Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-08-17
JOHN N. COCHLAN.
THE POLITICAL MILLENNIUM.

II we are to believe the cacking and
growing of the Dolly Warden journals to
indicate anything near the truth, the un-
ion Of the happy family is complete
The lion and the lamb have lain down
together, and, as if TO complete the SINH
le that little child shall lead them, they
have appealed to the poor old Sage Of
Chappaqua, (who is in his second child
hood,) by appealing to his crazy ambi-
ton, to pilot them to that city Of glory
where there there will be Offices for all
Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Banks and
Greeley, whose very names have been a
stencil in Democratic nostris for the last
twenty years, are now eulogized in full
some language by the tme-serving DEM
ocIatic press, but it is noticeable fact
that these newborn idols of Democracy
claim that they are still Republicans,
that they have in no wise departed
from Republican principles, and that
they, the great and good Sumner. Schurz,
Trumbull, Banks and Greeley are, with
their motley array of followers, the only
ones qualified to to restore to the Govern
ment that pristine purity which distin-
guished the first few years of Repub-
lican rule. On the other hand. the Tifb-
ane, and other journals which were for
merly Republican but now range with
the hybrid organization, are very choice
and tender in their language whenever
they have occasion to speak of any OF
those who have Of late years been identi-
fed with the Democratic party, and hold
up their hands in holy horror at the fact
that those amable gentlemen known as
the kuklux are still prohibited from car
rying out their pleasant little schemes ol
murder and robbery. And very good
reason there is for it too-it is only by the
assistance of these gentlemanly Kuklux
and their sympathizers that there is the
slightest prospect of Liberal success"
Now in this happy family reunion, it
is somewhat difficult to see exactly where
the Democrat ends and the Liberal Re-
publican begins. Each wing of this mon
grel organization claims to be the pure
champions of reform, and each claims
that its principles have been adopted by
the other. Semmes, Coffroth and their
Democratic followers claim that Greeley
and the Liberals have came over to the
Democrats, and on the other hand, Gree
10y and his following claim to have cap
tured the Democrats. 1t is decidedly
interesting muddle when taken all round =,
and has tendency to make everything
appear clear as mud to outside parties.-
1t is fair parallel to the old story of the
Kilkenny, cats, re-enacted for the benefit
ofan Amer can audience the program q
slightly changed, SO that instead of fight,
ing each other until nothing is left but
the tip of each cats tail, these new per.
formers have swallowed each other until
the point of union is imperceptible. Hor-
ace swallows Tweed, the Tammany Ring
with its gigantic frauds, the Kuklux,
with their deeds Of midnight crime, free
trade, (if called upon to do SOL in direct
opposition to the lifelong principles he
has advocated, and all, be it understood
in the interest Of reform. And we feal
that in addition 10 these, there is a secret
understanding which points to the con
summation OF measures in the event o
his election, to which the people OF the
United States will never submit. The
assumption of the rebel debt, the pension.
ing OF men who fought to destroy their
country, and the payment of hundreds OF
millions for the slave property which was
made free by the fortunes of war. arc
darkly hnted at as the temptation which
brought the rebel Democracy of the
South SO readily to the support Of the
Liberal party and its nominees. Their,
certainly must be cogent reasons for ,
great party to abandon its organiza
ton and principles, and permit itself to b,
merged in nm offshoot of its lifelong op
ponents. And when we reflect what th
past course of Democracy has been-tha
during the years of its power its who'll
aim, and end, and object, seemed to b.
the extension and perpetuation of human
slavery, that to this end all other consid
eratlons were but secondary, and tha
since slavery has been abolished the sam,
party, true to its instincts has uniformly
ranged Itself on the side of the late slave.
master and against those who were slaves.
1t gives color to the belief that Horace
Greeley is man whom the Democratic
leaders can trust to further their las vet
unspoken) designs. And now comes thi,
Democratic party declaring it has nc
principles Of its own, accepts the plat
form of its opponents, and endorses a,