Year: 1869

| General JACKSON and HENRY CLAY may
be cited as the great representative men of
the Democratic and Whig parties. They
were the champions whom the people de-


lighted to honor, and who were considered,
the one the incarnation of Democracy, and
the other the incarnation of Whiggery. But
JACKSON and CLAY did not differ upon the
great principles of loyalty to the govern
ment, the right of the people to rule, and
tile necessity of maintaining the unity of
the nation. In support of these prln-
cipes both JACKSON and CLAY stood in
common as tlid all Democrats and Wings


In 1869, however, there is but one party
which avows the same principles as were
supported in common by the old Democratic
and Whig parties There now is but one
party in which Wings and Democrats can
find represented the same principles which
they once supported, and in which they can
work in harmony for the good of the nation
This party is the Republican party. 1t is
pledged to the same general principles as
those upon which the Conservative and Wing
parties were founded. 1t proclaims the same
general principles rs were proclaimed by
jackson and CLAY. 1t is the only party which
to-day is founded upon principles OF loyalty
to the government, the right of the people
to rule, and the necessity of maintaining
the unity of the nation. These uere the
principles of the old Wings and Democrats.
Both of these parties are dead, and the
Republican party is the only party which
now proclaims-and acts up to-the doc
trines to which the nation owes its present
power and prosperity In its ranks all,
Wings and Democrats, are working for the
good OF the state and the nation. There is no
shadow of former party antagonism display
ed, because each finds represented the same
general principles as he formerly supported,
and SD blended together as to enable Wing
and Democrat to stand shoulder to shoulder
in their support Thus the Republican party,
composed of the conservative men of the
old Whig and Democratic parties, and of
the newly enfranchised colnred men, is har-
monious in its organization, and united in
its opposition to the radical schemes of the
present sham Democracy. Nowhere has the
truth of this been more strongly proved
than in NORTH CAROLINA and VIRGINIA.
In VIRGINIA, where we can view the silua-
ton unprecedented by local interests or for


mer resentments, what do we see! We see
Conservative men, without regard to former
party predictions, arraying themselves
under the banners of the Republican party.
Even those who were the greatest supper
tiers OF the rebellion are now opposing the
wicked measures of the radical Democracy,
for they know it would bring misery upon
the people. Their appeal to arms having re-
suited adversely to them. they have accept
ed the result in good faith, and have proved
the sincerity of their professions by their
actions. They have acquiesced in the re-


suits of the war, and have not only agreed
to the right of the colored man to vote,
but have voted with him and for him. All
the conservatives have proclaimed them
selves Republicans because they see that the
Republican is the only conservative party
in the South They do this as conservatives,
and in opposition to the radicalism of the mis-
called Democracy. Thus as nearly all the
conservative men of the old Wing and Dem


ocratic parties are of the Republicans party,
it cannot be denied that it represents all
that is good of those parties 1t will also
he seen that the conservatives do not
deign to recognize the sham Democrats, but
call them just what their actions prove them
to he-Radieals. They will not aid i'll the
prostitution of the once proud name of the
old Democratic parry. Thus it will be seen
that the sham Democracy of the South is re-
cognized by neither old Democrats nor
Wings. In its ranks there may be found
those who we're formerly Democrats and
Wings, but who have now deserted the
principles which governed both those par
ties. In the Sham Democracy they are not
satisfied, hut renew old party quarIels be-
cause they have more of the good doctrines
| of either party. They are Ishmalites, whose
hands are against every man and every
mans hand is against them. 1t is proved
beyond doubt, that the principles of JACK
SON and CLAY now govern the Republican
party 1t is evident that it is the only COT
servative party. 1t is evident that it is te
orly party where old line Democrats and
Wings can now find the good old doctrines
of former years, and in which they can work
harmoniously. 1t is also evident that
the so-caled Democracy of to day, not
only has no claim to the name and
is a sham, but is the most radical
party which has ever cursed any nation.
Let every truly conservative man in the