The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-13
Democrucy's Black Record.

1.-The advantages of living on are
proved by the condition of the Ameri-
can Democratic party. That party has
erred enough to sink a nation, and it
did come very near sinking this Nation
in 1860, though it claimedto be the only
National party in the United States. In
the civil war that proceeded from its
devotion to slavery it was constantly
showing that it much preferred the dis
solution of the Union, could slavery be
preserved, to the Nations existence,
and slavery abolished. 1t strove to have
the secession conflict in arms extended
to the old free States, and encouraged
foreigners to take part in that conflict,
on the side of the rebels. 1t evoked
Anglo French armed eSertions in favoi
of disupionism; and it is as certain as
most established facts well can be that
nothing but the hostility of the British
abolitionists, headed by the British
Royal amily, to Intervention, prevented
European intervention here, as we saw
it made in Mexico, only that it would
have been made here on a far more ex-
tensive scale. As far down in the civil
war as its last year. French Intervention
was expected by the leading rebels; and
it was announced in Richmond as some
thing sure to take place in a few days,
not fortnight before our troops had en-
| tered the Confederate capital. When,
at length, after more than four years of
war. and the expenditure of thousands
of millions of money, and the pouring
out OF torrents of loyal blood, the
Unions existence was vindicated, the
Democracy did not cease to exhibit
their hostility to the country. They
continued to labor for the benefit OF the
enemy, and would have resto ed them
to National power. They created the
Solid South, and sought to effect by ap-
parently peaceful methods what they
had failed TO accomplish in war. One
would have thought that such frank
displays of hatred to the Union could
not have failed to combine all Union
men against the Democrats: and at
times it did seem as if such combina-
ton must be formed against them.
They were defeated at six. successive
National elections; and they received
very many great defeats in great States.
But as they have persisted in living on,
they are, seemingly, beginning largely
to profit from their strange tenacity of
life. They have just won q series of
splendid victories, at the close of the
twenty-second year since they opened
the reddest O. rebellions. 1t was in
against the Union. at Their real capital,
which was Charleston, South Carolina;
and it is in November, 1882, that they
have told the world, practically, though
not in terms, that in the opinion of
myriads upon myriads of Northern men,
treason, and rebellion, and resistance
unto death to law and the Constitution
! do not disqualify a party or men from
] being placed in positions that would
enable their holders to destroy their
! country, should their power be as potent
as their will is wicked. The Democrats
we have seen seeking the Nations
destruction, and it is not unchar-
liable or unreasonable to believe
and to say that they are no
better in 1882 than they were in
1S6O-and in 1860 they began to take
up arms for reasonable purposes, and
| soon they had a'quarter of a million of
| soldiers under their banners. But those
were Southern men, we may be told.
| So they were-but the Southrons gov
! erned the Democratic PARTY then; and
who govern that party now? The
/ Southrons, again, who are stronger to-
| day than they have been at any time
! since 1860. From disregarding defeat,
from hoping against apparent hope
| from simply living on-the Democrats,
principally Southrons and their North
ern sympa.hizers, have become the
power in the land. for the time; and
were it not that the Republic has a
| Government composed of Republicans,
of true men, and not of rascals, such as
| formed the highest members of
Buchanan's political family, and
Buchanan was as bad as the worst of
the men that were about him. and we'll
! deserved to be hanged-were it not, we
say, that the present Government is
composed entirely of the most loyal of
Republicans, of men who have given
their proofs, what was done in
the last four months of the old
pro-slavery Union might be repeated
in the course of the next fifteen weeks.
| We are not alarmists, but we must say
that we are in greater danger from
Democratic anarchists than france is
from the anarchists of Languedoc and
Lyons. Southern France is hot-bed,
\ possibly, but Southern Frenchmen, if
they are moved at all, will be moved
through suffering. whereas the griev-
ances of our South are all fantastical.
| We should be on our guard, and not
allow men who have showed their DOW
er 70 do evil, to get the upper hand; but
just so sure as the Democratic successes
of this November should be followed
| by similar Democratic successes in No
vember two years hence, Just so sure
shall we sec another attempt to dissolve
| the Union. The South is prudent
enough not to move hostilely, unless
much encouraged thus to move; and it
can get encouragement of the sort de-
sired only from the North. >-BostoI
! Traveller.