The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-16
Eye Fierce DsmocraOls"
Fronp the N. Y. Herald. -- ...-.


eye fierce democracie' has mounted its
high horse again. In the saddle spurs on,
body slightly bent forward, it plunges its gaf's
rowel deep at the word ''GO - aud 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 80 Whoo-oo-Oop ~
The Democratic National Convention of
1868 having been broken up and done for, the
shattered particles of the late contederacy are
gathering themselves together, and making
the armament resound with their joyous ex-
clamations. Preston, Hampton, Vance, Per-
ry, Yerger, Forrest, Vallandigham, and the
rest particularly exultant. Defeated by
the voice of the people at the ballot
of Lincoln, crushed in the fsld by ths
cartridge boxes of Grant from 1860 to 1864,
saved from premature galvanization in the
latter year by the repugnance of the people to
adopt the maxim of the Democratic platform
that the "war was a failure" " the "ferce De-
mocrace" now consider themselves as having
gone through the necessary process of purif)a-
tion, the required purgatory of political clarif
cation, to enable them to atone for their past
errors and demand consideration for the fu-
ture. Eight years out in this barren highway,
barred from the rich clover fields of the public
Treasury, they have had their appetites
whetted, had time to observe their tattered
raiment-whch 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 Samuel's
corn crib. They think with the Northern Cop
perheads they can run in under the banner of
Seymour, with Frank Blair attached, tied like
a fire cracker 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 ali no doubt very hungry, very
thirsty, very contrite. But they must remem-
ber 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 ma ions of the world
in regard to the condition of human freedom
generally-all must be received as the ac-
cepted ideas of the time. In these days pro-
gress and liberalism go hand in hand, by the
aid of the electric telegraph, throughout the
world. A shock here is felt in Europe; a shock
in Europe is felt instantaneously in America.
The metropolis of the New World speaks to
the centres of republican 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 Continent, as we'll at
from the empire of the Crescent and
from the furthest East, until it clasps
hands with our own glorious, gold -emblazoned
West. These are few of the fruits of the
past eight years. progress of our country, and
the nulifers of the South, with their Demo
cratic sympathizers in the North, will be sunk
forever out of sight if they attempt to ignore
them or pass them for moment aside. Il
they do, the fate that befell the Bourbons OF
France will befall them; for they will fnd in
General Grant Napoleon who adapts himself
to the progress of the age, and both hears and
respects public opinion.
Meanwhile let us see what the "ferce De-
mocrace' further propose to do. There is nc
telling what may yet turn up. Everything
| depends upon circumstances.