New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-09
DEMOCRATIC MISSIONARIES.

There was n rumOr in circulation some time
ago which we have waited to see contradlcted,
and have waited in vain. IL was stated that
"The Democratic Central Committee" upon
extraordinary enterprises and sporadic incur
sions intent, had resolved to go into great
campaigning expedition" through the South
ern States during the coming Summer, with O
view of matchmaking those regions, and pre-
pairing them for the next Presidential election !;
that speakers of cOnsummate eloquence would
be sent down; and that there would be no lack
of funds-though whether these are to he
employed in paying the speakers or the
voters, was not distinctly indicated. we
can easily imagine, however, that the
funds will prove the most eloquent
orators if judiciously bestowed, and
that the rustic of the national currency Will be
more seductive than the neatest outpourings
of the Democratic DemOstheneses If cash
told well in Connecticut which is kind OF
Canaan of oil and milk and honey, the DEM
ocratic Central Committee are justified by
all the rules of expediency in offering 1T to
those who are lame of credit, yacuous OF purse,
and gaping out at the elbows. The South, we
admit has its share of high minded men, who
would not, under any circumstances, be In the
political market-and for such, we presume,
the orators are intended but there is the float
ing population, at present very high and ex-
ceedingly dry, and quite ready to have their
clay moistened at the expense OF the
missionaries Like phenomena have been no
ticed among savages. There was a great
deal of religion while there was prospect of
rum but grace fell off alarmingy when the
&C lao rar In
consist principally of tracts The free and in
dependent electors of the South always have
had their skins filled on great political occa-
sions, and they will expect a revival of the
exhilarating custom. A Democratic missionary
peregrinating with a CARLOAD of the creature
would be hailed in great many localities as
the benefactor of his species, and if he added
free pipes, and unlimited tobacco, he probably
would be advanced to the dignity of resist
less angel of light. The experiment, ut any
rate, would be worth trying, if whisky should
fall, and the funds come in freely. ~
This suggestion strikes us as the more i'm
pOrtant because we conceive that the orators,
however eloquent, grandiloquent, or loquacous
by nature, will he extremely bothered to know
what to say. They will arrive as the repre-
sentatives of the Northern Democracy-0f
party which promised to help in their dire
rebellious extremity, the men whom they will
addressed party, some members of which,
at least, promised to organize a cooperating Re-
belon in the North, and to help TO make hay
fields of the principal squares and streets of
New York and these, by cold, negative, and
trembling support, confined principally to
great many speeches, really did the Rebellion
n great deal of harm, though, of course, with
ont intending il, and practically left an in
surTection which they had encouraged to shift
pretty much for itself. The Democratic
party contrived, with q singular fe-
licity of wickedness, to be alike false to
both sides-it cheated the South, and it tried
to cheat the North, and it has met with the
fate which is reserved for trimmers. There
are few men who are worthy to go down
and face the Rebels, and who call themselves
Democrats 10y sort of generical right. There
is Vallandigham. And the brothers Wood. And
Gov. Seymour. And James Brooks. And the
editors of The World and of The Journal Of
Commerce. Most of these were martyrs, and
confess0rs, when it cost something to be so.
There is the Hon. George Lunt Of Massachu-
setts, who nobly published the stupidest book
upon record in support of the struggling and
bleeding South. There is one Bishop who
must have his claim to go allowed.
There are several Doctors of Divinity.
There are the Directors of the Society
for the Propagation of Political Truth,
who used to send out little tracts showing what
Panl and Moses thought upon the subject of
American Slavery. These men are fair repre-
sentatives Of the Democratic party, so far as it
ignores Human Equality and the right to self
government; and if they have anything to say |
Of value to the South, let them go and say 1t Z!
The main trouble Ia that they have not. Flat
terry cannot soothe the dull, cold ear OF death j;
excavations of the revolt are not wholesome
for the revolters to-day, There is large
body of new-made voters in those parts which |
Il will be difficult for these men 10 |
ook in the face without blushing, and
before which, if they have any shame
eft, these champions of despotism passed
away would stammer, tough veterans as they
ire, like children learning to talk. This Is
, free counfry--free for folly alike ana