The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-07-21

alarm, fearing that il marks the beginning
Of dow fall aud disaster and great many
Democrats are elated for the same reason,
A careinl aud sober view of the situation
however. dispels all feelings OF alarm. The
quarrel in that State is mostly personal
quarrel No great principle is involved.
The great party Of the past twenty years
does not depend upon the support Of any
one man. There are strong reasons which
lead Ms to believe that the party is stronger
to-day than ever before. The following,
taken from Democratic paper the
Chicago Times OF Nov. 7, 1850, gives some
reasons why the Republican party is like
" TO be the party OF the failure:
THE recent Presidential election has
shown that there is an inyincible reason
why the Democratic party can never win
a national victory II is that the youth OF
this republic is not Democratic The sons
of Democratic fathers have grown up Re-
publicans. "
80 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 remembered as long as the
public school system exists. The public
schools have slain the Democratic party
with the text books.
at is vain for statesmen to declare that
there were as many Democrats as Republi-
cans in the union army. 1t is vain to af.
firm that the war for the preservation OF
the Union could not have been carried TO
successful close without the assistance
Of the Democratic party. 1t is idle for
philanthropy to suggest that the attitude
of that party toward the war in the begin
ming was q humane one that it was inspir-
ed by the higher and better wish that tho
cause OF the conflict should he peaceably
removed, aud the spilling of brothers
blood by brothers hands avoided. The
Democratic party has been ideally identi-
fed with slavery and slaveholding. The
Republican party is ideally identified with
emancipation and the war. Therefore is
the youth of the country incapable OF be-
ing Democratic Therefore the Democrat
ic party can never win a national victory.
Its old men are dying away. The boys
who catch the ballots that fall from their
stiifened hands are Republicans
"This fact can not be denied II will
do no good to quarrel with it, All other
causes which have operated to diminish
the number of Democrats and increase the
number of Republicans are insignificant
beside this Que tremendous and invincible
fact. The curse of slavery has poisoned
the blood aud rotted the bone of the Dem.
ocratic party. The malediction OF the
war has palsied its brain.
"The young wife who held the babe up
TO kiss the father as lac hurried 10 the tap
OF his departing regiment has not sucked
a Democrat The weary foot Of the gray
grandmother Who watched tue children
while the wife was busy has not rocked
the cradle OF Democrats The chair that
the soldi, father mover cams back TO fill
has not been climbed upon 10y Democrats.
The old 81 10 Coz, that his comrades gar
ried back was cut up for little jackets.
but not one inclosed the heart of Demo.
crat. The ratified musket that fell from
him with his last shot became the thought.
less tor of his boys; but not q hand that
played with it Was the hand Of a Demo
crat. The babe he kissed crossed and
crowed for his return, and its inviting
and unanswered notes were not from the
throat OF Democrat The tear-soiled
camp letters which the mother read aloud
in the long, bitter evenings, while the boys
clustered at her knees did not fall upon
Democratic ears The girls sobs, blend
ing with the mothers weeping, did not
make Democrats OF their brothers Per
haps the father had been Democrat all
his lifel'
"The children go 10 school. There is
not Democra, on its benches. The first
reader contains the portrait OF Abraham
Lincoln -,hat 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 Democrat In the pranks OF
the playground the name silences the frol-
icsome and makes the iolliest grave. That
name never made Democrat In the
pictures tina. lightup the geography are
the firing on Fort Sumter and the death Of
Ellsworth. Those pictures make no Dem.
ocrais The first page cf history contains
representation Of the surrender Of Lee At
AppomattoI. No boy gazes on tina, and
ever after ayo~s himself Democrat,
In the higher grades the same subtle
and uDresisted influence is 9, work. The
text books contain extracts from patriots
speeches during the war. These speeches
make no Democrats. The great battles
are briefly described; the narrative has no
Democratic listers. The strain Of martial
music runs through the readers. aud that
music makes 40 democrats Sketches %
the great generals are given; their brave
deeds arouse the enthusiasm ~ the lAis.
but there is no democrat among them.
The horrors and sufferinfs Of the slaves