Holly Springs gazette., 1843-06-16
From the Baltimore American
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

son Is regarded as the founder OF H. and OF L
course must have begun its career during /
his administration but whether the veto of T
;he Maysvile Rail Road Bill, or the United /
States Bank Charter. or the removal of the
deposHes, or of the Specie Circular is to de- |
slgnate the first distinct development of this +
new political creation, is matter which |
must be left 20 be involved ia that obscurity
which often hides the inception of great
events.
| What the party has done since its acces-
sion to power may be summed up in the re-
cord of what il has undone lis great
achievements have been to destrov II has
overthrown the entire system of policy con-
tinued from Madison IS time to the close of
John Quincy Adams administration it has
never known any fixed principles; il has
never contemplated any system of compre
henSlve policy; its bonds of affiliation have
| been woven out of prejudices and lealousieS
of the masses which have been excited
against the commercial and monetary inter
ests of the country, as though there were
settled distinctions of classes and exclusive
privileges among the different vocations in
| which the industry of our people finds
| ployment and accumulaes wealth Ii has
proved itself incompetent to govern; the dis
asters which il has brought upon the coun-
try are the natural results Of its blind rash
ness and ignorance-It has over,hrown the
| whole system of national currency, and it is
unable to construct another. |. prostrated
the interests of all classes by aiming its blows
at property, under the foolish idea that it was
promoting equality by leveling the rich
forgetting at the same time that it was thus
compelling the poor always to remain poor;
and now that the Wings have availed them
selves of a brief interval In the progress of
destruction to restore once more the foster
ing hand OF the Government 10 protect and
encourage our domestic industry, the party
is rallying Its energies to re commence the
work of demolition again But it is now
| reaping as i. has sowed. In its own bosom
the elements of conflict are at furious strife
The fierce passions it. has engendered are
turning to lend il. Its leaders having ac-
customed the mass TO fellow as they are
bid, each head Of division seeks TO use the
; obedience of his followers for bis own indi-
viduaI advancement; and the prospect Of a
r large share in the partitions of the great
prize of the public offices and means stmu-
lates the adherent of each chief 70 all posi-
bic exertions In his behalf Thus where
patriotism is lost sight of-where the public
2 good is never in mind-where the uses OF
: government are regarded only as afIording
opportunities for personal emolument--no
7 bond of union exist founded upon a
$ common purpose of general interest TO the
e Republic, or upon any large system of poll
e cy looking TO future benefits TO all. Hence
. the distractions which have sundered the i'll
e assorted aggregate calling itself the De
e mocracy'--hence the cliques and factions
taking their names from particular leaders
I neither division knowing or caring much how
: far there are adversties of principles among
r them, because none of them are very clear
: what principles they have, or whether they
r have any.
g The process of organization thus going
d on in party which has lost all elements o
), soundness, could not have proceeded so fal
: without being by some of its own ranks
a Mr.. Brownson, once an ultra democrat, ha:
/ experienced so much disgust at the senseles:
: jargon OF some of his former political associ
e ates whose empty pretentions only cover ar
d utter impotency to govern rightly. that he
: has gone to the other extreme of de
q nvng totally the capacity of the people fol
: self-government. The following parag graph
l. is from the Pathfinder, democratic journa
l. published in New York. which still contin
S ues, we believe, 20 rank as an orthodox ex
It ponent OF the party:
i 1T sometimes happens that political par
i ties, like individuals, expend their sentiment.
I in any of its prominent measures2 Wha
}, genuine manhood in any of prominent mca
! snres2 Is it not, al this moment: grand im
e position and falsehood"
|, Instead of asking what the party is doing
= ito carry out Its principle" it would have
a been more to the purpose to ask what are it:
n principles Its only measure of policy tha
0 we know any thing of is The Sub Treasury
/ which is to constitute the final attempt to fui
q fiji its promise of giving better currency.
1t 1t may indeed be said to have six other
l. principles. viz: a Van Buren principle. a
q Calhoun principle, a Cass principle, John
IS son principle, Buchanan principle and q
It Tyler principle. But these are yet in em
a bryo-unshaped forms-germs undeveloped
elements somewhat chaotic-which ma y
/ or may not be brought forth into full exis
J. tence.
ol The pathfinder goes on to speculate or
the democratic victory in the State of New
: York and asks
+ What have the mass of the population
r gained by the recent eleciion2 Why. they
e have dismissed one set o magistrates to adop
e another. who may or may not be better