The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-11
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER IL, 1858.
"De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum."

was, the party of rule or ruin. We say the
''so-oalled" Democratic party, for the orgaui
zation OF Shareholders and their sympathlzers
and tools which assumed that name had about
rs little regard for the true principles of demo-
oracy as, to use the language ofJudge Bingham,
the Devil has for those OF Christianity. The De-
mocrats, by fair means and FOUL managed to
control the Government Of the country for
many years, and when their power was torn
fcom them by people tired of misrule aud
submission to Southern dictation, the men
who led the party determined to ruin, so long
as they could not rule; and for four bitter
years all their efforts were directed to
the destruction OF the nation and OF
those principles Of liberty which our
fofe'athers enunciated when they severed
their connection with the mother country, and
commenced the experiment Of free and
popular government on the idea that all men
are created equal, and that they are endowed
with the inalienable rights Of life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. The great principle
of the Democratic party was the extension
and perpetuation of human slavery; and to
this end all the energies of its leaders
and all the influence Of party ties aud
political machinery were directed, in the lat
ter days of the party especially. The war
settled the question of slavery, but the Demo-
Gratis were unable to tear themselves away
from their idols, and in the New York Con-
vention they resurrected the old issues, aud
fought the battle on the barbarous princi-
pies which have characterized their policy
for the last half century and more. But
the Democratic party is now dead, very dead,
we believe, and We are devoutly thankful for
the fact. The Age, on the morning after the
election of Grant and Colfax, sang requiem
over the corpse, and on the principle de NOR
tais nil nisi bonum, We suppose, it celebrates
the virtues of the deceased in the following
terms:-
"The Democratic party for more than three.
quarters of century hap ,iiy ruled the n ,Lion
and covered its flag with glory. It. is the only
organization now in existence that advocates
the equality or The cit1Z II and tle equality of
the States-that s.aods fearessly, ia sunshne
and in storm, by The sacred compact which our
fathers made-apd that guarantees to all men
within our borders pallve and adopted the
priceless boon of civil and religious freedom. 1t
made the nation greaJ--it filed the land with
prosperity-and 1t sheltered the toiling millions
from every form or Oppression that human in.
genuity could devise TO barass the people. It Is
essentially the party of the PEOPLE, growing
from them and springipg oot of their lotus. aud
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peoples rights as long as our present form Of
government survives, and as long as the masses
have rights TO care for and protect The defeat
of such party cannot fail to prove disastrous
to the cause of human liberty, not only in this
Republic, but throughout the civilized world"
Far be it from us to doubt the sincerity OF
the writer Of the above paragraph, but with a
heart full of bitterness, stinging with the
modification of defeat, and knowing that for
four full years at least his itching fingers
might not come near the money-bags of the
National Treasury, he was not in fit frame
of mind to take candid and unpreudiced
view of the situation or to rightly estimate
either the virtues or the vices of the party
of treason, which has been buried at last deep
so deep that there is no hope for its resur-
reotion, and no likelihood that its unhappy
ghost even will ever be able to rise aud
trouble us again.
Under any other circumstances the ELTON
terry of the above statements would approach
the sublime. To whom does the Age address
the remarks we have quoted3 To the reading
thinking, intelligent people of Philadelphia
who know what the history of the country
has been, who know that we have Just passed
through civil war began and carried on by
Southern Democrats, with the countenance
and encouragement of their Northern parti-
sans, who would have openly aided tAem if
they had not been dastards at heart as well as
braggarts in tonguel
The vital principle Of the Democratic party
was human slavery. The Age says: ''It made
the nation great-it filed the land with pros
perity--and it sheltered the toiling millions
from every form Of oppression that human
ingenuity could devise to harass the people,
and the perpetuation of slavery was the main
plank in all it's platformsl All the resources
of the country, and all the powers of the CEN
trail Government, were combined for the pur-
pose of riveting the chains of the negroes,
and the industry of the other sec
tions was crippled for the purpose of
concentrating all the power in the hands of the
Shareholders. These facts are patent to all
men who have intelligence enough to read the
newspapers, even if they read nothing but such
journals as the Age, for the Democratic papers,
il they wish toretain their subscription lists,
must give the news ofthe day, however much
they may endeavor to distort the meaning of
plain facts in their editorial columns; and that
the American people had the same estimate
of the Democratic party that we had, was
proved at the last election, when they con-
oluded that it was time for 1t to die
Snd be heard of no more. Let us
Jaoa q coffaa- not On its tombstona and hauo a