Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-01-23
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Another Presidential election is near
at hand although the preceding one
seems but just past; so vividly are the
events of lS40 impre ssed upon our mind,
nd so well calculated are the deplorable
coDseque noes of those events to lead our
reflections Involuntary back to the
cause. Yet bad os are the effects Of that
memorable campaign, we have reason 10
rejoice that they are less fatal to repUbli.
can principles than was intended by the
enemies ofour free institutions at home
and abroad, who planned and perpetra.
led the greatest moral and political fraud
that was ever Psactised in civilized
community. Some OF the very means
used TO accomplish that stupendoUs
fraud afterwards became the active a.
gents in staying the hands of the spoilers,
when they i'm agined the object Of their
designs almoS; within their grasp. Hun
cry spoilers who were scattered over the
Union, regarding the people as proper
objects Of plunder, and political power
the most efficient means Of robbing them,
had resolv ed on obtaining such power at
all hazards. Falsehood and deception
were used without slint,an they even a.
dopted the name Of their political oppo-
nents, and selected for their candidates
men that had rreviOusl ly been Of those
opponents, and still prolessed d opposition
to the leading principles of their new
supporters. BY such means as these
comb insd with their log cabin orgies,
they succeeded in elecIing their men,
but, contrary to their expectations, the
man on whom the Executive Office soor
devolved, refused TO consummalS the
contemplated fraud; and to this circum
stance are we mainly indebted for ou
escape from the pending ruin.
In view of these facts, bow forcibly are
we reminded that "ete rnal vigilance il
the price of liberty. y."-Nor should We
soothe ourselves into Opa;hy or carless
ness by the hope that another defeaI
of democracy will not be attend
ed with the success Of it's antagonist
principles. Such an occurrence is ar
anomaly in political history-and the one
we now record was moro the effect oI
the interposition Of Providence than the
result Of hUman action. The success o.
federalism in 1914 would be fal
more injurious to our free inStitu'
tions than any election result we have
yet witnessed ia this young republic
The enemies Of republican ism have
D Sneerinely called our government an ex
+. pertinent but the the time fits predicted
failure has long since passed, still il
exists, growing in strength and cOnse-
quence, hated end feared by kings aud
monarchists, and admired by phlOnthro-
pists in all parts Of the civilized world -
The longer our Republic exists, the
more desperate are the efforts Of It's en-.
emies 10 fulfil thier predictions Of it
overthrow, BY placing it under the guild
snce Of snti,rspubliCan rulers: and henc,
the necessity Of increased vigilance.
The democracy enter the approaching
campaign under much more favorable
circumstances than they did that Of lS4O
The natural evil consequences Of a bloaI
cd credit system, VIII iCh had been grow
ing up since the recharter OF the Unite,
States Bank and which were bearing harC
upon the prosperity Of the country, wer
all charged, too successfully charged, q
the result Of the prsdominancy Of demo
cratic men and measures for the few
succeeding years. And prosperity great
ly exceeding any thing befere experience
: ed id this or any other country, waS
: promised as the certain conse uuence o
! change af public men and public
4 policy. Now, those who were deIud-
! ed BY these means into the support