New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-11-09
Last Hope Of the Democracy.

Is it not both singular and disreputahle that
two Of the men appointed to the Supreme
Court of the United States are Democratic as
pirants for the Presidency, or aspirants, per-
haps we should say, for the Democratic nomi-
nation for the Presidency They are Chief
Justice CHASE and Associate Justice DAVIS of
Illinois. But they will undoubtedly fail of the
coveted honor. Ifeither of them should succeed,
however, he would be more ANONYMOUSLY de-
feated than SEYMOUR was. The great mass of
the Democratic party desire positive, earnest
men, who really represent their principles.
The people, indeed, of whatever party, want
no halfway, milk-and water men, whatever
sore-headed politicians may desire. Designing
Democratic leaders may induce disappointed
Republicans to nominate such Conservatives"
as one of the Judges We have named, or
Senator TRuxBULL, by the promise that the
Democratic party will unite upon him, but
they can't control the votes of their party, and
have no more right to pledge it than the devil
had to promise the Saviour what he never
owned.
Some Democratic papers have already tried
their seductive power in this direction upon
| sore-headed and unprincipled Republicans.
They have represented this feeling Of dsaffec-
ton %, % be infinitely more general than it is
One OF the most jealous advocates of this
scheme is the st. Louis Republican, Demo,
cratic paper Of the straightsst and bitterest
sect. 1t has deceived itself into the belief that
a very large class Of Republicans are ready to
desert their party and attempt the organization
of new one ia the hope of defeating Gen.
GRANT, and it 10 laboring to deceive others.
Besides General SEIZURE, O. M. CLAY, Sena-
tor TRuxBULL, exSeoretary Cox, and the Gin
cinnati Commercial, upon whom it may prob.
ably count with safety, the Republican claims
| as leaders in the new movement not only Sena
tor SUMNER, but General WILSON, the other
Massachusetts, Senator Senators FENroN and
WEST, Mr.. GREELEY, Governor GEARY of Penn
sylvanis, and Governor elect NoYEs of Ohio,
General LOGAN, the Chicago Tribune, the
New York Tribune, and the New York Even.
ing Post. But it will End that it has been
counting without its host when too late, if it
trusts to such men as Senator WILSON, Gov
ernors GEARY and NoYEs HORACE GREELEY
General LOGAN, and Senator SUMNER to dis
rupt the Republican party.
Even If all the men and papers enumerated
should lend their influence to this copperhead
scheme, it would make no difference. They
will only share the fate of Senators CowAN,
DIXON, DooLITTLE, and other traitors to our
party. Governor SEWARD himself, strong in
the confidence of the Republican party as he
once was, failed to carry stousand Republi-
can voters over to Johnsouism.
And every Republican who permits bis name
to be used in support of third party, based
on principles that will meet the approval of
such papers as the st. Louis Republican and
the Cincinnati Enquirer, and such men as
General BLAIR, will'lneet the doom which has
overtaken all other Republican apostates. They
will secure at first lite Infamous notority
and then sink into that political oblivion from
which there is no resurrection. There is no
other future for the Republican who deliber-
ately becomes the tool of corrupt and dis
loyal faction, whose only object is the spoils of
Office