The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1867-08-10
"Raaicalism Dying Out. |"


This, aud similar expressions, is just now fire.
quenily applied 10 the Republican party by DEM
ocra,ic orators and newspaper writers. They
tell us that the Radical party has run It's course
tina, its adherenis arc fOrsaking lie failing Tor
tunes and that the hour for the triumph Of the
democracy is near At hand. In the light Of re-
cent political events this is strange logic. Flee
,ions are constantly occurring throughout the
North aud At none Of them has democracy at
tanned any success save In Connecticut, where
bribery and fraud on the one side and "nomi-
nations not ht 10 be made " on the other, So
cured the doubtfnll election Of few Of the
democratic candidates. Nowhere else through
out all the North can this party claim as strong
hold. Every State North Of MasOn's and Dix
on's line Is controlled by Republicans; their
Governors and Legislatures are radicals; their
people are radicals, and are rapidly so altering
their State constitutions as to recognize the rad
icAl principle Of justice 10 all men,
This radical " or Republican party appears
to be thorn In the side Of the demOcracy--sO
much so that Il Is the constant cry OF tina, party
tina, the radicals must be put down, and by force
II IL cannot be accomplished 10 any other man
ner. This kind Of talk sounds big on pa
per, and Is calculated 10 bring hearty response
from those Of that party who dare not 90 con-
trary to the advice Of their leaders, but when
brought down TO a matter offac,, every man Of
unable to put down " the " Radicals now as
they were during the war. When the armies
where in the field, the stric,est watch was kept
over those in command, and the first evidence
tina, was manifested " inactivity or quasi Union
ism, the radical Union men were the first to
whirl them from abused positions and to put
Others in their stead TO prosecute the war and
battle with the enemy with that zeal aud energy
which the cause demanded. Why did no, de-
uiocraey 4" wipe out or "put down " the radi-
Gals then They could no, do IL with their North.
ern.cOpperheads and Southern traitors combined
Afier the Southern States withdrew aud set up
agoverumeu, for themselves they asked TO be
let alone, and the democracy desired Il, but with
all the force they could combine such u state Of
Affairs could not be broughtaboui. The radicals
firmly declared that an unconditional surrender
must be made. aud Lee, the hero Of the rebel
lion, had to surrender TO the Northern Mudsill''
Grant. One Of the rebel leaders declared their
ability TO force the Federal army from point to
point and soon he expected TO call the roll Of his
slaves from Bunker HILL but the radicals remain
Ell true 10 their flag aud furnished men and mo-
ney enough to Freveni ihA, wonderful PERFORM
ance. aud democracy was whipped. After the
war another dodge was resor;ed TO. Finding
that their cause was hopeless, as conducted with
arms, traitors sought to gain by diplomacy
what they could not win By tn sword The
Conservative party was organized, composed
OF rebels aud their sympathizers, democrats aud
a few dissatisfied Union men. They met in con-
veniion at Philadelphia Slocum and Orr, the
representatives Of the North and South, walked
arm in arm together, tie motley crowd OF poll
ucians present applA1ded aud Andrew johnson
shed tears oser the solemn spectacle. For a
time IL looked as though an eniire new order Of
things was about TO be inaaguraied, that the last
- were 10 be drst aud the frsi last But the
effort, grea, though !, was proved an abortion !;
the radicals exposed the fallAoy Of the move
men,. laid bare the shallow preiense that
brought these men together. and to-day they are
50 heartily ashamed 81 their combination and
failure that the whole affair j. left without name
or paFenlage. These men thought they saw
another ray OF hope in the recen, elections North,
and strained every nerve to carry them, bat the
radicals stood firmly and boldly to their plat
form and principles, and with the exception Of
Connecticut, from everywhere, whenever the peo-
pie have spoken, has gone up the sound Of Union
reioieings aud democratic Lamentations, eelebra-
ting the dying out Of democracy aud eonser-
vaiism, instead Of the decay Of radiealsm. In
the late war, Union men defeated democracy aud
treason combined, and the masses In the loyal
States, still looking upon the radical party a.
the one that saved the government, sustained Il.
The democracy Of this day viii do very well
10 Sight battles and "pu, down " the radicals
on paper, but practically and iniiuentIally Il is
defunci party. The democratic journals APP
pear asionished at the inactivity Of the people
and wonder why il is that more effort is not
made and greater spirit manifested to resist Rad
ical influence and Radical control but, while
they are standing still, wondering and amazed
at the people sustaining the radicals, this party
is s,ill pushing forward, from conquefing TO con-
quest, and the democratic party Is just as pow
Nft0@7 W fesAt Nt"H no" ~ tuNl "ttu W tue
field or have since been a, the ballot boz. All
sorts Of threats and devices have been used, but
the Republican party Is too Arm TO be frightened
or eAjoled into Submission to thoss who ,rampled
undsr foot the flag Of their country, de6sd ID
laws and assassinaied one Of the purss, patriots
that ever lived The blood ofthousands Of brave
soldiers cry out against wirlz, winder and 9th
er fends in human shape employed by this
righteous ~ democratic party to do the most
damnabIe deeds human beings ever engaged 10,
and while the memory Of thess things hold .
place In the American bosom, radicalism cannot,
will not die out"