The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-08-29
From the Spirit Of the Times.
WHO ARE DEMOCRATS!

The severity of our remarks upes, The
hypocricy Of the wings, and the mass Of
testimony we have brought TO prove their
adoption Of the old Federal creed, has woke
up from them, continuous discharge of
their small arms, and even batteries, against
our devoted head. Let il come. We do
not blow the horn before we draw the
sword. CDnfden, in good cause, in our
own recti!ude, in the virtue Of the people,
and in the malice, folly, and desperate de-
signs of our foes, we fear net for the result.
They have only to be exposed to be desert
ed. Already their fabric is tottering to the
base: few strokes more will bring it tum-
bling abou; their ears. Their biRerness,
their shameless libela, their almost fendish
malignity is only a proof that cur blows
have been well sent, and that,
The CALLED jade wineos
The democratic party is the only ore in
our country. Every other clique Of politi-
clans, or even league Of cliqaes, is nothing
but faction. Unless men can prove them
selves, to be uabiehlisbcd Democrats they
canno, hohe Success The wings thcm-
selves adAit;ed the trath Of this remark by
disear1lng their old name Of National Re-
pubieans and setting up fer Democrats;but
they have opened shop with such a scanty
stock in trade, that like the apo,heoary's in
Shakespear, it presents only "a bsggerly
account Of empty bexss.'
The leaders Of the Wings have been long
distinguished as the enemies to the republi-
can party. IL the early days of Jackson,
= when his antagonist called his supporters
democrats contemptuously, and themselves
",The National Republicans" were not
Clay, Adams, and the leading Whigs OF
this day, the open foes to the hero of New
Orleans? Have they not subsequently,
continued their deadly hostility to tao ven
cradle General, Persecuting him even in his
retirement, and deneuncing every man
who supported him or his prnciples?-
Do they no! now, in the face Of dav, ma
lign his successor because as they choose
to have il, she follows in the footsteps"
of that noble he.o! They do all this
= and yet they call themselves Democras.-
/ Though years Of toll, danger, and many
) a desperate field they have been known
} as tho bitter foes OF democracy. The
, conversion Of such men is even Beyond
hops--"Isrsal is joined TO his idols, let him
= alone"
Nor are their principles mere ia accor-
' dance with the Democratic creed. All the
= leading doctrines Of the old Federal party,
S the Wings Of tie present day, as we have
= shown a! various times, assert and maIn.
tain, some with more bollness, some viii!
: less, some with variations, some with none
d but all with singular pertinarity, the sams
< 6isregard TO the expressed will Of the peo.
j, Rle--the same Aagrant attempts 10 set aside
d elections by secrst and somstimes even
open iraud-the same pretended love 10
Y bu' real hatred Of the honest, hard working
g man--lhe sane favoriusm, in all ther leg
isation, towards the moneyed class at tho
}, expense Of the laborer, ami, finally, the
d same determination 20 fas.en the fsudng
: and banking systems on Cur country by
e means Of which they can enslaye rs in fact
though noIninally we shall remain free
= distinguished the party of Jno. Adams, ,whc
/, would have betrayed the constitution, il
G like manner, as il distinguishes the party oI
, Harrison, by whom, if successful, that con
q stituGen may be overthrown. Who theu
+ are the democratic party. Not the profit
\ gate faction now struggling to obtain power
0 bat the friends and supporters of Martin Var
: Buren,.
sSEsEssElsI7s7Ea
: Appropriote.-The Federalists of tbi,
: village had in their Leg Cabin processio,
an the l1th q {LyO0e with Lin n santsI a,