Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-11-03
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BEDFORD Pa, FRIDAY, SoV. 8, 1865.
TOADYIsM.-DEMoCRATlC sYCo-
PHANCY


The Democratic party, worse than the
tory party of England, seems determined to
set itself sternly against every progressive
movement or idea, without regard to its
nature, whether it be intellectual, moral,
physical or political, its bitter opposition is
all the same This peculiar characteristic Of
that party was demonstrated by ignoring
absolute facts and the stern logic of events,
in its most absurd form by the obstinate re-
fusal to pass the Constitutional amendment
in those States, which it controlled. 1t is
being demonstrated now by the most DISCUS
ting toadyism toward che leading rebels,
whether pardoned or unpardoned. They
poured out their lamentations in the most
lugubrious of jeremiades while the war was
in progress, because they could not as of
old bow the knee to Southern slave drivers
and receive small pensions, of such Offices
as were not considered desirable by their
Southern lords, for doing their dirty work
Now that they once more have an oppOrtu-
nifty of displaying their abject servility, they
have set about it with an energy worthy
better cause, and seem anxious to make up
for the lost time. They have not yet, and
likelynever viii, perceive that their miserable
faWning, engendered the proud overbearing
spirit in the South, that carried it into re-
belGon, but set themselves to do their old
works over without regard to consequences,
and that with blindness and determined
ignoring of facts and experiences that puts
to blush the more sensible of the rebels
themselves. They worship slavery and all
its concomitants as of old; its chief advocate
JEFF. Davis has long ago been canonized,
while in the late rebel chieftain Lee they see
all the attributes that go to make up the
ideal gentleman and immaculate christian
soldier They parade his new oath Of ale
glance as if they had forgotten his late per-
jury and publish ceremonies of his late in
stallation of President of Washington college
with a minuteness that must of itself put
to blush the pardoned traitor if he has a
spark of manhood left in his bosom. Inca
pable Of an original idea, they either hunt
up the mouldy record Of the dead past and
endeavor to resurrect some doctrine long
since consigned to oblivion, an attempt with
feeble efforts to bolster up and carry along
in the march of the grand and progressive
present the effete carcass of defunet party
Their efforts now to resurrect the organiza-
ton of what was once proud and honora-
bic party, but which by the treason of its
leaders and the detection of its honest men
has beenleft disgusting mass of all that is
vile and despicable, are by no means hatter-
ing in their prospects The repentant reb-
els who have been parioned by the Presi-
dent, are far in advance of these would be
parasites. They have learned many things
in the school of adversely of which they
never dreamed in the days of their unhum-
bled pride. And while their once seryile
worshippers, too blind to see, too stupid to
learn and too stubborn to yield to the pro-
gressive spirit of the age, are once more ply
ing their disgusting adulation as of old, they
accept the changed condition in which they
find themselves to work like men, to not
only repair the damage they have done but
to make up Tor past delinquencies by deyo-
ting all their energies to the development
of the resources OF the country so long par
alyzed by blind p?licy. This is most strik,
ingly indicated in the letter of Reagan tc
the people of Texas. These indications
should suffice to open the eyes of the would
be leaders Of defunct party, to the fac
that by the neglect of its opportunities, the
perversion of its powers, and the abuse o
its privileges the party has committed polit
ical suicide and is now dead beyond redemp
ton.