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Show DEMOCRATIC BEF0BM. Vc are glud to note that a meeting of currency reformers is to be held at Iudianapulin in December; also that an early convention of the leading men of the democratic and opposition elements is contemplated at Washington Wash-ington sonic ti ne during the present ! winter. The latter convention will doubtle-s be, a national one-a withering with-ering such as the republican party has never been able to conene since it stepped into the control of the government. gov-ernment. H'.U in order to be influential influ-ential it ahou'd be a representative conference, in which the feelings and viows of the opposition in every ttate can be elicitxl and compared with each other, to that the great drift of public sentiment may be clearly ascertained. as-certained. A convention led and manipulated by New York financial influences would be as valueless as one managed by the Indiana currency cur-rency reformers. The southern people will have to be heard as well as those of New England, and the latter section is now entitled to a greater influence than ever before, as its preponderating weight leans to wards the anti-administration column. If the opposition forces intend to contest the presidential election seriously, seri-ously, Lliey should loso no time in making a careful diagnosis of the case before them. Tho country is indeed in the situation of a man suffering suf-fering Irom a complication of diseases, which cannot be cured by a superficial superfi-cial course ol treatment. A hair of the dag that bit the patient cannot be relied upon to cure him. The scalpel scal-pel must be used heroically until the diseased party are removed, and nature na-ture is sutlertd to begin its curative precedes. Skilful political surgeons are not only needed to treat the almost chronic- disorders of the body politic, but they must be bold as well as skilful men of originality, independence inde-pendence and honesty, freed from a blind adhcrmice t i old formulas and practices, with clear eyes and steady hands men of su fficient intelligence to discern the weak points in our government system, and of force and honesty enough to strike upon the true path or popular reform. The United S:ate.s is preeminently n land of promise iu so far only as its people are enabled to realise the prac-j tieal idea of the greatest good to the greatest number, iu connection with; the largest individual liberty consist-! eat with the maiutainance of peace and orde. If once the people permit themselves to settle down into a system where precedent is th rule and progress the exception, excep-tion, the nation will degenerate into the position of E iropean countries, while possessing none of the advantages advan-tages which age aud experience have given them. The Union will become simply a decriped youth, with all the vices of the old countries fully developed, devel-oped, but devoid ot their virtues. We conceive that the .fight in the opposition ranks will be between the progressives and the men who fancy that the modern devices of political economy ore like the laws of the universe, uni-verse, inevitable and unchangeable, and that there can be no financial system better adapted lo the wants of the people of America than the Pro-custean Pro-custean bed which Adam Smith made up for the Rothschilds and the European Euro-pean nobility to rest upon. Washington Wash-ington wished that a wall of fire1 might separate America from Europe, so greatly did he fear the all-pervading influence of aristocratic institu-. tions upon this country; and there are to-day men of Urge influence in the democratic party who will seek to parry the force of the late popular victory of the democratic element at the polls by wasting its strength upon some mere abstraction, in order that the monied interests may maintain their supremacy over the legislation of the country. This government must'be a government govern-ment of and for the people, or it will sink to the mere level of a military and commercial power, losing its piestige as a free nation, and finding its highest prominence as a member of the European holy or unholy alliance, alli-ance, bound to maintain the mass of the people in political chains for the benefit of the few who manage through laws of privilege, falsely termed political economy, to control the wealth of the world. This is ihe problem the democracy will soon have to encounter, which will require patriotic statesmanship of a high character to solve satisfactorily for the benefit and interests of the public. |