Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1871 — The Beginning of the End. [ARTICLE]

The Beginning of the End.

In a recent speech, a Western Senator declired that the “ new departure" of the I »eiaocratic. party is but the beginning of the end; that a party cannot change front i.nd live; chat the history of the change >'f front by the Whig party proves that, i’hc fact that the Democratic leaders feel me necessity of putting forth such a platf>n i of change is a declaration of failure. I’h< party has voted a want of confluence iii self. Its repentance is that which so often transpires in a condemned man's experience between sentence and exeedtioo*. The fact of itself indicates that the leaders must make a declaration of some sort, in order to save itself from approaching distolution., But it is one thing for a party convention, made up, in the innin, by men who prefer office to the success of ideas, good or bad, to vote to take a “new departure,” and auite another to get the party to “deput. The strongly Democratic districts in the Northern States spit upon the “new departure”.'platform, as they are strong enough to elect their local candidates without anv such device to add to'their ' Mrongth. The leaders ofrthe parly in such districts get Hie offices they want all the easier because they opnose any departure f rom the old stand point <jf copperhead, pro-slavery Democracy. But the Democratic party in the Southern States must be consulted before the national party on led “ Democratic ” can be considered as co: ceding that the amendments shall not be disturbed. The Southern leaders of 1 hat party have no notion of following any such ideas. The Southern mtn have not >-eon consulted, and they never have been known to follow taufely any Northern b-rdgrrtup, Mr. .Alexander Stephens, late’ Vioe-Pieaiduit of the late Con’ode racy, has ftveii the world to understand that he adlferes to the old, tb ie-honored Southern doctrine of State R ghts. We even intimates that the United tiutes isanot made up of one “People," bi t of “Peoples” who inhabit the several States. He thinks the Democratic Natic nal platform of 1868 is quite as radical as any the Southern Democracy dhn be mode to support. Mr.-Stephens knows whereof he speaks. Ho is in full correspondence (with the leaders of the party in all parts of the Strath. He is acquainted with the views

of the interest which always dictates terms to the party with which it consents to act. Hence his word alone as to what the National Democracy mast do is more influential than the vote of an Ohio Democratic State Convention. The Democra cy does not hope to carry Ohio in a 1 residential election, but it must carry the South with great unanimity in order to elect a President. Hence we may regard the “ New Departure” platform in Ohio as a rash adventure which serves only to show the desperation of a bad, unprincipled party, in its grasp for office. It is a confession of the strength of the special and distinguished measures of the Republican party, and the impotency of the Democratic party to overcome them. The introduction of the proposition is an omen of the surrender--as decisive as that of Appomattox —which will be made by that party in 1872.— Toledo Blade.