Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-10-08
THE PARTY WITHOUT PRINCI-
PIES


We have frequently heard our fathers
tell of the peace party in war, and the
war party in peace. Of the party who in
the reign of John Adams, wore the black
cockade on their hats to distinguish them
from the republicans, who favored the
tri-colored flag of France, then struggling
for civil liberty, with the crowned despots
of Europe-ofthe party who, in the fed
eraI Union, threw up their caps with
exutation when the enemy rioIed in the
Capitol at Washinglon-opposed TO all
these, we have heard Of party, who
''when their red right hands had bought
rights cheaply earned with blood, }" estab-
lished a free government, depending tor
its support on the popular wll-but nev-
er before the present day has been seen
or heard of a party totally without princl-
pies. The whig party, so called, make
no declaration Of principles for the pub
lie eye" In private they have senti-
ments, and in secret they are plotting for,
the success of certain measures, dear to
them, bat justly odjus to the people A
public declaration of these, they well
know, would sound the death kneIl of
their last hopes and their chances of sue
cess. We have said they are a party
without principles; we will qualify the
expression; they are party with SECRET
principles.
They as a party are in favor Of contract
ing foreign debt which would make us
tax and tribute payers to Europe, 10 OBJ
tain capital for great national bank
but they don't publish it.
They are for giving Congress extraor-
dinary powers, not expressly granted by
the States, by a strained construction of
the Constitution. But they don't publish
| it.
They are for high tariff duties on man
ufactured articles, for the protection of a
few woolIen and cotton factories in New
England, thereby taxing the consumer
for the sole benefit of few monOpoists.
Yet they don't publish it.
They are in favor of divertng the reve-
nues of the treasury from their cons'ita-
tutional objects, to swell the per Centum
of bank dividends, and thereby subject
the public money to loss by the failure of
banks and the depreciation of bank paper.
But they don't publish it.
An open declaration of these principles
would ruin all their towering hopes of
getting into power. The South would
never sacrifice her rights by consenting
10 high tariff, nor will the Democracy,
which has fought so long shoulder TO
shoulder against the power of incorpora-
ted wealth, now surrender and consent to
the ro.charter of United States Bank.
Consequently, these exciting topics which
have SO long been the line of demarka.
ton between the two parties, are crowd
ed back in the dark, and bacchanalan
cry, and a most degrading parade is made
to drown the voice of reason, and blind
the clerr judgment of mankind.
Will this party succeedI Can they
succeed in such base attempts to degrade
the elective franchise, and turn the Amel-
lean character and our venerated institu-
tIons into disrepute and disgrace? ''HuEg
be the Heavens in black" when such pO-
liticaI perfidy and mock patriotism shall
flourish upon the mouldering ruins of
American Liberty. We cannot believe
they will succeed. There is a God of
justice, aud the people are intelligent and
free. They WILL NOT sUcCEED!-Kin-
derhook .Dutchmdn.