The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-12-03
eHE HAWK-EYEE'
1R61RlkllSSGEONS
,upsDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1910.
= .pE THE DEMOCRATS /?

, a ann, ia !, Whoever may SET up an exclu-
It afsss. !. claim TO Democracy for the Loco
ana a'.re u. is either trying to humbug the
re,urned a. or is ignorant of the meaning Of
" uD1 Iasa arm Democracy. The design Of the
Picadto I focos is understood. The leaders of
held . :, broken down party know that they
q Count, mt have even the shadow Of hope
use, az ,eain organizing, unless they can
ID to ., shade the people into the belief that
J, Cl.,ls !, are the only true democrats. They
". .gLe The Pharisees of old, who set
,nselyes up as being the favori,es of
coun,v H,aven and arrogated to themselves the
70 the !. right Of possessing all the religion
IN all the piety in the land. The same
lpSl' Asi, that led them to say stand back,
he said Y, am holier than thou" may be found
y Z. Of y hose loco focos who arroga,e to them
the Dis.s ,,es all the democracy and all the side
NUT i, ' s tpcy" in the land. Thanks be TO
tenens haven, their hypocrisy and hollow
n - the ,,edness their total des.itu,ion of all
bic, at h clements that constitute pure demo-
,ct aey. have been discovered and rebuk-
], Nov Il; the people have disallowed their
aeaos lam to all the democracy in the land.
to Be \ Inc loco focos must feel that it is so.
lid Maa Bit as they have been SO long accus-
be ens pned to rule and swagger, some of
nth eo., hem even now imagine that they are not
asaten; and they continue to cry "or
> = 8nDize, organize" not dreaming that
these very cries are the death throes that
Indicate their dissolution. They seem
- 80 10. to know that all their rallying cries
!. lhue lost their potency and their charm,
" md that all their ate mpts to rally will
. . that he as futile as were those of Napoleon
said q % The field Of Waterloo.
gainst The principle of democracy may be
. said bund in the people. So long as the
TN Tor pure, unauthorized love Of country is
sturnedj herished by the great mass of the peo-
a ! aua PIE, so long will the democratic institu
9 east 7 IONS of the country be upheld. To march
NO w ID in open contact and attack their
mes Gra wishes and their will in this matter,
aaas vas to ensure positive and certain defeat.
,unt ri on opponents knew this; and this was
en- H. he reason-this was what absolutely
Id to saa compelled them to put on the garb and
r,.rl rofession of democracy, in their at
nnpts to retain the power and maintain
a;,e., heir ascendancy. An open warfare a.
the ginst the institutions of the country
l TO NH would have led the people to forsake
the them at once, and there would have been
M M nothing left but clique of bailled dis
nth organizers, more despicable than when
IA land d. h hey first proclaimed themselves sepa-
Chana ne party, attached to the leading strings
sheria ofFanny Wright and Robert Dale Owen.
unity; isa matter of history that when the
- loco focos, as Fanny Wright and Owens
o me panty were called, first sprang into ex-
RS OF klnce, they were denounced by all the
o pull leading Administration papers, save the
ON on n. Y. Evening Post. They felt that
k +. u 70 stand alone would be humiliation.
wit, wit: The Jackson party needed their talents
he Ea md by certain compromise took the
snip up loco foco party to their embrace. Since
ship d ibis amalgamation, the widest doctrine:
! l al, have been p1opagated and the most des
rtel q motive experiments have been tried
{. ?, Where it was once possessed, the very
ship essence of democracy seems to hav'
/ P' II been swallowed up, and instead of i'm
proving, these reformers have absolute
,u i Y caused the country to retrograde il
q It's march to greatness and to glory.
The party, who thus assumed 10 b
lirseia the only pure democracy, had by it
Tor, u official and monetary influence, which
e to, had been gained by specious system
oek o. absolute usurpation, entwined itsel
opeH9 throughout all the departments Of society
sui. % that it seemed and really thought it
!, self to be almost invulnerable. But thu
,n.y. spirit Of Liberty still lowered over oul
country. 1t infused its benevolent ant
e.ed patriotic feelings into the bosoms Of thu
m0d; great mass Of the American people-let
Iwa aem to sacrifice those narrow and sci
,.ei ash interests which had SO long kept then
Te. nom acting in harmony-and nervet
s 0em to make one mighty struggle to re
I.T gam those rights which had been in
y 'dlossly wrested from them. A uniol
4 perfect union-was the consequence
uIpa Inc most unbounded and unparalleled
$ g Enthusiasm pervaded the breasts of all
na,s3 vne spirit animated all. Mighty gather
I 6 lags Of the people every where assem-
,oru1 oiled, and all were cheered on by III,