St. Mary's gazette., 1866-11-15

The Ph!!acc phlh fiaioIh mas
tested, and though no resort of ingenuity
was lef. un,riol to conjnrc with it. 1t Is q
melancholy fact that, excep, in Maryland
snd Delaware, it haa turned out blank
f,;)urc Nor Is there that We can sec the
pligh:.st hope to 30 better with IT h'reat-
tcr. The thing is dead beyond the hope
of resurrection, and the best thing, IN oar
Judgment, for its fTiends to do, and we
we're as earnestly for it as any other dem
ocrst, is to bury It at oaee and De done
with il.
Tho Phil.arlphia Convention attempted
to create B third party in country
IN which there VISA room enough only for
two. 1t had hoped to absorb enough OF
Republic.nism and enough Of democracy
to Get up house keeping for itself, The
democracy, though determined not to be
absorbed. gave the new party from mo-
,iyes of cxpcdiency general but not an
undivided support nt the late elections
Il absorbed little or nothing from any Re-
publican quarter. The whole weight OF
the recent cor aict, therefore, rested upon
the democratic patty, and, as 1t entered
the contest With nothing Of It's wonted en-
,husissm, and with many Of its old leaders
lukcwarm or hostile to the new arrange
meut. it encountered defeat. THIS is the
true history of our late disasters IL the
Middle and Western States.
Though giving the Philadelphia move
mcnt an earnest support, we discovered n
the beginning. that the ultimate parties TO
the struggle. still progressing. would be
the radical and the democratic, and so de-
livered ourselves, but We were so eollcltous
to have peace aud to sustain President
johnson, that we we're willing Our party
should suffer temporary eclipse If this
end could be quicker obtained. The
eclipse wa, accomplished, but peace is found
To DO further off than ever.
But, though the philadelphia movement
has accomplished nothing for the deliver
auco of tho country from the radical do
minion in Congress, IN one respect at least
it has entitled itself to our warmest gratl-
tude. 1t has given us Maryland. With
out its aid, the democratic party, instead
of being on top, az at present. would still
10 Houndering at. the bottom. Credit to
this extent, no Maryland democrat can
deuy i, aud for this if for nothing else. as
!, has 70 be buried, it should receive decent
.erulchre at our hands and the fullest hon
ors of war.
But what party shall succeed III 10
this question but one answer can be return
cd. II this country can be saved at ALL
the democratic party is the only Tarty that
csn save it. Though divided and more or
lc~s disoreanized since the Presidential cleo
ton of 60. it still numbers in the Western
and in the States north IF the Potomac
nearly two million of voters. But there
!, now no longer cause for division or dis
organization in it's ranks. Slavery is gono
.nd all quarrel among democrats in regard
4. it i, ended. We can eco no reason
vhy the free-soil democrat of AS should
no, now return to the party Of his first love
N.;ther is there reason that we can sec why
th. pcr.opai followers of President Johnson
and P.ssidsnt Johnson himself should Tot
connect themselves with the democratic
r,1tv. Itis clearly the ultimate party OF
al anti-rsdicals in the country. The sta
tute Of Limitation may we'll be pleaded
ag.iDs, the ob'rusiop now OF past o'ii'r-
.ueies Of opinion between US. We are
.Eree upon all leading questions at IS
.ue before the country and We are also
agreed .ha, the country is gene If radical-
ism prevails We have espcllmsnted
viii the Philadelphia Platform and, at
wr fair trial, it has been found wanting
". must, therefore, invoke something
.l.e. and as thcre is nothing else to 10
woke, let US all agree to try the democrat
ie party. Let tho nn'i-Fadicai ei'men's
Of the country be brought together and
u.le homogeneous. To this end, State
Conver,ious Of the party should be cal
led and ,hi, sccon. plishcd a Nstioral
Democratic Convention should be convex
I'd genuine J,ficr.opian democratic prln-
ciples should be enuncated, the old dem
cer,,;c flag once mere uufursd, and then.
asa not till then, will The victory be gwen
70 our bands.
Democrats Young America