The Ouachita telegraph., 1872-06-08
The BOurbOns.

In 1856 the democratic party found
itself i'll antagOnism with new party,
the republicans opposing Fremont to
Buchanan. Many old line wings who
could not go over to the new party, or
ganizcd and gave their votes to NIillard
Fillmore, who received the votes of
about. one State, Maryland. The sup
porters of Fillmore were not discour-
aged by this check, for in 1860 we find
them sustaining Bell and Everett, who
could not get the electoral vote of a
single State, although they had through
out the union several hundred thousand
votes. Fillmore and Bell were eminent
| men and true patriots, but the diver
sion in their favor accomplished moth
ing.
| At the present time we find many
old line wings supporting Greeley, and
| it is probable that many among them,
perhaps without inquiring the reason
| why, adopt Greeley as an old limo wing,
and because his name awakens in their
hearts memories that are still dear.
| Assuredly the whig party was in its
day a grand national power; it was sus-
tanned in this journal by our predeces-
sors and we can speak of it only with
respect. But the whig party has been
dead a long time, and for fifteen years
| Greeley has upheld doctrines quite op-
posite to those of the whig party. The
adhesion of a few old line wings to
| Greeley is without preteXt or reason.
The candidacy of Greeley, without the
support Of democrats, would have no
more chance than that of Fillmore had
| in 1856, or that of Bell in 1860. 1t is
we'll to dissipate the honest and honor
able predictions Of some Of our fellow
citizens in favor Of traditions now OK
tinct.
In 1868 Grant had 3,O13,1SS votes,
and Seymour 2,7O3,6O0, a republican
majority Of 300, ,5Se. In calculating our
chances these figures should be remcm-
bered. The memories of the war were
| that the triumph of the republican c;an-
didatc was due only to the prestige
which attached to the name of the
commander-in-chief of the Northern
armies and the conqueror of Richmond.
But Grant has lost Il great part of his
popularity at the North. The demo-
cratic congressional representation then
numbered twenty or thirty members
and now numbers a hundred. The
democrats have lost no strength since
1868, but they have gained steadily
from year to year. On the other hand
the radical party is divided and VIC
have good reason to believe that the
majority of 3O9, 900 for Grant no longer
| exists. '-'.
| We cannot with precision estimate
the strength of tho clement which has
separated from the administration, but
if itnurnbers half 4 million votes even
this number gives to the scccdcrs no
right to impose their candidates upon
the democratic party. In an alliance
tho weak do not dictate terms to the
strong. 1t is ut least unsafe for the
Southern conservatives to g i've in their
adhesion to Greeley before knowing
What the Baltimore convention shall
resolve upon. For success our party
needs the cordial cooperation of all its
members and it cannot afford to be di-
vided. We ask our too hasty friends
to remember and profit by the honest
but pernicious blundcrs Of 1856 and
1860, in the hope that the "Sober second
thought will lead them to union and
through union to an assured triumph.
| ". %. Bee.