The New York herald., 1876-12-14
Advice 10 Democra ts-Dont Seuttie
Your Own Ship!


which make its columns SO racy, it has moro
resolute earnestness than the solemn jour-
nails which look upon the owl as the bird Of
wisdom. The Suns jauntiness and talent
for pleasantly only irradiate its surface,
beneath which there is a downright persis-
tency of vehement purpose seldom equalled
and perhaps never surpassed The vigor-
Gus service rendered by that journal to the
democratic party throughout the Presiden-
tial canvass gives it a strong claim on demo-
cratic attention in this crisis. We rejoice to
see this influence exerted for wise ends.
The Suns emphatic leading article yester-
day deserves to be thoughtfully weighed by
all democrats. 1t ought to be copied and
commended by every democratic paper in
the United States. We advise the whole
press of that party to reprint it. as we do
this morning, and exhort their readers topass
it around among their democratic neighbors
with the same urgency that they exhort
their readers, on the eve Of IN election. to
bring their neighbors to the polls. We are
glad that this wise advice appears in the
SIN, because that journal stands so high in
democratic confidence that good counsel
from it is more likely to be needed than
from any other source.
The danger which the Sun sees and dep
recates and warns the democratic party
against is not unreal. If the party can be
goaded and provoked into violence the
republican schemers will have plain sailing.
1t is as much for the interest of
the republicans now as it was in
the spring of 1861 to have their opponents
commit some signal blunder. From the
moment that the popular heart was fired by
the assault on Fort Sumter the fortune OF
the republican party was made for long,
long period. 1t would be political lunacy
Cor the democrats to give their opponents a
similar advantage now. 1t would be down
right insanity to give them pretext for rak
ing open smouldering fires and appeal
ing to the country to put down new
rebellion. We have persistently eau,
toned the democratic party against
SO fatal step, and we are too glad
to be reinforced by the wholesome warning
and powerful aid of the Sun, whose unfinch-
ing friendship and zeal the party cannot dis
trust 1T is for the interest of the republi-
can party" says the Sum- ''and ofthe conspir-
ators who now control it that the progress
and the final contamination Of the plot to
make President by fraud and force should
be violently resisted. They desire that the
just passions of the people should be excited
to the point of actual sedition in order that
they may seize the opportunity to proclaim
new war, to raise new armies, to subjugate
q new rebellion, to hide their own crimes
with new bloodshed and ruin, and to gain
new and long lease of power for them
selves" We indorse this timely caution.
Why should democrats cut club for their
enemies, to be welded with mighty effect
in giving themselves cudgelling? The
Sun wisely advises that, come what will,
'there should be no outbreak, no act of
violence, no attempt at forcible resistance
to the conspiracy and the usurpation, no
opportunity for bloodshed and for armies.
The democratic party never had sounder
advice offered to it than this, nor advice
from more disinterested and friendly
source. Woe betide the party if it fails to
listen to i'll
We are sorry that some other democratic
organs, less clear-sighted and sagacious,
think they can promote the interests of
their party by incendiary appeals to its pas
sions. There is no way out of this danger
GUS complication without the cooperation
of moderate, fair-minded republicans.
Patriotic republicans are not only re-
PEELED by angry democratic vapor-
ing, but their influence in their own
party would be destroyed if they should
be reduced. to the alternative of justi-
flying revolutionary violence or compro-
missing their ideas Of fair play. If re-
publicans of position and influence cannot
demonstrate against fraud without becoming
abettors of rebellion they will prefer the
peace of the country as the paramount
interest But if they can be satisfied that
peace is insured in any event their candor
and sense of justice may restrain them from
giving any support to fraudulent claims.
What indescribable folly it is for democratic
journals to invent and circulate wild
canards, which can only disgust repub-
licans, whose support they need! We
refrain from naming particular offenders,
because we are willing to think them rather
thoughtless than ill-intentioned. 1t always
gives us hearty pleasure to commend our
contemporaries, and we considerably give
a locus po,nitentin to such as unwafily fall
into errors. We deem it great error to
give currency to baseless incendiary ca
nards in such crisis as the present
That kind Of tactics is hardly excus-
able in the heat of an exciting elec-
tion. It is suicidal folly when the
decision has passed out Of the hands
of squad of ignorant voters and de-
pends on the. action of intelligent, inde-
pendent men in the federal Senate. If the