The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-21
The Democratic Party of the North.

verse OF human nights upon Its banners, and
thus became false to history and itself, it was
only logical that it should be false to its
allies-and it was. False to the South during
the war, it is equally false to-clay, and not
only false, but, as party, dead and power
less. Why9 Dead, because it has aban-
doned both its principles and its allies, and
powerless, because, with neither one or the
other, its former leaders, with brains, and its
honest followers have abandoned the organi-
zationto the desperate "tricksters" who aspire
to leadership, and to followers whom either
Ignorance or passion can still rally to the,
hustings- as a market for rascality. Without
principles, without a policy, without leaders,
it is no party and it is not the roar of the
living lion which comes to the South, butt the
cry of the hungry jackals as they tear his
dead carcass limb from limb.
But it was once a great party, and the
South relied upon it for aid but the prom
Use now to the South comes, not from its
honest retainers, but from the new race of
pushing, trading, aspiring demagogues, who,
to make themselves great men, belied their
own section, belied their own party, and lied
outright to the South. They lied, first, when
they told the South that the Northern masses
were unwilling to observe and keep sacred
all the constitutional guarantees of the South
within the State; they lied, secondly, when
they told the South that the great Demo-
cratic party of the North would stand by and
aid in disrupting this Union; they lied.
most and last, when they promised their own
aid; and having been false to their country,
their section, their party and themselves,
they could add but one more treachery, and
and the curse was complete being false
to their pretended allies of the South.
And yet they claim the South should be
grateful for what they did. For everything
they did by way of being spies and false to
the general government; for articles contra
band of war sent through the lines, and for
every aid or help to the Confederate cause,
they took ten times the value in gold or
cotton. Gratitude!! 4! The price is paid. Mes
sieurs, in what the aid was rendered for
base gold, and thousand times paid in the
mistakes and disasters of the South, caused
by your advice, and paid how many, too
many times, in Southern and Northern blood,
through hopeless contest prolonged by
your Vaccinations. The claim is dew
ihsh, and we have done with it.
No more shifting through your nasals
that you were always that friends of
the South" that "you thought her right
and wanted her to succeed" you thought
her right, why did you not espouse her
cause for her sake9 If you thought her
right, why did you not fight for the right
and for yourself? But you consulted your
interest, and let her fight her battles with
out allies; and you would do it again. You
promised help before the war, but failed to
bring in your reinforcements when the strug-
gle was turning; and your promise now to
help the South, "when you get into power
means that you want the South to hold out
and suffer and act the fool till the Radicals
turn down the thumbscrew so hard that her
cry of agony will bring you some votes in
your Congressionional districts, success In
few of those being all that you can possibly
hope for. You talk about your party and
your friends, but where were they when the
South needed them!
The South now begins to see that all the
brains and honesty quit the party long ago,
because you would lead it, and that what
followers you had left were too Ignorant to
to know what your principles were and too
mean to fight for them if they did. And yet
you kept sending your lying messages to the
struggling Confederates during the whole
war "to hold on; that the war at the North
was failure, that the draft was unpopular;
that the armies were dwindling down, that
the national credit was getting small, that
the South would win if she only chung on;
and she did hang on, because you told heI
to, till the Yankee army dwindled down to
about a million, and the credit of the Gov
ernment got down to about three billions
and she kept hanging on till the last gray
Jacket in the Confederacy was prisoner o
war all because she had some confidence ir
you and your lying reports During al
these years you never came near, except OF
a blockade runner.
But your meddlihg with the South die
not end with the war. You told the Soutl
to stand on her dignity and State rights
and she put confidence in you, and feeling {
little jolly at unexpected good luck, they die
little business publicly at Memphis ant
New Orleans, and considerable in privat
way on plantations. She thought you wer
| all right-you said so-but where were you
} After the Offices. Where was your party
You had ot any. And the South woke u
next For ing after the election, which you
, party did not attend, and found she had he
neck in rice. Who got it there2 You
And wher Congress got together, they ex
, planned tt Jour friend, who came to the goo
old city OF Raleigh to lay the foundation Q
tomb. Il 1t his anxiety was uncalled fo
that things would come all right, an
that all nj trouble grew out of the littl
error hat he was the nation; and as Inc sod
, not, Le could see that his policy; that hi
speccl es about the States being cternaIly
the Uni,n, were all very true, but that treaso
/ could -,ut the power of State in abcyanc
! inst &c ..hnlera conld mt a shin in nnara,