West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-04-21
DEMOCRACY'S LAST PERIL.
Philad elphia Times.

hOW, aiteF losing a L TFeSiOent tHey
had elected, the Democrats are
threatened with calamity more
dire than the loss of Presidents.
They can stand the loss of custom
houses and post Offices and revenue
places, and the other crumbs which
scatter about promiScuous|y from
the table of power, and they can
stand being cheated out of States
without losing their self-respect or
the respect Of the country, but
when the carpet-bagger and the
Republican destructionist come to
the Democratic camp with gifts, it is
worse than the wooden horse Of
Troy and means hopeless disaster.
And this crowning misfortune il
now casting its baleful shadow
over the Democratic party in Con~
gress, and unless it shall he driven
from its purpose it will fasten its
deadly pollution upon the Demo-
cracy and leave it to go down with
the adventurer and the revolution
ist into common grave.
The ballot thief and the plunder.
er Of the South and the reckless
placemen of the North who have
brought ineffacoable reproach upon
the Republican name, are now con-
sidering the expediency of organ
izing against the administration Of
President Hayes and joining the
Democrats to make both branches
of Congress antagonistic to the
President. Contrary to all carpet
bag calculations, President Hayes
is disposed to deal justly with South
ern States and people; and for the
crime of honesty and fidelity to the
whole country it is proposed that
the few lingering carpet-baggers
and their few apologists shall tum-
BILE into the arms of the Democracy.
to punish the President for daring
10 be just. Patterson is ready and
fervent in the work; Spencer will
hasten to the new camp and Dorsey
and Conover look longingly in the
same direction, while the utterances
of Blaine and the teachings Of Nor
ton 9nd Cameron seem to invite
the rebellion that now flashes its
threats into the !ace Of Hayes.
The Republicans and the admin
istration can well afford to lose
these camp~foj!owers, but who can
afford to receive them into fellow
ship ? When Patterson shall knock
at the Democratic door, pale with
haunting dreams of justice, and
beg to hang up his lean carpet-bag
in the Democratic temple; and
whn Spencer skal come with noth~
ing left but the shadows OF his
wasted booty, and ask for seat at
the Democratic table and when
Chamberlain and Corbin and
Packard and Pitkin and Wells
shall come branded with dismissal
from the last places where they
piled their vocations-when these
come to mingle with the Democratic
fold bringing the battle-cry that
The President must be punished for
his obedience 10 law and Justice.
can the Democracy accept the load
and look with hope to the future !?
Alas the Democracy need few
Senator'S badly enough, but every
such addition to its Senatorial ranks
| would cost it double or treble in
deserters from it's best men, and
the more the carpet baggers retreat
from .he administration, the strong-
er the President will he in both
branche> of Congress. The Deui-
ocracy has stood many sore disas,
,ers, but vigorous as it is left by its
popular triumph with Tiiden, it
| would withcr into utter impotence
did it open its arms to the fester-
inc tumors slashed off from Repub-
lcanisln by the integrity ofa Re
| ,nhlicon President.