Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-28
REASON VS.. PARTY.

did not reflect upon their loyalty, is
conclusive proof of the antipathy with
which the best men of that party regard
the platform framed at Tammany Hall.
It is IN evidence that the " compliment
tary funkyism" with which the South
ern delegates to the Democratic Conven-
ton were invited, not only to share in
its deliberation, but to the dictation Of
counsels almost exclusively, is held in
contempt by all rejecting members OF
that once naughty Democracy.
It's Northern element has never been
lacking in obsequious assent to the will
of its Southern brethren, and we can
but think that the fraternal embrace of
the long separated erring North, and
injured but forgiving South, was
the most touching exhibition of re-
pentance and forgiveness this country
has ever witnessed. Allprevious efforts
to heighten their mutual affections all
past bending Northern knees to South
ern arrogance sinks into insignifcance
when compared with this final stroke
of magnanimous diplomacy. Yet how
strangely inconsistent such course is
with self respect and national pride
Ignoring the fact that great Rebellion
had passed through four years of vicis-
STUDIES to the feet OF its conqnerers
forgetting all the struggles for the
maintenance OF our national life with
out the loss of star or the Flemish of
stripe casting the veil of cowardly
oblivion over the memory of heroes
who nobly fought and as nobly died
being blind to tho sombre words of
widow, wife and mother, and deaf to
the orphans moaning cry and the sweet
hearts bravely buried love, this Demo-
cratic party took the hands that were
red with gore, and clasped to their
bosoms the bitter hate that had caused
all the sacrifice OF blood and treasure
and heart strings. 1t would have been
an act less worthy of our censure had
the Southern delegates been simply ad-
mitted to the convention without being
invited to guide its action; but unless
South Carolina in the person of Wade
Hampton, and Georgia 1--WE believe
there was such place as Andersonville
in that State, was there not p repre-
scented by Howell Cobb, placed in nomi
nation for the Presidency, a man noto-
riously opposed to the war and friendly
to the Confederacy, and adroitly asso-
ciated with him on the ticket Frank
Blair mot because he was a Union
general but because he suggested
another appeal to arns) we do not
wonder that men question sheir adher-
ence to loyal principles while support
ing such candidates. In their attempt
to gain control once more of the
country they endeavored to ruin. The
Southerners were too impatient of
gradual processes and took step
too far, which has lost them all. A little
more self-restraint would have been
wiser, and doubtless would have been
exercised had they not been elevated to
their old height of presumption by
the friendly hand of President John
son. Him they may thank for encour-
aging the belief that the reconstruc-
ton acts of Congress were null, that
that the North had exhausted all its
courage and were willing to accept
peace at any cost of principle. The
War Democrats of New York find it
to reconcile their sense of
duty with the present position OF their
party, and have announced their deter
to support Grant for the Presi
dency as the only means of obtaining
that peace and harmony throughout
our land we all so much desire.
If we are to credit reports from the
Southern States there is very little free
dom of thought or peace of mind for
such as are known to be Republicans
and while we are willing to exercise our
utmost generosity toward all particle
pants in the Rebellion who are willing
to acknowledge the supremacy of our
government, and acquiesce in the will |
of the majority, we never can consent
to fraternize with men who still hope |
for the ultimate success of the "Lost |
Cause" nor admit to share of the
legislative counsels those chivalrous
statesmen who spurned the idea of re-