The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-06-01
Unto Death,

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The yea! with which the radical paper
wearing the Grant collar are laborng to arres
the threatened dissolution of the democratl
party is editying in the extreme Such solici
tude that the democratic party shall keep W
Its distinctive organization, stand by its prn
ciples and proudly bear aloft its colors to tn,
last ditch Is eminently touching That or
| ganization which year or two ago was
nothing but rotton oil hulk. bearing 10 the
bottom few desperate copper-heads, rebe
sympathisers and traitors, is suddenly trans
formed into gallant ship. with manly crew
VINO need but to steer by the compass of the
Grant pirates to reach the haven Of triumph
ant success.
The democratic army is not without its fool
leaders who are willing to let the enemy ar.
range the plan Of its campaign. That the all
important point in such plan 4 the nomina.
ton OF an independent democratic ticket at
Baltimore is plain enough from the anxiety
with which the Grant radical press and lead.
ers urge it ; and it the democratic masses, as
in 1864 and 1865, commit their cause to such
leadership as Belmont, the New York World
and Chicago Times, doubtless we shall have
re-enacted at Baltimore the stupidity of the
peace platform on which Mcclellan was placed
in 1864, and Of the nomination of Seymour
and Blair in 1865. The pretext for the re en-
actment OF this stupendous folly by the nomi-
nation of an independent ticket at Balti-
more is the same damphool one of standing
by the principles OF '9S and and that sort of
! obsolete rubbish.
Let the democratic masses scout the leader
ship of these Bourbons and traitors There
is no lire issue on which the liberal republi-
cans and their Cincinnati Nominees are at var.
lance with the democratic masses to-day.
Both are for amnesty; both for one term
both Tor civil service and revenue reform
and both are opposed to military rule, CEN
tralization, and for local self government.
But there are considerations of higher lm-
port than party platforms involved in the
coming presidential contest. Between the
contendng aymies it will be "a struggle of life
and death. It will have none of the laneuid
accomplishments Of the struggle of 1864, when
all hnen Lincoln would be elected, or OF 1868
when the New York World raised the white
flag in the midst OF the battle and sounded a
| surrender. The contest will be mortal, for it
will end IN the overthrow and disappearance
.of one or the other Of the two great parties OF
| the country. If Grant is elected, the demo
cratic party viii vanish from the history OF
the country il he Is beaten, the radical party
like the old wing party, will die. The party
that succeeds is the party that will live and
WELD the destlnes Of this nation for the next
decade Let no one tell us that the demo
cratic party, by supporting Greeley and
Brown, will lose its organization and identity
Did the party dissolve III Missouri when it
elected the republican Brown governor over
the Grant radical candidate? Or in Tennes-
see, when it elected the republican Center ?
Or in Virginia when it elected Walker. There
are no states in which the democratic party is
more thoroughly alive and kicking. more
jubi!ant and dominent to-day, than in the
states We have named. And SO it will lie in
the nation, il the democrats elect Greeley and
Brown. The party that elects the president
will assurel!y own and control him. The idea
that the democratic party, which embraces u
full halt of the voters OF the country, will, in
! the hour Of such triumph, surrender its plin-
clp.es and lose lis organization and identity
in ten per cent traction of liberal republicans
! that are acting heart and soul with them, is
one worthy only to be entertained by and
| idiot