Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-04-20

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siou 10 esnmshl. lh nm Article designed
10 prepare ind smoolh Tho WY 10 WI aIop
lion u the passive Pulley nal 9 support 81
the liberal republican anadhlaies for lhe
Presidency md Vice Presidency, made
use Of the following lnnguogc, which We
see quoted cSnIl ngly by The radical llous.
on unioni
"lhe Democratic party lost lis power
through ils ioriupiions The last -four
yeats " our nscen'lency ~ Washington
were years OF wnnion solicitation aud
wicked folly. TIE result Nns the revolt OF
tho mo'al against the material nature n
ionlhnsiioni divisioni iuin and civil
war;
There is NO truth In this statement, and
no honest oil democrat ever wrots II. But
lhe Couricr.Jonrnal dpts not profess to- he
democratic ogau and ils late rtlerau.
ccs show that It is not III TO give advise to
the democratic party, or dictate iis action,
That noble old party, founded by Thomas
Jefferson and his conpcers Of the Revolu.
lion, never "losi It's power through its cor
ruplions," but the general corruption OF
the country, which enabled is opponents
by the agitation of the slavery question
in the teeth of the Constitution and sol
cnn compact of Union, they had sworn to
support, TO rrvolutionize the government
aud raise themselves to power. This is
the plain truth, and all intelligent men
know it, and all honest ones should admit
it. "The last four years Of den ocratic as
csndency at Washington were not years
Of wanton, self citation and wicked folly
but exhibited as much honesty and ability
us distinguished other periods of demo.
cratic rule, and were marked by rigid
adherence to democratic principles and a
vain struggle to uphold the Constitution
and laws in accordance Herewith.
We know II has become common to
abuse President Buchanan and his cabi-
the terrible civil war and misfortuncs that
followed them, but there never was any
thing more unfounded and urjust. Old
Buck. was an able, honest statesman, who
loved his country, his whole country, and
labored 10 preserve its institutions as es-
tablished by the fathers. His first cab.
net were men of first rate ability and ex-
perience, and no charges Of corruption,
snch as can bc,abuni.nlly proven upon
their successors, of the radical stamp, can
be sustained against them. The assertion
of the Courier Journal is y SANDER which
should never have appeared in the col
umns OF. newspaper, protesting TO be
democratic, and we think the leading edi.
tor of the Courier Journal must have been
absent from his post, when it appeared.
Anyhow, who ever made it ought to have
known better. The cause of the disafTect-
ed republicans--w will not call them lib
eral, for they are evincing little liberali-
~ cannot be advanced by these rude as
saults upon the democracy and the former
democratic rule of the country This once
favored land owes al its glory AMI pros
perity to the democratic party and its long
nscendency. All that there is good or
conmendable in the platform of the Mis-.
rour boilers is taken from the democratic
platforms of former years, and has been
for by democrats all their lives
and the lives of their fathers before them
And yet these men are demanding the dis
solution Of the great democratic party, for
heir own personal benefit, and are do
ing il on The ground tlint the democratic
party has become utterly corrupt and is
40 longer TO be trusted. What are then. |
md what have they done that they should |
,e tIUstedP They aided in all the mad
,fforts, in violation OF the Constitution,
which brought on the disruption of the
Union and the civil war of brothers, and
low, when they begin to find the stua.
ion uncomfortable, alarming, and almos.
past endurance, they take up democratic
principles, and call upon the faithful de
no,racy to discard their own name and
'ariy, and to support them, as the only
mes left, honest enough to take care OF
nd carry out those principles. While they
''orify themselves, they are continually
busing the old honest democracy. This
$ bad enough-but now comes a profess
ing democratic paper to aid them, and
DIN in the cry of democratic corruption
hut upon such democratic papers every
'herc. They are curse to the party.