The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-06-23
From the Cincinnati Commoner, june 3. J
SHALL WE TRY JUGGLING TRUTH
AND PRINCIPLES d?

democracy are discussing Win SIoa'
earnestness and much intemperance
the issues that should be made in the
Presidential contest for 1872. We
are of that class of Democrats who
believe that the true policy Of the
party consists in announcing de-
sire and determination on ascending
to power, to wipe out not onl y the
black and atrocious despotism which
has enthrall4d the nation, but to
sweep off the infamous work done by
the party now in power.
We concur with the New Orleans
Bee in the opinion that Gin the next
contest for right, the people desire a
clear and well-deGncd issue, based
upon principles worth contending for.
THE DIFFERENCE
between Radicalism and Democracy
should be clearly drawn, SO that
every one may understand it, and
the nominees themselves should be
faithful embodiments of the tenets
and doctrines of which they profess
to be the teachers and apostles
If the next Convention, in the
erection of platform, should resolve
that the principles or tissues" of the
Democratic party are dead-that
State sovereignty, self-government,
free elections, and the white mans
civilization, are all dead; and then
proceed to put up grave-stones at
the head of these sublime but "dead
issues"-would the honest, liberty
loving Democratic masses ratify the
funeral of all the principles and SIS
sues" which they have held sacred
from the time of the fathers Of the
republic ? Does any man, claiming
the best political sagacity think there
is real, live
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN THUNDER
in such course? Heretofore the
Democratic party has stood upon
solid ground-friends and enemies
knew where it stood and for what it
was fighting. Friends cannot mis-
trust, and enemies cannot despise the
leader who bears aloft truth and prin-
ciple as the cleaning orihamme Of
battle.
Enemies may be won, and friends
will be more devOtediy attached to
the cause whose watchword it is to
be true to conscience, honor, liberty,
first and above all and to leave tho
rest to God. Men of high and truth
full purpose, and conviction and as
piration, are invincible; they are
fate personifed; or rather they rise
above the fate to which the brute
world is subjected, and become
great agency to Providence.
Our politicians engaged in manu-
featuring presidential programmes
have tried verbal jugglery and dia-
letic mystification long enough
Janus faced platforms and Janus
faced candidates are excusable in an
ephemeral party that expects to
perish after one triumph won by
fraud and deception. But "a great
party, whose principles were born
with the constitution and which eX-
poets to directs the destiny of the
nation, should lift high its banner,
and write thereon its principles in
LETTERS OF FIRE.
Concessions to fanaticism, for the
last thirty years, has demonstrated
that the sectional war became more
bitter, more general, more de8truc-
tive Of all nationality in parties, more
irreconcilable, and more dangerous
to either union Or liberty, the more
industrious politicians played the fall
tering, temporizing, masquerading
game of trying to combine the hete-
rogeneous and reconcile the irrecon-
cilable.
The Bohemian warrants and Hes
sian mercenaries of politics may be
united upon she one cohesive yrinci
pie of public plumber; but the peo-
pie, be sure, will ultimately despise
them and their pay, and their pay
masters, and, rising with more than
the power of the
EARTHQUAKES AND THE WHIRLWIND,
will blast the whole obnoxious COM
bination with ruin like that which
came upon Beltshazzar in the midst
of his revelry.
The mass of men may differ about
questions of policy, or about the ap-
pIication of general maxims Of NOR
atty; but they unite in common
love of honesty and fair dealing, and
in a common hatred of cheating and
corruption, wherever they see them
practiced. If truth and principle,
then, shall take the place of equivo-
cation and evasion in the coming
Presidential campaign, as the true
men recommend, that will be great
capital, glorious fact to begin with.
Whatever ticket may win, whatever
party may be beaten, truth and prin-
cipIe cannot go down while there are
men who will honestly and openly
stand up for them nor, come what
will, can the men be put down who
will speak their convictions, without |
fear, favor or affection, and who |