The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-11-26
Some Things That Have Been Set
tied.

dlStlnctneSs or granite mountains in q
clear atmosphere. ....
/. The Democratic party stands.
like the stormbeaten peak of Mount
Washington rock-rooted in the crust
of the earth and buttressed with etey-
nal hills, still lifting its hoary summit
into tue sky after clouds have hidden
it for many days. The war-clonds
and the political storms which have
obscured the Democracy for long
period could no more annihilate its
principles til an concealing thick
weather could drive away the noun
tains which tower in everlasting gran
depr and whose foundations are as
deep as the world. Democracy is the
permanent creed Of Americans. II lies
at the basis our institutions. a n d
both the name and the principle are
dear, to the hearts of our countrymen.
The fact that it now rises again with
power at time when so many politi-
cal seers had pronounced it extinct.
shows how deeply it is rooted in the
moral consciousness of this great
youthful nation. These elections have
proved that wild darkening storms of
the longest duration wage vain bat
tie against principles so deeply i'm
planted, and that what the people so
constantly and deliberately approved
for the first sixty years Of this century
retains its former hold on their con-
victions. Even its opponents aud It's
late deriders must now concede that
the Democracy will continue to rank
as one of the two great political par
ties of the country. All talk aud all
thought of new opposition party will
be abandoned among practical men of
sound judgement. For the present,
while the Republican party is in power,
Democracy is the master cnrrent into
which all the minor currents of politi-
opposition will flow. We are safe in
asserting that the permanence of the
Democratic party is Que of the things
which the late elections have estab-
lisbed, and that our politics are sim
plified and cropping hesitation relieved
by reducing the choice of voters to an
election between the Democratic party
and the Republican party, as The two
great cOntending forces in American
politics. 1t is Fortunate that this is
made plain so long in advance Of the
next Presidential election. This early
and ireversible decision of question
OF such wide-reaching practical couse-
queDce will save Il great deal of politi-
cal laundering, misdirected effort, and
squaudering of opposition strength
The Democracy will now confidently
say: "lIe that is not with MS is
against us, and he that gathereth not
with "us scattereth abroad.n
2. 1t is decided by the late elections
that the so-called Liberal Republican
party has no longer even "a name to
live" and will not any more be heard
of in our politics. That curious cpl
sode is utterly gone-"like chaf which
ihe wind Griyeth away" But it was
too odd and singular, during the brief
period it lasted, not to retain a few pa
ges III our political history. A melan-
eholy epitaph will be inscribed on it's
tombstone. The only thing which will
be wildly remembered in connection
with it, is tile cruel and fatal delusion
1t practised on an American of very
marked and original character whose
name cannot perish, and whom it sent,
broken hearted, to premature grave.
Inc delnsion it practised upon Ii e
democratic party was not of the same
death-dealng character. The bark has
already closed over the wound and the
ne2tSeason has covered the tree with
new verdure. But Re poor corpse
winch moulders in one Of the beautiful
nils of Greenwood will raror ba roo