The Democratic Party And Civil Liberty

The New York World, of the 18th says : ïho Eoening Post pays the fol lowing desérved tribute to the Democratie party, and its bold and uneompromifingdetonseolFroedotn of Speech, of Ballot, and of the Press : "When Mr. Seward began to put men into Fort Lafayette, tho journals and poutieians which eall themselves Democratie, instantly cried out against these nrbitrary arrests. When the Postmaater General denied to cortain journale the privilege of the mails, the opposition leaders and journals denounced this act au violent aud uujustifiable When several presses wero stopped by order of the President, the denunciations of lüte as tyrannical and able, by the opp'oaition press and speakers, wero violent and long continuad. When unlavvful assemblages threatened to áefefroy jouruuls, and when government offioers ÓP private persons attempt ed to irfterfere with the rights of iree diussion, these acts and thrcats agnin calied forth the sevcrest rebuku from the oppowilion. "In all this ihey planted themeelves upon the great rights oííreemeD, freeiy and oponly to discuss, by voicc or press, all nleresla whatsoevcr, and to bo free ia tlieir persons and property from arrost and hann, exuept by duo procesa of law. There let them .tand f TheV havo plt-dged thernselvus undor all ciicamslancbs to proteot a freej press, and to prolest igainet arbitrary arre.Pts and illega! punislidients." Tbe l'oji vra;-;l be uonscious that it is the one und only exeeption amDng the ropublioan pru.ss, ui ondorsing the position of the deniocratio party on these subjocls. Bat sinco tho adir.inistration haKoonstautly diaregarded and outraged a!l thèsb rightP, and nineo al! the othei' republican journals defend the adminiiratina in Sö f'.oing, the Post bears falso witness when it says "the whole puople are of ooe mind." So long as u vvoman loceis she loves right en,' steadily ; a man haa to do so'nicthing boUvecn whilcs,