Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-11-20
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Reach for it evermore.
EXPLAINED.
An Independent Democratis Pope,
Tells why Hancock Was Defeated
and Garfield Elected.
From the Chicago Times, Now.
The recent Presidential election has
shown that their is an invincible reason
why the Democratic party can never wiz
q National victory. 1t is that the youth
of this Republic are not Democrats
The sons of Democratic fathers have
grown up Republicans. So long as slavery
and the war linger within the memory
of Americans, the youth of the Republic
will continue to grow up Republicans
and slavery and the war will be remem-
bered as long as the public school system
exists. The public schools have slain
the Democratic party with the tex books.
1t is vain for statesmen to declare
that there were as many Democrats as
Republicans in the Union army. 1t is
vain to affirm that the war for the pres
eryatiOn of the Union could not have
been carried to successful close with
out the assistance of the Democratic
party. 1t is idle for philanthropy to
suggest that the attitude OF that party
toward the war in the beginning was a
humane one; that it was inspired by
the higher and better wish that the
cause of the conflict should be peaceably
removed, and the spilling OF brothers
blood by brothers hands avoided. The
Democratic party has been Ideally
identified with slavery and slayeholdlng.
The Republican party is ideally ldentl-
nd
Therefore is the youth of the country
incapable OF being Democratic. There
fore the Democratic party can never Wild
National victory. Its old men are dy-
ing away. The boys who catch the bal
lots that fall from their stiffened hands
are Republicans.
This fact can not be denied. 1t will
do no good to quarrel with 1t. All other
causes which have operated TO diminish
the number of Democrats and increase
the number of Republicans are insight
icant beside this one tremendous and
invincible fact. The curse OF slavery
has poisoned the blood and rOtted the
bone of the Democratic party. The
malediction of the war has palsied its
brain.
The young wife who held the babe up
to kiss the father as he hurried to the
tan of his departing regiment, has not
suckIed a Democrat. The weary foot of
the gray grandmother who watched the
children while the wife was busy, has
not rocked the cradle of Democrats. The
chair that the soldier father never came
back to ill, has not been climbed upon
the Democrats. The old blue coat that
his comrades carried back was cut up
for little jackets, but not one Enclosed
the heart of Democrat. The RATED
musket that fell from him with his last
shot. became the thOughtless toy of his
bows; but not hand that played with it
was the hand of Democrat. The babe
he kissed crOwed and crOwed for his re-
turn, and its unwilling and unanswered
notes were not from the throat of a DEM
ocrat. The tear-sOiled camp letters which
the mother read aloud in the long. Bit
ter evenings, while the boys clustered at
her knees, did not fall upon Democratic
ears. The girls sObs. blending with the
mothers weeping, did not make Demo-
Gratis of their brothers. Perhaps the
father had been Democrat all his life!
The children go to school. There is
not Democrat on its benches. The
first reader contains the portrait of Alb
raham LincOln-that kind and sturdy
face never made Democrat. On its
simple pages, in words of one or two
syllables, is told the story of his birth
and death. That story never made a
Democrat. In the FRANKS of the play
ground the name silences the frOlicsOme,
and makes the jolliest grave. That
name never made Democrat. In the
that light up the geography are
the firing on Fort Sumter and the death
of Ellsworth. Those pictures make no
Democrats. The first page of the history
contains a representation of the surrend-
er of Lee at AppOmattOx. No boy gazes
on that and ever after avOws himself a
Democrat.
In the higher grades the same subtle
and unresisted influence is at work.
The textbooks cOntainss extracts from
patriots speeches during the war.
Those speeches make no Democrats.
The great battles are briefly described;
the narrative has no Democratic listen
ers. The strain of martial music runs
through the readers, and that music
makes no Democrats. Sketches OF the
great generals are given; their brave
deeds arouse the enthusiasm of the lads,
but there is no Democrat among them. |
The horrors and sufferings of the slaves |
are told; the maddened blood that mounts
the boys cheeks is not Democratic blood.
The curse of slavery has pursued the
Democratic party. and has bounded it to
its death. Therefore, let it die; and no
lip will be found to say prayer over the
grass on its grave.
The late defeat need not be attributed
to any other cause. Other causes were
at workout they were only incidental.
The tariff was one. SectiOnalism was a
second. Let we'll enough alone" was a
third. The October failure in Indiana
was fourth. But all these were trivial,
and together could not have accomplish
ed the result. The result was accom-
plished because the youth of the Repub-
lie is not Democratic. That party is,
therefore, without future and without
a hope. The maledictiOn of the war has
palsied its brain. The curse of slavery
has poiosned its blood and rOtted its
bone. Let it die.
a YOung POetess who Called ON the
Editor.