Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-01
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The Democratic Par ty.

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 The Democratic party after coouettind for a matrimonial connection with Johnson ism finally declined the sS-faai match, The bannss were formally published at Philadelphia,4 but when the Conservative Unioai hfae aci tually went up to the altar at Albany, it was to meet public rejection. The reason usu- ally assigned for this extraordinary proceed ing, has beer. tbat. the Copperhead wing of the Democratic party would not support a man of 50 clear and t1hdodbted a patriotic record as that of Gen. Dix, Furth hermore, they claimed that the accession from the Union party was So Insignificant in mum. bers as to render any pretense of 2 change of principles simply ;pid idculous so small a Union sheepskih was altogether inadee1iate for the disguise of so large a Secession osnd' wolf .}9..1aiQ isl bof1a-. .s..,:t.l.,4er saI ff But there was a further reason about. which little has beena said, but which we believe had much infpence with the Densg ocratic leaders: It became evident that Feg nians could not readily De converted iintteo into O. " Johnson men," and how very serious a matter any detection ofsI Irish voters miaast become will appear fromii mii4asiffew < few census sta @
 tistics. At least one third of the Northern Democratic vote must be foreign In In New lev York City the. State census of 1865 shows that the naturahzed were to; the native yoe ters as three to two; 77, ,OOO of the former to >52,OO0 of the latter; while, about one third of the voters of the whole State are of for.= eign descent. They therefore will cast much more than one E half of the votes MT Hoffman receives next week for Governor; and the importance of that interest to, the Democracy is such that they cannot afford to trihe with it:' The results of the, Maine election proved, not. only how little assist ance Mir Johnson WAS able. able. to t. bring them, but the unprecedenltedI Union y majority plainly indicated ah alarming defeeti0hiof Irish votes. It was not only, therefofe, to tighten their ship but tto quiet the Feniian ii tempest, that the presidential Jonah was thrown overboard., They sacmfcedi Mr' Dix, adopted distinctive Democratic plat form, and ran up the old party. flag, hoping not for victory, but to save their party from annihilation. Their retreat was very rapid and not very creditab1e but we are far from thinking it, altogether il injjudieioua Their old name is, in fact, all hhat attracts the foreign vote and they find; that ssNational Union" is name they cannot icoonJurs with:
 Anything more ,pitiableo than, the, aitua,, tion in which they, have placed the few Johnson men whose hopes of lbeco@stiingy @stin g of. political consequence were traised so high at Philadelphia, cannot easily, be conceived A part return to us, dissatisfied, part with MT Johnson 'hang on the verge"i7of De- mocracy, dissatisfied also, deriving what consolation they can from constant en- ployment in experimenting the numerous political executions the President is order ing throughout the country "@'.
 The political position of. the Democrahe party for the next two years must, we think, remain unchanged, after a careful calcula- ton Of the chances they have decided to continue their old organization and have also doomed themselves, as the late cleo tions indicate, to their present hopeless minority in Congress. Their power Of mis- chief is, however, not, entirely removed-- Not being able to do the country all the damage they intended, they will do, it what damage they can. They have some influence with the Southerir wing'of their party and this influence they are pernici- ously using to- prevent the acceptance by them, of the proposedo Constitutional amendments. In spite of their loud pro- fessions' they will lgn lend no assistance to the reconstruction of the South. On fair trial oof that, single question heforethem this fall, the people have decided that the South must comply with the confessedly mild conditions embodied in the Amend ments before they are admitted to irte1pre repre- sentation in the government. If the Dem ocrats rts are the patriots they profess them selves to be-if they really desire the read. mission of the South-.why do they not sub- init to the plainly expressed will of the peo- pie? If the final reconstructien is delayed it will be clearly their fault. ai'S s' .+0oas .
 But we are not without hope that the South will act Independently of the advice of their Northern ssan, qiss;;, lIi their old conf
 dence in that alliance. has never bean ret stored; En11i during the war they expected more active assistance than mereG Gopperheaaism; and since it's termination loud Democratic professions of sympathy have led to E 10 practical results. The South are, above all things, anxious for an immsdd di x settle, ment of the reconstruction question and they are beginning to discover that the terms of settlement are notSnnder. .tAeIcon-. troi of Presiaent Johnson sofsof the Dssnec-. racy, but that they are, as aisTttf tff ,,rhs tiey t should be, under the control of the SI,a.rt party which bfouoht. ifha tGartfd speI onsS,L1