The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-13
The Party of the Future.

From the World.
While the waves OF our political sea are strewn
with the wrecks OF the Republican and Union
parties, one barque alone-the Democratic party
keeps steadily on its way, with rigging taut,
timbers staunch, sails well set its compasses
unseduced by the loadstones of Office, and its
wheel in tried and steady hands. There is one
piratical cock-boat sculling about changing its
flag daily and constant in nothing but its vain
attempts to seduce the crew out of the only
sound craft aioat. OF course we mean the
Herald, whose daily advice to Democrats is to
abandon the Democratic party: which daily
denounCes the Democrats in Congress for voting
as their principles bind them to vote; and which
paddles about industriously On the political
waters among the swimming or drowning frag-
ments, trying to pick up and organize the 'party
OF the future"
Inspired by Seward, to whom it is grateful
for the otter OF a foreign mission and the gift of
consulate, the Herd,d is blowing its horn in
dustliously, and DONG its best to assemble q
convention at Washington OF the Republican
ilotsam and Democratic ietsam. All possible
success to its diligence. The future party has
worthy herald.
There is party of The past which will be the
party OF the future. Its timehonOred legend
and creed is democracy" The future will
honor its standards, for the past has covered
them with glory. II knows It's watchWords it
Is compact; it IS unterrifed.
Opposing the conduct OF a domestic war, en-
countering armies of otficehoders and the pro-
nigate expenditures which in four years have
neaped up a debt as huge as that imposed on
England by century of wars, deprived of its
former Southern maioritles, and lighting also
the secret frauds OF a corrupt administration,
the Democratic party, nevertheless came within
less than $4,000 votes OF winning the last Presl-
dental election. The change of that num-
Der OF votes in the States of New Hampshire
Connecticut New York, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Indiana, Oregon, and Nevada would
have given their SO electoral votes to McClal-
Ian, which, with the Il he received, would
have made ll7-a majority of the total num-
Der, 239. Connecticut and New Hampshire
were carried Tor Lincoln by soldiers votes
some fraudulent, some not-Democratic docu-
ments and Democratic ballots being excluded
from the army. Indiana was carried by whole
sale and fraudulent importations of soldiers
! votes; Pennsylvania by money, and New York
by as shameful swindle as political villany
ever concocted. Maryland, also, was under the
heel OF military despots, and her votes came
Uttered through the martial law OF FlsBes and
Schencks ana Buffers. Yet in spite OF these
enormous odds, which should have seemed to
make any contest at all utterly hopeless, the
! Democratic party only asked 100000 more votes
| to carry majority OF the popular vote in poll
| OF over 4,c0O,OO0; and, distributed as above
| 33,CC0 votes would have saved the election.
We deyoutly trust that President johnson will
! be able to restore the South to its normal rela-
! tions in the Union before the expiration OF his
! tenn Of office. He will have the cordial assist
! anCe OF every Democrat IL the land 10 that end.
! He has had it from the first hour his intentions
! i'll that regard were declared. These columns
have assured him oft, emphatically and authen-
| tically. EX-President Pierce uttered the same
opinions, and with equally good reason and
weight in bis late speech 10 the New Hampshire
! Democratic Convention. We repeat, President
johnson may reckon and rely upon the unfail-
ing, cordial, and united support of every
! Democrat in the United States IN every measure
OF his tending 10 restore and reuuite the sun
! dered Union. And 1t Is the most earnest wish
| OF every true Democrat that he NAV succeed in
this patriotic purpose before the expiration of
his own term of Office.
But whether he succeeds or not, the figures
above given of the strength Of the Party OF the
| Past shows that the same party, which is also
the Party of the Future, is able without assist
ance from the South or the President, and in
spite of-any possible opposition whatever to
finish the task and restore the Union.