The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-07-18
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,rp,rTEN FOR THE IOWA PATRIOT.
pnITrICAL PARTIES.

POLITICAL PARTIES.
- last number, / took brief view
=, wings and Tories, as these politi.
w. ,;es have, for a long time, existed.
roc,and. My present number shall
syoted to parties in the United States
i, my Intention to draw any paral-
,bo,vaen the wings and tories of Eng
"a, and the political parties bearing the
me designations here-as they stand
,,,rected with, or opposed to, the AID
;n;;st,ation Of the Government. For
richly speaking, as these parties are
,.,rn and understood abroad, we have
,a,,e, Of them at the present day, in this
.,n,rv. We are, however, rather toe
o,,h accustomed to adopt foreign names,
-, d ape foreign fashions, for the credit
,fot own institutions, and our good taste,
,1Ivould not follow the example. The
e,Is, from, which have sprung the most
imminent political parties that have been
pen in this country, were sown in the
Debates upon the Constitution, In the Con-
.,s,s that formed that instrument. All
we're desirous of seeing the powers
aalted to the Executive, Legislative and
Judicial departments of the Government
wisely, discreetly aud equally balanced ::
BOT yet, individuals unprecedented very dit
Ierent results from the powers thus grant
ed to each. One class feared that the
lExecatire department was too weak, long
/ ID preserve just balance Of power. The
other thought it sufficiently strong-and
| that the natural tendency of the powers
/ dhe Executive, as experience has taught
Us, would be continually, to increase.
with the growth Of the country. The
pGcy of the Administration, under the
elder Adams. soon brought these conflict
/ mo opinions to the test. and the political
nrolu,ion of eighteen hundred, drew the
line Of demarkation between the Federal
and Democratic parties of that day. The
ecentrevolution in France, and the scenes
anarchy and disorder which prevailed
| there, induced the federal party, then in
power, 10 brand the democratic party,
| which was organizing to effect change
| mihe Administration, with the opprobri-
ols epithet Of notwithstanding them to
that disorganizing faction in France. 70
repe,his unworthy SANDER, the democrats
in tura reciprocated the reproach, by
branding the whole federal party. as To-
rles The scenes Of the revolution were
fresh in the recollections Of the great mass
4 aIthe American people, and a more obi
GUS epithet could not well have been ap-
\ Piled to political party in this country,
than that Of Tory. The meaning of the
term has meyer since changed among us,
norris its opprobrium sensibly lessened.
tremains now to be considered how far
It's either just, honest, honorable or poll
V, 70 apply it to any political party now
n our country.
During our revolutionary struggle, the
names and the parties 10 which these
names were applied, were as well defined,
and as distinctly marked, as that of day
ala nIght-as sunshine and tempest-as
'il'0e AID crime. During that ardent
alggle for our national existence, the
Aa'le Of Tory was written in CAPITALS,
sl1H HUMAN BLOOD, in every section of
WI country. Its crimson shades will on
Y 'ade away with time. or be lost with
MEMORY. Its Renaissance will be as
s'ulgg as our history, and its infamy as
s'ssk as ''the deep damnation'' of the
s y that were perpetrated under it.
, "no and what was Tory Them He was
- supple minion Of arbitrary power
y case groveling tool of the oppressor,
's footsteps were traced with rapine and
a'aage-by the murder of his country.
~ nls neighbors and his friends, il
/. snose circles he had mingled, and whose
aYspl'allty he had shared. He was the
'sn' : spy-the assassin's guide ant
u nee companion of savage enemies
- less savage than himself. He sealee
. 'oyalty to his misguided sovereign
y ~ innocent blood and lighted his way
~ tdVOE and To mower II, no corA.rr,