The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-14
Oh ARLEs sToN.
TUESDAY MORNING JULY Il. 1883.
The Timia and Faint-hearsed.

There are many persons in both North
and South who fear that the nominations
made BY the New York Convention will be
the ruin. of the Democratic party. Carried
away by the raying of the Tribune, the
mercenary wriggling Of the Herald, the
cool impudence Of the Times, and the as
sumed confidence Of hundred Radical
orgsns, they are led to believe that SEY-
Moua, the Peace; Democrat, and BLAIR, the
Union Soldier, are so repugnant to the
great American people as to damn any party
with which they are connected.
This, perhaps, is natural. There are
weak and time-serving brethren in every
communion, and, as long as it is easier to
aoat with the current than to swim against
the stream, such misgivings and such dis.
trust will not excite surprise: But at this
moment we cannot afford to have doubters
in our midst any more than. traitors In our
camp. The doctrine Of the Democracy must
be made plain and clear to every mindi it
must be repeated, and repeated, and re-
peated, until every man has its precious
declarations impressed indelibly upon his
memory, until every one shall know that
it is MEASURES, and not BEN, for which we
are to fight.
In HoRATI6 SEYMOUR we recognize q
stateamaniike ability, high personal char
acter, and an unsullied purity Of miEd,
which long since won the respect of the
country, and will secure to him the support
of thousands of persons outside of the Dem
ocratic party. In FRANCIS P. BLAIR we
recognize an unimpeachable military record,
q downright opposition to tyranny and
wrong, and bold and able political STRAIT
egy, which have made him, at once, the
mouth-piece of the pure Democracy, and the
representative of that large class of Repub-
licans who have become disgusted with the
revolutionary measures Of their leaders.
But not upon these men do the Democracy
depend. The Democratic cause is too high
and too important to place its sole reliance
upon the personal popularity of its candi.
dates. Where the liberties of continent
and the freedom of thirty millions of people
are at stake, the result cannot be deter
mined by even BLAIR or a SEYMOUR.
Their influence and prestige may make vic
tory more easy, but their names cannot and
will not bring about defeat.
This must always be kept before our peo-
pie. We are not merely opposing SEYMOUR
to GRANT, BLAIR to CoLFAx; but we are op-
posing Democracy to Radicalism, con-
stitution to revolution. Against the frauds,
usurpations and corruptions of Radicalism,
we pit the declarations of the party which
stands upon the constitution, as the foun-
dation and limitation of the powers Of the
government and the guarantee of the liber-
ties of the citizen. Against the efforts of
the Radical to destroy or Africanize the
Union, we place the demand for the resto-
ration of all the States to their constitu-
tional rights. Against the tinkling Of Sew
ARDS little bell, the Bastile in Washing
ton, arbitrary arrests and violations of the
sanctity of private correspondence, we put
the demand for amnesty for ell past politi-
cal offences. Against the policy which
doubles and quadruples taxation and builds
up bonded aristocracy OF the expense of
tbe neonle. we place the demand for the