Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-26

us they will repeal the laws, and yet they. re-
cognize the Amendments. They believe in
the Maine Liquor law, but are opposed to its
enforcement. The New Departure sis good
enough Morgan until after the election" and
their platform is loose enough for all to creep
through, and follow their old course of hate,
persecution, and violence.
While these tricks are played upon us here,
the mass of the Democratic voters in the
South are waiting and watching, not tower
the border" but in the heart of our country,
to restore the "Lost cause" and to upset all
that we have gained the last ten years. 1t is
only necessary to read the Democratic Journ-
ais, both in Ohio and in other States, to show
that this "New Departure" is only to shield
themselves behind some iugglery about the
construction of the Amendments and the mode
of their enforcement. The essential modifi-
cation made in the Convention of the Dayton
resolutions gives color to this idea and the
whole as they stand in the platform look like
bad mixing of opposing ideas. They felt
that the public voice demanded that these
Amendments must be ratified and endorsed
by their party, and yet they did not want to
do it. They did it with an eff, and a damn,
and slap with several loop-holes of es-
cape, with many antidotes, and in a bad tenn
per generally. The dose was Objectionable
to many, but they took it, and have not felt
well since, and now nothing could be more
ludicrous in political strategy, if it were not
dangerous, than to trust the Democratic party
with the enforcement of these Amendments
Better give the lamb to the wolf than either
the blacks of the South or the loyal people Of
the South, to the Democratic party of either
North or South. The Democratic party of
the North would be powerless to execute their
nleHup Tho m ~ hrn DO tl,a.r,
at Charleston; the same men who sacrificed
Douglas; the same men who covered our land
with the graves of patriot soldiers, would, by
virtue Of their ma ority, seize the power of
the Democratic organization, and where then
would be the Amendments, or the protection
of loyal people, white or black, or the public
honor, as represented by the pension list and
the public creditors? From the logic of Atm
tiles and the association of names and events,
it is evident that no sincere movement to en-
force the Amendments can ever be executed
by the Democratic party. The noisy crowds
that hail with enthusiasm the reasonable ut
terances of jeff. Davis; the bands of mid
night Democratic outlaws who make night
hideous in the South by murder and nameless
crimes, without danger or fear of punishment,
clearly show that the Democratic party of
the South cannot yet be trusted with political
power-while the uncertain, evasive, and di-
vided voice of the Democratic party of the
North, with policy pulling one way and prin-
ciple another-with the politicians preaching
the new gospel of New Departure, and
the instincts and predjudices of the masses
still opposed-with its spoken utterances, like
Delphic oracles, paltering in double sense
in such a condition, the Democratic party of
the North is utterly unfit to assume any re-
sponsibility in the Government except its old
rule of fault-finding, OF opposing what we do
of proposing nothing, of voting against eve
rything, even the English Treaty, in hopes
that something will turn up.