Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-26
TIE Prospect.

! ment of the result of the election has
passed, the country is beginning to
consider whether this is true, and TO
ponder the chances of relief from the
i Democratic party. 1t has gained
power under the most sweeping
promises. The times are hard, and
the party orators and papers point to
the party as the only hope of the un-
employed laborer. Every poor mans
pot is now to boil over with plenty.
Industry of every kind is to revive.
The musical clink of Astounding gold
and silver is to be heard in the land
Peace and prosperity and profound
regard for equal rights are to descend
upon the troubled South. Justice,
economy, progress, prosperity, and
beneficent reform are all at hand.
But in the midst of this pecan it is re-
| markable that the real feeling is one
OF grave apprehension. This is not
the tone of Republicans only, from
whom it might be expected as parti-
sans, but it is that Of the Democrats
themselves and of their friends, and
it is very significant. If a young
man comes suddenly into a great for
tune, and his friends instantly fall to
imploring him for Heavens sake not
to betake himself to drunkenness,
gambling, aud every kind of de-
bauchery, and if himself piteousIy
prays some charitable fate to save
him from consorting with swine and
living an unclean life, there is but
one explanation, and it is that he and
his friends understand his proclivi-
ties. Certainly no sane man would
make him the guardian of his chill.
dren or tha trustee of his estate.
" Let the Democrats behave them
selves, and the future is secure" says
the Cincinnati Enquirer, the leading
Democratic journal of the West. II
ask YOU" says Senator Gordon, of
Georgia, TO his Democratic constitu-
ents, ito commission me in your
name to pledge upon the floor of the
Senate your fidelity to the Union
under the Constitution" We re-
solve," say the Democrats of Selma,
Alabama, that the rights of all
classes OF men must be respected and
preserved inviolate." 1.-THE party
should lose no time" says the New
York Tribune, ain planting them
selves firmly upon the Baltimore
platform of 1872 in relation to the
rights of the negroes and all the con-
stitutiOnal amendments" " No re-
pudiation and no secession" cries the
New York Herald. These remarks,
of which we cite few illustrations,
show the instructive apprehension Of
Democratic dominance. The party
would not be eXhorted not to favor re-
pudiation and secession, nor to stand
| by the amendments and equal rights,
nor would Senator implOre his con-
stituents to authorize him to say that
they were loyal to the Union, unless
it was known that there was an inn
mense element Of disloyalty, Of con-
tempt Of equal rights, and Of the
spirit reputation in the party. No
paper or orator beseeches RepubIi-
cans to respect the amendments and
the national faith and equal rights
and the constitutional Union-and
for exactly the same reason that
Epissopalians are not eXhorted to
adhere TO the apostOlical succession,
nor the Romanists to be faithful to
the dogma of MISREPRESENTATION.
Those doctrines are cardinal points of
faith with those religious bodies, and
the principles to which the demo.
Gratis are nervouSIy besought by some
of their own body to be true are the
very life-breath of the Republican
party.
But what is the reason Of this in
stinctive and universal distrust OF
the Democratic party, and Of the
stout assertion of the Republicans
who have helped them to success,
that the result is not Democratic
victory, but only Republican de-
feat? Are not Mr.. TiIden and Mr..
Thurman patriotic and honorable
men? it is asked; are they likely to
encourage breach Of national faith,
or wink at disloyalty, or to connive
at injustice? The reply is that Mr..
TiIden and Mr.. Thurman do not re-
present the real leadership of the
Democratic party. Mr.. Tilden has
been expounding Jeffersonian princi-
: Piles for thirty or forty years, and
during that time his party was prac-