The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-07-10
CONTRAST OF THE TWO PAR.
TIES,

TIES.
In the course of an elaborate contrast
ofthe principles and conduct OF the whig
and democratic parties, the Charleston
Mercury says:
sin their conirasted modes Of conduc
ting the contest, too, while the one par
ty must conCiIiate the confidence aud
command the respect of every we'll con-
stituted mind, the other cannot fail TO
disgust and insult an intelligen, and
higb-minded people. 1t is the evident
aim of the tederalsts TO get up a morbid
and dissipaied excitement, under the in
fnence ofwhich their followers may be
hurried into voting without rejecting,
and cheated into belief that a very ordin
ary aud coarse old man ls hero and a
sage. A soldier Of doubtful merits and
certificate bolstered reputation, both as
to sanily and soldlsrship who resigned
his commission and sheathed his sword
IN the midst Of the war, they endeavor
to recommend on the ad captGndum
score Of military chieliainship. AS much
as they denounced it when a true SOL
der was candidate, they seek to gain
power by the spell of military renown,
and those who were dazzIed by the IA
dent star Of Jackson, they would fain
WOO like months to the greasy g!immer
of fsnhing candle, in the dubious and
gloomy light of which they lock up, hav.
ing ffst gagged him least he should
bray, their fictitious Cncinnatus in a
fictious log cabin, feigning that he is
therein most democratically indulging
his genius with nothing else but vile
swill at.which civilized stomachs revolt.
And all this is done forsooth by these
condescendng aristocrats-by way Of
winning the sufrages oftheir interiors
-theirgreasy fellow citizens, "the swim
ish multitude" who they fondly presume
will vote for man because they ara told
that he lives meanly and goes dirty !!
Why Mrs. Trollope herself could not
have eiec,ioneered with more respect
ful fiattery! All their party devices are
theatrical, artificial and insncere; theft
, banners, notices, badges; and, (ft woo
den emblem ofthe wooden God!) theiI
empty cider-barrel-borne about with
! wild wassaliug from revel to revel and
on which they would 10 poeaus, install
President of the United States, like a
triumphant Bacchus bestridng his cask.
Their very leaders go about like raree
show men playing the fool, and carrying
in their train-period balancefs and pos
ture makes and nistrionic spouters, ia
play the MISUNDERSTANDING simulated
passion to tatters-outheroding Herod,
and making the unthinking laugh but the
judicious grIeve. The warming "TSmec
danaos ct dana Jerentes" of the Trtian
seer OF sight of The wooden horse can
no, surely be needed IN civilized and
Christian and Republican America as
the cider-barrel rolls i,s rowdy pro>
gress to the gale Of our Troy. Surely
Federalism might have chosen to steal
into power under worther disguise.
"Nien have" not 'lost their reason'-&
the American freeman isno TO be bought
with pageants and gew gaws, and
Pleased with rattle, tickled with straw,
like the subject rabble of the British
hustings' America has a people, but
no popuace-and we are not yet DOOM
ed by the success of this kind Of agita-
tion to blush for The intelligence, the
pride, the morals of our country and
lose our faith in mans capacity for self
government.
'On the other hand, how dignfied 10
comparison is the course Of the Demo-
cratic party. ConteDding earnestly Tor
the right, they appeal not 20 the pass
sions; they treat the people not as gid
dy mob but as enlightened equals, aud
appeal to their understanding and reason
with fact and argument. Unlike the
motley crow, which Federalism has on.
listed, which avowing no creed, YET
asks for prcseIytes, they appear in the
lists without mask, plant themselves
on tine Republican platform, and boldly
promuIge the principles, with and
through which they are to fall or con =
quer. They bait with no painted bau-
bles to catch grown children; nor fright
the land from its prOpriety by noisy junk
etings nor empty the meats Of Congress
and impede the public business, TO send
by steamboat and rail car through the
country, missionary congressmen who
desert their post 10 spend the per diem
allowance, the wages Of their neglected
duties, in gadding about, to exhibit them
selves and spill, The ears Of The groun>
diugs with rabid fustian. COmpair Mr..
Van Buren's modest unobtrusive course
his uniform regard Of all the decencies,
and couriesies Of life, his self control,
bic forbearance, bis republican dignity,