National Republican., 1882-12-01

Ihe country reposes in tranquility.
The millennium is at hand. That great
moral reform association known as the
Northern Democracy is ready to furnish
good governmental Nation, State, county,
and city on the best terms it can get. 1t
points with pride to its past record and
defies any critic to show that after 1874
it ever wavered in its support of slavery
or secession; that after 1856 il ever ac-
quiesced in the result of Presidential
election that it ever exhibited any such
sectional weakness as to sustain the
Union during the civil war, or that it has
ever slept upon its grand purpose of re-
venge for the usurpations of the Lincoln
government during the interregnum be-
tween Lincoln's Inauguration and his
death. 1t claims the confidence of the
people for the following, among other
reasons: 1t has not for forty years
yielded obedience to any laws il did not
enact. 1t has repented of and atoned for
the ofenses against States rights, as I'M
derstood by Calhoun, committed by Gen
eral jackson and his successor, Van
Buren,, and has wholly extirpated from
its system the virus of patriotism with
which the "Old Hero" 80 called, had
at one time inoculated it. 1t fought for
the rights of the slave States which
wanted to secede, and opposed the rights
OF the slave States and free States which
wanted to not secede. 1t opposed CO.
ercion" in 1861 by any but the Confed-
crate army, and wisely shouted in favor
of such of "Lincoln's hirelings" as
could be bamboozled into voting the
Democratic ticket at elections in the
Army held under State laws it had vain
ly endeavored to defeat. 1t favored ga
more vigorous prosecution" of what
1t considered "an unholy war;" and
operated network of reasonable
conspiracies in Northern States at the
risk of its leaders necks, while per-
spring with campaign work for the
peaceful General who was its candidate
in 1864, when it bore aloft its banner of
an armistice and cessation of hostili-
ties, with n view to giving the Confed-
eracy time to get what is known in sport
ing circles as its second wind" While
it failed in its purpose of delivering the
nation over to destruction, it has shown
its good faith in that direction by using
its best endeavors ever since the sur
render of Lee to prevent the vanquished
from accepting the result of the conflict.
1t has kept the whole South in the atti-
tude Of a foreign nation in the hope of Sc
curing mercenary recruits enough in the
North to insure return of the old policy
under which the Northern Democrats
took the corn of office and gave their
Southern brethren the husks of consti-
tutional distractions. 1t has stoutly and
unanimously opposed the passage of
every law on the statute book and the
adoption of every amendment to the
Constitution relating to the negro ques-
ton or the Union question, and has done
everything in its power to obstruct their
execution and operation since it failed
to defeat them. 1t is for white mans
government, unless the negroes will
turn Democrats, and it is opposed to
white suffrage for Republicans. 1t claims,
in short, to represent all that has been
condemned by the people for twenty
years.
The Democratic managers beg leave to
announce, however, that they are per-
mitted by the elements of which they are
composed to add to the commodities in
which they have dealt during the last
forty years complete assortment of re-
forms. The department of overturned
bosses will be under the special care of
Boss Kelly, whose neat jobs of the nomi-
nations and election of Cleveland as gov
ernor of New York and Edison as mayor
of New York city are considered models
in their way. The machine dislocaters
will be skillfully manipulated by the
sachems of Tammany Hall, and
Henry Genet will purify the party
of all jobbery and corruption.
The appearances will be such as to
meet the requirements of the honest and
the patriotic, while the realities will ex-
ceed the most extravagant desires of the
wicked. The organs of the party will
continue to be in the hands of pretended
Republicans, this being the surest way of
securing votes through widely dissent
mated misinformation. All depravity
will be kept out of sight, and it shall be
the aim of the regenerated Democracy to
realize the universal desire for all the
pleasures of vice with all the rewards of
virtue. For further particulars inquire
of the Washington Post, inclosing a one
cent stamp.