Year: 1867

cence on the subject. 1t will also be re-
membered that the Democrat the next
week rather snubbed the author of the
communication and turned the cold shoul-
der upon the talked of convention There
was nothing wonderful or remarkable in
the article, except that it silenccd the
Reeve battery completely, but it appears
that it did not silence the New York Day
Book or Lacrosse Democrat batteries.
Encouraged, however, by the success OF
the shot fired at battery Reeve, it put a
double charge last week into its Columbi
ad and blazed away at them in the follow
ing forcible and elegant style:


The New York Day Book, La Crosse
Democrat and few other ultra radical
Democratic papers, are out strongly in fa-
yor of a National Democratic Convention,
to be held at Louisville, in May next. The
movement originated with Brick Pomerov.
and is intended to drive the Democracy OF
the country into extreme measures of re-
sistance to radicalisn, or to divide and
thus break up the Democratic party. We
are in favor of all lawful means of resist
ance to the unlawful acts of the foul crew
\ calling themselves the Congress of the
United States, but we are utterly opposed
to war at present, rs means of resisting
their usurpations. We believe il would be
worse than useless; that it would destroy
the last vestige of hope for the preServa-
tion OF civil liberty i'll this land, and surely
lead to anarchy, confusion, unSalety of life
and property, and the ultimate overthrow
of all established government in this coun-
try. We are therefore opposed to any and
all such plans for redress Ii we are not
much mistaken the remedy proposed wo'd
be worse than the disease, and not only
/ that. but it would fail to cure. We are not
mistaken we think. in the object of the
/ leaders of the Louisville convention move
ment. they mean to precipitate the country
into another war, unless they can succeed
in engrafting their peculiar views upon the
administrative power OF the government.
Ne warn our readers To have nothing TO
do with the Louisville movement We do
this not because we have the least sympa-
thy with the outrages perpetrated by Con-
gresS they are bad enough in all con-
science. but we firmly believe that now.
more than at any previous period OF our
history, prudence, firmnesS and caution
should characterize the conduct of all who
love their country and desire To see lis
government restored on a constitutional
basis Even if revolution were at this
time iustifiable, there is not the slightest
probability OF its success. The loss of life,
the destruction OF property, the strife. the
desOlatiOns incident to war-all these and
their concomitants would have to be en-
dured, and after all we should be worse off
than before-Should be more firmly in the
grasp of the tyrants than now. What
then have we To gain from armed revolu-
tion2 Nothing, absolutely nothing.


BY reference to "A dispatch from New
York, in another column, it will be seen
that the National Democratic Committee
nave decided not to cal. a National Con-
ventlOn the present year. The movement
of Pomeroy and his associates in calling a
convention to meet at Louisville in Nav is
without authority, and il carried out will
only result in rupture OF the Democratic
party


There, if that don't silence the Pomeroy
and Day Book, and all other 'ultra radi-
cal" batteries, there is no use wasting any
more powder on them. We vote that our
neighbors be presented with pewter
medal large enough to have the whole oi
the foregoing elegant, forcible and patriot
lc eifusion engraved on it, with the first
and following sentence in bold relief, a:
specimens of the purest diction, terseness
and scholarly elegance TO be found any
where:


I'VE believe it would be worse than use
e. 4 al. IL
OF hope for the preservation of civil liber
ty in this land, and surely lead to anarchy
, cOnfusion, unsafefy Of life and property, ant
the ultimate ooerthror Of all established goUern
nent in this country"


Webster defines ANARCHY itself to bC
' want of government, or a state of societ,
when there is no law or supreme power
: or when the laws are not efficient, and in
E diyiduals do what they please with impu
nifty, but our neighbor evidently under


stands it to be less comprehensive, fron


the amount Of verbiage he employs to ex


press his idea. Perhaps, however, he onl,
, wanted to spit out some big words TO i'm


press us and his readers with his larnin
and make US wonder how one small nog


gin could contain all he knew. If an


one heretofore doubted his erudision tn
: foregoing extract will surely settle tha


question forever.


The editor seems TO have deep seate
antipathy to ''the foul crew calling them


selves the Congress of the United States,
but his contempt lor his own party
= wonderful, considering every thing. l
: the closing sentence of the foregoing eS
/ tract he speaks of the disruption of th
: Democratic party as matter of the lea:
= possible consequence, and couple {


weeks since he alluded to the fact of th


ascendancy of the Democratic party


this county as public calamity; which
true, but we never expected to see sue
an admission in the Democrat. If an


doubt the fact that it contained such a


admission let them read the juniors boas
;. ing remarks in regard to his business a


fairs, in his paper of the 9TH inst, in th


course of which the writer, doubtless I'll


senior, admits that ''the county is hopelessl


Democratic" Is this the way a schols


would express his qualification of an exis
, ing state of affairs? An enemy of d.


mocracy might consistently use such
, phrase but for professed friend to do 81


the inference that he is either hypocrit,
!, a spy in the camp, "bread-and-butte
4 friend, or a blockhead, is irresistible. ID
we usually say our children or friends al
; hopelessly good? hopelessIy successful? O


hopelessly triumphant? Is it not more usu'


to say our child or friend is hepelsssly d'
graded? or hopelessly lost? But this erud
ton is only excelled, provided the write