Marshall County Republican., 1865-11-02
How Loyal Southern Men Regard
Northern Democrats.
rom tho Richmond fyal Ecnuhlic

From the Richmond (va) Republic. tt4l
The Democratic party Of the North has lost the
only opportunity which seemed to prcscn itself for
retrieving its dilapidated fortunes. The negro
suffrage question offered, ioi time, the prospect
ofa new lease Of life; butsit offers it no longer.
The Republicans have had too much address to
join issue on this question. That party has allow
cd the class OF extremists within its bosom TO MAN.
age this issue On their own exclusive hook. Ii has
el Joined no particular conduct on its members,
but allowed each voter to act he thought proper
on the question. The consequence has been n
vote ell.mel on negro suffrage, and Of fcourse ne
gro suff, are has gone tofhc wall - So
But in its overthrow it has not dragged along
with it the Republican purity nor has its tall inur
ed in the least 10 the advantage ofthe Democratic
party. Parties stard now relatively as they did
at the close of the war-the Republicans over
whe,mingly predominant, the Democrats hmenta-
bly, weak and daTidated In the elections Just
held the Republicans ha cIrricd cvsrySta and
they entertain no doubt Of succeeding in all the
States which yet to vote.
The elections in Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA, and
those vet to be held in New York and New jersey
will demonstrate the impossibili;y Of making the
Democratic party OF the North the basis ofany new
successful political organization strong enough to
rule the United States.
The controlling party in this Union for long
time to come will be organized on the basis of the
Republican war party OF ls6l to 1865. Il is true
that manv who have acted with that marty will
leave it on account OF its moderation and conserv
ats m. and band themselves anew Under lfle lead
OF Phillips, Garrison, -Gerrit Smith and Fred
Douglas. But the subsistence and Stamina of the
Republican party which conducted the war will
remain, and that party will continue to control the
destinics Of the Union. NJ
1t will be fully compensated for the loss of its
extre me wing By accretions from other sources.
much arser number of the War Democrats who
supported Mcclellan will join its ranks than of
extremists who will learc il ;.and it will be consid
erably reinforced from the South The old South
ern Wings who have all their lives heen battling
with the Democracy and The chivalry, and who
have been prescribed for opinions sake from the
time whereof the memory Of man runneth not to
the contrary, will much more strongly incline to
the Republican than to the D1lnocratic party or
the North. #If
II is probable. therefore. TIN. the Democratic
party OF the whole stored Union will remlin for
a long time vet to come in rs decided a minority
as in the North proper. The very prospect of
continued weakness and uuPopularity will take
away from it the power of recuperation. IL has
been too thoroughly discredited by the issue of
the war ever TO recover its ascendancy aud power
Il Is literally ".lcad cock in the pi.." The op--
position to The Republican majority will have to
organize under other auspices and different lea
dsrs. The absolute condition of political success
must be the oblitera,on OF all traces Of Copper.
head identity.