Watertown Republican

THE DEMOCRATIC MUDDLE.

In less than a month, the Democracy assembles in Convention at New York, for the purpose of trying to "match" Grant and Colfax for the first offices in the gift of the Nation. They have been trotting out their various scrub horses for some time, but the people would choose none of them. As they could find nothing better in their ranks for the first place than such broken down hacks as Pendleton, Seymour, or Blair, or such green timber as Hancock or Hendricks, they have been searching recently in the Republican ranks for an available man with better principles than any they could find elsewhere; and now the chances are about even that Chief Justice Chase will be chosen as the standard-bearer, not exactly of the old locofoco or Copperhead principles, but of a regenerated Democracy. Of course Mr. Chase's principles are as irreconcilable with those of the Pendletonian, Vallandingham, and Seymour school as is fire with water; but it may be found politic and necessary for any show of success to make such a choice and if the leaders of Democracy so choose, the rabble of the party, the whiskey ring, the bounty-jumpers, the negro-haters and loafers and law-breakers generally—all opponents of the great Union Republican Party and principles—will as certainly vote in a body for him; blindly and asking no questions, as they did for Sam Carey, a Republican preacher and life-long temperance lecturer, when the Democratic leaders of Cincinnati brought him out to defeat the nominee of our party. But unlike the Cincinnati case, if Chase is nominated, it will have to be upon Chase's principles and upon a Chase platform—and then farewell to all opposition in America to negro suffrage and to equal rights in general to the negro. Abuse of Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, and other gentlemen of such principles will have to cease on the part of the Democracy. If such a candidate shall be chosen by the New York Convention next 4th of July, it will certainly be good evidence of the progress of the age.