The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-18

ecutive, State OF Federal, and, what Is remark
able, there has not been a single case In which
any one Of his multitude Of vetoes has besn
overruled. Most Of them have extorted the
applause Of his political opponents, aud have
been commended by the Republican press.
The country sees that a Democrat in power is
not the dangerous and venomous monster
which all Democrats we're represented to be
during the war. The only conspicuous in
stance of able, efficient, and thoroughly up
right administration which the country has
recently seen has been furnished by the De
mooratic Governor of the most important State
in the Union, acting with the disadvantage of
an opposition Legislature. Such an example
will be likely to occasion widespread regret
that equal sagaoity, vigOr, and olearness,
equal straightforwardness, courage, and
honesty, are not at the helm Of the Federal
administration. such a contrast and such
regrets are eminently favorable to the success
Of the Democratic party.
Another indication which augurs we'll for
ths future success Of the Democratic party, is
a recent exposition put forth by Democratic
leader who has brought as much obloquy
upon the party as Mr.. Hoffman has elected
praise for his personal prudence and integrity.
We mean Mr.. Vallandigham, who, in an arti-
Gle in Western paper understood to have
been written by him, explains that at the
time he precpitated, in the Democratic Ma
tional Convention, the crisis that resulted in
the nomination of Governor Seymour he
really desired the nomination Of Chief Justice
Chase, and expected it to be accomplished by
Mr.. Seymour's persistence in declining, and
his nomination of Chase as dexterous mode
of relief from his embarrassing position. We
do not concern ourselves with this curious
exposition as a matter of history; but it may
be fairly accepted as proof that Democracy
is willing that bygones shall be bygones, and
that the policy of the party shall hereafter be
| shaped with reference to the new issues which
must arise out of new state of things. When
| the leader of the "COpperheads' thus an
| nounces himself as the apostle of an ultra
progressive Democracy, we are justified in
| presuming that those. same "Copperheads" do
not mean to bind the party to obsolete issues,
for the sake of vindicating their own political
antecedents.
Another recent manifestation favorable to
| the prospects of the Democracy is the great
| outburst of zeal and interest in the free
trade question which the country is now wit
Messing, and the multitudes of recruits who
are fockipg to the free trade standard. This
| bids fair to become the absorbing question of
| the period, question which will renew one Of
the old battles of the Democracy. The party
cannot but profit by the resgitation of ques-
tiOn with which it has been 80 long histori.
| caly identified, and the success of cause in
| which it has so earnestly and persstently
labored. We have not space to gather up, at
| present other Indications in the signs of the
| times favorable to the prospects of the Demo-
cratic party; but we suppose it will not be dis
| puted that those which we have mentioned
afford real grounds of encouragement.