The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-06-16
From the New York Day Book.
Who will be the Next Democratic
President.


We are. of course, unable TO designate the
individual. but the Day-Book will venture
To predict that the first man. personally fit
ted for the place. that solemuly and distinct
ly pledges himself TO the restoration of the
Republic of Washin gton, as &c was when
Abraham Lincoln began his welfare on it.
will be the next Democratic President,
whether that man be Mcclellan, sherman.
Seymour, Blair, Jefferson Davis. or Robert
F.. Lee; and. Furthermore. il will venture to
predict that there never again viii be
Democratic President without such pledge
of the people, We include the name Of JEFF.
Davis as possible candidate for the Presi-
dency, not because OF his eminent fitness for
the position, or because as things stand
now, he Is quite as like "a be the leader OF
the American Democracy for the restora-
ton of the Federal Union OF these States, as
any one of the distinguished gentlemen
named, but because from the beginning of
our national troubles 10 this hour. no man.
in all this broad land. has so truly embodied
the principles OF the American system Of
governments or so faithfully struggled for
the preservation of the Democratic institu-
tions. The time has come 10 tell the truth,
and whatever may be the informality. or
seeming contradiction or confusion in the
| Democratic mind, vast majority of Amer
lean Democrats know the perfect truth Of
our assertion, that jefferson Davis, above
all living men, has struggled for and suffer-
ell for the great principles established by
the men of '76. and whatever his error in re-
gard to means or mistakes of policy. the men
OF the next generation viii unanimously
confirm this assertion. We repeat, the time
has come for Democrats TO speak the truth
and to stand by the truth. and those who
have not intelligence or honesty sufficient
to do justice to the cause, must take back
seats or be silenced altogether. il that cause
is ever to triumph again or Democratic in
situations are 10 be preserved on this CONT
nent! 1t is the ignorance, moral cowardice,
and mean, merceEary otfice-seeking spirit
of professed or pretended Democrats, rather
than the delusion of the masses. that enables
the monstrous and devil-possesscd Adolf
ton minority to ride roughshod over a great
people, and seriously endanger the grand
American system founded by the men Of
l776, and which, for three quarters of a CEN
fury, was the wonder Of the earth and the
hope of mankind! And now. unless there
are Democrats intelligent enough, and brave
and patriotic enough, 10 organize and lead
the Democratic masses into "A straight. fair.
stand-up fight with the madness, and fraud
and crime OF the faction in power, then there
is no help for 1.-THE Democratic cause
must be fought out through horror. anarchy
and blood unparalleled in human annals.
and the end Of which no living man may
witness
There is no hope OF possibility Of over
throwing this monstrous faction nj the bal
lot-boX, save in graphing with it on prin-
ciple, and showing the people the sin aud
crime, and utter national ruin into which
IL Is dragging the country. With a stand
ing army in the South. and a majority of
the citizenship kept from the polls. IL is GER
tain of course, of the Southern States and
hose, with New England, can always keep
it power, until national bankruptcy and
universal anarchy close the scene. There l.
one way, and only one way, TO save the
country, Democracy, all that is sacred i'm
human society, from the horrible ruin into
which these madmen are dragging the peo-
pie. This is TO rally around the Re-
public of the fathers, that very and exact
Union which the enormous villains have
oVerthrOWn. under the mask of upholding
it, and if we can organize the Democracy on
this basis, and reject, utterly, all the policy
mongering folly of the old political hacks
our success in 1872 will be certain! On this
ground of universal salvation all true Dem
Ocrats and honest men can stand-those who
went into the war under the delusion thar
they were fighting for the Union. as easily
rs those who understood the fraud from the
start and, like the Day Book. resisted it TO
utmost. jefferson Davis desired to preserve
the American system Of elf-government.-
Gen. Morgan and others, who entered Lin
coins army in 1851, desired the same thing.
however different the mode of action and
Grant and Sherman professed the same OBJ
ject; and now, il they refuse to stand by the
Republic of the fathers, and act with
Garrison, Chase, &c., who are striving to
reconstruct Mongrel monstrosity. then,
Ofcourse they are traitors and villains, and
clean through, have been the miserable
allies and disgusting tools of the Abolition
traitors But to make the people under
stand the mOnstrOus fraud and VIllainy, to
pull aside the veil and show the hideous aud
develish treason of the MOngrels, Demo-
Gratis must stand by the truth Themselves
and be ready TO give time, nay, life ITSELF if
needs be, to the cause!