The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-09
TINE TRUE DEMOCRATIC REPUBl lChN TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER.
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN
PARITY

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We copy the following article from the Ma
tonal Intelligencer, because it precisely accords
with our own views, and because we are glad to
see one of the leading and most influential and re-
spectacle of the opposition journals of the coun-
try, and which by its intelligence and long ex-
perience knows the position and nature of par
ties, giving the true definition of the party
character of that great avalanche of the people
which gathered in Baltimore. We are demo
cratic republicans by name and nature-and
that is the definition we have given to oul
ticket from the beginning. We are incapable
of being any thing else. True democracy is
humanity. Loco foco federalism is its opposite
Every man who loves his country and his race
is democratic republican in the style and cha
racter of the members of the young mems con
vention. And for every man, forever hereafter
it will be glory enough to say, "Iwas member
of the Democratic Republican Young Mems
Convention of the 4th of May, 1902
The party in power is really, truly, practically
The federal party Federal in their associa-
tons with individuals and in their component
parts-Federal in the spirit and tendeAcy Of
their acts and measures---Federdi in their
hopes and labors-- Federal in the concentration
of power, and in the use and abuse Of Offices and
moluments-F'ederai in their treatment of the
State sovereignties- Federal in every aspect
thought and deed. Names are things. Let
things be called by their right names.
The BALTIMORE CONVENTION. of these
assemblages, meagre and spritless as il was, is
characterized by the Globe (the Government pa
peri as Democratic, and Mr. Grundy is repre-
sented as addressing the Convention al in expla-
nation of the principles and policy Of the Demo
cratic party" In the same paper the vast con-
course OF patriotic young men, assembled in
numbers, and in spirit never before equalled, is
attempted TO be stigmatized as grand army
of Federalism" Names cannot alter princi-
pies, although they should be indicative of them
Our Government is Republic, or Representative
Democracy. Those who maintain the true prin-
ciples of the Government, as established by the
Constitution, are DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS.
The Wings and Conservatives, recently assem-
bled at Baltimore, are maintaining those princi-
Piles againstth the usurpations and abuses, and mis-
rule of the Federal Executive. They resist a
system of measures and course of party disci-
pine calculated to concentrate all power in the
hands OF the Executive and to convert our free
institutions into practical despotism. They
are, therefore, in principle as well as in name,
DEMOCRATIC REPuBLIcANs-a name broad enough
and comprehensive enough to include Wings
and Conservatives, and all who go for THE Con-
sTITuTIoN AND THE LAWS in opposition to the en-
croachments of Executive power. If the term
FEDERALISM, IN its modern acceptation, is. the
opposite OF the principles of the Democratic RE-
PuRLIcANs as above stated, then it is peculiarly
applicable TO the present dominant party, OF
which the Globe is the official organ
lnspeaking, therefore, of the two Conventions
which have just closed their sittngs at Baltimore
we cannot better characterize them than to say
that the FEDERAL Convention, composed of the
supporters OF tho anti-democratc republican doc.
trlnes OF the present Federal Administration
was very thinly attended, and went off with a
CONSCIOUSNESS of defeat in the coming contest
whilst the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN Convention
composed of thousands and thousands of Wings
and Conservatives from every part Of the Union
was conducted with the utmost enthusiasm and
adjourned under the confident assurance of a
glorious and triumphant victory in November
npyt