The daily gazette., 1874-11-18
From Tie Louisville coswisr-Joussl.)
Tho Dcssseer0stc Pogicsa.

Dusylng themselves with the onanufac.
ture Of o policy for the Democratic
party 1T IS TO be, Of course, governed
ana controlled, a. it used to be governed
times. by the rebels and traitors Of the
South. This is an essential point 4 With I'LL
the Radicals. 1t enables them. with
what they think show of plausibility,
te propagate o Gonceit most likely to ex.
cite the prejudices Of the North, and
also to serve as q foundation for the
theory that Jefferson Davis is to be
elected President Of the United States
that the national debt is to be repudiat.
cd and the Confederate debt Assumed
that the emancipated slaves are to be
paid for out of the National Treasury |:
that the enfranchised freedmen are TO
1e remanded to Q. condition Of quasi
slavery, and, in short, that the tide in
tne fotomac is to be Suspended, whilst
grandpa Allen and Uncle Sam Tilden
ana a COUSIN Tom Bayard set the river on
nre. The rule Of probabilities counts
for nothing with the press which has
defended Kellogg and excused Moses.
The organic law of the land obstructs
their theories as little as it has obstruct-
ed the practices of their betters. The
lesson of their prosperity is can't, and,
falllnng to see that the night of smug-
faced hypocrisy is on the wane, and that
the day-chinks Of the dawn, of a genuine
manllness and an honest love of country
are streaking the political horizon, they
fall back upon the old tricks by which
for ten years they have bamboozled and
noneyfuggied the many good people who
fought and won the fight for the Union.
A word from the South may not be out
OF season. The South asks nothing but
hA Il
liberty enjoyed by the North to mind its
South who made and lost the fight for
the Confederacy are either old men, no
longer in anybody's way, or else they
sleep the sleep that knows no waking.
The young men Of the South, the rank
and file Of the Confederacy, have as clear
q title to the land they till and the air
they breathe as the rank and file of the
Union, and they ask to be given an equal
title in the Government, to whose SUP.
port they contribute their proper share.
The South knows very well that, since
the day of the Toombses, the Slidelis,
the nayises, the Yanceys, the Wigfalls,
and the Rhetts, new sectional power
has arisen, the great Northwest, from
which the country must expect and from
whence the tn Democratic party will get its
FOAANJ' AhO oootls ttS ~ s6CtlCual power.
can arouse no reasonable apprehension.
1t is no longer North and South; it is
East and West. The South is but de-
partment of the West.
In its own time the Democratic partv
will develop its policy. 1t will certainiy
not look to the Republican press even
for hints, though the Republican press.
II 1T really desired information, might
read the recent speeches of Mr.. Tildeu
and MI Aayard and Judge Thurman with
prott. The policy Of the of the Demo-
| cratic party, we may safely premise. will
not bo revolutionary or sensational.
There will be no effort to turn the Miss.
issippi up stream or to lock and dam Nj.
agara. There will be no prescription of
any class, black or white, There will be
no geographical Determinations. The
spirit OF the party is national, its pur-
pose1the sentimental as well as the ma
ter1al--the unification of the Union, and
Its methods will be simple, constitutional
and humane. 1t will fly the old star
spangied banner as symbol of universal
| protection and peace, not as O theatrical
drop-curtain to cover up iniouity and eI.
ouse oppression. 1t will see that the laws
are enforced and that officials are honest.
1t Will cleanse the Federal stable, leaving
each OF the States to put its stall in order.
In word, 1t has prevailed as party of
reform, not as party of revolution, and
it will be true to its mission. Its acces.
sion to power must in the nature OF
things be gradual, and there is no dan.
ger OF its losing its head as it moves up
to the front. To be sure 1t can no more
nope to be exempt from its fools than
the Republican party, but as long as il
IS not outnumbered by its knaves, it can
trust itself and be trusted by the people
The wiser Republican press, journals
hke the Chicago Tribune, under Medill
ana the Cincinnati Gazette, under Rich.
ard smith, set an example to such igno.
rant servitors as the organs we have
named--an example which ought to be-
felt. But lessor are wasted on such
cattle. Nay, the better tho lessons the
greater the waste.
IL Is not quite certain that Grant, as a
factor in the Republican party, is dead
cock in the pit The tt ird term danger
is voided, as far as the country is con.
cerned, but il is not yet withdrawn from
the Republican party. There are eviden,
ces that 1t is still cherished by the Presi.
dents household partisans, and what
may we not expect of the man who tried
to Juggle Santo Domingo into the Union
VINO appointed forle Secretary of the
l 10y, Wnp Aohleo w lllltbilS ana Cushing
for Chief Justice Of the United States
and who has stuck to the District rinp
Just like the paper ON the wallY Grants
virtue IS his tenacity. His experience i,
q series OF romantic and extraordinary
surprises.
Why not third term, no more extra
ordinary than the restP His resources 70,
a nomination are the rather increased by
the reduction of his chances of election
the command ofan army of retainers the
possession of the official machine the
corruptibility of the Radical press; the
decentralization among the Radical mass
es; the disgust of decent Republicans
everywhere. Somuch, along with his owr
bulldog pluck and horsey sense, is Gen
Grants stock in trade, and we NAV bf
sure that he Is not going to be restrained
BY any considerations of Contemporary
| delicacy or posthumous repute. Gen
Grant is as stolid to the suggestions Of
mere honor as David in their play
POUNDS, David" says Acres, "thinb
what it would be to disgrace nv ances.
tors; to which David replies, Under IA.
vor, the surest way of not disgracino
them is to keep longest out of their com.
paay," a most matter-o fact. material
Grantlike view of the subject. The theo.
ry OF Grantism is to keep what you have
and to get all you can, and its chief ex.
emplar Is not goinV to be thwarted by
any historic notions as to the propriety
OF the thing. Whenever he fhinks hs