Daily Democrat And News

VERY PERTINENT.

"If there is not a common ground
upon which the political friends of the
Administration can stand and work in
harmony, I should be excused to suggest
that republicans and dems must unite to
harmonize; and do, when the North
was a unit, we could only by the offer of
extraordinary bounties secure the motion
of the volunteers called for by the Gov-
ernment, how are they to be obtained
when we engage in these patriotic
strifes," etc.

The above extract is from the Roch-
ester Democrat. By way of explana-
tion, let us say that the Rochester Demo-
crat is not a democratic paper, but the
organ of the republican party in the vi-
cin ity in which it is printed. It is an
abolition sheet: believes in Greeley-
emulates Beecher and Phillips, and has
large stock in America of African
hucksterage.

But we submit that the extract evinces
a knowledge of the "situation." There is
a class of republicans, and their number
is by no means small, who are opposed
to their radical brethren, and who are
unwilling to co-operate with them. It is
of such as these that the paper from
which we quote complains. If these--
the radicals and the conservatives of the
republican party-refuse to unite upon
an identical line of policy, how, then, is
it to be expected that the republicans
and the democrats will harmonize, ex-
isting between them, as there does, a
still wider gulf. They never will har-
monize so long as the republican party
maintains its present position. They
must rise to the standard of political
virtue and wisdom--the standard will
never sink to them.

The present administration is below
the mark. If it succeeds in its Con sti-
tution defying schemes, there is an end
to this government. We still have
strong hopes that it will not. The very
fact of the disintegration of the party
that elected it, and the solidity and in-
creasing strength of the opposition,
opens wide the door of hope that the
days of the Constitution are not yet
numbered, and that they will not come
down upon our beloved Union forever.

The second sentence of the extract
alludes particularly to the coming draft.
It is a mere hint that it will not be a
success. We differ. There is but one
way that the draft can take. Those
who can't raise the $300 must go. Some
of those who are offered large bounties
will go also. But it will be an army of
hirelings and malcontents. Hence it
will be a successful "farce," as our Ger-
man contemporary calls it.