Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-10-13
CHE 2rf5fott 3ournaL
The Poliiicai Canvass-TIse
Drift Of Public Sentiment.
From tie Nyy York Times.

From tie New York Times.
lis very evident tbat tie public mind
breads Tie renewed ascendancy Of the
Democratic party more than it does the
continued exclusion Of tie Southern
Sta,os.s Will, it regards the latter rs a
temporary Inconvenience, involving ~
important or lasting consequences. It
looks upon The fcru.ri Is fall 81 pelma
nent peril to the country. Perhaps too.
81 sentiment If justice has quite as mach
10 do with tbs feeling IS any distinct
forebodiag Of specific evils. What the
Democratic Party would DO iffulIy rein
stated in poverty what definite action
1t would damage the future OF the nation
those who dread It most might not be
able 70 say. Bat there IS no difficulty
whatever in feeling that the party which
OpIusej the Government during the war
ought lot 10 assume control of II when
tile war is over. The instinct Of the
country is that those who stenJ by il dur
ing It's time -: peri sho'd have charge Of
It's fortunes wien lic danger has passed
This sentiment uuderiieS the resoiute
resistance of.the people 10 The struggle Of
tie Democratic party Tor renewal o.
power. Al other issues are overlooked. .
Nobody stops 70 discuss questions of con
stiJUtional law or 10 canvass the chances
Of another war. The rigL, Of represent
atiou-the scope OF the power conferred
upon CcugreSs-tie effect of hostile leo
is:ajion upon public sentiment in the
Southern States, these and other topics
If grave importance are dismissed, rs
having nothing 10 d. with the immediate
ISSUES TO be first decided. They are
postponed to, some more convenient sea
son. lie North feels conscious OF its
mower 70 crush opposition anil 10 insist
uIou suci: measures IS it deems essential
10 the public rood.
Ihr Democratic parts has clearly over
reached itself in It's contest for renewed
ascyrdaucv. Throughout the war it
gave the government no support. As an
organization il resisted its efforts to sup
press the rebellion. Ii denounced us
pc..cy, condemned as usurpa'ions the
measures by which il thnartrd Northern
sympathy with secession, and did 5verv-
thing III its power TO overthrow the al
lniuistratiou by which the contest was
carried on. That It did not succeed was
owing to the fact that The people cared
more for the country lEal they did fpT
the Democratic party. And 1t will owe
lis failure o. the same cause now. v hi.e
we believe the great body Of the people
desire tie speedy restoration of peace
hni harmony 10 the Union, they are not
inclined - Ts,rchosn this at the cost Of re
storing the Democratic party TO power.
They u III trust the work of restoration
10 the Union party, and to none other
They tiud il much easier 10 check the
excuses and rebule the fanHtical passions
of It's extreme and reckless men, than To
iufuse into the Democratic organization
the spiiit If progress, Of reform. and of
political libe " which the emergencies Of
time demand. They iud that party still
filed w;lh all the narrow and iliheraI
prejuiices which marked its action brfpre
the war. The same hatred of the col
ored race-the same unwiiiingne,s 10 ex
tend and bruad.u Tire bas,s Of our free
institution the same attachment the caste
AMI arbitrary Distinctions IN tie distrbu
ton of political pnwtr-tha same ciamor
for the largest license to vice and immor
Giity, aId the 81 re lack of sympathy
with All eti:rts 10 elevate the degraded
and to improve the condition Of the ig
noIaut aud down rroiIeu members e.:
oar republican society, mark is action
NOW IS before the great tempest, which,
in sweeping away human Slavery. has
destroyed the great l.u;work OF all the
injustice and a, the inequality bv which
our free institutions were deformed and
married. The people will not trust that
party with the reorganization of our pol
lticaI society. They dread its influence
on national affairs. They dread espe-
ciaiIy the aliience it viii fotm with what
ever remains of the influences Of slavery
in the Southern States. And they mran
10 avert this danger By excluding the
Democratic patty from power.
When this shall have been accomplish
ed, We doubt not the people will give at
tenrion TO the spesifc work of restora
ton.