Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-04-10
Has the Democratic party bIuckl

For the past year. Democratic newspapers
and Democratic speakers have declared that
the intent and purpose sf the radicals were
TO prevent the South from coming into the
Union until after the Presidential election
This statement Of radical tactics has always
been supplemented with the threat that,
radicalism 10 the contrary, the South should
vote in thar campaign. BY the passage Of
the ShermaR bill, Immediately followed by
Wilson'S supplement, the South is most
etsectually left out in the cold for the next
four years. Now, here is an opportunity
for those who have declared that the South
should vote, to act. II the Democratic
party is not burlesque on its old,time pluck,
the nine excluded States will be counted in
the next electoral college We do not be-
lieve that il is necessary to act just yet but
we do say that uuless the convention which
assemblies next year to place presidential
candidate in nomination, does not receive
the delegates from the nine States now un-
represented in Congress and fails to declare
the attempt to prevent their voting as Q
revolutionary act uhtch rW be rpelIed by
jUrce, then the Democratic party had better
get its few Remaining friends to bury It
deccnty, and let the devil and the radicals
take the country.
The above is taken from that stanch and
ably edited paper called the Clinton Demo-
rat. The question asked, Has the Demo.
cratic Party Pluck should be answered,
we think, in the negative. 1t is a well
established fact that the Democratic party is
made up Of fighting stock aud its mem
bers invariably leap into the front rauks Of
the army at the first tap Of the drum, when
the country demands their services. But
within the past year or more, we are panied
70 acknowledge, the Democratic party has
lost good portion Of its "pluck". The
Democracy have had repeated occasions
since the close Of the rebellion TO have
shown their pluck but failed to 'ccme
up to the scratch in nearly every instance.
j i. possible that the Democrats are
going to remain quietly in their seats until
the crazy fanatics have entirely destroyed
the country? From present indications in
the north it might seem so, but when we
cast our attention to the east we notice light
breaking in, and the heavy black cloud
which has been lowering over the whole
country for the past six years, gradually
moving of. The late election in Connect
cut is the worst, most acute and frightfu! cu'
the Radical party have experienced for
several years. If We take Ma: victory as n
criterion, there is some "pluck" still left in
the Democratic party. But why has not
that "pluck been exhibited in the northern
States for instance, in Pennsylvania?
Simply because We have too many men IN
our party assuming to themselves leadership,
who go whoring with those who claim Ia be
Conservative "-Republican-Johnson men,
for the purpose of procuring position ard
spoils. The afliliation by Democrats with
these Republicans, who lave bcca and are
to-day the worst enemy the country and the
Democratic party have, has been clearly
proven by the results Of the late guberna-
torial campaign, to have infinitely damaged
the success of our party, and By many well
thinking and shrewd men of the country it
il assigned as the sole cause Of defeat at the
polls. That campaign was an instance in
which the Democratic party failed to exhibit
sufficient "pluck" to present a square, solid
and united front, such as should have hecn
presented to secure victory. To gain n
battle it must be fought with will and
full determination of winning, as well as q
knowledge of how to handle men, and moi
by coaxing, csressins and coqucttiug with
the enemy. of which two much was done in
the late campaign.