Year: 1871

sentiment setting in favor of a Demo-
cratic triumph. The decision of polit~
ical questions had beed transferred
from the bayonet to the ballot box;
drumhead court-martials, organized to
convict, had given place to the regular
tribunals. Of the civil law, Radical
usurpation and corruption were fast
giving way before Democratic honesty
and a determined conservatism, protec.
ting alike the dignity of the General
Government and the rights Of the
States" "


Since the National Democratic Com
ventoD of 1868, there has been no au,
thoritative declaration of the position
Of the Democratic party on national
questions, and the position then assum-
ed remains intact until the assembling
of the next National Convention. Con-
sequeatly. 10 man has the right to
assert that the party occupies any po-
sitlon than that assumed in 1868, and
the sooner the infamous work of that
year is buried in oblivion. the better
for the reputation of the party. In
every Northern and Eastern State
where elections have been held the
| Democracy have not made the fight
upon national issues, but upon purely
local issuscs. IN New Hampshire
Radicalism owed its defeat to its mis-
management of the State finances. In
Missouri the Democracy had no ticket
in the field, but the members generally
supported the boiling wing Of the Re-
publican party. Nowhere have we eyi-
dence of this enthusiastic convention of
the people of the North to the Demo-
cratic faith, so vaunte1 by the Press;
but we do detect the evidences of a
growing rupture in the Radical houses
hold. And We believe that the Demo
| cratic party can attach to itself the
dissatisfied portion Of the Republican
party fit will come out of the mists Of
the past cut, itself loose from all the
issues connected with the slavery ques-
ton, and take bold, liberal and enligh-
tened position upon the issues now
before the country. To free the party
of dead issues, to array it upon an
alignment pertinent to the times, is
the mission Of the Young Democracy,


The Press continues. and assert that
the Young Democracy propose short
cut to official plunder, that they are
drifting away from the old party moor
ings, that they are maSqueral5lHg in
the faded and cast-oh garments of
Radical usurpation. If the salvation
ofthe editors neck depended upon their
making good these charges, they would
most certainly be hanged. Slavery
being dead, as the Press admits it is,
then all the questions growing out Of
and bearing upon the institution very
naturally died with it. The Young
Democracy only propose TO bury these
dead questions along with their dead
cause. Is there any drifting away
from Democratic moorings in that?
The Young Democracy would exact
full obedience to all laws, howsoever
and by whosoever passed, so long as
those laws actually operate and are
unrepealed. Is this not in strict ac-
cordance with the teachings Of Demo-
cracy? The editor Of the Press must be
a deal more familiar than we are with
the texture, cut and smell Of Radical
linen to discover any Of it in this.


Now, tins Is not the hrst time the
Press has volunteered its assistance to
the assaults Of Rsdicalism upon the
Young Democracy. The same charge
OF short cut to of5cih plunder is to
be met with every day in tie columns
of the Radical sheets of Cincinnati.
Yet the Young Democracy are not
overwhelmed. They are told that the
two last amendments are null ald void
yet the negroes testify in the courts
and vote at the polls The operation
of the amendments is not suspended
because the Press and its kind denounce
them as nullities. The denunciation of
the Young Democracy as Radicalism
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