The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-05-04
DIFFERENCE or OPINION.

The last issue of the Democrat con-
tains an elaborate and foreign argument
under the caption of Radicalism VS..
Democracy" AS n premise it says 4
The Republicans of the present claim
that to be Democrat, in this our day,
is to be disloyal. Let us see if the charge
can be sustained" 1t is rule in logic
to draw legitimate differences from adj
mitted premises, or principles assumed
TO be just. We object to the assumption
on the part of our worthy senior cotem-
porary, claiming that his assertion is not
correct To be Democrat to-day does
not necessitate a man to be less loyal or
patriotic than in the days of Jackson.
There does exist parasite party, claim
ing the name of Democracy, that has
been disloyal, and is yet. Major Bruce
admits this, so will every Democrat.
They assume the name of Democrats,
act with them, and in fact have con
trolled them since the day the Charles
ton Convention broke up in a row. To
be one of that faction is TO be actively
disloyal. and in this Territory they have
been in the ascendant since it's discOv-
cry There have been assertions made
in the Legislative halls of Montana as
arrantly reasonable as ever were uttered
in the Richmond Senate, and the Dem
Osrat dare not set those assertions at the
head of its columns under the names of
it's candidates, in the ensuing campaign
In calling the Democratic party of this
Territory disloyal, it has been done be-
cause a disloyal element, acting under
tlat name. controlled it. To have been
less delicate and more truthful, the name
Of copperhead might have been substi-
tuted: but loyal Democrats who have
permitted themselves TO be passively led
by the nose along the Shiny trail of this
lserpentine faction, deserved that the
stigma of disgrace should rest upon the
name they revere. There are scores and
hundreds ofloyal Democrats in Montana.
We ask them to measure the loyalty of
the dominant party in the Territory for
the last four years, and say it the Grim
son of shame does not mantle their
cheeks at the remembrance of their con-
nection with them, and the vow come on
their lips, we will be numbered with
them no more. We know that very
many of them have done this. They are
not less Democrats, but the nobler and
honester men-shaking off the dust OF
disloyal paths from their shoes, they
have set out in a new direction and turn
ed their backs on the tempter, marching
in the ways of the founders of Democra-
.cy. and keeping step to the music of the
Union. Heaven forbid that we should
call these men hard names. Again, the
Democrat says the Republican party
favor Capitalization of power. We do
claim the supremacy of the central gov
ernment: but we ask which most APP
proximates to the Capitalization OF pow
era House of Representatives, consist
ing of 1872 Representatives and Senate
of So members, coming up fl ON the
people, or a President false to the prom
ises he made that "trenson should be
made odious," false TO the principles
upon which he was elected. and false to
the loyal States; having shown by these
that he was the tool of clique, and that
clique the abettors of the rebellion
we ask, which looks To Capitalization
of power, the supporters of the Con-
gressionul or the Presidents policy :
Our neighbor still further wakes elo-
gent, aye, even sublimely SO, (there is
only one step between that and the ri |