American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-04

The study of New York Democratic
politics has always been considered among
the most difficult of the known sciences !;
and we have as much trouble in under
standing Convention and Committee rid
dies, as in solving the tricks of prac-
ticed juggler. The consolation is.that
the whole thing is juggle and altho'
we are told that the ball is uuder a GER
tain cup, and have the manifest evidence
of our senses that it is there, we feel sure
that it has been dexterously " transferred to
another How to say on thing and mean
another-how to write resolution that
shall be Conservative ih Oneida, Copper
head in New York and Union in Buffalo
how to go back upon every spoken and
| printed pledge-how to be pro-Slavery to-
day aud anti Slavery o.morrow--are gifts
so eminently Democratic that we. have
ceased to give any leader of that party
credit for the least sincerity. The art of
paltering in a double sense has refined
and perfected, and we have never had a
better evidence of it than at the recent
Democratic State Convention.
For four years the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party have been engaged in war
4 upon American freedom and have been
the allies Of Rebellion. When the con
test was purely military, and the issue
uncertain, they preferred to assail the Ad-
ministration in every way;to ridicule its
Generals, depreciate its victories and ex-
aggerate its defeats. When the angry
patriotism Of the American people was
chatting at the tardiness of Mcclellan and
Buell., they took the cry and went into
power as Jealous advocates Of the war
When many defeats had saddened the
American heart and there were signs of
WEAKNESS, and even surrender, they pro-
claimed the war failure, and, selecting
its most conspicuous failure as leader,
sndeavered to grasp power Men who
deal thus with public events cannot be
trusted. The Democratic leaders who
saw in Lord Lyons (the ambassador of a
nation which opposed Amerca) fit per-
son for counsel, had certainly schemes of
their own, antagonistc to the dignity Of
America. We believe the purpose OF
these leaders their dream and hope and
ambition--was to profit by the failure of
the war and the dissolution of the Amer
lean Union. The growth of the Repub
lican sentiment had left them no future
in the North, and, rather than 90 into a
minority of hunger and weakness, with
out office or the good things office gives,
they hoped for downfall of the Federal
Union, the dismissal of the New England
States, and consolidation with the South
as the members of slave-sustaining I'm
ion. They wanted po7er; and since
there was no reigning in Rome, Rome
must be ruined.
The end of the war, and the concilia.
tory policy of President johnson, gave
them hope, while it destroyed all their
former schemes. Instead of going to
| Washington and claiming Executive par
don, or retiring forever from public life
that had been one career of shame and
| duplicity, they instantly claimed johnson
as their friend and brother This man,
who had been denounced aud assailed
with beastly and indecent rhetoric, was
claimed at once as Democrat of the
school Of Seymour and Tilden. They
did not succeed in Staying him in 1861,
and so they would take bodily possession
of him in 1865, that they might use him
as giver of ofices--their creature in
power. In Pennsylvania, Ohio and New
Jersy the Democracy did not go so far,
because in those States, whatever faults
the leaders have committed, they have
never been insincere. They hate the
present Administration, and do not find
it SO easy to change from cursing to COO
ing-from defamation to praise. We do
the leaders of the party here, or, at least,
a part of them, the justice to be believe
that they were sincere in the same belief
1t Mr. Cassidy and Mr.. .Comstock had
had their way in Albany-if Seymour's
advice had been taken-we should have
asimilar exhibition, But the hungry men
were rayenous, and insisted that the whole
past should be disowened and betrayed,
that Mr.. Marble might have share in
public pluuder, and Mr. Haskin welcome
access to the Presidential presenece.-
When they passed upon a platform we
were amazed. Are these men who toss
up their hats in favor ofthe i'boorlsh tail
orr j ohnson, and find no sonel competent
to lead unless he has been in the hateful