The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-10

halt, hesitate and put his foot IN IT. Absn
Mr. English proved disappointment, and,
declining TO come down with the stamps
made confusion worse confounded IN In
diana.
n. Y. Herald (Ind).l
There will be time enough hereafter TO
discuss the causes Of the overwhelming VIC
tory of the Republicans 1t Is plain, how
ever, that the country does not fancy the
"Solid South" and that it does not admire
the lack of brains and principles for which
the Democratic canvass was chiefly con-
spicuous.
Chicago Times Ind).
There appears to be a general impression
among the wise ones who are most endowed
with the gift of hindsight that the one most
potent cause of it was the Solid South and
the offensive notions in which that solidity
is cemented. This impression probably Is
not erroneous. In its final meaning, this
idea is the absolute nation, written with
an n large enough to obliterate utterly the
old bal contradiction, federal union"
and extinguish every irrational tigment of
reserved" or original rights of States.
\. o. States
When the Democratic party almost in the
very hour in which it had gained a signal
national victory over the enemies Of the the
Constitution, surrendered in the most COW
ardly manner, its vantage ground and as
sented TO the miserable expedient--the Elec
toral Commission--unknOwn to the COnsti-
tuition, to determine whether or not the will
of the people, expressed through the ballot
box, in the choice of a chief Magistrate
should be recognized, and its mission in ma
tional politics terminated. Parties in free
governments have lost legitimate power,
contending for it, and recovered their SUI
premacy. But in our limited reading We
can recall to mind no instance in which any
party ever abandoned victory, power, EN-
| pire at the mere threat of its opponent, and
| again won back the confidence of the people
the cowardice Of its leaders had betrayed.
| In the critical hour, the Democratic leaders
abandoned the Constitution, the party had
struggled to maintain, and became the allies
/ of the Republicans in the devisemant of a
measure, in every respect viOlative ofthe Con
stitution, that they might stink out of the
! responsibility ofmaintainiug the result of the
election in the face of threats of civil war,
and they quietly submitted to see the will
| of the people, Constitutionally declared, null
! lifted and set at naught, through the expedi-
ent to which they had made themselves par
! ties, and 4 usurper inaugurated President
of the United States. From that time the
course of the Democratic party became des-
perate if not hopeless.
THE RING OF THE TRUE METAL.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
But the triumph of yesterday is-not per-
manent. The Democratic principle. the
/ idea which underlies our system of govern
ment, is as lasting as the continent on which
that government dwells The Democratic
party, old as the century, can survive the
defeats of quarter OF the century. 1t has
/ sounded forth the trumpet that shall never
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will live. If the country seems now at the
feet of spirit of Capitalization, of central
lied power that does not differ from the En-
pire, it is in spite of Democratic protest
and the Democratic party, Notwithstanding
this temporary reverse, will falter not from
its lofty spirit will fail not in its final pur-
pose; will continue its splendid march in
the cause of the people against power, in
the cause of Democracy. There is a story oil
a people who were forty years in the wilder
ness. They were engaged in no better cause
than that of Democracy on earth. The
\ Democratic party is one of invincible hope
and it has belief in the doctrine,
Fright forever on the scaffold.
Wrong forever on the throne;
But that scaffold sways the future
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above HIS own
And the Democratic party is forever op
posed to the throne.
Tupelo Journal.
Full returns from all the States may
make the result more favorable to the De
mocracy than now indicated, but even il
they should not, the grand old party of the
people and of constitutional government
will bear itself with that proud dignity
born of a consciousness of right, which has
ever characterized it in the hour of defeat
1t will never entertain the base thought OF
abandoning the cause of the people against
the encroachments upon their rights and
liberties by the Republican party, but will
at once close up its ranks and strengthen its
lines for a still more desperate struggle.
Now is the time tor Democrats to prove theiI
principles by rallying closer to the standard
of their party and helping to bear it up amid
the gloom of defeat.