Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-12-12
Wrangles of the Democracy.


Boston Post, and other influential journals
of the party, is being bitterly denounced
by such of their organs as are Joined to their
old idols" Thus We find an article from
the \. Y. Day Booh; copied into the last
Clearfeld Republican. which pours a per-
feet broadside of vituperation and condem
nation into such Democratic Journals and
leaders as ''have been doing all they could
for FIVE OF six years to educate the people
in the Black Republican abomination of
loyalty" Says the Day Book:
These Democratic leaders went over
themselves into the filthy slough OF Black
Republican toydlism alias despottsm. alias
devilism, of every internal type, and did
their utmost to drag the people after them,
and now are trying to drag them out again
with just about the same kind of ropes or
principles, with which they dragged them
in. Vain attempt! Worse than vain TO at
tempt to drag the people out of the AboIi-
ton slough with Abolition ropes . The
organization, the machinery of the party,
is worn out and broken in the service of its
enemies. 1t smells at once of the stencil of
negroes and the blood of white men It is
loathesome to every Democrat, that is, to
every Democrat who has refused to be par
ty to the stupendous crime of the Abolition
war. If the Democratic party, we say, ev
er returns to power, it must be by other
means than this old, filthy, venal, bloody, ne
groized machinery of the party organiza-
ton"
That is, surely, not very fattering ac-
count of the condition of their party, but
as the Day Booh; and Clearfeld Republican
are organs in good standing with the Lat
ter-Day Democracy, we must take it for
granted that they know whereof they af-
firm, - and hence that their representations
are correct. They not only thus admit that
their organization is in sorry plight, but
they assert that
''The attempt to make it nalatto party,
or something between white man and a
negro, has resulted in nothing but disgrace
full and continuous defeat. These cunning
or rather foolish leaders have been trying to
split the difference between a white man
and negro, and the result is, that they
have made political Mongrels of them
selves.
That sounds like harsh language, but it
must not be forgotten that we are quoting,
italics and all, from the Clearfeld RepubH-
can. 1t is in the columns of that pa
per that we find these bitter accusations.
Nor is this all Prominent Democrats who
took part in the 14th of August Conven-
ton at Philadelphia are also dealt some
heavy blows. That assemblage is stigma
tized as
"a bastard concern, where the marplots
of one section held their bloody hands over
the voiceless mouths and choked throats of
the other section, reading them lessons of
reprcof and submission. If there is any
man who bore prominent part in it, who
is not already ashamed of both its action and
its results, let us believe that he is past
blushing"
1t must be highly refreshing to Chairman
Wallace, ex-Gov. Bigler, and other Demo
Gratis of our town who ''bore prominent
part in that Convention, to be told by their
home organ that if they are not ashamed
of both its its action and its result" that
they are ''past blushing g'-that the "politi-
''cal offspring born of such an embrace
'the white State of South Carolina hugging
''the black State of Massachusetts-could
be nothing but a mongrel brat" We
should think that such left handed COM
pliments would be comforting, in an emi-
nent degree, to our distinguished fellow
citizens who attended that celebrated con-
vocation of heterogeneous political spirits
Whilst the organs of the Latter-Day De-
mocracy, from which we are quoting, are
thus disgusted with the course of many
journals and leaders of their party, it must
not be supposed that they are at a loss for
remedy. ''An early great Convention of
''the true old Democracy of the States, is
suggested as sovereign balm for the COM
plication of ills. that is now racking the body
of their distracted organization. 1t is to
be composed, not of the ''black and mu-
''latto politicians that have been holding
their conventions all around" but it is to
be made up Of genuine white politicians,
OF brave and true patriots" like the edi-
tors of the Day Book and Republican, we
presume. None of those ''who are foolish
enough to think they can hold the Radical
bull by the TAIL" are expected to intrude
but only those who mean to seize the beast
by the horns" who want the Union as
at ,oas and the Constellation as It aoas,'
are invited to attend. ''Such a Conven-
tion, it is hoped by its brilliant projectors,
might start an enthusiasm which will
arouse the sleepy ear of the old Democra-
icy again. and give us at least one campaign
in which Democrats shall not be in doubt
whether they are running Democratic or
"a Black Republican nlatform." We trust