West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-04-28
THE FUTURE OF PARTIES.
[ LMcmphis Appeal I

lWcmphts Appeal !
We have repeatedly shown that two
great political parties will always exist
in this country, as they have existed in
England, and that they are essential to
that "visilance which is the price of lib
erty' and Il pure administration of the
government. Because Hayes has des-
t;oyed the Republican party and promis-
es to carry out the policy of the Demo-
Gratis in rescuiug the Southern States
from military bondage, the chronic haters
| of the Democracy flatter themselves into
the belief that Democracy has finished
its mission and will pass away like the
silkworm, which, after spinning it's task,
lays it's eggs and dies. But these men
will learn to their SORROW that the great
Democratic party, which they hate with
that unappeasable hate that induced
Hannibal to swear eternal hostility to
Rome, will never perish. Dissatisfied
politicians can no more destroy parties
than they can suppress the seasons. This
is Gel tainly so of the Democratic party.
The final settlement of negro suffrage,
reconstruction and the withdrawal of
troops in State affairs, and all the ques-
tions growing out of the civil war, will
cndanger the existence of the Republican
party, which was brought into existence
by these issues. But they will not affect
the perpetuity of the Democratic organ
ization, wlich has, and always will en-
tertained certain abstract ideas, which
have taken deep hold upon the hearts of
the people. The vitality and recupera-
tive powers of the DSlnOcratic OrganiZa-
ton has been marvellous. For eighty
years it has lived through defeat and has
never broke down in adveIsity. By
change of tactics which embraces the
Democratic policy that trumphed in the
last Presidential election, Hayes hopes to
keep atloat the p;ratical craft which he
commands, but we tell him and his pur-
chased tools that the Democratic party is
erishable-strOnger than it was on the
seventh of November last, when it
achieved Il brilliant aud unprecedented
victory over Radicalism, backed by all
the machinery and cOrrdpt patronage
literally bestowed by corrupt admins
tration. Henry Clay, with all his seduc-
tive eloquence, could not win the people
from the Democratic faith. The para
phanalia of military ec,at blazed up in
the election of Harrison and Taylor; but
the people returned to their normal posi-
ton in the Democratic ranks. If patri-
OTIS, statesmen, and intellectual giants
like Clay and Webster could not destroy
the Democratic party, it is an absurdity
to suppose that a pigmy like Ruthford B.
Hayes, who holds the Presidency by
gigantic fraud, will succeed in battering
down the bulwarSs of the National DEM
ocraoy by appointing a couple Of rene
gades to office, and by doing what the
Democrats have demanded for ten years
the removal of the bayonets from the
throats of the southern people. Because
Hayes has planted himself on the policy
of the Democrats, we do not see why that
should destroy the Democratic party
that has clnug, with untaltering tenacity,
to the doctrine of home-rule, while Hayes
and his party We're ruling with bayonets,
and supporting usurped power. 1t would
certainly be paradox for the Democrat
ic party, that has forced all that has been
achieved in SOECh Carolina aud Louisi-
aua, to abandon its own organization so
soon us q fraudulent President renoupces
the policy of his party, aud accepts that
of the Democrats. None but fools can
suppose that the Democrats, who have
for years coutended against military rule
over the State governments, Will yield up
their organization which won tho great
victory in November. Instead of dis
banding, it will be made stronger and
more worthy of trust. The Democratic
party must stand by its organization, and
secure further concessions and guarantees
from the man who heretofore opposed the
Democrats for advocating what he now
promises to do. The Democrats, espe-
cially those of the South, will not be so
unwise as to scuttle the Democratic ship
before they get safely to shore; nor can
we see what they can accomplish by 60
ing from the majority to the minority
party. The plan of 'jning' the Republic
cans to control them, is only made by the
mercenary office-seeker.
go. The 'amiably stubbon' occu~
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