The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-02-07
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.


on ali sides We find radical difference ex-
listing between its members as to the principles
on which the Baltimore Convention shall be
organized; we find it at variance as TO lis
course Of action on many other vital questions;
and we find it, moreover. angered and imbltter-
ed by personal griefs, and well founded com
plants of i'll usage These things are suftlcl-
ently manifest but, in addition to them, il
should be remembered that in 1910, when II
brought all its power into requsilion, and had IN
its hands the immense patronage OF the Execu-
tive, and in operation its vaunted Sub-Trea-
sury, vet it sustained most signal defeat
Without the acquisition of any new strength
it has deemed it sound policy to make uncom-
promising war on the old Jackson men of 1928,
who voted for General Harrison, and slammed
in their faces the doors OF Tammany Hall.
Now its power is threatened with overthrow.
Intent on personal objects. it is in danger OF
losing sight of principle; and to forelell Its
doom, under these circumstances, requires no
spiri. Of prophecy. Hon. different from this
the scene in 1912! The President had given,
almost ut the point Of the assassins KNIFE, four
consecutive Ve&oes. The Federal portion OF
the Whig party had joined issue with him upon
those Vetoes, and the People rallied in masses
TO sustain the President. Wing majority of
fortu odd in the House of Representatives
was annihilated, and a majority OF sirty
odd for the Democracy elected. The only
questions asked during this canvass were-"Are
YOU a Democrat against the United States
spd m q dSfr
o. the sales of the public lands, whilst The Trea-
sury is empty ard new taxes are necessary for
the support of Government" And the answer
in the affirmative secured the election. Every
thing was working for the establishment OF
the Republican party, under an administration
at the head Of which, stood an old Jackson man.
who had never, in any one instance, during the
course of a long and not uneyentlUl political
life, departed from the principles ola sound and
orthodox Republican creed. What has turned
back this tide of success and brought The Demo
cratic party to It's present condItlOn-the very |
brink of the deepest abyss of destruction 2
What but the sehshness of the leaders, who |
care nothing for the country, or the party, pro-
vided they cannot sit in the Presidential Chair2
Their petty schemes of ambition are threatening
to consgn the country into the hands of federal
ism. Their train bands follow at their heels
and raise shouts for their respective comman-
ders, warning against the man who brought
them into power, lest Republican People
should rally upon him and destroy their infa=
NOUS intrigues. Take the State Of Virginia for
example. When was it before, since the great
food, that Virginia, the native State of the Pre-
sident, failed to rally around the ouspread ban
ner of principle and justice When General
Jackson was at the height of his power, and
when there were not twenty anti-Jackson men
in the Legislature of the State, John Tyler,
then Senator of the United States, within
three days of his reelection, dared TO assal the
doctrines of the Proclamation and Force Bill
Virginia nobly sustained the banner of principle
which he then unfurled, and re-endorsed her
old Republican cieed by his triumphant
reelection. General Jackson himself en-
dorsed the course then pursued by Mr.. Tyler
for he has since dsclaimed the doctrines of
"Ned Livingston" inserted in those State pa
pers. But the very men who then upheld those
doctrines, are those now found in the high
places of public trust in that lime-honored Com
monwealth and are continually crying out that
the man who opposed the Proclamation and
Force Bill is not Democrat, but that they are
the only patent spar excellence" Republicans.
Again, look at the combination which has ex-
listed for the last eighteen months, throughout
the Union, between the Federal and the msca-
ed Democratic press against the Adminisua-
ton, and the too well grounded apprehension
that this same combination still operates in
striking down the friends OF the President
nominated to Office.
1--WE ask reflection upon what we have said.
The prostratiou of the Democratic party in
l84l-its triumph under the Teto standard in
1912, the base ingrattude of ls43, and present,
towards its PREsERvER. We again repeat our
solemn WARNING! We tell the Republicans Of
epery clique, and erery persuasion, that there
is an eternal truth governing their destinies.
is 10 be found in the declaration THAT NO
CAUSE FOUNDED IN INJUSTICE CAN PROSPER. This
il the fiat Of Omnipotence. Would the Demo
cratic party marshall It's hosts and stand in the
presence Of the world claiming victory? TBnS
LET 1T DO JUSTICE. Let a rally be made in sup
porr of The Administration. The daily decara
lion of the Jdcobife is, that the President has
no strength. Has he no strength in New Jer-
sew 7-.nope in Louisiana ?-none in Oho2-
none in Pennsylvania, where, in single city,
more than three thousand voters have sigpiied
their preference for him7 Has he no strength
among the State rights Wings and White men
of lS4O7 None in Virginia, notwithstanding
the election of Wise and Gilmer, in districts