The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-05-27

torrents. Their faith wasanot well founded,
and proved but as the midges that the sun
blink brings out, and the evening winds
sweep away"
On the day of the adjournment of the
Convention which framed the Constitution,
BENJAMIN Franklin said There are parts
& Of this instrument which do not approve,
q but I agree to the Constitution with all its
g faults. believe that this form of govern
nment is likely to be well administered FOR
q 4 COURSE OF YEARS, and can only end in
& despotism. as other forms have done before
tsit, when the people shall become so cor
+" rupted as to need despotic government
e BEING INCAPABLE OF ANY OTHER.
The Old Republic has gone the way as
other forms have done before it because the
people have become corrupted and are inca
pable of any other than despotissn. The
Government is no longer delegated power,
but consolidated power, responsible to
nothing-diHering but little in the name from
the monarchies Of Europe 1t will pass as
the Roman and French republics through
many other changes, but will take no step
backward. y The Union as it was" has been
a vanity from the day the first gun doomed
in this war !, c the Constitution as it is +" is
but pile of tumhling ruins as shattered and
defenseless as the walls of Sumter. They
who dream of them are haunted with the
ghosts of the. dead.
A majority of the people no longer desire
Republican Government. The River OF
Death divides the Past from the Future but
still the Democracy will live. State Rights "
have passed away, but the cid attraction
which brought good men and true together
in Je6erson's time, will continue to consoli-
date them. New questions will arise, now
undreamed Of new interests become involved,
old hostilities die away, and new friendships
be formed The Democracy may not save
the ship, but it will ride with the balance
upon the storm.
The aUnion party" will fall into frag-
ments with the closing of the war, for it will
have no longer a purpose in life. 1t has no
future. Having accomplished the object Of
its formation, the suppression Of the rebellion,
it has nothing more to live for. Slavery
dead there is nothing to denounce As the
Sacramento Bee, an ardent Administration
journal truly says, 1.-THE Union party will
fall to pieces within six mouths after peace
is declared" It will disband as the anti
slavery society has disbanded. It will be
demoralized, disorganized. In the general
scrabble for power fragments will rally
around the new men Of the age military
chieftains aspiring to high places s. dema-
gogues groveiling on the ground for popular
applause. There will be an administration
party, as even John Tyler had one; but the
war will be transferred from the camp to
Legislative and Executive halls, and fought
by the nins7 and tonts.p
Amidst the clashing of factions, sections,
policies, forms of government, and pFeferen-
ces for military cheftains the Democracy will
minqle, and probably with controlling in
huenee; but their faith will not be hereafter
founded as heretofore upon strict eonstruc-
ton of delegated powers, and a rigid preser-
vation of reserved rights. The STATES HA7R
BEEN AssAssINATED: They are dead-heart
broken unGet the bereGyeaaeRts Of Har- But
the Democracy will not disband. They will
not ignore the times in which they live.
The same old instinct of freedom which first
brought the party together, Will keep i to-
gether. State Rights were only an inBTu-
ment to preserve that freedom They de-
parted. the Democracy will find others.4 Dur
ingthe convulsions,of the next quarter-cen-
tury, the people may learn to value that
which they have so lightly thrown away since
the year 1860. Until then the Democracy
can scarcely be censured, if they feel like
the merchant of Venice. "The evil you teach
"us, we will execute and il shall go hard
ubut we will better the instruction."
But whatever may come, We feel assured
that the Democracy, upon all great issues OF
persons or parties, will be found upon that
side which fagors the largest liberty to men
and against oppressionin every form. twill
enscribe upon It's banners the sentiment Of ita
first and most reverend leader, Thomas JEFF
ferson, 81 have sworn upon the affairs Of my
s.God, eternal warfare upon every species o.
ntyranny over the human mind" It will
continue as it has ever been, the natural
enemy of puritantic meddlesomness and big
otry and as in England, it will eventually
trample them down beneath its feet.
TO swear "to speak the truth, to sdccol
uthe helpless and oppressed, and never to
Hturn back from an enemy was the initiative
oath required of the German knights OF the
middle ages. A million of stout Democratic
hearts will, like Hamilcar before the Gartha-
genian affairs, leave that political obligation
deep in the memory Of the generation thai
buries them.
We expected to see such as the World
writhe under the lashings of public scorr