Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-07-04
Wanted---A New Party.

The New York Citizen, edited by
Charles G. Halpin (Miles O'Reilly,
is one of the fairest and ablest So
called Conservative papers in the
country. 1t is warm supporter OF
Andrew johnson, but having be-
come disgusted with the rotteness
and treachery of the Copperhead
faction, it is agitating the question
of the formation of new party to
take the place of the corrupt con-
Germ calling itself the Democratic
party. In recent number of that
paper correspondent holds the fol-
lowing language, to which the editor
gives the prominence of leads.
There can be No doubt in the
minds of those at all familiar with
the past political history of the
country, that the Democratic party,
from its first success in electing
Thomas Jefferson to the Chief Mag
istracy, in 1900, possessed the conf
dence OF the people, and under its
several administrations, to q late
period, was the party of progress
and of the most liberal ideas. 1t
will be equally apparent to the politi-
cal student of the present day, that
the great fundamental principles
which gave strength and vitality to
the Democratic party in contradis-
tinction to the old Federal and Wing
parties, are still the same, but that
the perpetuation of them have fallen
into the hands of the most degenerate
and unpatriotic sediments OF that
time-honored organization.
The writer of this, since he has
been of sufficient age to think for
himself, has rejoiced in the success
OF Democratic principles and the
measures growing out of them, and
grieved when they met with success
tul opposition, and, like yourself and
many other Democrats, has staked
his life in defense of Institutions and
laws created and fostered by Demo
cratic administrations But now he
feels himself disgraced in being at
tached to an organization controlled
and managed by a set of men who
never seemed so well pleased as
when disaster threatened the unity
of the Union, and who were too I'M
patriotic to risk their lives or for
tunes in defense of the principles
which they entertained, and covertly |
and secretly expressed.
In the four years absence OF the
true Democracy in defending their
country, these worse than rebels
seized upon the organization OF the
party, and diverted its objects and
purposes to ends as unpatriotic and |
selfish as their course, during the
dark days of the republic, was trai-
torous. Thousands of our fellow
citizens still cling to the Democratic
party, proud of its traditions and de
parted glories, but who have no
sympathy with those who now con-
troll and manipulate its councils
These fellows have so intrenched
themselves in their present position
Oy an artful system of pretended
primary elections" as to enable
hem to perpetuate their control for
Ill time. The mass of the party are
without redress to remedy this evil,
Ind are obliged to swallow the nau-
seating doses administered to them,
vote with the Republican party, or
tay at home-as thousands do, rath-
# than be judged by such question
lble company.
The Vallandighams, Voorhees,,
Y oods, Touceys. Blacks, and men of
hat like ilk, now have possession of
he Democratic organization, and
lnder their management it is with
'ut respect-an object Of ridicule-
nd the idea of its ever coming into
'ower under the auspices of such
nen is standing joke in the com
nunity.