Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-12-05
5Iee7sRrRe. WEDNgsDIf, DEC. 5, 1866.


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MANY so-called Democratic journals and
lenders are nowadays complaining Of the
dslus;on,s and wayvardness Of the people in
continuing their support to political party
which Is nanifestly bent on the complete de-
struction Of the free white maa' government
established by our forefathers. But we must
ten these Democratic leaders that the fault
Is more theirs than the people They have
been. doing all they could for FIVE or sixyears
to educate the people in this Black Republl-
can abomination Of loyalty" IF the thing
now called by this kingly name Of IOydlty, is
right, then the Black Republican party is
right then the people are right in support
inc that party, and the Democrats are wrong
IN. opposing it. !. If the Abolitionists have
rishtto overthrow the government OF States,
and to subjugate white men, for the purpose
ofredncing them to an equality with negroes,
then they have right to, all the natural
fruits of that subjugation. The holding of
States in sat5ugation can be no greater crime
than the very act of sulGugatipg, and when
You have educated the people to believe that
the one is right, it viii take long time to
persuade their common sense that the other
is. wrong. IF you may deprive any people
Of the right of self-goyernmont for single
hour, yen may for day, if fora day. for
week, if for week, for month, IT for a
month, for year, if for year, for all time
The principle admitted for any time, is good
for all time. These Democratic leaders went
over themselves into the filthy slough of
Black Republican byalisw alias despotisn',
alias devilism of every internal type, and did
their utmost to drag them out again with
inst about the same kind of ropes or princi-
pies, With which they dragged them in. Vain
attempt Worse than vain to expect to
drag the people out of the Abolition slough
with Abolition ropes If the Democratic
party is ever to return to power, it must be
through other agency, and by other leader
shin, than that which carried it over to the
support of its enemies The organization,
the machinery Of the party, is worn out and
broken in the service of its enemies 1t
smells at once of the stencil of negroes and
the blood of white men 1t is loathsome to
every Democrat, that is, to every Democrat
who has refused to be a party to the stupen-
dous crime of the Abolition war. If the
Democratic party, we say, ever returns to
power, it must be by other means than this
old filthy, venal, bloody, negroized machln-
cry of the party organization. The Demo-
cratic principle is not hurt. 1t is as bright,
aspure and glorious as when it started in the
great struggle of 1T76. Give ita party ma
chinery worthy of its strength, and it will
draw forth again the popular enthusiasm
which was always the forerunner and COM
panion of victory. Do We believe it posi-
bic for the party to achieve success through
the leadership of the very men by whom it
has been sold /? The return of the Democrat
ic party, or rather of the Democratic prircl-
pie to power, (for after all, that is the only
question worth contending for,) must never
be looked for on this prostituted, bloody,n
gro-worshipping basis of loyalty. The De-
mocracy of the United States was always
purely white. It can never return to power
except as sc7,ite mans party. The attempt
to make it nsalatto party, or something be-
tween white man anda negro, has resulted
in nothing but disgraceful and continuous
defeat. These cunning or rather foolish
leaders have been trying to split the differ
ence between white man and a negro, and
the result is, that they have made political
MongreIs of themselves. What we want,
what we must have, nay, what we will have,
is purely 1ohite man party. A party based
upon white supremacy, on precisely the same
foundations which were laid down by the
wise and patriotic founders of this govern
ment is the only organization which can sue
cessfnlly cope with the negroparty. To con-
cede anything to such party is to give
away portion Of our strength. The wider
the gulf between us aud them, the stronger
shall we be- This attempt to squat upon
their grounds is both folly and crime The
Black Republican party holds the negro and
al that belongs to him in fee simple, and for
the Democratic party to attempt to get pos
session of any part of his body, is to play
the part Of thief and fool at the same
time. This sort Of thing has been going on
now for several years under the present in
competent and venal leadership of the par
ty, with only this result-the decentralization
of our own forces.
These considerations have led us to sup
port the proposition for az early great CON
yention Of the true old Democracy of the
States-a genuine Democratic convention,
where the people of all the States may meet
on terms of perfect equality. Not such a
bastard concern as that of Philadelphia,
where the marplots of one section held their
bloody hands over the voiceless mouths and
choked throats Of the other section, reading