The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-09-02
POLITICAL.
THE CRISIS.

chcal government in these States, were
broken up. The alien and sedtion laws
were repealed, and the bank aristocrats who
had Identified themselves with the govern
ialent, were stripped of their power. The
same power now as then, is struggling TO
establish amonied oligarchy upon the ru-
ans of republican government. The tories
aid iederalists of 1900, are the bank wings
and antlmasons of 1887.
MIR. Jefferson once said: "The federal
''ists now call themselves republicans, but
S'the name alone is changed-their princi-
''ples are the same. The parties Of Whig
'and Tory are those of fnature.-They ex-
''ist In all countries, whether called by these
''names, or by those of aristocrats and dem
'ocrats, wings and radicals, services and
''liberals.-The sickly, weakly, timid man
''tears the people, and is tory by nature:
f'The healthy, strong and bold cherishes
''them, and is formed whig by nature"
Observation and experience prove the
truth ofthese distinctions between the great
political parties. The avaricious, the
proud, the selfish, the sickly, weak and
timorous men of our day are, with few ex-
ceptions, found covering under the shadow
of the bank. These are the materials for
making anti-masons, abolitionists and bank
wings. Conscious that their sympathies
exclude them from communion with the
great body of the people, they cling togeth-
er in support OF aristocratlcal forms, monop-
olies and bank privileges, and indulge in
secret hatred against the petple.-These
were the genuine tories Of the revolution.
On the other hand, the generous, the disn-
terested, the healthy, strong and bold, are
generally found in the ranks of the repub-
iican party. They partake of the spirit of
the great mass of the community-their
sympathies are with the people. They
confde in their virtue and intelligence, and
their capacity for self government These
were the wings of the revolution, and to
such men are we indebted for that large
share of civil liberty which has fallen to
our lot. There is a clinching proof of
these truths TO be found in the fact, that
most young men who are left to themselves
to judge of political parties, range them
selves on the democratic side. By look
ing around us we will find in every section
and quarter of the state, leading anti-ma-
sons and bank wings, who, when young,
ardent, ingenious and confding, set out
upon their political career in the democratic
ranks-but when the cold, calculating, tim
orous caution of age--that ambition which
is vice-avarice and selfshness, take pos
session of the man, he naturally becomes
tory, a bank whig, an anti-mason, mon
opolist. Hence, many of those who once
were loudest in defence of equal rights and
popular sovereignty, ale now the willing
tools Of the bank. The present Governor,
and many of his officers and supporters,
furnishing living testimony of such aposta-
cy. They have lost the confidence of the
people, and are seeking shelter under the
band.-They have exchanged the generous
support of the community, for the concen-
grated power and corruptng influence of
monied oligarchy, and are now struggling,
with all the aristocrats, monarchists and
monopolists, to unsettle the foundations Of
this government--to divest the people Of
their rights, and to organize a government
deriving its powers from the bank, and sub
ieet to its supervision and dictation.
To the people we appeal, with conf
dence, in this emergency. The great ma
jority are republicans by nature. They are
free, and wish all men to be free. Their
confidence is in themselves-they are the
legitimate rulers of the land-they derive
aheir sovereignty from their COP, and hold
it by title paramount to the two-penny
pretended contracts of bank tories and mon
opolsts.
They are preparing themselves for the
decision of the great question, 1Chether
thea or Me bank shall rule? They are
recurring to the foundations of the govern
ment, to the wisdom and experience of
those great and good men who founded it,
and by these lights Of popular sovereignty
they will be guided. They are examining
the rotten and corrupt title by which the
bank and its band of mercenaries and mon
nrchists claim to rule the land.-Engaged in
this examination we see great people calm
ly deliberating upon the best means of pre-
serving to themselves and their pOsterity
the inestimable blessings of civil and rell-
gieus liberty, and the result of their rehec-
aions will be such as must cheer the heart
vof every lover of free government and equal
rights.-Pd. Reporter.
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