Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-01-24
THE SEN Ell.
Address of the California Democracy

The following Address to the California De.
mocracy has the ring OF the true metal, and
we commend il 10 the attention OF the Mary
land Democracy. II is no. necessary. how
ever, to make the Louisville organization the
starling-pont in the work of regeneration
TO TIE DEMOCRACY OF CALIFORNIA
Now that the late Presidential contest is
over and lis results laced squarely before the
people, 1t behooyeS every sincere patriot calm
~ 10 survey the past, and from the follics
ture.
The adoption by the Baltimore Convention
oil me Cincinnati-Repubcan platform, and the
nomination OF the late Horace Greeley as q
Presidential candidate thereon resulted in dis
organizing and scattering without DESTROYING
the elements OF the Democratic party Thtse
divided elements may be classified under four
oluerent heads, namely First, those who
voted for . Conor and Adams second those
who positively refused to vote third, those
VINO, knowing the chances of OConur to be
hopeless, voted for Grant as a less dangerous
enemy TO Democracy than Mr. Greeley and
fourth, those who preferred o. Conor to either
OF the candidates, but yet, in obedience 10 the
dictates OF party, voted for Greeley, while pro-
'N9'iiS 'bti against lDG candidate ana lie
platform on which he stood.
As for the one thousand Democrats Of Cali
nla who stood by the flag in the face of GER
tam defeat, they need no words either of com
ihehua,oh or encouragement at our hand; like
the three brethren of old they have passed
through the prosecuting flames without the
smell OF tire upon their garments Their sole
purpose ana only hope was TO keep their col
orS living, and TO rebuke those iailhless lead
who WOull have frailaj tbosa pniars ieno
mlnIousiy in the dust, Both of those objects
having been accomplished it now only re-
mains to rally all the broken and scattered
cohorts OF Democracy, aud TO cement them
into one great harmonious party, on true De-
mocratlc principles, as a work which the ne
cesSitles OF the times and The salvation of or
country imperatively demand
The defeat Of the fusion ticket at the late
election was an essential step toward effct ting
this reunion. Had the Baltimore an Cihcin-
natl coalition succeeded in It's efforts to unite
the whole Democratic party under Republican
leaders on basis so emphatically anti-Demo-
cratic as are the cnuncaions Of the Cincinnati
platform, and had those leaders gone INFO
power backed up by such u coalition pledged
TO such platform, the true friends Of Democ-
racY might have been filled with dismay. One
such ignominious triumph, purchased at the
cost o! principle, would have formed a prccc-
dent which Democracy would forever after
nSse evg" eAIee'eu 10 IoloW at the dIctatlon
~ m. se.,,s' "'u uusrFupuIouS piace-nuhiers.-
d3us ''te ,'''e o'er" 9e'e't OF the III
S.om,s's 'l''s 'a"snt tne oilha Worshlppers OF
from aa abandonment of principle. That de-
Ie"t nus 'u''"efhoFe demonstrated that II me
De'aocr"cg are ever again 10 ne united, 1t
hiust DC "nen battling Jor and not against
'hf'r pHhciPieS:
i'e' Us see 10 II tnat Inc lessons OF the late
eeeliohS are kept fresh IN the minds OF the
Peope. fof the future, when Democrats are
ASKED 10 ignore or deny their political faith on
tue plliinl plea OF eHpcdiency, let them call to
mlnd inc November Election Of 1872,
Let TIE past however, only he remembered
Tor me wisdom 1t teaches and not for the per-