The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-10
evening State Soitrmat.
PARTY KEY-NOTES.

Terse announcements of party principle!
are given out by leaders, as bugle calls ar,
sounded to bring rank and file into posi-
ton for coming conflict, and indicate the
line Of attack, or defense, which must bt
assumed and prosecuted. AT present, the
Democrats have rather curious discord in
their calls; some apparently taken from
the Republican notebook F; others from the
long disused Know-Nothing collection; but
j some, combining very old and very new,
the dead past and dreamed future, are SO
singular as to arrest attention, if they can
not command obedience. Ofthis latter class
is that which appeared in the Whig few
days ago--"Death to Rddicalism.O
AS the irate editor appears to be in
deadly earnest, it is well to look over the
field, and see if this terrible cry is just
demand i'll the cause of order and civiliza-
ton and if the partisan forces, thus sum-
moned to the war Of determination, will
muster in sufficient strength to accomplish
the fell design.
First, is Radicalism (by which we sup
pose the Wing means Republcanism,) a
political element which should be crushed
out of our system? 1t has a record, and
by that record it should be judged. A
more glorious record never was inscribed
on the pages Of a nations annals; and that
of its opponent, of which the Wing is now
hoc n p1 Il, 4 A1,,4
of Republicanism is brilliant. .l4t2
Republicans are a party of ideas and cor
responding action, who have cast .compro-
mise of principle behind them as an evil
thing, and while full of earnest enthusiasm,
cry for no death save that Of error, gnor-
ance and wrong. Convinced that slavery,
with its countless denominations, was agrees
sive, and, that having robbed the colored
man of all his rights, it was gradually cir
cumscribing the rights of the white man,
when challenged to conflict of arms, Re-
pubiicanism accepted the gage thrown down
at Sumter, and made its cardinal idea
great reality liberty for all Of Gods trea-
tu'es, behey lefty or rlo,ely init social scale.
1t did more, but no more noble work, in
foiling the wicked effort to divide this great
nation into opposing fractions and if
Jackson's shade revisits the earth, he
feels a great satisfaction at the down.
fall of secession, as when he stran-
+.led notification. Emancipated mil
lions Of bondmen, were not only made free
from their chains, but led up into the glo
rions. 'sunburst of liberty, and given the
freernan's weapon Of defence-the ballot
with which To protect their rights and
assert their manhood. The commerce Of
the country, clippled by foreign sympathi-
zers who dreadedour growing power, is be.
ing fostered into tsold proportions; home in
dustry was never more active and flourish
ing, and laborers or mechanics more gener-
ally employed, or better paid. Burdened
with debt. the iniliction of secession, pub
lie obligations are met, and yet the requi-
site taxation is not more than the people are
willing to pay as the ransom of their coun-
try. The great Western wilderness is trav-
ersed by the .''iron-horse, y and lightning
flashes intelligence from Atlantic to
Pacific, and, under the stormy waves, from
continent to continent. Among the nations
of the earth the United States-with no |
star missing from her proud ensign, but
new stars added-neyer was so potent as
to-day; her friendship more sought, or her
enmity more dreaded. The Treaty of |
Washington shows that this is no empty
boast. The simple, barren, disastrous
record of the party of which the Wing |
claims to be the mouth-piece, is opposition,
fiuistess opposition, to all these grand
achievements; yet they have the presump-
ton, the audacity, to cry out: "Death to
and if their miserable prayer
be granted, it will be more it will be
death to liberty, peace, progress and pros
perity, country-all worth living for, all
worth hoping for. We have no fears of the
result, ain God is our trust ~ and Demo-
cracy may cry-''Death to Repablicanism;"
but if it again attempts the deed, the united
voice of free people will utter the fiat.
Hitherto shalt thou come but no farther.o
You may agitate, but beware how you ot-
tack.
Choose some other key note, we say to
the Wing, one indicating love of peace, and
of facts. There is work for all,
and if you and your party will not unite
aciM as in our labors for the reformation of
existing evils, and perfecting results of ac-
complished revolution, work in that direc-
ton yourselves, and we will bid you ssGod
speed"
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