The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-19

! Tns NRuonaI Democracy-rhcir Now De.
c.r..rs and Their OLD Presidential Cam
didatss.
when nrst the sun It's ife-sivtng beams displays.
It draws up vapors which obscure its rays;
RSscs new so Sis and M the day
So says Alexander b. Stephens in bis new
journal, the Atlanta (Ga.) Sun, In reference to
the general complaints from the progressive
Southern democracy touching his suicidal
policy Of hostility to the ''new departure"
He will have nothing to do with this thing.
He repudiates 1t and execrates 1t, and will
never accept Is an old line Southern State
sovereignty democrat, the fourteenth and ar
teenth amendments, which he regards az out
RACES upon the Southern States and ~ frauds
upon the constitution. he will have nothing
less than the Tammany national platform Of
1868; and upon this ultimatum, which is like
wise tho ultimatum Of Jeff Davis and General
Toombs and General Wade Hampton, It Is
evident that Mr.. Stephens has now, and Will
probably have at the Democratic National
Convention Of next year, host Of powerful
hackers, controlling an important political
balance Of power.
For example, the Mobile Register, leading
democratic journal of Alabama, says Of this
s'new departure" that, $50 far from being
bridge to pass over new members Into the
democratic camp" st is a bridge that lures
and marches over the democratic camp to
radical mongrelism." But our Mobile con-
temporary Is encouraged in the opinion that
''the democratic masses cannot be brought to
encourage the movements" and that 'wheu 1t
comes to be analysed In the national party
convention next year great majority will be
found that prefer to stand boldly against
fraudulent interpretations in the constitution to
withdrawing them az dead issues" On the
same tack the Dardanelle (Ark.) Chronicle
| says Eff the Northern democrats choose to
accept the late so-called amendments to the con-
stitution they can do so but we are still
opposed to them, at all times and under all
circumstances If they choose to abandon the
old, well-tried, time-honored landmarks, they
can do SO; we will not now or ever follow
| after them. If they choose to become repub-
licans to defeat republicans, or radicals to
defeat radicalism they can just do so; we will
uOu0 Va ~ ~ VIC ANOAsACAh pCOpAo 0ho WV
corrupt, too ignorant, too unfit for self
government, and must needs have a strong
government government changed from
what it was in 1861, government CONSOLE
dated and centralized at Washington, they can
just fix it that way. We will spurn it and
spit upon it still, and call aloud for heaven
and earth to witness the betrayal Of censtitu-
tional liberty"
These are samples which serve to show the
prevailing opinions of a large body Of leading
Southern men, whose ideas were burned into
them by their four years fiery ordeal with
their s1ost cause" Even In Kentucky, where
one would suppose the sentiments of the
democrats on the leading issues of the day
would be somewhat colored from their con-
tact with the bordering Northern States Of
| Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, we find the leading
men on the party State ticket supporting the
old Bourbon platform against the new depar-
ture. In fact, the Southern border counties
of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois appear to be
now, as in the old slavery times, largely in
fluenced by the Bourbon democracy Of Ken
lucky, without exerting any visible influence
| over the river, except to slight degree in
| few of the river cities and towns. Thus the
Cincinnati Enquirer, true to its ancient pro-
slavery submission to Kentucky, scouts the
'new departure" and says that If we are to
have the two party platforms, ''almost alike
as two peas, except that one may have in 1t
. black speck made by fly or something
else," the democracy will accomplish nothing;
and that sunless the party out Of power can
present principles and measures superior and
sharply antagonistic to those Of the party in
power the people will not tear their shirts to
put one out and the other in"
We have evidence here enough to satisfy the
rejecting politician that this new departure I"
instead of harmonizing, Is operating to demon
alize, distract and divide the democratic party
| North and South. The only saving alternative,
then, left TO the democracy is to make this new
departure secondary matter, and to try the
experiment of consolidating all sections and
factions Of the party upon stroog, command
ing Presidential ticket, What two men, of all
others, will form such ticket2 Most of the
old and some Of the new candidates of the
party have been interviewed on the subject
but each and all of them have their objections
to this man, that man and the other, because
each man Of the catalogue is looking out for
himself Thus morning city contemporary
(the Sum reports an interview with Governor
Gratz Brown, of Missouri, from which it ap-
pears that in Governor Browns opinion Chief
Justice Chase will not do for the democracy,
because This health is not good" Hendricks,
tho Governor considers "a very available
man." but asks ''could Hendricks carry the
country for the democratic party?" The ques-
ton carries its answer in the negative. Gene
raj Hancock will not do, "for the trouble just
now is the superabundance Of West Point red