Year: 1867




Among the many mean and contempt
iblr traits of the party that has so
long and so badly misgoverned the
conntry, there is none meaner nor more
contemplate than the Pharisaicsl as
sumption lat that party contains all
the brains and intelligence and virtue
and morality in the nation. We have
heard it repeated dd nGaseGm that the
Republican party was the party Of
great moral ideas :" that it was the
especial and chosen champion of "GOD
aud morality" in American politics and
we have read in "loyal" editorials and
heard il thuudered from "loyap pnlpits
that he who dared oppose the progress
of that party was doomed to suffer tor
ment here and everlasting perdition
hereafter. II has been assumed that
every man Of education aud entitled to
the respect of his fellow men was ne
cessarily = Republican, and loyal
noses have turned upwards with an



habitual sneer whenever compelled to
speak or hear of the Democratic party.


Our neighbor, the Colonel" of Bed
ford county (Va.) celebrity, nstwith-
standing the recent splendid and over
whelming victories of the Democracy,
seems not to have forgotten his old
tricks, and sneeringly alludeS to the
opponents OF radicalism as the party of
ignorance and superstition and crime.
The time has long since gone by when,
ifever, it was necessary TO maintain by
argument the honesty and intelligence
of the Democratic party. All that is
bright and glorious in the history OF
the nation has been achieved under
Democratic rule, and we do not pro-
pose at this late day TO reply to the i'll
natured sueers of our disappointed CO.
temporary by any recital Of the brilliant
record of the Democratic party in vim
dcation of its claim to intelligence
and morality quite equal, if not supe-
EiOr, to its arrogant and conceited foe.
We meution the COlOnePs" article of
yesterday merely for the purpose of
calling the attention of our readers to
the inconsistency of his position and the
desperate straits to which the grave
yard whistlcrs are redIced in their ef-
forts to conceal thei: knowledge of the
fact that political retIibution is swiftly
and surely uvertaking them. The same
paper that now sneeringly alludes to the
recent Democratic victories as being at
tributablc to the ignorance of the
masses in the great cities, and to the
delusion of the people everywhere, was
engaged, only few days ago, in glorying
over the triumph of HUNNICUTT and his
gang of bestial and besotted negroes in
Virginia. Apparently the negroes of
the Southern States, who have not even
mind enough to remember their own
names as certainly and reliably as the
majority of respectable dogs do, but
who uniformly vote the radical ticket,
are, in the "ColouoPs" estimation, su-
periOr in intelligence to the toiling
masses of labOring white men in the
North who have dared to protest against
continuance of radical rule.


II is time that the radical party
would abate some of these lofty preten-
sions. Nearly every mail brings
with it some fresh instance of
political corruption or outra-
geous crime wrought by the very
men who have been loudest in their
boasts that they were the especial
friends of "Goo and morality" Nearly
every day brings to light some new evil
dence of fraud and rascality on the
part of those who arrogantly claim all
the virtue in the land; and, whatever
may be said Of the merit of such pre-
tensions at any time, it is strangely pre-
posterous for any radical newspaper now
to sneer at Democratic majorities and
attribute them to the ignorance and
credulity of the people while it re-
ioices over the triumph of semi-civil-
iEed and barbaric negroes in the South.