The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-26
CHI A r l. E S TON.
MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2s 1866.
THE PRESERVAT7O OF THE DEMO-
CRATIC PARTY.


ices ut tho South for the preservation of the
Democratic party. We stated recently the
proposition urged upon the President to change
front upon the point of rec obstruction. 1t
il urged upon him to bring the South up to
some other attitude, in the hope that it may
make her moro attractive to the North, and fa-
ollitste her entrance TO the Union. To this VIC
objected that we have had enough of political
posture making, md ought now to await results
before further demonstrations; but we arc told
we must do more, scruplc ut any thing in fact,
that may be necessary to the preservation of
the Democratic party.
That party has failed to sustain itself against
its moro vigorous adversary. Effete with its
long enjoyment Of ice,-demoralized by the
mass of political tradesmcn who have fastened
upon lit protracts painfully its miserable and
Improbable existence. At every step We have
been impcded by it. When aggression first be-
gan VIC must not notice it, for TINT it would dis
turb the feeling at the North and cndangcr their
stability. As scctionalism advanced VIC must
not intervene; they could manage it; VIC must
not secure nor take measures to defend our
selves, for that their organization was the sufi-
cient rampant to defend US, and that VIC list
ened to them was q fatal error. The Union
was stronger than the Radical party, and
might have triumphed in 1860 and at any time
before. If the issue had been made with that
party then, it would have been forced to accept
the restrictions and its power sufficient to re-
strain it. But, in the conception of that party,
the evil was not in the disease, but in the re-
cognition of it, Nothing would then content
them but that we should submit to their dicta-
tion, and action was fatally deferred
And now, having hung upon our arm to par
alyzc our every manly effort to defend the
Union, to suppress sectionalism in the germ, or
throttle itbefore it's maturity of manhood;- hay
ing benumbed and cmasculatcd the South by it's
pestiferous embrace, and lulcd it to fatal slum
bcr until the insuffciency of our trusts, and our
responsibility for self-prescrvation, were an
nounced in the triumph of the Republicans
was there the devotion to our fortunes to have
been here expected, or that participation in n
common fates Did the blatant leaders, BUTLER,
CUSHING, MoCOoK, DICKINSON and others, come
further to the rescue? The realization of the
facts was an offence; perception of the truth
that we had been dupes and victims, wrong
to justify their every act against us. To escape
the contagion, they mLst fly the subject. To
vindicate their claims Of fidelity to the rising
cause, they must admit no measure in their
rcprobation of the lost. Not content to for
sake us, they swelled the cry upon us; they
gave increased swell to popular demonstration
they gave funds to support the war; urged
men to enter into the ranks against us, and
were themselves ambitious of Offices of distinc-
tion and places of profit in the ranks of our
antagonists.
The war ended, and allowed to resume their
places Us solicitors Of popular favor in the
public ways, have they aided us to repair the
fortunes of the war? Have they been ready to
share its odium? Have they not been critical
rs to our several records ?-instant to REQUIRE
Of lib the concessions to make us less exception
able, and the more available, therefore, to their
uses in further party contest? Have they
facilitated our re-entrance to the Union? Has
it not been the one insuperable impedment TO
our restoration that they were ready then to
take US in hand and play us off in another game
for party power? Has it not been the sole
condition of even their consent TO our return
that wo should be ready to bend our backs still
further to their unworthy burthcn? And is it
not now required of US that we alone, of our e1-
haustcd rights and fortunes, shall afford the
further offerings, and that, not to the restora-
tion of the Union, to which they are as in
different as their antagonists, but to the re-
| establishment Of Democratic power2
| Men of the North have opposed the advance
of Rndicalism upon the Union,-have impeded,
as they could, the contamination of that ca
lamity in the subjugation Of the South, have
struggled, as they should have done, to sustain
the structure of q constitutional government,
as vital to them as it was to us, and they have
suffered, and to them we have all the feeling
Of fellow-suffercrs in 4 common cause but no
such feeling for the Democratic party; no aspi-
rations for it's triumphs and no purpose Of
struggling further to that lame and impotent
conclusion. To that end there is no restoration
of the Union; and tho Union restored, if thai
were possible, the South cannot and will MOI
re-enter it to such immaterial and insignificant
result.
Il There are no more concessions now TO b,
: made until we shall have met the power enti
tied to exact them. We have erred 80 far IL
the unbeeoming haste of our proceedings. Tn,
? Government seemed authorized to accept o
| termR IL soemed To rcnrosen MT tho North Tb,