The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1838-03-17

WuOn--that sustained 1t during the uespOtic
and fearful reign of the elder Adams, and
animated and concentrated its youthful
bands in the glorious struggle Of 500, which
resulted in the election of Thomas JEFFER-
SON. democrat" is an old and good name;
in its true definition, ''a form, of gouer7,-
me7lt IN ichich the supreme po1cer as iodg-
ed in the hands Of the people" 1t was
adopted after the organization of our gov
ernment, by the WHIGs OF THE REVOLUTION,
as the cognomen Of their party, in contra
distinction TO the opposition, who then as
sumed the name of Federalist. II has been
the test-word of our party ever since; and
has been regularly registered in our politi-
cal annals, since the days of the patriarch
Jefferson, with devotion to the pnre prin-
ciples of its ancestry, which shows no d.
minutlon of attachment from that animating
the parents of its early adoption. THOMAS
JEFFERSON and the party which placed him
in the Presidential chair in 1901, proclaim
their political creed throughout the Republic
they called themselves democratic repub-
licans, and nobly sustained and cherished
that darling principle of our Institutions,
which recognizes the sovereignty of the
people. They believed the general gov
ernment powerful enough to protect itself
| from danger, without guarding the constitu-
ted authorities BY allan and Seditior lars;
and one of the first acts of the democratic
administration was repeal Of these tyran-
nical and oppressive cdicts of Federal mis-
rule. We recognized and acknowledged
| the republicans of that eventlul period as
our political parents, and the principles con-
tended for and established by them, shall
always be held sacred by us. Those prin-
ciples placed at the head of our national af-
fairs, the distinguished patriots and states
men, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson
and Van Buren,. Thus has the democratic
republican party been in the ascendant, thr-
ty-three out of thirty-seven years, in the adj
ministration of the general government
and under its guardian care, the infant con-
lederacy has grown into mighty republic,
whose onward march in intelligence, sci
ence and the various branches of industry
has made US a great and happy nation, and
attracted the attention of the civilized world.
Federal ariSfocracy against which the
democracy Of the country has always con-
tended, appears to be entirely lost sight of
as party name, expunged from the polid-
cal calender by the allied powers now ar
} rayed against the democracy Of the country.
They have renounced the proud name Of
i their first christening-the name given to
them by their first distinguished god-fathers
and prototypes in the Convention which fra
med the Constitution of the United States,
who recommended the elee5JlBRsIP5 ge5JlBRsI 5esfavionr,
ttel-s anxious to entail upon this Infant
Republic very slenderly restricted monar-
chy. These were the views handed down
by decentralization and his political con-
federates as the pure principles of the fed
eral party, and as such they were cherished
by the leading recipients. Can it be mat
ter of surprize then, that this party should
meet succession of defeats, when oppo-
sed 10 the democracy which early enshined
itself in the bosoms of American freemen!
Nol AS education and intelligence marched
onward, the hope still clung to by the lea
ders of the opposition, of succeeding under
their true name and colors, gradually for
sock them; and we now find the ancient and
} long cherished name of FEDERALisTs, en-
tireIy abandoned. When the venerable
soldier and patriot, ANDREW JACKSON, en-
tered the political arena as a candidate for
the Chief Magistracy, the death blow was
given to the attractions of high toned Fed
eralsn--the enlightened az moderate, who
had before clung from early associations to
that party, had then convincing proofs of the
unsoundness Of its principles, & left it in a
body to swell the ranks of the democratic
l party, in support Of the gallant soldier ol
5 liberty in two wars.
: But, although the old arch enemy of de.
mocracy has chosen to assume Disguise
G to hoist various colors and assume numer.
9 Gus and strange aPpellations: Yet, to the
: names of "National Republican" 'Anlima.
: son" "Whig," and ''Abolitionst,' the old
e Federal party will still respond-it is the
It hearts core, the nucleus, tho soul Of the
# present opposition to democratic principles
It Against this unseemly alliance the demo
+ cratic party Of this State is called upon tc
o enter the lists in the coming contest. Tht
It struggle may be severe, but the result canno
i be doubtful when the united strength O.
our party is brought into the field, In thi
II State, we meet our old adversary Federal
1t ism, under the name of Anti-masonry Th
IS party name was Brought into existenc,