South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-11-03
The Dead Calm.

party will have q high and noble
duty to perform until all the vital
issues growing out of the late rebel.
non are fully accepted by the Dem
ocrat.c party"
But they are So accepted. Mr.
Vallandigham, the acknowledge lea
der of that party in extreme oppo-
sition to these views, accepted them
The New York Democracy accepts
them SO does the OHIO, the Name,
the Massachusetts. There Is no diff
ference to day between Governor
Hoffman and Governor Clafin, be-
tween General Grant and Justice
Chase, on these points. The issues
r concluded. When tho Wing
party, under Websters influence,
accepted the compromise of 1850,
and put itself on the same platform
of slavery Is the Democrats, the
party lived just one Presidential &c
lection afterward /; and IN that elec-
ton, with the most popular military
man IN the country as its leader,
and with an unknown and feeble
antagonist, it only carried four
States. The Wing party died ; the
Republican party was born.
To-day the parties stand on the
same platform. You could not tell
"t'other from which" by reading
the Massachusetts, platforms. Re-
trenchment, reform, labor, no pro-
hlb:tion-the clap-trap Of those who
have nothing 10 SAYS all their
basis. Read the platltudes of the
Worcester platform, and contrast it
with the hot words of the labor re-
formers, or the powerful blots of
the prohibitory convention, which
we can properly commend, as they
were forged by many different
minds, there having been four if not
five authors of those resolves, full
Of fire and force. Read Rev. DR..
Dunn's powerful address and see the
difference between a dead lion and
what some call a living dog.
The Republican party in Mass
achusetts shows It's work is dore
by Its treatment of the cause OF pro
hlbitoa. Its ablesG penman says it
is on a level with public sentiment.
Perhaps it Is but a live party makes
public sentiment. That party has
made it again and again. He aud
his-the Bird club, IN a word, for
those two words are oue-cOmpetted
the Journal and the Advertiser to &C
cept ideas far above the public sen
tImenI and their own inclination.
When they demanded immediate e.
Emancipation. these Journals oppos-
cd it. When they said "arm the
slaves" these papers were shocked.
Sumner declared MarIIs armed sla-
YES to save Rome. The ddUertiSer
denied it. A defence of Mr.. Suns
ner from the original Greek of Plu-
tarch was carried to the Advertiser.
1t was kept over night and refused.
its venerable editor sayingto the one
who brought 1t ''If L should publish
that my building would be down be
foro tomorrow morning" No more
would the Journal have published
1T, nor the Springfield Republican.
But the Bird club did - oelied
them to advocate it, making tae pa
pers and all accept its demands. 1t
would to day had 1t any demands
to make.
One ot its members said that the
remark that 1t was dead was a lie,
and confirmed the declaration by
an oath. He thought that If we had
boen at Its meeting the Saturday
afternoon after the Convention We
should have thought it a very Live
ly corpse"
But Tam O'ShaEter saw q whole
kirk full of lively corpses, and was
badly chased by n of them. Yet
it was but dead and c9fined crea-
lures that he saw, and fed from.
This one great club projects moth
ing new. 1t does not yrapple with
evil yet powerful. II does not dis
cuss, over Its soups and creams, how
to abolish any ruling vice. Il is
simply gentlemen eating and
drinking together, as Jobs sons
were, when the whirlwind came
and buried them alive, as the late
whIrlwind did almost these. 1t is
doing nothing and what's that but
dead? 1t detests prohibition, and
despises labor reform. It is a-body
of convivial ghosts, which any one
may see without danger, and even
cat with, by only paying Two dol
lars for, the dinner.
The party it represents Is alike
dead. See its treatment of prohi-
bItlon. Not a word on the plat
form. A candidate for Governor ia
voring Prohibition, with a free-liq>
nor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and an at
torney general who was the leading
tree liquor legislator against prohi-
bItIon, and who led the column
that threw the prohibitory bill, aud
gave Us ths free-rum bill OF last
year. This Water-and. whisky tick
ct on a non>prohibitory platform
many prohibitionis,s Will probably
vote. They have not yet sufficient
proof Of its death, though it was
made by a league with the free-liq
uor Republicans of Boston, who
gave mp their governor and took
the two other Offices in Its stead.
When they were working up a rum
candidate for governor, they Offer
ed the prohibItionists a plank IN
the platform, and the lieutenant
govern0rship and the attorney gen.
eralship, also the very revers Of
what was done. So complete is
this compromise Of the Republican
party, and all for votes and power
x x X x x x =
Such is the dead calm in Massachu.
.setts to-day. How long l! may last
no one knows. Dissatisfied masses
growl. The young men are without
enthusiasm. hey have no polltI-
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