The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-12-06
The Future OF the Democracy,

Let no enemy of republican liberty
lay the fattering unction to his soul that
the Democratic party has ceased to exist.
1t has survived the successive defeats of
the last twelve years and comes out of
the latest conflict stronger in numbers
than ever before. Although its candi.
date for Pres ident failed to carry ma.
jority of the electors, he received clean
majority of the white voters who at.
tended the election. GRANTS majority
of the popular vote is made up of the
lately enfranchised negroes. Without
these hewould have been in a minority.
The vote in the United States for Presi-
dent at the late election was about g..
$4,000. This was divided as to race
about as follows:
Whites for Greeley...,...........3 100000
Whites for Grant. ,0OO, 900
White majority for Greeley..... 10O, 200
Negroes for Grant. $50, 900.
Negroes for Greeley................. $4,000
Negro majority for Grant......... 800, 900
Deduct white maj for Greeley. 100000
Grants total ma majority............... 100000
At least one million Democrats did
not vote. This may seem an extrava.
giant estimate, but when it is remember
ed that in Pennsylvania alone GREELEY
received 1O5 900 votes less than BUCKA-
LEW, the statement is not astounding.
We take it, therefore, GRANT is a min
nority President, in that he failed to
poll majority Of all the voters of the
United States, Notwithstanding the
solid negro vote in his favor. He owes
his reelection to the latter and to the
immense sums of money expended by
his partisans in the corruption of voters.
Now, is party that polls three mill
lions ofvotes for an unpopular candidate,
under the most adverse circumstances,
and which can poll four millions for q
popular nominee under favorable con-
ditions, dead or about to die? There is
considerable life in such party. 1t is
able to give and take pretty severe
blows. There is, there must be, future
and a glorious one for such party. 1t
is bound together by principles that are
eternal and unchangeable. The right of
selfgOvernment, strict construction
of the constitution, civil and political
equality, freedom of conscience, impair.
tial taxation, a sound and stable cur.
reucy, these are the tenets of the great
party which now lifts itself up from its
latest defeat. Purged of prejudice, pur-
flied by adversely, ennobled by sacri
fees which humbled its pride, this party |
to-day challenges the respect and ad.
miration of the country. In the coming
time the doctrines for which it has con.
tended will be surely vindicated. The
antagonism of race which is now foster
ed by the so.called Republican party
through its intrigues for the consolida-
tion of the negro vote, the favored
classes which have been pampered and
enriched by the legislation of the last
decade, the imperialism which is root.
ed in the policy of the present admins.
tration, the proscriptive politico.relig.
ious movement whose sworn leagues are
encouraged by the dominant party, the
contempt of the constitution which
pervades the politics of the federal capi-
tai, the partial and unjust tax laws
made to enrich the few at the expense
of the many, and the huctuating cur
rency which is the plaything of the
gamblers in gold all these will succumb
to the Democratic opposition just as sure
as the American people will, in due
time, comprehend their own interests
Let us then be patient. Let us work and
wait.-Patriot.