Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-24
Death OF the Democratic Party.

TIE lives of political parties are not
limited by divine command, as are those of
individuals. Nevertheless, it always hap
pens that when they have accomplished
| their career, or have become corrupt by
long possession of power, they die, and
give place to purer and more vigorous or
CARNATIONS.
Sometimes parties commit such great
crimes that the common justice of man
kind will not permit them to survive.
They are sent off like condemned criminals
to death from which there is no reprieve.
The Tories of the Revolution generally
left the country at the close of the war
which they constantly opposed Those
who remained had neither numbers nor
courage sufficient to form even the nucleus
Of party
Those political parties which have OPP
posed the wars waged by the nation have
invariably come to a speedy death. The
old Federal party disappeared soon after
the successful issue of our second war
with Great,Britain. The Whig party did
not long survive the close of the Mexican
war, which it had opdosed. twas, indeed,
galvanized with temporary semblance Of
life by the election of the hero of Buena
Vista, whom it had the shrewdness to
nominate.
None of these dead parties of the past
ever committed the crime of treason
against the country. The policy of waging
the wars which they opposed was an open
question, and one on which parties might
honestly and patriotically differ.
Those who fought against the nation in
our late civil war were traitors; and those
in the North who aided and abetted them
were partakers in their guilt. The rebels
Of the South and the Copperheads in the
North belonged to the Democratic party,
and still propose to bear the name. If
any Of the rebels were known by any
other political name before the war, they
turned up at its close most jealous Dem
ocrats."
Upon the Democratic party, then, rests
the responsibility of the rebellion. It's
guilt is theirs, and they take the conse-
quenccs of its defeat
AL history, all analogy, all reason, and
all justice now say that the Democratic
party must die. The dew of death is upon
its brow, the mental struggle has begun.
No political trickery can save it, no art
can give it longer lease of life. Gould
it have obtained as its candidate some sue
cessful General of the war with whose
name and services it could have caused
the people for the moment to forget its
damning record, there is possibility that
it might have sickly existence four years
longer. This, however, it had neither
ability nor wisdom to do, and now it must
prepare for the supreme agony, and short
will be its shrift.
1t is a marvel of the times and curiosi-
ty of human nature that this party should
have the remotest hope to live. 1t is said,
however, that criminals on the scatfold
have sometimes had hopes Of an extension
of life until the very door was dropped
which launched them into eternity. The
Democratic party pretends to stand on a
41yatforna, but it is really pinioned upon
scaffoId. Its hands are tied, it's eyes are
bandaged, its last speech has been said. 1t
remains now but for the people to say the
word and the guilty criminal will be
launched into non-existence So may it be!
--4u5nr@ (N ~ Duly NeaoS.
a BOX securely fastened, containing
several rattlesnakes and other species Of
reptiles, reached Chicago, recently, and
was Temporarily left by the owner at a
saloon. During the evening, man who
pretends to be snake charmer, visited
the saloon, and insisted ON displaying to
the crowd his powers over the scaly crea-
lures. breaking open the box, he TOOK
out large rattlesnake, and was, it is said,
chasing colored boy about the saloon
with him, when the snake, exasperated at
the rude treatment, inserted his fangs into
the arm of his tormentor, creating a wound
which, it was feared, would prove fatal
The arm rapidly became inhamed, and,
before medical assistance was procured,
had swollen to frightful dimensions.
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TnE peculiarity Of the sea.serpent IL
that he is never the seen serpent,