The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-12-15

The Democracy, since its last crushing defeat,
is casting about for some foundation upon which
it may rest its weary and aching limbs, and
gather strength for new contests, and, it hopes,
new victories Its leaders are industriously
seeking some political Resculapus, who is able
to prepare some prescription for the sinking pa
tent that may be instrumental in restoring it
again to health. One recommends "progres-
sive I" powder, another an " aggressive - pas-
ter policy, and another proposes vigorous exer-
else for the old hypochondriac. There seems to
be wide diversity Of opinion as to what are the
ailments of the diseased party. Thatit has been
for some time in decline, and is now in state
of collapse, seems TO be universally admitted
But how to revive its wasted energies and i'm
part to it health and vigor, is a question more
easily asked than satisfactorily answered. It's
cadaverous face, attenuated frame and palsied
limbs all loudly proclaim that it is in the sere
and yellow leaf" and, like an aged man, going
rapidly down the shady side of the hill of life,
and tottering towards its grave. Medical skill
cannot bring back the rosy flush of health TO the
frame shattered by age, can it restore life to
the pallid corpse. The old Spaniards long sought
the tabled g Fountain of Youth - said to exist
in the Floridas, but they sought in vain, and
the search for restorative agencies to bring back
life 70 the dead corse of Democracy will he equal
ly futile. 4 g change of base will not answer
a new policy /" will not revive it Johnsonian
restoratives will not heal its maadies, and ne
gro suffrage cannot save it froH that grave to
which it now so rapidly hastens.
The organs and Spokesman of the party are
now busily engaged in deyising some plan where
by its existence may be prolonged, even for the
briefest period. The Democratic Press of York,
Pa, pleads with the madness Of desperation, in
this wise
g Either AndresU johnson must attach Congress,
or become its Victim = > Are ne readq to sus-
tain the President IN dis6dndinq the 39h Congress-,
or will aUe support that Congress in the impeach-
sse1t Of the President either actually Uirtudlly
If neither, the one nor the other, then we | the
Democratic party must become aggressive In
another direction. We must accept the new or
der of things that have obtained by means of the
late civil war, and strive to have hand in the
construction of new government, and the adj
iustment of the new relations of new Union
as either demand the disnsensberment Of the Con-
gress Just assembled as revolutionary sectional
bodv, or agree that 1t is the legal Congress Of the
United States, SOY far as the several States are en-
titled to representation and adopt tactics so as
10 bring about reunion of all the States, ON bd-
sis at once Just and honorable y y v Stagnator
is death. Our only hope is in activity end ag-
gressive action" -
If this paper is one of the authorized opponents
of Democracy, that party has descended to a
depth ofdepravity never before reached by any
party in any age or period Of history 1t is
willing to do anything, from demanding the dis
persion Of Congress to impeaching the President,
or anything else that may promise to save the
party from destruction and annihiIatiou Accor-
ding to the sentiments uttered by the Press,
Democracy means nothing else than political SUI
premacy and power. II has no principles, save
interest it cares nothing for the prosperity oil
the country, and regards oniy.its own advance
ment. And yet, with these sentiments and ideas
branded upon its forehead, it franticaIIy appeals
tslIigent people to intrust the greatinter-
u to its care and to commit the
,ubIican government to Its charge
aeceitfuI, hollow-hearted, hypo-
.rscy, playing the mounte-
soil Of America, crimsoned
Of the noblest and
- shame for
asked
purpo-