Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-08-03
DURBORROW LUTz EaItors ana ProprIetors.

A ~ NAtAAJ GoS@ntld8 ~ ALE f1IdTLNOUH OF the
| national Union. Indeed, Mr.. Seward. who
favors the Convention, in his letter to Tam
many Hall, speaks with perilous and reck-
less rhetoric of sovereign States Thus
\ the Convention proposes TO prefer the rights
OF States to the rights Of citizens of the
United States or to leave the protection oi
1 the latter solely to the States, when our ex-
perience has proved that that course is no.
| tlonally disastrous Nor can the Conyen.
ton point us to the Civil Rights bill, for the
callers OF the Convention all opposed it and
supported the veto.
Composed Of such representatives and
holding such views, who are likely to control
| the Eonvention2 VIII il be Mr.. ThurIoW
Weed and his friends, or the allied Demo
crats from the North and South? The aues-
ton may excite smile, but it can not sup-
gest doubt. But if the Democrats control
IT, can the Convention have any other result
than Reorganization of the Democratic
party2 And if by reason of that re0rgani-
zatIon and the 60 operation of Mr.. Weed
and his friends that party should return to
power, Is there any reason to suppose that
ITS policy OF subseryience to its Southern
wing would be changed Clearly not, be-
cause since the beginning Of the war the
only hope of that party has been the return
alliance it must yield to the demands of
those members. Ia the North the Demo-
cratic party is virtually dead as controlling
force. 1T has, indeed, large vote. Ii dis
putes three or four States; but it is gener-
ally defeated In them, and always in the
others. The reason is, that the Democratic
party Is merely permanent reaction and
protest against progress and reform, and as
the public opinion of the Northern States is
educated and intelligent, it instinetiYely dis
trusts and rejects it. Hence, also, the steady
and uniform opposition Of the Democratic
party to the elevation and education of the
colored population at the South. Every
school house Is an outpost against the "De-
mocracy. To educate the whole population
of South Carolina and Georgia and Missis-
sippi is to emancipate those States from the
Democracy which held its last Conyen-
tions in Chicago, and which speaks now by
the lips of Vallandigham, Pendleton, "Jaek
Rogers" Horatio Seymour, Garrett Davis,
the Tammany orators, and the members of
Congress who approve the Philadelphia call.
That Democracy, Tammany Hall itself,
whenever it succeeds, succeeds by the igno-
rant vote. 1t was the slums of the city of
New York that elected Horatio Seymour
Governor in 1862, and which gave NJ 'Clel-
Ian local majority in 1864. Abolish the
slums in the whole country, and you abolish
the Democratic party.
Ii is very useless folly to suppose that
the spirit which has been so long dominant
in our politics is destroyed 1t has been
muted by argument and che ballot in one
part of the country. In the other it took
up arms, and having been defeated, viii now
betake itself there also to argument and the
haf lak. 81 a.
and public virtue and political faith of the
country to accept the battle in this form
also, and complete the victory. The Dem
ocratie party could not save slavery nor the
rebellion, but 1t can still strike a few blows
for ignorance and unequal rights. 1t viii
not change its name, and it can not change
its nature. In Difference to Mr.. Weed and
his friends at Philadelphia it may call itself
Union Democratic, or Democratic National;
but it viii still be the Democratic party The
Last Rose of Summer" is nothing but
The Groves of Blarney" played slowly.
The party may not make Mr.. Ben Wood or
his virtuous brother President of the Phila-
delphia Convention. and may nominate
Mayor Hoffman or Senator Murphy for
Governor of New York But it is still the
organized reaction against the development
of the Amerisan doctrine of equal liberty.
LII WILL Stlll natter ana lawn upOL the lgno-
rance of white foreigners, and still despise
and curb if it can, the aspiriBs intelligence
of native Americans of every race. Its pres
ent opportunity is the Philadelphia Conven-
ton. 1t win elect the delegates and control
its policy; and, like the dextrous execution
er who cut off the victims head SO exquis-
itely that he did not know it until he moved,
so it win absorb with greedy politeness those
who have sought and failed to control the
Union party as they likewise sought and
failed to control Abraham Lincoln's admin
istration. -Hagpas Weekly