The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-01-21
THE REGENERATED DEMOCRACY.

W hSN AAAA' A. Wv S~oSSt'y HA~"S 49,
speech, accepting the Senatorial nom
ination, the other day, in Sacramento,
he alluded to his party as " the regen-
Grated Democracy" This expression
would seem to mean that the Democratic
party had been, or was thought to have
been BY Mr.. Casserly, born again.
When, how or under what circum-
stances thus regenerated we are AT
. loss to comprehend. They say that
man undergoes a complete transforma
ton once in every seven years. mas
much as the Democrats lost their control
of the Government in 1860 and got
back part of their power by carrying
California in 1867, it may be that the
imaginative Casserly saw the 81 egen-
Grafton" aforesaid in that concatena-
ton of circumstances. Or, he may
have meant to convey, in a sly and
covert manner, that the Democratic
reptile was molting its viperous skin
preparatory to assuming a new and less
repulsive guise. But whether he did
mean this or something else, there IS
very evident change taking place in
the conduct of the " Great Unwashed ~
The fact is, the Democracy, like any
thing or anybody else, must accommo-
date itself to circumstances-and cir.
cumstances have very much changed
since the Democratic party ruled this
Republic. Something of this is to be
remarked in the nomination and cleo
ton of no less an old fashioned free
soiler than Haight the election of so
we'll known a War Democrat as Cas-
serly; and the recent election, in Santa
Clara county, California, of Mckay,
an "original Black Republican.
Moreover, in Ohio, Vallanding CHAM, the
martyr" and victim of Burnsides'
order No. SO, is defeated for the Senate,
while Thurman, a War Democrat is
elected. These are some of the signs
Of what Mr.. CasserIy may have meant
BY regenerated." They look to our
prejudiced eyes like lily masked
" spriDges to catch woodcocks.
But all these are but feeble and in
significant indications of the change
which is going on in the fickle minded
Democracy. As we had occasion to re-
state some time ago, upon the authority
of Union newspaper published in East
Mr., Bailie Peyton, once a
Wing, then a rebel and now a Demo-
crat, went so far, during the campaign
which resulted in Brownlow's election,
as to sit upon the same Conservative
platform with a colored man, and to
make a very pathetic speech in tho in
forest of their kind old masters" to
, concourse of blacks. This was, by
implication, at least, very long con- c
esssion in favor of colored suffrage, I
and may have been one of the circum-
'.anees which suggested the regen- +
'rated " idea to Mr.. Casserly. But it Q
seems that the Democracy of Virginia v
rave actually done so rash and incon- o
'istent q thing 50 to recognize and a
applaud the exercise of his right of suf- !.
rage by . freedman of tina, State. Hav- I
az discovered a colored man who, at
he late election there, cast his vote for :.
Democrat, the Democracy of the pre- n
inct rewarded him by making him a c
resent of some acres of farming land
nd some money wherewith to stock it n
his was polite, no doubt, so far as it ir
hight act as bride to other Triggers" +
. vote themselves back into slavery; but q
conveyed too much of an admission 81
n favor of negro suffrage to accord cl
nth the Democratic tenet that "niggers'' to
ave no right to vote a: all. Indeed, az az
Democrats and others who, q" on prin- p'
iple " oppose the idea of anybody but
Caucasians voting, must sternly &C
iscountenauce and deplore this in Pr
lance of " regeneration " in Virginia. sh
The fact is, stated metaphorically, III