Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-23

A Grand Democratic mass meeting was
held in New York city Thursday night
20 ratiiy the nominations for State Off
GERS. Congressman PATRICK A. Cor
slNs. Of Boston, was the orator OF the
evening. lie began his speech as fol-
lows:
"Durinc n truce in ono of the great
i1uroueen wars Ia the early part OF TINS
rcutarv three crowned rulers met ut
.Til>it. IN Prussia. They rode along the
lines OF the victorious French army TIL
Napolcon's eve was arrested by the sight
NJ q giant veteran IN the ranks whose
FACE had been slasLcd diaPOnally by a
mighty sabre-strokc that left him hidtous
but noble. Brother, sad he TO the
Czar of hussia, what do you thlnk OF
toldiers who can bear such wounds
what DO yOu think of soldiers who can
give them q? said the Gar. Napoleon
did not answer. but the soldier did.
Memories that led him back through oil
Che battles of his chief from friedland
g. the Bridge Of Lodi made him mutter,
sIhc7 arr sll dead. all dead.
$50 the Old Democratic party, cut
md slsahol in many battle, beaten but
never Mblued, defeated but never dls-
conrarol. can look back through the cen
turv marking the rise and fall OF all po-
htical organizations that rose and grew
pud frouted it-telerahsts and Wings
md know-Nothlngs and say They are
all dead. " Applause.
We turn that illustration over to the
Democratic orators in Virginia. 1t IS an
illustration which Cts only tho Demo
rratc party. Nothing else than its i'm
perislable principles has enabled the
party to survive under the unfavorable
circumstances which have surrounded it
for the last thirty years.
The Democratic party rs now consti-
futei Is founded upon the doctrine TINT
the Federal Union IS an indissoluble
union Of indestructible States. General
JAcEsoS believed in and practiced that
doctrine though it had not then been
formulated. Before the war between the
States occurred the southern States held
20 the doctrine that the States had the
richt to sccede from the Union but We
believe that the DoUGLAs Democrats.
North and South. even then held TO the
doctrine as first above quoted from
Ilr. ChiefJustice CHASE. Anyhow
The results of the war settled it that
Where could lie no such thing as peacea-
Ole secession. If there could be no
peaceabie secession there could be no Sc
eessiou seeing that no State was strong
enough itself to force its way out Of the
Union. Hence tho conclusion was una
Noidablo that the Union was indissolu-
bic. But it would not DO to promulgate
that doctrine without the qualifying
doctrine that the States composing that
Union must also be indestructlble, or
else the Federal Government would soon
become consolidated central despotism.
The Republican party stands for the
first half Of this formula. it firmly be-
lieyes in an indissoluble union; but it
does not believe in indestructible States.
but the people believe in the principle
rs q whole. Hence they rally to the
support OF the Democratic party under
the most adverse circumstances All
the parties that ever opposed the Domo-
cratic party are dead except the Repub-
lican party. This party IS making its
last fight. 1t is fighting, however,
ngainst Fate, if We may so express our
belief that it is fighting against an in
Vincible candidate for President.