Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-08-04

/ logue recalls one of the incantations which
Shakespeare put into the mouth of witch
Eve Of newt, and toe Of frog,
Wool of bat. and tongue Of dog,
Addors fork, and blind worms sting
Lizards leg, and 0wlet's wing
nor is the conclusion less apt since in the
large States Of New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana the democratic party is 30
powerful and INSCRIPTIONS as to be danger
Gus to the country;
For charm Of powerful trouble
Like q hell-broth boil and bubble
1t was once said that the party was held
together by the cohesive power Of public
plumber, but that can hardly be said now, a
few localities excepted There are two kin
drcd motives, however operating to keep its
homogeneous parts together revenge for the
loss Of power and hope to regain it. How
ever inconsistent are local interests or party
plots or catch-words, the party does hold to-
gether, aud vote together and vote early and
often when it. can The democrats are mod
els for party devotion, though not Cor poit-
zeal purity or morality; aud it would be well
for the country if good men would initiate
their fidelity and zeal.
just now the democratic pot bols and bub.
bles like a hel-broth, and that is the point
we started for. A great change appears in
the South, in a disposition in many Of the
democrats to accept fully the abolition Of
slavery as an accomplished fact, if not to make
it also a fixed fact for the future, by accord
ing the right of suffrage, and all other politi.
cal privileges, to the colored men; and thi.
has been so sudden and unexpected that il
has left the work Of opposition to the democ-
raey Of the North The democracy Of Vir-
GINA embraces the colored man, while the
democracy Of Connecticut gives him hearty
kick, and the superfne democracy Of Ohio
will not tolerate even white man who has O
tingc Of the negro in his blood. The North.
ern democrat sticks to the old traditions and
prejudices, while the Southern assumes a vir-
tue if he has it not and will in due time
crack his whip over his ancient white slaves
in the old free States, and require them to
take the negro on to their platform. 1t is a
shrewd move in the Southern Democracy,
first to get into the Union and secure chance
for power and next to win the votes of the
colored men, who are in the majority in some
OF the Southern States, and a great political
power in all OF old, they used the white
democrat Of the North; now, they would use
the black democrat of the South and, if
they can combine both elements, they will 90
far towards winning their former prominence
in the politics of the nation. So we are look
ing for a new movement among the Northern
democracy, wheeling right about, and Q
double quick march straight for negro suf
lrage. The negro is now in the democratic
pot his wooly-head will soon come to the
top and even the Argus will bow to it
As sign Of this, we notice letter of Judge
Abbott of Massachusetts,, adyizing the de.
mocracy to accept the negro. The Judge
we think, was a Webster Wing Of old, never
democrat in the best days of that party, bu
a convert to it in its worst This fact ought
to commend him to the favor of the party
since the worst Of it only is left, and we thinL
it will. 1t is true that the Tammany Demo
Gratis of New York received his proposition
coldly perhaps because they court the Irish
and the Irish hate the negro. But Tam
many must take the negro, for Tammany al
ways obeyed the South, and can never contro
the nation, and fill its offices, aud deplete it
treasury, without the help of the South Tn,
South will succumb to the negro Tamman,
will succumb; Fernando Wood will succumb
Nallandigham will succumb the Irish Demo
Gratis will succumb; all the Northern Demo
Gratis will succumb and it will be right
They have abused the negro long enough
they have shut him out from all civil and po
litical rights they have held him in bond
age they have rioted on the fruits of his un
requited labor they have petted his master
aud whistled on the slaye-driver to apply thu
lash. 1t is high time for them to love tn
negro. Let them kneel at his feet, comics
their sins, and humbly beg for his pardon
That is certainly the way of reconciliation
and Judge Abbott evidently thinks that thi
is the way to I'LL up the ranks of the Demo
cratic party. In this event, however, on
thing will be proved, to wit that the Demo
cratic party is ruled by policy, and not b.
principle. 1t never had any respect for tn
rights of the negro, but quite the contrary
and of course if it shall next Aatter and hvo
the negro, it will be clear that the reason i
that they mean to use him for their own pur
poses. 1t is merely new step to poitca
power-one more step in the stairs whicl
acknowledgements wish to ascend. The,
have long used the Irish for steps but thu
steps DO not mount high enough so they pro
, pose to lay the negro by the side of the Irish
man, until their stairway reaches to the top
They care not whether they tread upon Irish
man or negro, if they can but mount higher
whether they use white man or blael
man, if they can only use them successful,
for their own purposes. Such is the democ
raey of to-day, unprineipled, INSCRIPTIONS
bat likely to be polite and therefore danger
Gus. Polite, we mean, for its own interests
and dangerous because it is unprincipled,
We have assumed that the democrats
party is about to recognize the rights of tn
/ negroes. 1t is just what the anti-slaver,
party did years ago and yet there is vas
: difference between the two. The anti.slayer,
men declared for the equality of human right
as principle, when to do so was unpopula
and not altogether SAFE they contended fo
it when in the minority; aud they aban
doned their party organization when the en-,
proposed was achieved. The democracy de
MES the principle, and deny it still the,
yield only because they hope to make some