The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-14

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lobby combinations should be made to yield
profit to the city. The measure should be
carefully and thoroughly considered, and It
might be we'll for number of our prominent
citizens and heaviest taxpayers to meet to-
gethsr and agree upon bill to be presented
to the Legislature early In the session, so that
it may become law 1t the earliest possible
moment.
Tho Dissolution Of tho Democratic Party
'swho Killed Cook Rebins'
The Northern rump Of the old national
democratic party has fought its last battle.
II goes down with Hoffman, its last champion
from Tammany Hall and the "ring." From
Maine to Missouri, under the laid and comfort"
of the administration, It has made desperate
fight; but from Maine to Missouri Il has been
cut to pieces. The defeats Of the old wing
party Of 1852, which carried that great party
to the graveyard. wsi Tss |assffs tgiaes compared
with the late terrible thrashings Of the SSamoc'
racy, from Maine to Missouri. Their coalition
with the administration, instead Of giving
them strength, has only served 70 precipitate
the inevitable catastrophe. The old demo-
cratic party, under the same odium ~ peace
party in time Of war, goes the same way as
the old federal party Of 1872.
"Who killed cock robinT Some would say
Calhoun and the old Southern State rights,
slaveholding, democratic oligarchy. Some
would say Buchanan, with his wretched, beg
garry notion that against rebels and traitors
the government had no right 10 protect itself !;
and some again would say the almighty
niger" and the squabbles of the party lead
ers over the spells and plumber did the bust
ness. II will suince, however, for the present
to say that the little Douglas did 1t in his
quarrel and rupture with the old Southern oil
gsrchy at the Charleston Convention. He
there split the party in twain, and, while the
Southern division went Oh into the rebellion,
the best materials Of the Northern division
went over to NE support Of Abraham Lincoln
and the republican party In the war for the
Union. Thus only the Northern rump of the
once ali-powerful democratic party was lefs in
the Geld. A lucid interval on the war plat
form In 1862, in which the rump was lifted upon
It's legs In the Central States, was followed
next year BY the cry Of its copperhead leaders
Of "peace at any price," and 20 down 1t went
again from Maine to California In 1864 IL tried,
at the Chicago shentpershent Convention.
the trick Of Union soldier a. the bearer Of
its Presidential copperhsad banner Of "peace
ct any price," and down II went again from
Portland to San Francisco. In 1865 Il tried
President yohnson's Southern restoration
platform, with Union soldier as its standard
bearer in one State and . copperbead leader
in another, and down IL went again from the
Atlantic 10 the Pacific Ocean. In 1866 1t
entered into formal alliance, including the
spoils, with the administration, and in support
Of the combined movement President johnson
undertook bis famous pilgrimage to the tomb
and the shrine Of the little Douglas, and the
dead Douglas in that pilgrimage gave the
finishing blow TO this Northern copperhead
rump Of the old democratic party. The rump
and the Presidents policy have thus gone
down, under an aggregate OF three hundred
and seventy-6ve thousand majority, from Maine
TO Nevada. and for Congress and the constitu-
tional amendment.
Run down from the Wilderness to Apo
mattox Court House, like the army Of Lee
nothing remains now 10 the routed rump OF
the Northern democracy but to disband, dis
perse and seek out some new organization.
In this view the Chicago Times hitherto .
most obnoxious and rampant copperhead
orgen) strikes out boldly for negro suffrage.
Very few other journals Of the democratic
church show any signs Of life. Like ships
hard aground in thick fog, or IKE Micawber,
they are waiting for something 10 turn up,
Hankering and hungry for their old Southern
balance OF power, they find that Congress
blocks the way and holds the keys OF the
next Presidency, and they know not what to
do. The best thing they can do is to follow
the move Of the Chicago Times and 60 little
further in urging upon the South the adoption
OF the constitutional amendment, including the
alternative Of negro suffrage, In view Of the
twenty odd additional members Of Congress II
will give the South, and thus take the lead
from the republicans In this great Presidential
game OF reconstruction.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
- nxme IL