The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-01
THE CRY or THE DESERTED DEMO
CRATIC CHIEFS.

CRATIC CHIEFS.
The recent protests of the Chicago Times
and other prominent papers against the
convention system, remind one of the story
OF the farmer and the lawyer. The farmers
bull had been gorcd by the lawyers OK.
The farmer went to the lawyer, and told
him long story about the matter, only
transposing things and making the lawyer
the agrieved party. lie at once demanded
pay OF the farmer. But mistake saws the
honest husbandman, it was your bull that
gored my OK. Oh indeed, replies the sur
prised lawyer, that is quite another matter,
| must think Of it.
These men have always been the
strictest of disciplinarians. The decision
of the convention has been sacred. They
have been ready to lash with the bitterest
prescription every show Of independent
action. If any man dared to question the
infalibility of the caucus he was denounced
as traitor. Though the party had tramp
led under foot every canon of its early
faith, and become the advocate and expo
nent of every rotten system, every despotic
institution, and every reactionary idea, its
members were not permitted to compare
its principles with its measures, or even
criticise the decisions of its debauched and
diabolical Tammany. a
But now, that human nature, which it
had enslaved but could not wholly deprave,
rises against its oppressor and turns the
instrument of its torture against him. 1t
unlocks the castle door of the sham De-
mocracy and filings it wide open for the en-
| try of its traditional and most hated enemy.
A wall of anguish goes up from the de-
serted leaders Of that truculent and once
obedient host, as they see it enisting under
| hostile banners, and themselves left without
a follower, impaled before the country on
the bad eminencc they have attained, by
years of crime against human liberty and
human progress. And there they will
stand pillowed amid the centuries, those
wicked leaders of the ignorant and mis-
guided masses, q mark for the wrath of
| God ana the Scorn OF men. -4.
1t is vain for them to cry out against the
nomination Of Greeley or the convention
system which will secure it. The Demo-
cratic masses have discovered in this nomi-
nation a way Of escape from the party
which has disgraced and dshonored them !;
which has done its best to degrade the peo-
pie and put back the progress of the
century. r
They hate and despise lhe boilers who
have deceived them to their ruin, and
drenched the country in blood to carry out
the schemes CT their unholy ambition. The
rebellion and all its fearful cost ofblood and
treasure was their work, and more and
more the people are coming to see the
truth. No where is this better under
stood than in the South. The Southern
people of all parties, hate and despise the
leaders ofthe Democratic party North. They
have every reason to cherish this feeling.
These desperate men have made slavery
and questions growing out of it their sole
capital for years. They bought the South
ern vote with favors to slavery, and relied
upon party discipline to hold the North,
protesting any principles necessary to catch
votes. A trusted and distinguished officer
of the Confederate army said to us a few
days since: 81 cannot express the resentful
feelings cherish towards the leaders of the
Democratic partly" and he expressed the
sentiment of that great body of men who
are rushing to the support of Greeley, all
over the South as means of destroying
utterly, that corrupted and besotted party
in the North. s