Year: 1861

1t always arises No defeat humbles--nc


degradation subdues it. Clad in the pan


oply of right--imbued with the principles


Of Union and good govcrnmont-oncc


overthrown and stripped of the robes ot
power, it always arises with renewed vigor


and energy to resume its position as the


conservator Of good government and the


protector of the national integrity. Such


has been its history, and such it ever will


be- The spirit of democracy cannot be
subdued or annihilated. It will live while


free government shall livc--live in the


hearts of mcn-live in the attributes Of


God-liye forever


This election then has written out the
first great lesson--often written but as Of
ten forgotten, that the democratic party is
not dead, neither doth it sleep. It is a
thing Of lie as active and elastic as when
it was breathed into all organized existence


by Thomas Jefferson. 1t is raising up
and reaching out for the control of this
government, and it will as surely grasp
the object fer which it reaches, as that the
object lives to be graspod. The acme of
folly and madness has been gained, and
wearied with exhausting war and section.
al strife, the government will again fall
back into the hands of those who so long
and SO successfully controlled Il, to be
again united in solid and enduring whole
or we shall have none to unite And this
Will teach the people by an experience so
sad and so bitter that they will never again
forget, never hereafter distrust the democ-
rscy Of this country Faults it may have
correction it may sometimes need, but
all there must be made and cured within
Its own organization. To SO outside Of
that cures them no better, and only i'm.
porlls the country. Aud it will teach an.
other thing. To those who are democrats
in sunshine and desert US in storm-thoso
who, when the tempest lowers desert the
ship and pray Justify that it may 90 to the
bottom--those who betray their party, its
principles and the friends Of their whole
life, to take refuge in the bosom of their
enemies and the enemies OF their party-it
will teaoL them that there is but one safe
road to political distinction, and that is the
old aud wcll.trod pathway that the
democratic legions have travelled since aoy.
enty years ago


But there is another and a practical
lesson taught by this election 1t is that
the people of this country have nc conf,
dcnce in the ability of the present Admin
istration to settle the difficulties that the
country now finds itself involved in. We
ere net ta sGy that Mr. Lincoln and his
Cabinet have not donc what they could to
defend the government against this rebel
lion. Probably they have, but that this
war can ever be settled by and between
Mr.. Lincoln, the Representative of nor-
thern radicalism to great extent, and Da.
Wis the representative Of southern ultraism
no right thinking man can for one moment
suppose. With the hosts of northern lo,
gions at his command--with an army the
ike of which the world has seldom seen--
MIR. Lincoln may, and we trust will break
.he back of this rebellion. But more than
hat is required. Bayonets cannot make
union of people and cement it in tha.
affection for the government that she'll
render it enduring. An element stronger
and sentiment more sacred must after
Ill underlie the foundations of govern.
nent OF States united as one people-the
Of nationality--of fratornity-of
equality To these sentiments the democ.
'acy Of tbs country has always been loyal
md the southern people know it has been.
10 the democracy they will hearken--to
heir admonitions and guarantees they will
i've heed ~he people Of the north new
&c and appreciate this, and SO as another
esson cf the hour, we see them calling our
arty back to power, ard to tie control CT
he government.


We have thu, glanced briefly at the les,
ems Of this election, rhey are full of in.
truction, and we trust our Republican
riends will heed them. In succeeding
umbers we shall elaborate more fully


Lu@efae Union.
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