Year: 1871

Thunder from Columbia County-Terri-
bic Storm Brewing among the .DemOc-
racy.


We make the following extracts from leader
in the Bloomsbury Columbian of a late date:-
If a single discharge from the battery of
Senator Morton has frightened the nervous por-
tion of the Democratic leaders aud sent them
panic-stricken from their strongest entrench-
ments, what may we not look for hereafter so
far as these child-like warriors are concerned?


The panic-stricken and nimble-footed gentry
of the Age and Patriot of Washington and Har-
risburg and the freebooting World, will volun-
tarily or otherwise return to their allegiance
when they learn, as assuredly they will that
there is no retreat except into the ranks of the
enemy. The rank and file of the party is unit
on the question of negro suffrage and consequent
equality, and will never brook the attempt to
back the party down from its high and noble
position of eternal opposition to the debasement
OF the Government by voluntarily sharing it
jeff Davis and his friends tell the people of
the South that negro suffrage may be tolerated
there because it will keep them peaceable, that
they will in very short time generally vote
with their old masters, who alone appreciate
their true character sufficiently to permanently
influence their action, and that the negro, at all
events is as fit to vote as the Yankeel Mr.. Lew
Casslday backs up his retreating friends by
declaring that the negro vote elected Colonel
Dechert and gave to the Democracy the victory
in the First Senatorial district, so important to
the party and the country in its results. That the





is least aristocratic in its tendencies we
never doubted, and it may be a consoling re-
Election to sope people that, like all others,
they win be altogether likely to vote with those
with whom they are most intimate and bear the
closest personal relation. But all that is begging
the question. The principle is that this is a
white mans government, made by white men
for white men and their posterity forever! Shall
white men submit to have 1t mongrelized? Shall
we tamely and forever submit to the fraud by
which this debasing result was temporarily ac-
cOmplshed? We say resist it.


By some surprising means a small majority
was obtained in our late State Convention, aud
in that of Ohio, to endorse this suicidal and dis
graceful policy. The subject was studiously
kept from the people, and a majority of our
Representatives were suddenly transformed into
dictators. In this those Representatives were
as much above their business as the Dutchman's IS
ram that jumped out of the field from the sheep
into that of the neat cattle and the action in the
two cases was about equally appropriate.


We warn the men engaged in this business
not to attempt to clog the candidates with this
fatal platform. Destruction will follow if


A Georgia Denunciation.


From the Columbus (GG.) Sun, June ID.


The late victory, and still later organization
of Democratic Legislature in New Hampshire,
and the gallant fight in the old Nutmeg State
the cry of the repeal of the infamous amend
ments by the noble Leslie, the Democratic
candidate for Governor in Kentucky; the echo
of Carlisle on the same ticket with
Leslie-'The amendments are not dead issues
and politicians can't kill them with resolutions,
and manly utterances of the brave soldier Blair
and Schurz and thousands of noble orators and
presses North and West, all signs that liberty
in Che United States is not dead and tyranny
has not yet triumped. In the midst of the
bright omens OF goodly morrow, like a claI
of thunder in a clear sky, comes unheralded {
furious tempest from the Northwest. No po-
litical Kolus could have imprisoned a more
deadly wind than the one christened the "New
Departure" 1t is new departure IL
Democrats from all the records of tn,
party as to constitutional law. 1t is the extrem,
of qualification; the essence of a want OF. prope
spirit and selfrespect, indicated in advance o
the National Convention, craven hope ant
faith in our cause and country, at war with al
our professions that man is capable of self
government, ana that the Republican party i
not best suited TO the genius and virtues of ou
people. 1t will be found on trial weak ant
rickety, with no backbone even of policy.