Year: 1869

Let the People Read 1.-The Democratic


Papers own that Democracy is Dead!


That the sham-Democracy of NORTH
CAROLINA is virtually dead IS admitted by
every sensible man. The fact is so evident
that it cannot be denied. 1t has been dying
ever since the defeat of SEYMOUR and BLAIR,
and the VIRGINIA election has finished it.
The so-called Democratic papers of this
State, although they refuse TO admit the
fact, virtually confess it hy their cries for
new party movement. They wish to keep
their demoralized forces from desertion until
they can array them under new flag. To
this end they keep up the old party howl,
although they are fully aware that there is
no Democratic party to howl for. The VIR-
GINA Conservatives, comprising nearly all
the worth, respectability, intelligence and
wealth of the State, have denounced the
sham-D Democracy for its radicalism and pro-
scription, and have declared themselves true
Republicans. This action upon the part of
such men has opened tie eyes of the South
ern people to the radcalism of the sham
Democracy, and thousands who have hither-
to supported it have joined the Republican
party The people have seen that the Re-
publican is the only liberal party in
the South, and have resolved to support
it. Its otto,-"Universal suffrage and
General Amnesty"-is preferred to the motto
of the Radical-D Democracy" Prescription
and Ostracism." The people see that
the radical and proscriptive measures
of the sham Democracy are iniuring every
| interest of the SOUTH and tend to keep
the people poor Hence they have
resolved to put it down. The social
cd Democratic papers. are aware of this de-
termination of the people and know that
thev are doomed The 3" hand writing on
the wall is too plainly read by them, to
need the services of an interpreter, and they
are filled with fear Their cry is "what
| shall we do to save ourselves ?" They are
now seeking to inauguratc "new party
movement" hoping to succeed in misleading
the people sufficiently to enable themselves
to live. The Charlotte ObserDer is an in
stance of the truth of tine above. 1t is one
of those papers which has denied that De-
mocracy is dead. Yet few days ago it
copied s0ithOut comment, an article from an
other Democratic paper calling for the for
nation of new party. Now it itself calls
for new party. In its issue of the 9th
inst, it says:


Old party leaders-wire- -pulers-demagogues
| of all parties must be dropped. We want men
who have not spent tleir lives in the 'wild hunt
for Office to fill the places of trust and admins
ter this new order OF things Honest, upright
men, who will not only administer the laws just
| ly but add dignity to the position which they
hold We must forget old issues and work for
| the best mode of advancing the prosperity and
happiness OF our country.


In the language of the Richmond Dispatch:
"The war was a wall between the past and the
present. The decks must be cleared of the old
! crew and new one must be enlisted for the
! grand voyage of the ship OF State in the new and
|
| performed their work-they disrupted the coun-
try and involved it in war and dcsolation. They
must retire and permit the men of the present
day to conduct public affairs. They must drift
down the current of the past, and permit the
| young and hopeful men of The day to rebuild the
| nation and usher in the grand era of " YOUNG
AMERICA"


All the odd party leaders and wire pull
lcrs" must be dropped! Such pure patriots
as VANCE and GRAHAM, must be dropped
All the wire pullers, which takes in all
the smaller fry who now control the Democ-
racy, must be dropped! Was ever a
consciousness of weakness and utter defeat
more striking confessed? Let the people re-
member this, for it is but another proof of
the truth Of the statement of the STANDARD
when 1t told the people of NORTH CAROLINA
that Democracy is dead. The Whining
ton Journal, too, confesses the truth even
more plainly, and calls even louder than the
ObSeroer, for ald Listen to its appeal:


&c In a word, show an overtaxed, hard-work
ing people the necessity of change in our gov
ernment, and then submit the result to them
Our po,u tori there aCiH be no trouble or dispatt
aspon tie name or the platform agih auhach acil
make tie fight" p" II


Was ever an acknowledgment of the death OF
party more plainly made than in the lines
we have italicized? Yet no paper in the State
is louder in its denial of the statements o
the STANDARD than is the Journal! The
Journal, ,one of the hottest Democratic papers
State, acknowledges itself reduced to sucl
a pitable condition as to be willing to adopt
any party name or platform with which tt
continue the struggle against the Republican
party! What man, to whom God has giver
common sense, will doubt after this, that ths
Democratic party is dead? Ii more proc
were needed it is to be found in the follow
ing from the Salisbury old North Stat
which has of late always acted with thu
sham Democracy:


@ We notice that several of the Radicals paper
OF this, and other States are, or profess to be
Juuilaul oNei lhS II Siud elcCtloHs. lHey CHILL
that the result shows that the Democratic part,


is dead at least in that State. In this we thinl
they are more than half right-we are of th
same opinion ourselves.


Here is frank acknowledgment tina
Democracy is dead. Can any man ask fo
stronger proof2 Nearly every SO called
Democratic paper in the State is crying