Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1867-10-30
he Two Parties.

tlons the New York World savs-aftcl
enumerating certain acts of the
/ Democratic party in former davs .-
In complaisance 30 its Southern
wing It made mistakes on the slavery
! question. and lost the advantage al
I leadership. In its attempts to prc.
| vent opinion advancing too fast it fell
| behind; and there could not be a more
fatal hlunder, at present. than an at
tempt to carry the public opinion oI
the country back to the point where
/ 1t stood when. to save the tram from
! destruction IN moving down de
clivity. the Democratic party went
from the engine to the brakes. +"
( 1t is simply too late. The debauchcc
of sixty, shaking with ruined nerves.
/ aud tortured with :. the horrors = looks
ba-k to his youth. and sighs that if he
| could only be rid of his nerves. and
/ Purged OF his delirium. and if his veins
were once more filled with healthy
/ young blood, he might he we'll man.
/ he World lorgets that the best men
Of its party lett it when it fell behind
and became the tool of the slavery in
/ terest, that, from that moment. the
/ Democratic party has existed. first. as
/ pander to Slavery and second as
PARALYSIS Of the IoyaI war Tho n.r,,.
est, vigorous youth of the country. in
! spired by the great idea of liberty.
have Justly learned to associate the
name of the Democratic Marty will
all that is reactionarv and anti-Amar.
lean. They saw that no man could
openly and heartily deu0unce human
slavery and remain Democrat
When the war came they saw that no
man could wholly support It as q hopefuI
movement for human liberty as we'll
as the Union, without being discarded
by the Democratic party. They read
IN the lIorid apologies for treason and
/ traitors rebclling to save slavery. and
ihcessant sHeefs at the President and
the Government, which, to save the
Unlon, sacrificed slavery. They saw
the Democratic opposition to the draft.
TO taxation. to all vigorous efforts for
National safety. They saw the Dem
ocratIc party, IN the East, nominating
Thomas and Horatlo Seymour. and. IN
the " est, aiiandlgham and. finally
heard 1t shout with cNultation at Chi
cago that the war had failed. This
was the Democratic party before and
during the War--descrted by the older
men, who had given it conscience and
a true popular sympathy, aud despiscd
blythe younger, whose political life be-
gan with the campaign Of 1860.
And what do we now sCe2 The
Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee is AUGUST Brlmonf-oYn
Of the most notorious of Conncrlcad.
during the war: the man who reLul,ed
a Young, Union officer for his natural
wrath with an Faclish uoblemap who
wore a rebel badge in BrIfooDt's house
the facts Of winch uorn ,,a5a MI,
lie at the time In the Sfata IF 6I,;n
the political campaign. Just ended.
was conducted for the Democrats bv
Nallandigham and PcndIeton; and
Judge Thurman, the Democratic can
dldatc for Governor. was a Copper
head Of the same school. The CLica-
90 Times, rebel sheet during the war,
and of unchangeable malignitv. is the
chief Democratic organ in the North
west. In New \ ork IIorali0 Scv.
mour, who preferred TO sacrifice the
Cnicn rather than slavery. is the
great Democratic leader-and the city
Of New York illustrates the purity Of
Democratic politics. Meanwhile the
Democratic national policy, as re-
ycaled IN Democratic speeches, resolu-
lions. and editorials is to retain just
as much Of the spirit Of slavery as
possible to talk Of the necessity Of
conciliating the Southern brother. If
he be white ex-rcbel, and to ridicuIr
and espi-e him If he be q colored Iowa.
man; while virtual repudiation of the
national debt is openly advocated by
the representative Democratic leaders
of the West.
Now. for the future noIitfca1 1av.l-
oument Of this country. there arr. Iuf
lust two fully oroaufzed rart,ee Fr
rrv man shoiild at v-itt ono or tl,a
other of them. one !. the Danor-at
Ic party. so ofTicered and with surb =
poiicv. It j. iustiuctive1v sunrorfad
bv the aisIovaI. IGNORANT and yioioys
. element of the population ovrrvv-bara