Year: 1869

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and through Christianity human society, would
gain by the result.


Democratic Organ Wanted, but What


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The democracy of this State, it appears, are
In want of an organ-an organ that they can
rally upon and rely upon in defeat and re-
treat, as well as in victory; an organ that will
stand fire and stick to its colors and crow till
everything burns blue an organ that will ex-
pand and expound the 'time-honored princi-
pies of the party" with some regard to the
fact that party principles which are dead and
buried it is useless to dig out of the ground.
Governor Hoffman and some others of the
democratic nabobs of our State authorities re-
Gently issued begging letter in behalf of Mr..
Alphabet Barlow's late organ as the very thing
for the democracy, not only of the State, but
OF the whole Continent; but the great body Of
the faithful, remembering the October bolt
against Seymour and Blair, are not as enthusi-
astic as they might be in sending in their con-
tributions. We infer that tae begging letter
aforesaid has failed from the fact that the
democratic members of the late Legislature
have issued an opposition begging letter to re-
vive the Albany argus as the proper demo-
cratic organ for the Empire State And yet
again, it is said that Peter B. Sweeny and
some other sachems Of Tammany contemplate
the experiment of new concern In this city,
and upon the idea that, as without the demo-
cratic vote of this city and the spoils of Tam
many the party in the State would be nowhere,
Tammany Hall is the rightful successor of the
Albany Regency and ought to rule the State.


In none of these movements for q new party
organ do we hear Brick Pomeroy mentioned;
and yet among the unterriied Brick is held as
preaching the gospel according to Vallan-
digham, and holds among the hard-handed and
hard-headed of the rank and file the balance of
power. His style as teacher, however, is
too rough and rasping for the kid-gloved mag
mates of the inner temple, including the elite
of the Manhattan Club and so they cut him,
and, heads up, pass by on the other side. 1t
Is the difference between Western whiskey in
@ home made goblet and Manhattan champagne
in Bohemian cut glass. Your ''bloated bond
w
consin bourbon in Pttsburg green glass
tumbler In any event, the New York man
agers Of the party, city and State, have, as by
common consent, agreed that Wisconsin de-
mocracy, as expounded by Pomeroy, is too
fresh and hot from the still for the longitudes
between Dunkrk and Montauk, and so Brick
Ms to be left to look after the horses. He may
do the rough work of the aristocracy of the
party, and he may be admitted to a snack in
the kitchen; but he must not presume to bring
the smell of the stable among the invited
guests in the parlor. Brick understands it;
but if he does not make these high and mighty
turtle soup democrats sweat for it we shall be
disappointed.


, But what do the democracy of this State, or
amy State, or of the United States, want
with party organ9 There was time, and
ut was under Jackson and Van Buren, when
two or three little coteries of party
managers, with an organ at Washington Ghe
Globe, an organ at Richmond Cthe EnQuirer)
,and an organ at Albany (the Argus), managed
the candidates of the democracy, the order Of
succession and the government of the United
States. But when this sort of government
under Van Buren, had abolished specie and
solvent bank notes, and had substituted gen.
eral circulation of wild cat and red dog paper
and irresponsible shinplasters in countless mil
lions of such rubbish, the third estate began to
be shifted and was soon removed from these
managing party cliques and their organs to the
independent popular press. With the fearful
financial revulsion of 1887 the democratic
and in the sweeping political revolution of
ls4O they were cast ashore, high and dry.
From that day down to this cliques of party
managers and party organs have been steadily
losing ground, and the power which they have
lost has been settled round the Independent
press.


The dissolution of the old whig party after
its killing defeat by poor Pierce in 1852, the
collapse of the old dctatorial democratic party
in the disastrous Charleston Convention of
1860, the terrible rebellion of JEFF Davis and
his experimental saveholding Southern con-
federacy, and the tremendous revolution and
reconstruction which have followed, from par
ties and party platforms up to the constitution
itself, through all this mighty chain of grand
events the American people have more and
more learned to think and act for them
selves and to look with contempt upon
party directors and party journals. What,
then, do the democracy of New York want
with new party organ9 Nothing that such
q drivelling machine can supply. They have
been dragged through the mud and mire of
twelve years of disgraceful defeats by their
party managers and organs, and If the party
would get upon its legs again 1t must be