Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-07-25

/. you, and in that is your PRESENT de-
fence. Your weapons are AS YET
| those of peace, and by RESOLUTE
use of them, the occasion for resort to
lsOTHER MEANS Of defence may be
forever averted. But should you. by
'listIessness and Indifference, suffer the
enemy (the people1 10 get possession Of
]sYOUR GOVERNMENT. Of its Trea-
ssury and It's array, you may mol be able
thereafter to'plaee in Congress, in the
y Executive chair, or even in your State
Legislatures Representatives Of your
(schoice; and your free government will
: be at once transformed into one of UsuR-
: PATTON and Of arms."
Here we have it in plain terms from the
most accredited organ Of the party
|" Thro' your own right Of suffrage, Dem
ocrats OF America, the enemy attacks
you." And who is the enemyi Why, the
supporters Of Gen. Harrison; the people of
the U. s., endowed with right of suffrage
and legally qualified to vote. These, ac-
cording TO Amos Kendall. are the usurp
ers; these are the men that, according to
this organ of modern democracy, must be
pul down by "other MEANS" il they are
! successful in their usurpation of the DE.
mocratic right of suffrage"
! 1t is with some difficulty that we bring
ourselves to look calmly at the promulga-
ton of such sentiments, under the desc
Grated name Of Democracy, and in the
face OF constitution rendered sacred by
the patriot blood split for its procure
ment, and which designs to secure TO ev-
cry freeman the right of opinion and the
right of suffrage. The spirit that IN de-
6ance of the admonitions Of prudence, in
derogalion Of the principles of democracy
so loudly protested by its promulgators /;
breaks forth in such ebullitons of treason
and tyranny. would 60 still farther TO
maintain its power if was backed by the
moral courage TO make the attempt: and
if there was not power in the arms of
American freemen more dreaded by these
brigands of Loco Focoism than that ofthe
constitution, il would be in vain that the
people should resolve, as in 1910, to force
the reins of government from their polIu-
ted hands. II is the highest eulogy that
can be pronounced on our Republican in
situations that they have exerted an influ-
| ence on the minds and character of our
citizens that enables them to look calmly,
and with feelings Of security and firm re-
lance on the remedy placed by the con-
stitution in their hands, as a sure antidote
against all such factious and REASONABLE
efforts. 1t affords al the same time the
most conclusive proof Of the rottenness
and desperation of the party that under
any name or circumstances, could be driv-
EN- TO such an exhibition of principles, at
war with the genius of our institutions,
and the cardinal doctrines of representa-
tive government.
The fact that the name of democracy
is made cover for such doctrines and
sentiments, adds another proof in support
Of the maxim, that "who the gods have
determined to destroy they first mako
mad"--and that these illusions of bitter.
ness are but the evidences of approach
ing and certain dissolution the proof of
the desperate agonies of besotted and
dying faction,-that by the incessant cry
of democracy, bad deceived the public and
reveled IN the plumber oflhe treasury, un-
til the nation has groaned and wrilhed in
agony under the weight ofthe expressions
brought upon it. But the day of reirbu-
ton has come. The election of 1910
was the response of the nation to The ma.
Mac rawlings of the corrupt, desperate and
dying faction. The death blow was then
given to it by the hand of that people. who
this libeller of democracy (Kendall,) has
characterized as usurpers that must be
put down by =" other means" than the bal>
lot box that he and his associates, born
to rule and rob at pleasure, might not be
disturbed in their seats of power. Its
death struggles have been prolonged by
the kindred hand of "a wretch, that treach-
cry and accident seem to have provided
for the occasion, and for the express pur.
pose of giving to the closing scene of the
existence Of modern democracy, that de-