Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-12-21
LAST GROiy OF DYING DEMOCRACY.
They CIT Loose from AndrcaC johnson
- Want Something Else TO lie to
Tier Organs FdUor Negro SttBFGGe.

From the Chicago Times.
SHALL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
..- DIE OR LIVE?
The present is Il crisis in the demo
cratic party which has no precedent in
its history, as it is Il crisis III the pro-
gress of the country which is also with
out precedent. Never before has the
democratic party encountered events SO
seriously affecting its future vitality As
now. Not that it beholds itself di-
unfinished in the magnitude of its num-
bels-for it j. numerically stronger than
it has ever been before, but that, hav-
ing been beaten on a great national
issue, as to which IL believed itself to be
wholly right, and the opposition wholly
wrong, and still so believes, it must
nevertheless abandon that issue-for
the decision of it is final-and either
sit down in helpless a:ld decaying
inactivity, or strike boldly out upon q
new line, selected with peculiar refer
euce, not to things as We would have
them, but things as they naturally are;
in pursuing which line it shall
cease to be hold back or "cOnserva-
tive" party, and become what it was
in its palmy days, progressive and an
aggressive party. These are the alter
natives.
twill not sit down in helpless and
decaying inactivity.
What, then, shall the new line be !
/ In the first place, must We not cut
/ loose from the administration of An
drew Johnson, and leave the hybrid
! concern to float on the sea of public
contempt into which it some time since
entered, and from which no power can
rescue it? Is not the late defeas a1fi'
btabif taFf Ii loS6TEiflT6 tfi e fc Causes com
bined? What is there in its composition
1 10 command popular confidence? Who
belonging to it, is entitled, by reason o
/ his antecedents or his craftsmanship C
| the confidence or the respect of the
democratic party? Certainly it is no
Andrew Johnson, nor VIM. III. Seward
nor Edwin NJ. Stanton. True, this adj
ADMINISTRATION had Il right policy, anC
the Democratic party, in overlooking
the chief men comprising it,aGd think
! ing only OF the rightfulness of the pol
! icy, displayed patriotism whose puri
| ty was never exceled; but the policy
having failed-and having failed, too
through The feebleness and folly and of
dministraticn-Why should not the
democratic party abandon the deac
body, longer adherence to which i:
death also to itself?
No sooner had the account of the
above pictured wall from Chicago
reached Dubuque, than the Rcrakc
also sounded out the watchword:
"CUT LOOSE FROM Mr.. Johnson
" Is it not about time for the demo
cratic party to cut loose altogether from
Andrew johnson and his administra
ton? TWAS elected by the'rcpublicans
is composed wholly Of republicans t
this day, and is now hostile to thedemo
cratic party, notwithstandingth demo
cratic party has stood by it when it:
own friends deserted it. because on
= particular policy it was right. If the
democracy had fought for themselves
and their principles during the lat,
canvass, instead OF tying up to any sucl
dead body as that, it would have beer
far better for it.
This may startle some gentlemen
and especially gentlemen whoare work
ing patriotically and hard for an office
or who wish to be recognized as the dis
pensers of federal patronage; bat w
believe it is the almost univeral senti
meut OF the democracy, and will be eX
pressed in the most emphatic name
before three months have rolled around
We shall sec"