The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-18
"OUR ANCIENT LIBERTIES UNIlI-
PAIRED"

SOMEBODY will have to look after the Demo
cratic Mayor of Boston. The excitement of
the great Peace Jubilee is too much for him,
and in the enthusiasm of the occasion he has
given utterance to opinions that no genuine
adherent of the old 'Secesh" party can con-
slider other than revolutionary and in high
degree antagonistic to the simon-pure Demo
cratic principles as they have been preached
by the press and the politicians ever since
the loyal States made up their minds to whip
the Rebels into submission to the laws of the
land rather than to allow them to have things
all their own way, simply because they la
bored under the delusion that one true-born
Southerner could whip five Yankees any day
IN the week. For eight long and weary years,
the Democracy have been unable to get their
fingers near the national money-bags, and
consequently they have never wearied of as
serting that the country was going to the bow
vows, that our "ancient liberties" were over
thrown, that the Constitution was trampled
under foot and that Radical fanaticism was
grinding everybody under the iron heel of an
odious despotism.
In giro est geritas, and we suppose that
the excitement of the great Peace Jubilee has
had the exhilarating effect of champagne on
Mayor Shurtleff, and induced him to open his
mouth unguardedly, and to give utterance to
truths which at another time he would have
felt constrained to suppress for the ''good of
the party" In his address of welcome at the
Inauguration of the Peace Jubilee on Tuesday
the Democratic Mayor of Boston stated that
'this national festival was instituted to COM
memorate the return of peace to our country
the restoration of our ancient liberties un-
impaired, our national bonds of
union unbroken, and our honor and credit
unsullied." This is clear and emphatic case
of political treason, and in uttering such SEN
timents as these Mayor Shurtleff has gone
back on the principles of the party that
elected him, and will doubtless be claimed
hereafter by the steadfast and Interchangeable
adherents of the modern Jefferson Davis
Democracy, with the political renegades who
use the shoulders of the ''unterrifed" in order
to climb to positions of power, and then kick
away the support by which fame and power
were obtained.
If such principles as these are to be enun
ciated by representative Democrats, we in
quire, seriously, what ls to become OF th'
Democratic party ? The demolition of ou
liberties, the sundering of our bonds o
union, the reputation of our debt, have al
been the chief stock in trade of Democratic
leaders, and have been insisted upon with
pertinacity that has doubtless carried con
viction to the minds of the rank and file
who know only that they have been kept on
of Office for MANY weary year, and ar
quite ready to consider such condition o
affairs as sufficient to destroy the Constitu
ton and upset our whole social and politica
system.
For our own part, we are heartily glad t.
hear such sentiments from the Democrat
Mayor of Boston, and we unite with him il
expressing the hope that ''the harmony of tn
occasion will strike deep in the hearts of all
leaving the most lasting and sacred impres
stone, and that peace and goodwill MIL fQG
ever reign triumphant"