Year: 1861

IL is said by qvondam ReT ublicans that
it is the duty of Democrats as patriots 10
dissolve, or which is the same thing. Ia
suspend their organization for the time
being. No greater humbug was ever at
tempted to be palmed off upon intelligent
men. 1t is a delusion fraught with the
direst mischief.


Why should Democrats dissolve or
suspend their organization? To form, it
( is said, a new Peoples or Union party
But the Democratic party is, as its name
implies, the Peoples party. 1t is Of,
and from the people, airl is, and always
has been the champion Of popular rights
It's leading idea is the great Jehersonian
principle that governments derive all their
just pr wers from the consent Of the gov.
erned.


The Democratic party is, rs It always
has been a Union party, and the only
party that has stood fir nly and unhinch-
ingly by the Union, alike in prosperity
and adversely. For this very little less
than year ago, Democrats were re.
/ preached as "Union savers" and rid
icuIed as supple tools of the slave pow
cr' by the very men who now, with
honey on their lips 1--WE do not say what
is in their hearts urge, Democrats to GO
with them into a ewfangled party, for
the purpose of saving the Union and the
institution OF slavery along with it
Can any honest and true e-hearte1 Demo
crat consent to sell out his party and his
principles to such concern Ms this?


We do not seek to revive old party an
imosties; but is is a dnty we owe the
Government and the Union to warn
Democrats and all true loyal Union men
to beware Of the batteries and intrigues Of
old political hacks who have been training
for five, ten and twenty years, in the Abb
clifton and Republican ranks.


If these men aie sincere in their profess
sions of attachment to the Union, the
Constitution and the government. why
do they, in this fearful hour of peril. SO
tremendously urge Democrats to aban.
don their old party and their old polite
al associates, and unite, heart and soul,
with their late opponents and defamers,
in new organization? They know that
the Democratic party is unit fer the
support of the government and the main
tenance of the Union, and that Democrats
have been first and foremost among all
loyal men in there efforts to secure this
great object. If this is the sole aim,
there ia no danger of discord. They
know that Democrats have enlisted more
readily and more generally in the Union
army than their political opponents, and
that the chief opposition to the measures
and course of the present Adminlstra-
ton has come from their own party organ.
1t is, therefore, both absurd and illtimed
to ask Democrats to change their polit-
ical status, in order to secure their tidel-
ity to save the Union.


But it is alleged by the leaders in this
no party movement, as it is called, that
it was originated, not only to unite all
loyal men, but to avoid party strife. Yet
these men must have known, when they
planned the scheme, that it was the very
thing that would kindle party strife afresh,
and this must have been their design.
1t is said that orders were sent from poll
tcians in Washington City to Republi-





political organization and inaugnrate the
the new movement. Be this as it may,
it is clear that those who concocted
the scheme, knew full well that the
great body Of the Democratic masses
could no more be seduced into an
abandonment Of their party for the sake
uniting in n new one wi there old pol
iticians opponents. than they could be al
lured into the ranks Of Northern disnn-
ionists or Southern secessionists. But
some so-called Democrat as deficient in
pluck as weak in principle, they could
count upon. With the aid of these,
and by raising the hue-and cry of seces-
sionsts and traitors against all who
would not follow their lead, they
hoped to break down the Democratic
party, which the signs of the times
clearly showed was fast rising into pow
er and influence, and in a fair way to pu
forth once more its former strength and
again save the Union.


To prevent this glorious and trium
phant achievement, which would doom
many plotter against tn Democrac,
and the Union, who now rejoices in ia
office, to the shades of private life anc
and narrow income, that old unioI
party must first of all things be broker
down. That party annihilated, as som'
have expressed l., beyond the hope o
resurrection, and the old Abolition and
Republican leaders secure Of the contro
of public sentiment and political actor
in the North, the war against SLAYER,
can be prosecuted vigorously under tn
pretense of war for the Union, til
but let the curtain drop over the re
maindcr of tbs programme, which, W.
trust, the Democratic masses IN conlnn
ction with all other truly loyal men who
isncerely love the old Union, will, by
forming one solid phalanx for its preser
walton, prevent from ever being carrie'
in 20 effect. - Statesman.


EAAp nARae.