The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-06

wood Constitution" They made them
vote for a carpet-bagger and Yankee as
Governor. They made them drop their
much reyered name of Democrats, and ac-
cept that Of True Republicans" They
made them commit all this wanton profit
gacy, for the sake of success in so much
that at the elcctionof July 1860, they could
reverse the declaration of Francis of France,
and say, "All is won but honor" Moth
ing is lost but honor.u
Indeed the latter is the maxim of the.
Wings who now are managers of the old
Democratic party $50 that we succeed
in our endeavors, we may throw honor and
principle to the dogsp 5#fi35S FEa
But the last depth of degradation was
not reached until now. Officiating is a
hard task to perform, however choice the
material may be. The old Democrats
were never called upon to eat dirt of the
filthiest sort until now. The Wings seem
to have studied this time to put upon their
Democratic associates the most disgusting
task ever before imposed upon q once noble
party. They search the United States for
the most obnoxious character in all their
limits for a candidate; and they now re-
quire the Democrats to rally with torch-'
lights and banners, and all due expressions
of alteration to the support Of their life
time reviler and defamer-Horace Greeley.
The ignominy is submitted to. Next
week will herald Horace Greeley as the
candidate of the Democracy of Virginia and
the Union. The Democratic Convention
which will secure this action will not be
Democrats Of the old type, but Wings in
Democratic garb and of Democratic pro-
LESSONS. 1t will be another instance of
the brazen prostitution Of all honorable
considerations to the single end of success.
The game which has been practiced upon
the Democracy, has been a very artful one.
By preconcerted general understanding, all
over the country, it has been determined
to take such action as to induce the belief,
that the people of the United States are in a
great state of enthusiasm for the election
o fsuch a cold old toad as Horace Greeley.
The idea is the most preposterous II con-
ceivable. Grceley's name sends a chill to
the popular heart. So far from warming up
the populace, 1t gives them an ague. Yet
the tricks Of editors and the machinery of
the press, has been employed to impress
the credulous old Democrats with the idea
that Greeley can surely be elected. They
are placed in the dilemma, Of having to join
their heretofore political associates in elect
ing an old enemy, turned friend or to join
the Republican party which they have been
fighting for a dozen years, in electing its
candidate. .ig.af
The game has succeeded. The Democrats
have been made to believe the iudustriously
invented lie. They will go for their old
and worst enemy, Mr.. Greeley, in the be-
lief that by doing SO they will at least have
the consolation of success, in abandoning
their principles, and even their name itself.
They will take an alias. They will pass
themselves off in the canvass as liberal
Republicans and no longer Democrats. t
And it will be the last Of the once great
and grand old Democratic party. They
will have abandoned their organization.
They will have forsworn their principles.
They will have cast off their name itself.
AS a party they will be dead, dead, dead.
On its tomb may be written that it died of
the disease most fatal to political parties
in this county, that at died Gf apos-
tacy." ""