The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-17
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The New Party,


sons thought so-that ''an era of good feeling
might be revived in the Democratic factions of
Lhis city. The lambs of the Union Democracy
were to lie down on the same bed of mingled
6illyhowers and mignonette with the gorged
wolves of Tammany Hall; and there was to be
sunshine over the scene, and peace in the
hearts of all, and ginger was to be hot in every
mouth, and the beautiful traditions of the
golden age were all to be revived in the happy
damily of reunited Democracy.
Thanks to the action of the managing wire
pullers of the recent State Convention at
Albany, this disastrous dream is now dissi
Pated, as effeotually as though it had never
crossed even the weak minds of those who
frst conceived it. We of the popular party
find that the fight against the corruptiOnists
and jobbers of the Tammany "Ring," must
extend to the corruptionists and iobbers of the
Democratic machinery throughout the State:
and with one voice the independent delegates
and representatives of the Democratic Union
party have cast off their allegiance to the
Cagger-Tammany dynasty, and stalled ''their
lives, their fortunes, and their sacred hOnors'
in a contest against that imbecile and domi-
neering tyranny.
Against the Tammany ''Ring" and the
State Central "Ring' against 'the deck and
the devil' of fossiliferous party manage
ment, in this State and all other States of
the Union-we of the Union Democracy have
hoisted the black flag of perpetual revolt,
and shall neither expect to give nor to receive
any quarter through all the coming years.
We shall elect men representing our own
convictions wherever that is possible; and
wherever such shall not be possible in the
Immediate present, then our first, last, and
only object shall be to secure the defeat of
rInfa fplya cIo11 IL, xryitI \,
Cagger-Tammany brand. In this contest we
expect large and continually increasing assist
ance from the Independent and honest men of
all parties; and in the near future we foresee
that the little spark of insurrection here
kindled must spread into one devouring flame
over the whole Union-a flame which shall
leave nothing of our former dishonest and
inadequate political machines except their
ashes.
AS will be seen from the deeply interesting
Albany letter, elsewhere published as also
from the protest against their exclusion signed
by the Democratic Union delegates to the re-
cent State Convention held at Tweddle Hall,
the independent conservative masses of our
city are at length thoroughly aroused to the
necessity Of striking at the root of the pes
tiferous political upas tree which has for only
too many years overshadowed and blighted
all their prospects for party reform and re-
turn to constitutional principles. They have,
once and forever, separated themselves from
the imbecile and yet tyrannical clique in con-
troll of our Democratic State machinery; and
they have pledged themselves never again to
make any truce or compromise with the cor
ruptionists and lobbyists who have brought
disgrace upon our party in the city and defeat
Upon it in the State.
We predict that the movement for establish
ing new party, hereby inaugurated, will
spread throughout the whole country like fire
over the prairies of the West. We must
abjure and finally kick over all the non-repre
sentative, Copperhead and self-perpetuating
machinery which was engaged in securing
General McClellan's defeat by placing him on
the untenable Chicago platform and we must
bury under mountains of popular majorities
the tricky and corrupt politicians who caused
Horatio Seymour to be defeated two and
half years ago, because of his refusal to
approve one of their most iniquitous schemes
for private aggrandizement at the public cost
For such a new party as we propose, the
future holds out unlimited promise OF public
good and personal advancement. 1t is a
party in which all independent and honest
men will be received with welcoming hands,
irrespective of their past political convic-
tions and it will be more especially the
party for all the young and aspiring man
hood of our country, as cOntrasted with the
old existing party organizations, in which
prominence could only be achieved by long
years of unscrupulous servility to old dotards
and drivellers who are as corrupt as un-
popular. We are in the fight, boys and
must fight it out We shall have the
best men in the country at our back, and
prominence must be given only to men of un-
blemished record. We shall beat the Tam
many nominees this month in every Sena-
torial district of our cty-for no such persons
can be allowed to frame State Constitution
under which we and our children shall be
compelled to live for the next twenty years:
and we shall beat the Cagger- Regency machine
next NOvember-hittng it with the hammer
of so heavy an adverse majority that anti
quarians who may desire to pick up some of
its fragments will have to engage in the bust
ness with powerful microscopes.
Let whatever may happen hap-we have at
last found that to beat the Tammany "Ring, u
we have previously or simultaneously to beat
the Cagger- Regency "Ring;" and to this bust.
ness we apply ourselves as joyously as bride
grooms to the bridal The Independent and
conservative representatives OF this city
have been excluded from the State Con
Vention of their party, for no other rea
on than that of having been weak enough
,st November to support John IT, Hoffman
T Governor-a nominee in whose selection
ey had never been consulted. This erro
IS a generous one, but must never b
heated; for the little gang we are Opposes
Ton this city and State, know not how t
aEeciate any such generous treatment
Ou duty, therefore, now is, to beat thei
holpations at whatever cost and in an
maIer we may find essential; to let ever
asplAg man be made aware that atiliatio
WIN le Cagger- -Tammany clique is certain an
ols8raeful death in politics; and to elect OF
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