Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-01-30


J, self before them for their suifrages, he 4
+, compelled 10 pay that tribute to democI
cy, which vice pays to virtue. He attemI
] ed 10 assume the garb Of democracy, III
} be might obtain credit for virtues whit
nature never designed him TO possess al
which birth, education, and associatio
alike forbade him to exercise. He repI
dated, the too odiOus name Of federalis
and with his parry assumed that of natior
al republican, and under this disguise ,an
with democratic principles upon h
tongue, tho';he black cockade was STAMP
cd upon his heart,he came before the peo
pie, candidate for that office, from whlc
they had rejected bis father quarter o
a century before. He failed before the
peOple-but by the treachery Of a miscail
ed democrat, Henry Clay of Kentucky h
was elected in the House Of Represe nta.
'iVes. Not in the first instance the choice
OF the people, ud'having done nothing
during observation-disclosures ito relieve himsel
Of the Odlum attached to his name ,and to
federalism, and consequent upon the or.
rupt manner of his election; but having
thrown off his assumed democracy, and
developed his true federal character ,hav'
ing recommended 10 theRePresentativeb Of
the people and The States, in Congress,
mol to suffer their arms 10 be "palsied by
the will Of their constituents" and des
politically affirmed against the will Of the
people, and his previous professio ms and
an imPious perversion Of the sacred book
Ihat"those who fell with the first Adams,
should rise with the second,"he was, at
tho expiration Of his term, Justly consign-
ed,with almost silent contempt, to an
humEler station, where, if he will do no
good, he has at least but li:tle power
for evil.
The election, and subsequent more glc-
riOus reelection of the hero and patriot,
Andrew Jackson, we re repetitions of the
Jeffersonian triumph of democracy. The
election ofMartainVan Buren, was a rati6.
cation BY the people Of the great princi-
pies Of democracy developed and enforced
under the strong aud stormy administra-
tion ofhis glorious predecessor. And The
defeat OF Mr.. Van Buren, and the demo-
cratic party in 1910, by means the most
nefariOus, ,has tended still more closely TO
entwine round the hearts of the people.
their devotion to the free principles of
democracy, their love for constitutional
freedom, their hatred Of federal oppres-
sion and dec cit, and their veneralion and
attachment towards the man who failed |
them not in that darkest hour Of perlous
For thirty six of The forty years, from
1901, when lhe first real.plriy contest oc-
Cured, to the year 1910, has the demo>
cratic party had control of the govern
meat, approved and sustained by dis.
cerni ng people. In fact the federal par
" never have succeeded before the people
upon their principles. Whenever their
principles have been openly avowed ,and
their true position and policy clearly dee
fined, they have been sgnalIy rejected
and rerudiated by the people.
The elder John Adams succeeded to
The Presidency beneath the mantle of
before party lines were
drawn, or the antagOnistcal principles of
federalism aud democracy we're fully de-
but he was rejecled, and feder-
al principles condemned, when he came
before the people for their appreciation Of
his administration. TweDty-four years
John Quincy Adams was de-
Feated before the people, even when he
claimed affinity to democracy, and ab'
ured federalism, and four years after.
wards was signalIy rebuked by The same
people, for the deception he had aI'emp
led to practice upon them, and federal
principles were again condemned. The
wings of 1910, taking warning from the
past, not only denied their federal creed,
but abandoning their federal leaders, they
attached themselves TO men, who, upon
Ill cardinal principles and measures, had
always been opposed to them, aud TO fed
eralsm, under every name. .1i4When call
I'd upon 10 declare their principles. and
he policy they designed 10 pursue in the
administration Of the government, il the
people should place them in power, they
pointed to the letters, speeches, aud
votes Of Gen. Harrison and John Tyler,
Is containing the principles by which
hey would be governed, and as embody
ng aud indicating the policy they pros
,osed 20 adopt. Both Of these man were
we'll known to have been always opposed
o National Bank, on constitutional. and
,ther grOunds-oppOsed to high Pro
ectiVe Tariff, on grounds of common
ustice and Constitutiouality. They in-
listed, strenuously, upon rigid adhe-
'ence 10 the compromise Act of 1882 3,
md in.the language of Gen. Harrison,
n his Zanesyills letter, dated November
ID, 1886, were for ''supporting the COM
and would ''never agree to its
icing altered or repsaIed," }" and they fa.
vored distribution Of the proceeds Of
he sales Of the public lands, only, in
,ase the land fund was not needed in the