Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-03-21
THE PARTY THAT sTBsIsTs ON
STRIFE.

ces, have invariably developed the worst
and tiercest passions of the human cart.
This is sad fact which the records Of
time have placed beyond the possibility
Of doubt. The civilwa OF Rome, the
French revolution of '9S, the Euglish
revolution during the reign Of Charles
the hrsi, aud the late fIatrcidal war in
our own midst, all plainly demonstrates
the truth vi what We have suited
Another truth, which is but the off.
spins of the ii;sI, aud which the p6ylos.
ophy Vi history proves, Is, that Whatever
pohti,aI parry in a government receives
s.reno,h trqm hese civil coluululioi,.
aiid Is tor i time rendered triumphant By
the outbreak aud Development ui'tha hu.
lnau passions, Is tyrannlcll II It's iturc
aud essentially opposite to ths spiiit Of
liberty. +'"
From the framing Of our constitution
two great political parties havebcen con.
tend'pg for power. Prior to 1860 the
democratic party was, with an occasional
exception, III the ascendant; since that
tlme black republicanism has borne sway
III the councils of the land, and ut the
present day is essayiug to guide the des.
TIMES Of tue nation. lhe cause, Of the
present success Of black rauicallsm is well
know. 1t has tattened and grown
strong on the carnage aud desolatiom
that has lately oyerspead the. land Its
guaut llmbs and wasted body have as
sum d the appearance of health and Wig
or, frouI the blood of human victims, up-
on which it has feastcd. Its once hide.
GUS and emaciated form has for the nonce,
acquired quasi proportions of symmetry.
Its hollow and sunken eye-balls have be-
come fall and round by gazing on scenes
oi oiaoi and Il Ids of carnage. But hike
tar hmWts Of 1ld, III. monster, IA lical-
isAi. eau only ysnb,,Sr' on fhasts oa bio,d
ami carnage, and TIL day is n9t dist ut,
when 1t snail c,T:e To exist with tie
cause that stcug h.u ard gaveit birth.
Democracy, humane and moderate,
ever true 70 It's principles has remained
unchanged in It's dodtrues, unst,iued in
its purify. amid the desu uctlon that has
0verspe,d the land. Its adhercuts have
sns aimed on y a partial defeat The
an :ry tumult Of fierce passions stirred
up by the late deadly strif', has not yet
entirely ssbsided; the. din IF butte. has
scarcely died away in the distance, occa-
sonal scenes of riot and bloodshed are
still to be witnessed; desnhtiun and mis-
cry, hang like dark cloud over portion
Of the country. .rn
But the records Of 100000 votes
show that the democratic party still pos
sessos life aud vigor A hcalhfu blood
still courses through her veins; and even
her most despondent adberents cannot
but feel that ere long she shall again be
triumphant in the halls of Congress,
again be proclaimed throughout the
length aud breadth of the land, and unite
once more IN the bonds of peace and har-
mony in the two sections of the coun-
try Dubuke Herald.
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A ROARING ORATOR MIR. Presi.
dent--I shall not remain silent, while
have voice that is not dumb, in this as
sambly-The gentleman, sir, cannot ex-
postulate this matter to any future time
that is more suitable than now. He may
talk, sir, of the Herculean revolutions
where republics are hurled into arctic re-
gious, and the work of centuriums refrig.
crate to ashes; but, sir, we can tell him,
indefaligaly, that the consequence there
from, multiplied subterraneously By the
everlasting principles contended for there.
by eau no more shake this resolution,
than the roar of Niagara rejuvenatc
around these walls. or the howl Of the
midnight tcmpte't cobhlsrate the mar
!, Bile statute into ice. That's what told
them +" 'H| smr j otI ..r
That's what ] call capital punishment,
IS the boy said when his.m5thrshut up
i IA tho plnsaf umnttxr fI,a