St. Mary's gazette., 1866-08-23
The PHILADELPHIA Convention

This body has aajonrned' ana 'h
country Is nov engaged IN m"k'ng up
verdict upon is labols, We have n
n,;,o;v;pgs As TO what that verdict WI
hs RadieaIsm IS doomed The .h4
has gone forth and we realize at la
,h,, Tho end Of our civil strife has bee
rcacbed. Yes. the war that never shouts
have had beginning, Is ending or ia
.,aed r. one small 1.-THE Of the mod
GRAFTON. forbearance, compromise ah'
patriotism which appears to have govern
ii the deliberations OF the Phiiadciphi'
Convention had been exhibited when tn
Crittendcu Resolutions were on their trl
al--whcn it was possible to have pre-
vented the war-tllis country had beci
spared four years of the most terrible
carnage and devastation the world has
ever seen. At that critical p"rl"d o'
our history, however, unfortunately foi
US all, many Of the gentlemen who are
now for healing wounds were then Iol
making them, and war and blood a1h''
ruin were the consequence. But let py-
zones bc bv-eoncs We cannot rccaiI
fb,. dead from the grave, but we may
as.uaye the wounds of the living, ami
nboy. all We can, if We work III good
faith together, restore, III spite OF fa'I-
c,lism, the Southern Stltcs 70 the [ Il
ion without degrading them,
Thi, we under stand to hayc been the
main object for which the philadelphia"
Convention was assembled, and tins OBJ
jcct, VIC need not state to our readefS,
We heartily approve. 1t involves, OF
course, the repeal Of the Congressional
test oath and the consequent admission
70 seats in Congress of the real repre-
sentative men Of the South This Is ali
that any democrat could have asked o,
the Convention and beyond this we do
not conceive that any democrat j bound
The relation subsisting between the Dem
ocrAs anl the conservative RerublIcans
IN this contest, we take to be ana 'aGons
30 that os the allies in their late wa
against Austria They were. pending tlc
war, anti-Austrian. Pending the pres
ent campaign, we are ant-raU1cat, but
We still maintain our distinctive faith and
We hold our primary allegiance 10 be du"
to the Democratic party alone. Scr'lcr
under contract, We indeed owe 70 the Phil
adelplia Convention. but this is limited,
specific and not intended to be permanent.
1t will expire when the Southern States
shall have been restored 70 the mon or
Wien radicalism shall have been over
thrown in the country This at least, i
our view of the obligation which rs demo-
Gratis We owe to our Phi.alcip phia allies. -
We have made, therefore. and intend t"
make no permanent investment m the
Philadelphia Convention. and we still adj
here to the old Democratic party and the
old democratic faith The truth is, though
VIC arc willing and intend to fight this
contest through, now we arc in for 1t, upon !
the Philadelphia programme, we like not
the strong Hamiltonian projections of Mr. .
Raymond. His mosaic performance, half
pig and l,alf puppy, however acceptable !
70 others is distastcful to us. It is much t
too strongly peppered with Federalism to
,uit our plain democratic palate We still I
believe in Mr. jefferson, and though, IN 7
view Of recently accomplished results we
may be prepared to surrender something /
ofhishigh State sovereignty theories, wearc .
not prepared to give up the substantive ar !
ticles Of the creed he has left us, and es-
peciallv are we not disposed to give them .
UP for New England Federalism, Nor
neither, we are certain is the democracy .
Of the country We enter, therefore, with
tho democratic party into the service of The
Philadelphia Convention, renounclng noth- !
ing material of our old faith and committing
ourselves to nothing but the overthrow ot
rsdicaiiym and the restoration Of the South
ern States to their proper Constitutional
relations with the Union. We expect, Of
course, for the present, to fight side hy
side with Mr. Raymond, but we wish ii.
understood hat he is no prophet Of ours
or of our party, that We still maintain our
integrity as democrats and still ahatc moth
ing of our ancient hostility and antasonl>m
tn the doctors and doctrines of Federal
ISM.