The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1867-03-20
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVEN-
TIDN

The committee OF correspondence ap-
pointed by the late Democratic State
Convention, held in Louisville, Ken
tucly, have issued cali for national
gathering of the party to meet in that
city on the 7th of May next. The pur-
pose ofthis, truthtnly remarks the Pitts
burg Dispatch, is to devise means for
resurrec,ng the Democracy, which the
call humorously styles the only hope OF
the country, But five are to believe
report, there Is no more probability Of
the coming Convention being serviceable
to the Democracy thar was the Chicago
gathering which nominated General
Mcclellan for the Presidency. The
united Democracy there resolved the
war for the life of ,ho nation "a failures;
from the coming convocation OF bailled
traitors and their sympathizers, we will
hear different cry-onc for magnaui ,
nifty towards "a pallant but fallen foe.'
We cannot divine the purpose OF the
Democratic leaders in Kentucky, In call.
ing, the Convention in question. They
seem entirely desperate in their Spas
modic efforts to put their party on a
road likely to lead them to power. But
this Is a hopeless undertaking, even in
Kentucky, which gave Mcclellan some
forty thousand majority There the party
is hopcles>ly divided, aud instead OF its
leaders calling National Convention to
revive tie party throughout the Union
they ought to look nearer home and
endeavcr to unite themselves tor the ap l.,
preaching August election. That they
require union is evident from the follows
ing paragraph which recently appeared
in the Louisville Democrat. After in.
dlgnant!y rcpudiating the late Demo>
cratic gathering, that paper said:
There is already a third party, Ii
exists naturally. 1t is tire only right
party. Shall it not have ticket for
which it can vote with good conscience
aud a consistent record! As we have
sad, there are many thousands Of voters
in this State who will not vote for either
of these tickets that arc provided for
them, Let us have ticket we can sup,
rort We ought to get majority in
Kentucky, and we shah get it; for neither
of these present parties can live. They
will have short future. They carry the
seeds OF dissolution in their organs
cations. This looks fatal to the
success of the Louisville Convention
which was, it seems, but the torerunner
of the national gathering, called for the
coming May. Looking at the procee-
dings Of these people in the most dispas>
sionate manner possible, We are some-
times bewildered at their audacity and
stupidity. They appear to be more
wicked and foolish than when they at
tempted to destroy our Government. -
Instead Of pentence tor their misdeeds,
they give us defiance and insolence and
instead OF crawling on their knees asking
for pardon, they stand erect, and with a
swagger desire to dictate terms to the
triumphant power which saved the life
of the nation. We speak. Of course, OF
the inexorable leaders of the late rebel.
ion, and not OF their innocent aud deu,
ded victims, who are indeed most pltltul
objects of commisseration. Those poor
people were opposed to secession, as
their votes proved, until forced into il
by aspiring demagogues; their fault was,
like Cpsar's ambition, most grlevous,
and grlevously have they answered it,
But they should not forget, in their
present misery, that the men who inflc.
ted ii upon them are the same who now