The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-16

BELsIIAzzAR was the descendant of a
long line of mighty Kings. But all the
dignity of ancestry and wealth and honor
did not save him, when the time came for
his fall. Fate wrote on the wall of his
palace strange, terrible characters, which
proclaimed the sentcnce--"Thon hast been
aoeighed an the balance and art found acant-
ing" Jssd
History repeats itself continually. We
have Bclshazzar in our party history.
He has been weighed in the balance and
found wanting. The degenerate Democra-
cy of the latter day now meets the fate of
the King of Babylon. Wanting wanting;
wanting in that most essential quality of
a party-loyalty to the nation and to its con-
stitution. In the name of the constitution
they dissolved the Union, In the name of
the constitution they have set themselves
for six years against the reconstruction Of
of the Union. In the name of the constitu-
ton, they now make desperate opposition
to its three most important, most vital, and
most sacred articles. 70.
To have dissolved the Union to have
resisted, factiously and reasonably re-
sisted, its restoration to have endeavored,
until the endeavor became hopeless
and desperate, to overthrow its best and
latest provisions these are the high
crimes of which the Democracy stand
guilty before the American people.
If the Union is happily restored and is
worth preserving, then the Democracy
must be repudiated. IL the Constitution,
in whose name the Democracy dissolved
the Union, is the sacred band which forms
its strength and power, then the Democracy
must be cxecrated for pciverting it to SO
foul purpose. If the Union now can only
exist in permanency and strength through
the Constitution as it is written and if the
most vital principle in that Constitution is
the one now ordained, of the freedom ofdH,
and the equality Of all before the law, then it
is time that the party of this country whose
special hostility to the Constitution is
specially directed against that principle OF
equality and justice, should be repudiated
and dissolved.
The Democracy is repudiatcd in this
Union, now, henceforth and forever. Its
record kills it. There is that in its record
which must kill the Democratic party, OF
else destroy the Union under the constitu-
ton. Both cannot stand together in this
land. Democracy and the Union are ire
concilable. They contain a contradiction
in terms. They are like the elements Of
fire and water ; one or the other must be
destroyed when brought in contact. Philo-
sophically and practically, if the Union is
to stand, then the chronic enemy of the
Union must fall.
The patience of the American people has
been very great with the Democracy. II
has been very great. But it is now ex-
hausted. And it is certain that in not one
single State of this Union will the Democ-
racy be able to carry majority for the
Presidency. Init infatuation, it could moi
see for a long time the fate decreed it.
But now, the hand of Divinity has written
: thus upon the wall; Maine Ohio-Penn-
sylvania California; Meme, Meme, 7ekel,
Il Iphars6l.
The Union would not be dissolved. The
Union has had its crisis Of dissolution, and
has survivedit. And now the Democracy's
time has come. The DISCOVER Of the Unior
, is now itself dissolved; and there is nc
J alchemy known to art or science, known
} to politics or morals, that can restore it.
The Union and the constitution stand