The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-04-26
The Democracy in 1872.

utterance to his bitter 1ofeoonihss:
We can hardly conceive ofany great
:, nolitical mischief than that which
t. probably arise from general
.".D D triumph next year. 1t
seems to all of us now Impossible, yet
such political revolution would hard
1 l he greater than the very decided
one of 1910.
This is really confession that the
I'D of the negro reign approaches
MT it is a notifying fact that, while
.be Mongrel party is dissolving, there
80 COME. who call themselves Demo-
an,ts who insist that the Democratic
narty must take from the sinking ship
# Nopgrclism nearly all the despotic
.,a revolutionary measures which
shese incomprehensible scoundrels
have sought to fasten upon the govern
mont Of our country. The Democratic
National Convention of 1868 pronounc-
I'd all the so-called reconstruction
measures Unconstitutional, rerOlution-
orv null and rcid." Now, such papers
90 the World and Albany Argus insist
taat the next National Convention
shall agree that these Unconstitutional
and revolutionary measures are final
" fixed upon the country, and that the
ouestion of their repeal is "dead is
suea for the future! Their policy is to
convert the Democratic party into a
great, officiating organization, and to
accede to all the Unconstitutional and
revolutionary deeds of the harbarous
negro party. In one word, their prop
osition is to convert the Democratic
party into tail, to balance the revo-
lutionary kite of Mongrelism. The
scallawag sheet known as the Courier
Journal, of Louisville, carries this
shameless surrender of Democratic
principles so far, that Senator Morton,
one of the most disrcputable and vio-
lent of all the barbarous party, in re-
cent speech in the Senate, praised it as
a wise and excellent paper! We have
not learned that Morton's praise has
yet caused a blush upon the cheek of
the scallawag editor of Louisville
There are four or five Democratic pa
pers in the North, and, perhaps, about
the same number in the South, which
60 with the World and Argus in. q
proposition to dump nearly all the old
principles of Democracy into a hole
and then to fill the ship with conceded
Mongrel measures. On this vital ques-
tion the Mobile Register has the fol
lowing remarks:
The World opposed reconstruction
in its every stage, and it processes not
to have changed its opinion on the
subject. Why, then, hustle out OF
sight measures SO hateful to all Demo
crats7 Is it prudent to give the au-
thors of those atrocious measures the
endorsement even of acquiescence p
To do so is to throw away the best ar
row in the Democratic culver we
think, its very battle-axe. What hap
pened in and during the war what
was settled by force of arms by the
warts necessarily "dead.p Only an
other war can undo it. But all that
has been done since the surrender, and
since, by the Radical theory of the war,
that its object had been attained in
"saving the Union." the iusurgent
States were back in the Union-all, we
say, that has been done in violation OF
the Constitution, and of the rights o.
the States, is not dead, but living
matter of the most vital political sig
nificance.
Now, we venture to say that these
remarks utter the honest sentiments o
nine-tenths Of the Democratic party
North and South. 1t is only among ;
few self constituted lenders that an.
other sentiment prevails. But we can
not conceive that it is possible that an.
man of sagacity as politician, reall.
believes it would be good policy t.
concede that any demonstrations
and revolutionary" acts must stant
forever, or be adopted by the Demo
cratic party. While such Mongre
sheets as the New York Tribune con
fesses that its party is in danger of des
truction-and this threatened fate j
because of it's infamous principles ant
bad deeds-some editors, calling them
selves Democrats, propose to acquiesc
in these infamous principles and ba'
deeds, as a measure of party policy
That is, the Democratic party is t.
make itself an accomplish after the fact
in the stupendous abomination of Mon
grelism, in order to defeat the part.
already sinking by the weight of it
own crimes Such men are children
in sagacity, and any party led by thei
counsel would only enter upon a cam
paign to experience an ignominious de
feat. We commend to the World an
Albany Argus, both of which wer
loaded with negro horrors last weel
the following, taken from the Mobil
Register:
The World tells us it is willing TIL
Southern Democracy should settle til
platform, and if the latter want to en-
ter into fight on negro suffrage, a
rjght. If will ioin in. but with som