The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-07

and sell his fellow-man, even in those islands,
must be sanguine indeed.
New Political Party-Governor Orr.
From The World.
In q speech last week to mixed multitude
of whites and blacks, at Columbia, S. c., Gov
ernor Orr is reported to have made the fol-
lowing remark
HE urged upon them to put no faith in either
Democrats or Republcans-that both parties
were on the eve OF reorganization, and that a
out of the better elements of both, and that
that party would be their best one; that they
Congress uncommitted, and thus secure, at
least, the attention of both that Grant for next
new conservative party would unite."
We so far agree with Governor Orr as to
think it probable that the next Presidential
election will be a triangular contest betwixt
three candidates. But he is out in his con-
lecture as to the recruiting ground and the
candidate of the third party. That there will
be a schism in the Republican party and a
cleaving off of a large segment of it, is an ex-
pectation for which good reasons may be
given, but we know no grounds for appre-
hending anything similar in the Democratic
party. The assiduous attempts, more or less
openly making, to construct such a third
party as Governor Orr anticipates, are
engineered entirely by dissatisfied Re-
pubicans, without any Democratic CO.
operation in the Northern States. The
Times and the Commercial AdvertiSer of
this city, are its foremost organs, and their
editors, with Mr. Seward, its chief abettors.
We suppose it will have the Jealous co-opera-
tiOn of such ex-Republieans as Senators Doc
little and Cowan, and many more who are
ready to break with the party as soon as they
can see a good chance to show it fair pair of
heels without going straight over to the Demo
Gratis. The Philadelphia Convention had its
origin in similar motives. 1t proved abortive
because its projectors underrated the cou-
rageous tenasity of the Democratic party
The writer of the Philadelphia address, who
was the first to bolt from the movement and
proclaim its failure, justified himself by laying
the whole blame on Democratic stiffness.
1t is the same elements of dissatisfaction
which last year tried to crystalline new party
around President Johnson, that are now in
voking, for similar purpose, the popularity
and supposed Presidential availability of Gene
raj Grant. Now, as then, the whole moving
impulse comes from sources outside the
Democratic party. Among portion of the
Republicans there is a growing and inappeas-
able discomfort with their party relations, the
disintegrating effect OF which will become more
and more apparent as the Presidential election
approaches. Democrats, on the contrary, are
fully satisfied with their party, and have in
surmountable objections to disbanding it. The
Democratic party is as compact and infeXible
this year as it was last; and is stronger and
more hopeful, as the Connecticut election and
other indications attest. While, therefore,
there are grounds for expecting Republican
schism, there are none for supposing that a
conglomerate third party will arise, composed
! of seceders from both of the existing Organiza-
| tons.
The idea that the Democratic party is going
| to disband, instead of gathering new hope
! and energy from the prospect of a division in
the ranks of its opponents, is founded on a
misconception of the Democratic spirit. All
who were capable of being scared, driven, or
| seduced from the Democratic party long ago
left us, under more plausible excuses than
can occur again. Men who did not join the
| Republican party in its strength are not likely
| to become tail appendage to it when its mis-
| sion is on the point of being accomplished, and
its organization crumbling to pieces. Those
who went out from us during the war could
allege motives of patriotism; if any should go
now, what reasons could they give for their
| long and faithful adherence through seasons
| of obloquy and trial? The Democratic party
has gone through a thrice-heated furnace.
| Those who stood firm and defed persecution
| and calumny during the war, are hardly the
| kind of men to listen to the Establishments of
| their former traducers, Democrats who have
| continued such for the last six years are made
| of sterner stuff. There is no motive to change
now which had not ten-fold force three years
ago. The time is past when any offices are to
| be cot by going over. There are no public
reasons for change which can operate on the
mind of a Democrat. The freedom and rights
| Of the negroes are secured by Southern con-
sent. They will never be disturbed, let Demo
Gratis vote how they will It would be a
inst at the moment when all these questions
are passing out Of politics. IN
| II may be said that Democrats are not ex-
neoted TO join the Republicans, but new
party. But what does that new party propose