The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-21

both expect and condemn. For more than
two years past the bitter and bloody pas
sions Of the var have been gradually but
steadily and surely dying out. Continual
and irreconcilable dissent upon the new
issues necessary, born Of to-day, and even
oitter personal discord among the men Of
the republican party who had stood to-
gether on the questions Of the past, inevit-
ably followed. The Democratic party
wisely remained silent, or confined itself
to these new issues. Tho Republican
party, having fulHlled its original mission
was rapidly falling into decay. Modera.
tion, justice, and peace we're becoming to
its more violent leaders the sentence Of
death. The administration party, into
which, since the 4th VI March, 1869, it has
been wholly transferred, had begun, from
causes thoroughly understood. to DO odous,
and even intolerable to the people. Upon
! the issues Of amnesty, Of the honesty Of the
legislative and executive departments, Of
the tariff, of revenue and civil service re-
form Of land grants to corporations, the
| currency question, San Domingo and other
| similar questions IL was certain to be con-
damned. Necessity required that some
decisive movement should be made TO ar
rest the impending defeat. Not the states
men, hut the mere politicians, the syco-
plants Of the party, tho parasites clinging
TO and deriving nurture solely from exec
utive favor, were called into the council Of
these Bourbons of the present hour The
men who forget nothing, learn nothing,
resolved on one more appeal to the expir-
ing passions and prejudices of their parti-
sans-to the war cries of the past. IL
civil war in fact could not have been
inaUgurated, civil wur in form, with
all its legislative and executive ma
chinery, and all its political appliances,
must be revived in every state, to secure,
first the renomnstion and next the re-
election, of Gen. Grant. The boligerent
pronuncamento went forth. The bloodv
blast of the war-bugle was again sounded
a distinguished Senator, the confidential
adviser and main support of the President,
himself u consummatc partisan leader, but
powerful in proportion to the unskillful-
ness and cowurdico of his foes, was put
forth az the chief fomenter of this new
crusade. But / say to him, and to all be-
hind him, that the hour has now come
when neither he nor they can be permitted
to provoke or to dictate issues for the
Democratic party, or to ignor those
which the revolving Years and char ging
condition of the country necessarily bring
forth. That which since 1868 has been
but u question of time, is now upon US.
The auspicious moment, the golden oppor-
tunity, "the tide in the affairs of men to
be taken ut the flood has now in my de-
liberate Judgment, reached us, when the
Democratic party Of to-day, laying aside
every weight and shaking from its dead
body of the past, yet adhering to its an
cient principles, can and must, at one
bound place itself upon the vantage
ground of the present and defy its ene-
mics to battle upon the living issues Of
the hour.
1t is the purpose Of these resolutions to es-
tablish the Democratic party Of Montgom-
cry county openly and squarely upon this
firm and impregnable basis. Tacitly, and
in fact we have stood upon it for the pas:
two years, and victory has steadily been
ours. Confident l Am that we shall meet
a prompt and very cordial response from
our brethren elsewhere and everywhere
in this and other states. Personally,
care not for denunciation or unjust criti-
| cism from any quarter. Upon the fullest
! deliberation and ample counsel with wise
and brave men of the party, l take the
responsibility with pride and pleasure.
add, too, that as these resolutions ure the
fruit Of the joint labors and counsels of
the gentlemen associated with me here at
home, SO also this movement meets their
hearty concurrence. IL is not new de-
parture, but a return, the restoration OF
the Democratic party once more to the an
cient platform ofprogress and reform, es.
tablsbing the great fact that the party
like everything else in nature intended tc
endure, is capable Of adapting itself to the
/ perpetual growth and chanpe uf ich ba
long alike to the political and the physi.
cal world, and retain yet intact tho orig.
inal principle and laws of its being
Moreover, as to the movement here, we
all bear witness that in it there is nothing
of merely personal character, either tc
advance or to hinder any member of the
Democratic party anywhere; nothing ex.
ccpt the earnest and fixed purp SO to pro-
mote the welfare of the whole party, and
with it Of the whole country.