, 1871-12-04
POLITICAL.
Another "New Departure"
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be false, and do it studiedly and selfish.
ly. The masses, who think, and read.
and see, and are possessed of enough
intelligence to interpret the unerrine
truth of figures, will, in their hearts, be
unbelievers, though they speak it not,
and will mistrust the sincerity of those
who would recklessly deceive them.
There is no security against inevitable
failure save in the truth. Those only
who dare to be truthful, among the lead
ers of party or of public opinion, will
command the confidence of the people.
Such leader is the Missour; Republican,
which, convinced of the utter hopeless
ness of the Democratic ticket, frankly
advises the party managers of the op-
position to make no nominations. Ad-
mitting the force of this view which the
Republican, leading Democratic paper
of the West takes of the future of par
ties, the Memphis Ledger, another Dem
ocratic paper, says: elf matters pro-
gress as they are progressing-if no
change come over the masses of the
North-the most hopeful Democrat can
not expect Democratic triumph next
year. And what can be done by the
democracy to bring about change?
What new policy can it suggest that
would catch the popular heart. We can
imagine nothing. Others may be more
keen-sighted, and discover victory
through clouds of disaster. No matter
upon whom the radical nomination falls,
the party, now unquestionably nnmeri-
cally strongest, will, if he be opposed
by the nominee of Democratic con-
vention, vote sohdly together. All the
Chase men, and Scburz men, Gratz
Brown men, and Greely men will go
with their party as against the Demo
cratic nominee. A party ceases to be
party when it is not confronted by one
that is antagonistic. Without the an
tagonism which the Democratic party
opposes to the radical party, it would
fall to pieces. Then, would not the con-
servative elements of all sections and
parties flow together as naturally and
irresistible as water ?"
Most assuredly. Just as certainly as
if the opposing walls of a vessel filled
with water were suddenly removed, that
element, by natural laws, would seek its
level to be drunk up by the earth or
absorbed by the atmosphere. In Vir-
ginia the Richmond Whig, another
prominent Democratic reflex, says:
"The results of the recent elections
will go far to convince all rejecting men
that the only reasonable hope of defeat
ing the administration party at the next
Presidential election is in a grand rally
of all the opposition elements under
new colors and with ticket that liberal
Republicans who desire to get the coun-
try out of the war rut will support. If
the Democratic party takes the field
with Democratic candidates the indica-
tons are that it will be doomed to a
Waterloo defeat, and that the great work
of pacifcation will be postponed for an
other term of four years. Such course
would drive back into the bosom Of the
Republican party all the liberal men
who are now striving to organize an op-
position to the present administration.
Much as they distrust and dislike that,
they distrust and dislike the democracy
more. 1t is clear that the majority of
the northern people-in whose hands
are the destinies of the republic-w
vote for no man whose election would
endanger what they consider the legiti-
mate results of the war. We see that
the bare apprehension of anything of
the sort brings them together at once
on the war issues, and sooner than haz-
ard such contingency, they are ready
to abolish habeas corpus and all the safe
guards of civil liberty. No careful OBJ
server of the times and the popular feel
ing can fail to have noticed this pre-
dominent tendency Of the northern
mind. No wise man, no real statesman
and patriot, will fail to take warning
from it, and conform his action to it.
The elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio
proclaim the folly of thinking of one of
the old hide-bound politicians for re-
form leader. We must look elsewhere
for Moses to conduct us out of the
worse than Egyptian bondage. We
must turn our eyes to Gatz Brown, or
Trumbull; or Davis, of Illinois, or some
man like them, who was with the gov
ernment in suppressing the southern
confederacy, but who still upholds the
grand essentials of individual and civil
liberty
Such are the Democratieg expressions
of opinion from three of the most pop
ulous of the southern border states.
They realize that the majority of the
northern people will vote for no man OF