The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-06-19
THE OTHER OUTLOOK.

The Gazette of yesterday heard "notes
of preparation" The distance that lends
enchantment, harmonized the fierce dis
cords that now roll up from the Demo
cratic camps into a swelling symphony
whose warlike strains floated across
the continent into the Gazette Office and
the soul of it's editor. He was aroused
to vehement fury his veins boiled with
ardor he smelled the battle afar off and
his prophetic soul burst the shroud of
Fate to soar awhile in the fields of Hope.
Notwithstanding the Democracy of the
East are now in the desperation OF
doubt whether to choose for candidate,
Chase, Seymour ,Pendleton, Brick Pome-
roy or the devil, the Gazette sees some
thing rising" and its fancy paints it in
the colors of Democracy soaring trium-
phant through the "rifted clouds of
party, rising from the purgatory to
which il was condemned for disloyal
affiliations 'rising" at the command Of
great people to receive severer condem-
nation and then depart eternally to its
unregretted doom. The Gazette speaks
of one crime of the Union party, the
centerlization of power" True in so far
as it preferred the power of this
country centralized in one govern
ment rather than two; false in so
far as every Democratic Senator
voted to centralize the power of this
government in one man, Andrew John
son, while the republicans voted five to
one for its retention in the hands of
the people and their representatives
1t charges that the bondholders are the
rich capitalists, the few of the nation,
when it stands upon the record that
there were three hundred thousand sub
scribers to one issue. 1t charges that
the hdbeds corpus suspension was a
Republican measure, when the Southern
Democratic Contederacy instituted the
precedent and martial law was supreme
whenever it's power extended while 1t
had a being. With faith which is not
only the evidence of things not seen,
but in this instance of something that
never will be seen, it predicts the sue
cess of democracy next autumn. The
idea of dishonesty suggested by Pendle-
ton, has fallen on fruitful ground ma
tured by lust and trained by skilled
sophists it has grown apace and to-day
the great mass of democracy demand a
repudiator for a candidate. To nomi-
nate one of this character will inevita-
bly, and past all possibility of harmonic
ing, ALLEVIATE the intelligent, honest, and
patriotic portion of the party from
| it. and drive it to the unionists-
| On the contrary, if Chase be the nomi-
nee, the white party men will as in
evitably be drawn from the ranks, or if
! Seymour, the repudiationists. Had this
repudiation scheme not been agitated
Democracy might have formed for the
coming campaign party of substance,
shape and power, from the chaos of an
tagonism. 1t showed the cloven foot
too soon. a split in the New York Con-
vention, divided house and third
party, we regard as an absolute, pre-
determined certainty, and on George II.
Pendleton and Brick Pomeroy Demo-
cratic curses will be heaped mountains
high in November. OF the 23S electo-
raj votes of the Northern States, Dem
ocracy at the utmost can but gain the
81 of New York Kentucky Maryland and
Oregon, while if the Southern States
are all admitted, South Carolina and
Alabama may give fourteen of the
total seventy-eight. This would give
6S of the 316 of the electoral votes. l.
is all the most sanguine Democrat can
expect under the most favorable circum-
stances, and the concession of New York
is an act of courtesy not warranted ex-
cept in the event of Seymour's nomin-
alton. Lee and his army did not fully
comprehend the irresistible force that
crushed them back from the Rapidan
until they stood conquered and subdued
by Grant and his boys in blue, at Appa-
mattox, nor will Democracy fully realize
against what desperate odds they are
contending until they are utterly de-
feated and routed by the loyal hosts of
the land, under the leadership of Grant,
\ at the not less decisive ballot box