The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-03-14
' LUMA1A COUNTY, PA SATURDAY, MARCH IA. 1910.

The great body Of the people Of the Eoup,t,
the greatest security for their rights end h,
greatest amount Of general happiness. Il.
secure and carry uut those objects, th,
founders of The party entrusted the powei
that should lead to this result, to the prea.
ess body Of The perSif themselves. They
maintained that those who had achieved
their independence were conpe.ent ID
choose representatives 10 conduct the affair.
OF the country, with safety and security tc
themselves. This principle they adopted
AZ the first organization as a party, aud to il
they have s.eadfasIly adhered ever since
and TO this adhetence we may attribute the
hniiotm--the almost uniform succSsv nf The
party. Our party has had to contend from
its first organization Until the rpesenl mo-
nient with an active, energetic and influen-
1ial opposition. Our party, at its first orea.
aiEation was opposed, on the ground sha.
our principles were untenable, Those
principles were openly denied BY the oppe.
Sition' They said that the mass Of the peo-
pie vera not tit to be entrusted with Seliti-
cal affairs. This was the principle ground
Of their objection to the priciples Of demo-
ctacy' And this, appeal with confidence
to the recollection, or information Of gentle.
men was one ofths differences of opinion
which existed between The two parties of
that day this was the contest and line Of
a''ision between them. Subsequently, il
Is srue'our opponents learning wisdom from
experience, have changed, in appearance,
their ground Not only have they profess.
ed to become converts to our principles, but
they have, 10 several instances, assumed
eur name' name, which, at one time, was
e'iee"ed by them, mark of iguoniny and
I''pr0ach' l.qpptatsss. The con,.s, belween
u.s. zlihnn ~h ai,----I ,,--4z---y-.- Hvs SII%ug-
ed in principles. We have the same active
and energetic party for our opponents, AID
so long as our organization as community
shall exist in its present shape--so long as
freedom Of opinion exist, go long shall we
have that contest continued, Judging from
our success and not wiling to estimate
the honesty and intelligence of the great
mass Of the community according TO its real
deserts, they have never failed to attribute
our success either TO some isolated question
which, for the time being, chanced to occu-
py the public attention, or 10 some peculiar
traits in the candidates for Office. We have
Witnessed them more than once denuunce a
measure as fatal to the prosperity Of the
country, and afterwards, when it had Sc
cuEed the popular favor, they had advocat-
ed it as one which was calculated 10 ad-
vance the P rosperity and happiness of the
Union.
Gentlcnon. we have seen ouf opponents
denounce Military Chieftains when they
were candidates of our party. We have
seen, again, these same opponents select as
their Otcn candidate, when we CHANGED 10
have one of civil qualifications as ours. =
military chieftaiaqs 4pfOIe suffrages of the
way wSFtSur y our country. (.ApPlau'e' These
pnStlemen, are facts notorious to all oil US
sDd to the whsle community. We have
8 ,v;,res.ed the denuuciatiOn OF OUT priHci-
10. we have witnessed the perVersIon Of
those same principles by our opponents
we have witnessed the avowal Of enc set ei
principles at one period and auorher at a.
mother. And the last farce which our op-
ponents have played before our nation is
their disavotoel Of all principle, and dec
laraton that they would oppose us without
any avewal OF principle on their part what
ever Thus srming themselves like que
riIlas, they seem to have instructed thei
leaders to attack their opponents at any
point or on any principle that they nigh
deem most expedient, And thus by sys
tsm.-by kind Of war of ouIposts, 1t is cal
culated that degree OF annoyance may b
inflicted upon US by Seizing uPo'
each LEGAL quesiion--by attacking US mrs
+ on one point on this side, and then on
no,her mint on that side, aud that thu