The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1870-12-15
The Presidential Campaign.

Guard" published in New York, utters
the sentiments Of every honest Demo
crat in the land. We make q few ex.
tracts. 1t says:
1.-The war was altogether the work
or.passion. Reason always condemned
it, as thing entirely unnecessary in
the beginning, and most criminal and
damnable in It's prosecution. 1t was in
violation of all those great and sacred
principles Of local sovereignty and self,
government which the Democratic Par
ty had teDaciously held from the very
foundation OF the Union. 1t was in
violation Of even the common law OF
humanity and justice, and vested solely
upon the unnatural and mplacaLle spir.
it Of revenge. The results which have
come Of it prove that it was Que Of the
greatest crimes Of history, Such fruits
conld grow only upon the most deadly
tree In joining the black campaign,
every Democrat took up arms agans,
himself, against his party, and against
his country. In fighting to make the
negro the political equal of himself, he
even few to arms against the ordna-
tons of the Creator Of the world who rs
much intended the negro to he the in
ferior Of the VIII tc man, as He did the
b,i2zard to be the Inferior OF the eagle
And in performing this unnatural ser,
vice, those Democrats introduced con.
fusion and naturalization into their
party.
"Ths only logical way Of condemn
ing the Lorrid consequences Of the
black war Of ccntralizatioa TO frank
~ confess that the war was all wrong,
and great crime against tue free AID
voluntary federal system established
by the Constitution.
Zone of the ablcst Dem ocratc pa
pers published in New England, the
.States una Union, Of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, in reviewing an article in
the Boston Post against the abomina.
bic and revolutionary course Of the
Llack party, says:
admit all the, charges against
them, paint their crimes as hi elk as the
shades Of the internal regions, and let
M the holy angels attest 10 their
truth, yet they are the fair, proper, lie.
climate and natural sequel 10 the war
which the Post sustained from frs. to
last If Abraham Lincoln and the
Congress that backed him up, had the
right to send armies to invade Sovcr-
cign States OF this Union, overturn and
destroy their governments ana institu'
ii0us, then the present Congress and
President Grant have prrciscly The
same right to carry on the work in
which they are now engaged
" This is rough truth, but it i,
nevertheless truth, and precisely her,
lies the greatest difficulty IN the way .
4 successful revival Of the Democrat,
Party for Presiden .ial campaign. A
long as portian Of the Party insist OF
maintaining the justice Of the war
while admitting that nothing but c.i
has come Of it, the public sentiment o
the Party must be destitute Of tina
unity and caracstness which alone Cal
secure success.
1.-The only policy Of the Democratic
Party is to denounce not only the
poisonous fruit, but the cursed tree
which bore it,
off the Democratic Party has any
ground Oh which to stand perfectly
united, it must he upon this compre
lcnsive condemnation of the wh9l'
course of the negro party for the las
ten years.
"How can the Party ever be unitct
except on a platform of truth in rcla
ton to the war and its consequences
"No party can stand upon mer
shams.
"A great party must have some set
tied principles, and n defined policy
good or bad, as the first element o
success.
"Nv party can possibly be weaker
than the Democracy when its true prin
ciples are hid, or modified so as tc
bear some likeness to the features o.
its black rival.
"Another source of weakness to the
Democratic Party is the confusion and
contradiction which prevail in its pub
lie press. How can 1t enter upon a
Presidential campaign while its public
press is assuming positions Of endless
autsgonism and contradiction While
portion Of its press is firmly and i'm
moyabiy based upon the fundamental
principles which have always distin-
yuished the Democratic Party. and Sc
cured Its triumpts during the whole
period Of its long and successful reign,
another portion utterly ignores all
those principles, and shapes its course
so near to that Of lhe black party that
the most sstute politician can hardly
distinguish any vital difference between
Ahnuu panora lilo Aha Na... VI.