The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-15

eye fierce democratic" has mountei it's
body slightly bent forward, it plunges its gafs
rowei deep at the word "Go!" and yells out,
''Clear the way thar We're coming like
chain-lightning on the back Of an open-mouthed
alligator after the radicals Now for the times
before 60! Whoo- oo-oopp
The Democratic National Convention Of 1868
having been broken up and done for, the shat
tered particles of the late confederacy are gath
ering themselves together and making the frma-
ment resound with their joyous exctamstlods.
Preston Hampton, Vance, Perry, Yerger, For
rest, Vallandigham and the rest are particu-
lary exultant. Defeated by the voice of the
people at the ballot boxes in 1860 by the cleo
ton of Lincoln, crushed in the field by the
cartridge boxes of Grant from 1860 to 1864,
saved from premature galvanizaticn in the
latter year by the repugnance Of the people TO
adopt the maxim of the democratic platform
that the "war was failure the fierce
democratic" now consider themselves az having
gone through the necessary process of purifca-
ton, the required purgatory of political clari6-
cation, to enable them to atone for their past
errors and demand consideration for the
future. Eight years out in the barren high
way, barred from the rich clover fields of the
whetted had time to observe their tattered
raiment-which President Johnson promised
to bushel up, but did not-and they are now
ready to renounce their former heresies, pro-
vided they be allowed to gather once more like
penitent children around Old Uncle Samuels
corn crib. They think with the Northern cop
perheads they can run in under the banner of
Seymour, with Frank Blair attached, tied like
frecracker to the tail of kite, and revive
the splendors of their eight years reign, from
1852, under poor Pierce, to the close of 1860,
under the poorer and lamented Buchanan.
They are all no doubt very hungry, very
thirsty, very contrite. But they must remem-
Der that they must forget; they must cover
the past with the mantle of oblivion; they
must take the situation as it is they must
acknowledge the progress the republic has
made during the past eight years; they must
understand that whatever advances it now
makes in the way of liberalism in regard to
universal suffrage, in regard to general
amnesty, which are worthy Of being adopted
by the most enlightened nations of the world
in regard to the condition of human freedom
generally-all must be received as the accepted
ideas of the time. In these days progress and
liberalism go hand in hand, by the
aid of the electric telegraph, throughout
the world. A shock here is felt in
Europe; shock in Europe is felt in
simultaneously in America. The metropolis
of the New World speaks to the centres of re-
publican liberty in Europe and all over the
earth, every hour in the day, and responses are
duly received from England, Russia, France,
Germany, Spain, all the powers of the Cont
nent, as well from the Empire of the Cres-
cent and from the furthest East until it clasps
hands with our own glorious, gold embazoned
West These are few Of the fruits of the
past eight years progress of our country, and
the nullifiers of the South, with their democratic
sympathizers in the North, will be sunk for
ever out of sight if they attempt to ignore them
or pass them for moment aside If they do,
the fate that befell the Bourbons Of France will
befall them; for they will find in General
Grant Napoleon who adapts himself to the
progress of the age and both hears and re-
spects public opinion.
Meanwhile let us see what the ''ferce de-
mocrace' further propose to do. There is no
telling what may yet turn up. Everything de-
ponds upon circumstances.