of despair. No well-in-
formed man believes for an instant in the recov-
cry of so exhausted and worthless frame and
its own hope is based upon the fact that it has
formally recantcd, eaten its own words, and
confessed its own disgrace and defeat. 1t is on
ly right that, the rebellion having been defeated
its great ally should be annihilated and the
character of the American people is shown as
proudly in their steady union for the overthrow
of false party as it was in the destruction of
foul conspiracy.
Maine, Vermont, California, Pennsylvania
Ohio, Iowa, and Indiana the States that have
thus far voted, and, like patriot soldiers when
the roll is called, they answer one after another
to the Union call, and louder than last year,
u Here here !" Even New Jersey, hitherto the
perfect type Of q modern Democratic State,
begins to blush that she has so long faltered in
the good race; and in the total rout of the
Chicago platform party at Newark gives hope
that she will not much longer be chained to the
corpse of slavery or modern Democracy.
The Democratic leaders are receiving the Sc
yercst lesson of their lives. They thought they
could trihe with the national safety and the peo-
pie do not forget it. They thought they could
oppose and thwart for national life, and
when the indomtablc patience and power of the
people conquered, could turn round, throw up
their hats, shout victory, declare that they had
been heart and hand in the war, and so bamboo
zle the people they had done their best to ruin
Do they suppose the people have returned
from whipping rebels in the field to be fooled by
Copperhcads on a platform Do they imagine
they can deceive the popular intelligence by
hiding behind General? They might remem-
Der the experiment of last year. They tried to
hide the whole Chicago patforms behind Gen
eral. But whether the platform were too large
or the General too small the cheat was plain
enough, and heartily and contemptuously
rejected.
The Democratic party was opposed to the war.
individual Democrats, indeed, boldly broke
with their party to 90 with their country but
the party was ruled by IIoratio Seymour. Val
iandingham, the Woods, and men in sympathy
with them. Its votes in Congress. its orators,
its national convention pronounced against the
It was not only destroyed at the election
it was despiscd, and the same old leaders
ask the confidence of the people.
This year it mahes feeble show of support
ing the President. We say feeble, because al
though in the State of New York it declares for
him unrescrvedly and like desperate gamester
John Van Buren, calls him his candidate for the
succession, yet in the other States the support
was conditional and in New York it is offered
by Seymour, Green, and his most malignant
traducers of last year. 1t is here only trans
parent trick to come into power.
But the times are too serious for tricks Eve
ry voter asks himself, what will these men do if
they come into power. He finds the answer in
John Van Buren's speech. That gentleman
throws the blame of the war upon the North,
upon the loyal States. He shows the same old
tSickling servlity to the late reble chiefs that
originally brought us into trouble. But Mr.. Van
Buren, and all his associates upon the Chicago
platform will learn that the plantation whip has
lost its terrors. Ii the fate of the party which
opposed the war of 1872 has not instructed them,
the elections of this autumn viii teach them that
the people Of this country will not trust Il party
which played into the hands of the national
enemy, until it has changed not merely its pro-
fess;ous bat the leaders who have inspired uni
yersal contempt and diStrust.