Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-10-22
A Change of Base.


demoralizatien of the Democratic
party by the October elections, as
the proposal to lay aside Seymour
and Blair, and take up Chase and
Adams with an entire new set of
principles at this late day:
The plan TO organize the Demo
cratic party at the time of the N Y.
Convention, by taking radical, like
Chase, as their standard bearer, and
adopting platform of principles,
that would cut radical the Republ-
can party, failed. The old leaders,
the rebels Of the South, and the
Northern copperheads, saw in it their
own fate sealed. 1t meant 8 con
demnstion of their past course, that
would have compelled them to take
back seats, and destroy their future
political power. Seeing this, they
determined to defeat the plan, and go
into the fight appealing to the people
of this country to sustain the Demo
cratic party in its past history of
trucking to slavery, in its advocacy
of secession, and in its detested SYM
pathy with the South during the war.
They succeeded, and we must say,
that while we doubted the policy, we
admired the boldness that would
make one more appeal to the people
of this country to sustain the hated
record of Southern secessionists and
Northern copperheads. And they
have made bold fight to obtain
this endorsement, taking advantage
of the state of the country after the
war, the dullness of business, and the
burdens of taxation, to work into the
favor of the disaffected, and so gain
a victory. But not even all the bur
dens under which the people are
laboring, sufficed to blind them to the
real issue, and we now have their
verdict on the side of right, as it al
ways is, when they are fully aroused
to the danger of the country.
These Democratic leaders under
stand this. They see their bold
move is failure, and now in their
complete decentralization they pro-
pose the worst thing they could do,
a change Of front in the heat of bat
tie, the giving up of cherished prin-
ciples upon which they have fought
the canvass, and the adoption of new
men and new principles at this late
day.
It is too late. None will put Faith
in it. They will understand it in its
true light-the vain clutch of q
drowning man at a straw to save him
from the death he knows must come.
Nor will the rank and file of Democ.
racy stand it. They cannot change
their coat in the twinkling of an eye,
if leaders can, and having been duped
SO far, they will throw off the yoke
of the party, that has fooled them so
long.
We call, then, upon Democratic
voters, to desert the sinking ship.
Your leaders acknowledge defeat by
their action. They have by speeious
promises, led you to believe in the
success of the party, and now when
defeat comes, are the first to desert
you. We call upon you, then, as
people of one great country, to unite
with US in voting for Gen. Grant, the
peoples candidate. We feel assured
that if the whole people will now
unite upon that great man who sub.
dued armed rebellion, and elect him
as the peoples choice, that early
peace and prosperity are the certain
lot of our country. His election is
sure. 1t is settled by the verdict of
the people that the principles fought
for during the war by the Union army
are to rule this country. Then let
no one hold cut against ga manifest
destiny" But, rather, let all press
forward, eager to have hand in the
great victory, and make it such a
triumph that it will settle beyond
peradventure the present disturbed
state of affairs and mould the whole
nation, North and South, East and
West, in one harmonious whole.